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.
None of that applies in a news sense.
Where did this antifa beating take place? Is it on yourtube?
I've been saying it for decades- I used to wonder how [socialist]Hitler found people willing to kill for him. Today's budding young [socialist] liberals seem like they would be gleefully willing to.
And if they had tacit government and media approval it would be happening already. But it's getting close to that now...
Tucker needs some black privelege. Otherwise , it’s sit down and shut up white boy.
Pure Excrement!…….They are just digging themselves deeper!
Fox is a lying mound of excrement!
Why would Fox settle the Dominion case over a text that had nothing to do with slandering Dominion? This particular text has nothing to do with voting machines. It would never be allowed in cross examination for that very reason.
FOX is releasing this in the hopes of killing Tucker’s job opportunities because they now fear going against him as competition.
Good luck with that.
Wow Joe, I finally met a perfect man. I am so humbled and honored to meet a man of such grandiose hubrus. A man of perfection that never has to introspect on where he isn’t living up to his own standards and correct.
Because saying anything positive toward white people is “sliming yourself”?
WHO did he write this TO?
Is it true that Murdock likes little boys? Just wondering.
For Reid and the black racists on MSNBC do this night after night and no one bats an eye
Nothing slimy about what he said.
The full and complete text shows a human being admitting a human being has emotional reactions that aren’t always pure and uses reason and logic to keep them in check.
If he had concluded “kill the little punk anyway” then there would be a problem, but he didn’t, he recognized his emotions were wrong and concluded correctly that the man was a human and did not be happy at his suffering.
Only in the left wing world gone made is this text some sort of recrimination
Fox is trying really hard to smear Tucker Carlson. Now that they’ve finally gotten an inkling as to the size of his base vs the size of their base, they’re desperate to try to take him down. They know full well as soon as he goes anywhere or starts his own show, his audience is going to dwarf theirs.
There is nothing in this text that should or will bother anyone. Everybody knows the claim that talking about the LEFT’s plan to flood the country with 3rd world immigrants so as to change the demographics.....to support Leftist Democrats in elections.....isn’t “White nationalist”. Its what Leftists themselves gloated about for over a decade before Tucker ever mentioned it.
Follow the original post link - Hollywood Reporter (HR) - to the New York Times link in that HR story.
Finally, reason #98 Tucker was fired. This one may have some teeth behind it.
Fake.
This sounds like Tucker analyzing his own reaction to a video he watched. A lot of us wouldn’t mind seeing an antifa thug get a good beat down considering how much trouble they cause, but there is a moral consideration as Tucker pointed out. Is he critiquing how media can enrage people to do things they normally wouldn’t do? Anyway, I don’t see the problem with Tucker’s text. Maybe Fox leaked it to make him look bad.
So Tucker honestly discusses thoughts he had. He pointed out that these thoughts disgusted him. How does that make him any different that anyone else? You self-righteous libtards make me sick. You say horrible things about conservatives all day long every day and go about with you head in the air. Violent thoughts are only criminal if you are a conservative.
Tucker is sarcastic and I identify with that because I am quite the same in manner.
Often when we are watching people being barbequed at the picnic of public opinion, we forget they are just people like us.
This is all irrelevant to the fact that he got to where he is because he is personable, curious, and effective at what he does.
I found the text to be uplifting as it were. A man who examines his emotions and through logic and moral reason concludes that instead of allowing himself to be turned into a morally bankrupt person like the Antifa creep, he wants to be a better person. One that does not resort to violence first. Thus his conclusion is that he wants to be a better person. How is that bad? So the left, and Fox think this makes Tucker look bad? He wants to be a better person? Is that where we are now? Those who seek to be moral and to stand for something are somehow bad? Sad times indeed.
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