Tuckered Out
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Wretch Nation! We’re late, but we are here. It’s a big week in news media and we waste no time geting into stories circling Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon. There are plenty of theories, anonymous tips and hot takes this week so tune in to hear us make sense of the madness.
If you have a story you want us to talk about, e-mail us at wretches@nebulouspodcasts.com.
Show Notes:
Daily Beast: The Inside Story of Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon’s Monday Media Massacre
NY Mag: Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon’s Same-Day Demise
Politico: Tucker Carlson’s Exit Shows Who’s the Real Star at Fox
Politico: Don’t Believe Everything You Read About Tucker Carlson
I Might Be Wrong Substack: The Tucker Carlson Role Just Opened Up
FiveThirtyEight: The Fox News Defamation Trial Hurt Trust Among Some Viewers
NYTimes: Newsmax Ratings Climb After Tucker Carlson’s Exit at Fox
Don Lemon on Twitter: I was informed this morning by my agent that I have been terminated from CNN.
CNN Communications on Twitter: Don Lemon’s statement about this morning’s events is inaccurate. He was offered an opportunity to meet with management but instead released a statement on Twitter.
Variety: Gayle King, Charles Barkley Confirm Weekly CNN Show
NY Times: Signed Letters, Mar-a-Lago Dinners: Trump's Personal Touch in Fighting DeSantis
WaPo: Trump touts authoritarian vision for second term: ‘I am your justice’
The Hill: Trump questions why he should participate in GOP primary debates
Politico: GOP tries to paint Biden’s labor nominee as radical, hoping to turn Dem votes against her
Politico: Judge tosses Devin Nunes suit over Esquire article
NYT: Neil Gorsuch Sold Property to Head of a Major Law Firm
WaPo:BRENNAN DISCLOSES GIFTS FROM LOCAL DEVELOPER
NYT: BuzzFeed News, Which Dragged Media Into the Digital Age, Shuts Down
Semafor: Semafor Newsletter
Propublica: In Secret Recording, a Top City Library Official Calls Alaska Natives “Woke” and “Racists”
NYPost: New York Post reporter Conor Skelding loses battle with cancer
Tucker Carlson: Quarter Zip Pullover
The Atlantic: You Will Miss Bed Bath & Beyond
Politico: POLITICO's awards for D.C.'s 10 biggest attention-seekers: The Thirsties
Washington Examiner: Your reminder that the Left started the culture wars over transgenderism
Vanity Fair: Tucker Carlson’s Prayer Talk May Have Led to Fox News Ouster: “That Stuff Freaks Rupert Out”
New York Times: Tucker Carlson Texts Set Off Crisis Atop Fox on Eve of Trial
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Is there anything you would have done differently? |
| 0:02.0 | We've reported a true story. |
| 0:04.0 | Our colleague Brian Williams is back in Kuwait City tonight after a close call on the skies over Iraq. |
| 0:10.0 | Controversal Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and questions about Kavanaugh's drinking in the past. |
| 0:16.0 | Sean Hannity, come on up, Sean Hannity. |
| 0:18.0 | Today, Andrew Cuomo is having a moment. |
| 0:22.6 | What, oh, hello. |
| 0:24.6 | I am Chris Stierwald. |
| 0:26.6 | And I'm Aliana Johnson. |
| 0:28.6 | Welcome to Inkstained Retch's, where we break down what's going wrong and, yes, what's going right, with the American News Media. |
| 0:38.2 | Eliana Johnson, I don't know whether I can ever recall such an outcrying from Wretch Nation for our content. |
| 0:47.3 | I can't believe we're coming a day late, given all the media news this week. |
| 0:51.1 | Exactly. |
| 0:51.7 | People demanded early wretches and we are delivering late |
| 0:55.2 | wretches and we are recording remotely. That complaint box is open. Yeah, exactly. Please, |
| 1:01.0 | please send all those to Nate.more at aei.org. Please send all your complaints to Nate. I |
| 1:08.9 | blame it. No, you and I both had big travel weeks and going around and doing stuff and traversing the nation. |
| 1:16.3 | I have had the opportunity to get a pot of input on the firing of Tucker Carlson and some |
| 1:23.3 | input on Don Lemon, because I have crisscrossed breadth and width of this great nation. |
| 1:28.8 | I was going to say we have a huge prompt page. |
| 1:31.8 | Should we just dive right in? |
| 1:33.1 | Do it. |
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