Posted on 05/02/2023 9:42:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The New York Times revealed the message that so worried executives that it precipitated the shock exit of the anchor.
A racially charged and bloodthirsty text sent by Tucker Carlson about the assault of a protestor by Trump supporters was reportedly a key factor that precipitated the anchor’s shock exit from Fox News last week.
The New York Times reported Tuesday night that the discovery of Carlson’s message, and the language it contained, “set off a panic” amongst Fox executives on the eve of the defamation trial brought by Dominion Voting Systems against the cable news network.
Carlson’s text, published in full by the Times, was sent the day after the Jan.6 U.S. Capitol attack and was a reaction to a video clip of an assault that occurred weeks earlier. In the text, Carlson reacts to three Trump supporters beating one lone protestor. It is unclear what race the protestor was. “Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It’s not how white men fight,” Carlson writes. “Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. I could taste it,” the text published by the Times said.
Later in the text, Carlson admonishes himself for his bloodlust. “I’m becoming something I don’t want to be,” he writes. “The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as I despise what he says and does, much as I’m sure I’d hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn’t gloat over his suffering. I should be bothered by it.”
He concluded, “I should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this kid, and would be crushed if he was killed. If I don’t care about those things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?”
The Times reports that the Fox board saw the text the day before the Dominion trial was set to begin, and they were worried that it would become public during legal proceedings, particularly if Carlson was called to the stand. Fox ultimately settled the Dominion suit for $787.5 million.
Citing people with knowledge of the situation, the Times reports that the text, part of redacted court filings, was yet another factor pushing Fox to jettison Carlson, the most popular anchor on cable news.
The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to Fox News for comment.
The Fox board’s dramatic reaction to the text might seem at odds with the commentary Carlson regularly pushed on his Fox News show. Carlson’s show has been accused of mainstreaming white nationalist talking points such as the overtly racist “great replacement theory.”
In 2018, in a segment on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson said that immigration makes the United States “dirtier,” a comment he later doubled down on. The controversy led to an advertiser backlash that saw brands such as Pacific Life Insurance, TD Ameritrade, IHOP, the United Explorer credit card, Just For Men and Jaguar Land Rover pull their ads from Fox News.
I know he is Australian, but did he get U.S. citizenship or American citizenship, which could be about 35 countries.
What I read called him an Australian born American.
New York Times is publishing copyrighted material owned by Carlson.
He copyrights his "private" emails?
According to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Fox and Carlson can't erase or delete any emails for years?
Shouldn't Tucker Carlson, or anyone, know that anything on a work email couldn't end up in court, or for the public to see, because of this law?
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Yeah, believe every rumor from the Hollywood Reporter.
They are going to slime him.
Dissent is not tolerated.
It’s very simple. One guy reporting on sensitive issues they had set up Propaganda accounts to promote.
I know, Remove the one guy.
Wanting socialists dead is a good thing. Nothing to shy away from. You can also pray they stop being socialists, but wanting sociopaths dead to make living safer, thats a survival trait. Thats preserving society. Thats wanting a better place for everyone.
What about the three Trump supporters? Why no mention of their race?
Until I hear otherwise, I'm just going to assume that they were a Black dude, a Chicano, and a Samoan.
Regards,
Tucker Carlson January 7, 2021 — 04:18:04 PM UTC A couple of weeks ago, I was watching video of people fighting on the street in Washington. A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living shit out of him. It was three against one, at least. Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It’s not how white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. I could taste it. Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off: this isn’t good for me. I’m becoming something I don’t want to be. The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as I despise what he says and does, much as I’m sure I’d hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn’t gloat over his suffering. I should be bothered by it. I should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this kid, and would be crushed if he was killed. If I don’t care about those things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?
How and why?
It is? Why is it copyrighted, especially if it was subpoenaed and included in a court case?
Tucker slimed himself. The text was part of the court records. Nothing made up here. All Tucker.
The democrats should save their faux moral outrage for a real problem.
What hypocrites!
Yeah, well, nobody is perfect and he’s pretty normal in a lot of regards. He sees and says what a lot of us are thinking and that’s what makes him so popular. He’s real, not some virtue signaling hypocrite.
Everything we write is copyrighted to us.
In this case it could be owned by Fox.
But NYT doesn’t own it.
Even a letter written to us can’t be published without the author’s permission. We own the letter and could sell it, etc…but we do not own the intellectual property- the writing.
For a start, point out the factual error in his text. If you can’t find one, move on.
Too much damn bare truth and honesty.
Fox was worried that it would become public but made it public by giving it to the NYT to publish after they fired Tucker. Megan Kelly is right, they are trying to destroy Tucker abd it is about something more than potentially damaging texts. What is their real reason?
No, it’s not. Who released an unrelated text to the NYTs and why?
Murdochs=Liberal Aussie Trash.
“It’s not how white men fight” is mostly true, the notable exception being the very Antifa thugs that were , ironically, the subjects of the beating referred to here. But the implied opposite, that ganging up on someone IS how black men fight, is most definitely true virtually 100% of the time.
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