Why Tucker Carlson's ouster from Fox wasn’t just any old firing
The ReidOut with Joy Reid
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🗓️ 27 April 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Why do I care about the conflict between Ukraine and Russia? |
| 0:10.0 | I'm serious. |
| 0:11.0 | I can't. |
| 0:12.0 | And why should that route for Russia, which I am? |
| 0:13.0 | It might be worth asking ourselves since it is getting pretty serious. |
| 0:16.0 | What is this really about? |
| 0:17.0 | Why do I hate Putin so much? |
| 0:19.0 | Has Putin ever called me a racist? |
| 0:21.0 | Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him? |
| 0:25.0 | No American TV host spouted Russian talking points the wait tuckers. |
| 0:29.0 | And Russia is saying it is sad to see him go. |
| 0:33.0 | Well tonight there's new information on what led to his firing. |
| 0:36.0 | Also tonight, transgender Montana State Representative Zoe Zephyr joins me after Republicans voted to discipline her late today for her impassioned defense of trans care. |
| 0:49.0 | Plus, dramatic testimony from E. Jean Carroll as the civil rape trial of Donald Trump got underway today in the U.S. |
| 0:58.0 | Today in Manhattan. |
| 1:00.0 | But we begin tonight with the one man conspiracy promoter, also known as Tucker Carlson. |
| 1:07.0 | Up until Monday, Tucker hosted one of, if not the most watched cable news shows in the country. |
| 1:13.0 | But his ouster from Fox wasn't just any old firing. |
| 1:16.0 | Tucker presented a unique danger that was unlike anything else we've seen in American cable news history. |
| 1:23.0 | Almost exclusively using his one hour slot to pedal the worst of the worst conspiracies and authoritarian propaganda to millions of Americans. |
| 1:33.0 | To the point where one of the most prominent people who came to Tucker's defense after his firing was I kid you not Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov. |
| 1:43.0 | Perhaps the day would be useful to consider how things are always free of speech in the United States. |
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