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Keith Olbermann
Related: About this forumKeith is almost giddy today (3/7) about Tuckhead Carlson and the 1/6 footage hurting Fox
The headline says it all -- DID TUCKER CARLSON JUST GET HIMSELF FIRED BY RUPERT? 3.7.23 -- and I think he makes a good case for it and for Dominion.
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As he set out to gaslight his Gullibles into believing the January 6th video "proves" there was false flag, with "sight-seers" led astray by a few "hooligans," what was the ONE thing Tucker Carlson could NOT do? What, as the prospect of a $1,600,000,000 damage judgment against Fox loomed in the Dominion Voting Systems defamation case, did he need to avoid at all costs? Say something like "The 2020 election was a grave betrayal of American democracy, given the facts that have since emerged about that election. No honest person can deny it." He RE-ENACTED FOX'S LIES FROM 2020 as documented in the Dominion depositions and texts. If that weren't good (bad) enough he also defamed Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. I guess they'll have to co-own the channel with Dominion.
Now what?
Does Rupert Murdoch throw Carlson overboard? Fire him to try to tamp down the Dominion Crisis AND the Cheney/Kinzinger crisis? How did Fox let him put this on? How did Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham and the others not strangle Carlson into unconsciousness rather than let him do what he did? Carlson's shtick was unsurprisingly thin. But at least he added a catchphrase to the lexicon of lying and manipulation: "The Video Proves This." (NARRATOR: The video didn't prove this).
Now what?
Does Rupert Murdoch throw Carlson overboard? Fire him to try to tamp down the Dominion Crisis AND the Cheney/Kinzinger crisis? How did Fox let him put this on? How did Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham and the others not strangle Carlson into unconsciousness rather than let him do what he did? Carlson's shtick was unsurprisingly thin. But at least he added a catchphrase to the lexicon of lying and manipulation: "The Video Proves This." (NARRATOR: The video didn't prove this).
Here's the link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/did-tucker-carlson-just-get-himself-fired-by-rupert-3-7-23/id1633301179?i=1000603088359
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Keith is almost giddy today (3/7) about Tuckhead Carlson and the 1/6 footage hurting Fox (Original Post)
ificandream
Mar 2023
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Nothing will happen... it seems to me that people still don't seem with whom they are dealing
Fullduplexxx
Mar 2023
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Ninga
(8,610 posts)1. Very good today.
Fullduplexxx
(8,254 posts)2. Nothing will happen... it seems to me that people still don't seem with whom they are dealing
ificandream
(10,507 posts)3. It already has in one respect.
A few Republicans have been critical, including McConnell. I realize that doesn't mean a lot given their past, but it's a start.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3043087