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What Next: The Ballad of Tucker Carlson

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41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Tucker Carlson has now completed the holy trinity of cable TV news: joining — and leaving — MSNBC, CNN, and now Fox News. Why did Fox oust him so abruptly? And how did he create a feedback loop that made Fox millions — and changed American politics forever? Guest: Nicole Hemmer, Director of the Rogers Center for the Study of the Presidency at Vanderbilt University. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Amicus—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by Nike.

0:04.2

It's packed to school season, and you and your child might be feeling a bit anxious.

0:09.0

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0:13.2

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0:15.6

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0:19.9

Create long-lasting memories that will take your kids from class to court and beyond.

0:25.5

Go to Nike.com, forward slash kids to get school ready.

0:30.0

Consider Tucker Carlson's final broadcast.

0:38.4

Good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight.

0:40.8

For centuries, one of my colleagues here at Slate watched the whole thing and summed it

0:45.5

up like this.

0:47.0

Tucker Carlson's show died as it lived.

0:54.8

But once again, they're using fake allegations of racism as a pretext for a political plan.

1:02.8

What my colleague meant here was that Tucker Carlson's last broadcast was both mundane and

1:08.5

alarming.

1:09.7

All at once Carlson shamed Democrats for calling out racism.

1:14.8

He compared transgender people to members of a cult, and he said Joe Biden wanted to

1:21.2

import voters from cities to the suburbs.

1:25.8

So you can't be safe in a leafy suburb anymore, it has to be urbanized.

1:32.0

And even though Carlson was about to be yanked off the air, there was no sign that anything

1:37.2

was amiss.

1:38.2

That's it for us for the week.

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