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.
Oh nose! He said, “That isn’t how White men fight”
But we had crickets when Biden said if a Black didn’t vote for him, they weren’t really Black...
Eyes opening yet?
I’m sorry, but is introspection now dishonorable?
If it was written to us, then it’s ours too. My guess is that’s the source. Who it was written to.
I am wonderful, aren’t I?
It’s the fact that while he didn’t overtly state it, he inferred white people don’t…..well you know. And that’s what nailed him.
It’s great to see FAUX News outing themselves by showing their trues colors.
There’s nothing better than to see the evil concealed that’s finally revealed.
Please do not be sorry. Tucker Carlson has been trying to point out, that open debate may include some rough considerations around the perimeter of what is on a person’s mind.
People not only write in rough drafts, but they also speak in rough drafts. We write imperfectly and speak imperfectly.
I think, that Tucker Carlson is - in a roundabout way - speaking and writing - now - campaigning for people forgiving the rough spots, listening, reading, and waiting for what another person is trying to say.
I believe, that Tucker Carlson is interested in mechanisms (solutions) that actually work - and such, are not instantly forthcoming but something that requires application, craftsmanship, focus . . . trial and error.
Patience.
I believe the following interview is a great example of a Tucker Carlson interview.
There are moments when his mind races, but those are followed (sometimes a while later) by his regaining composure.
Kellie-Jay Keen’s remarks about what defines a woman, and where the left has gone nuts (re “transgenderism”); originally broadcast on Fox News, May 23, 2022:
Kellie-Jay Keen YouTube account:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT262_vpzjI
Kellie-Jay Keen Twitter account:
https://twitter.com/ThePosieParker
So if a Black person says something along the lines of “that’s not how black peoples does…..”, then is that also racist?
I agree that the left wing gets more upset with patent or latent racism. But it seems the fear is the it will upset people on the right. Otherwise, the pushback would be nonexistent.
So what f it’s not how white men fight, who then fights the way he described?
We had a guy on the radio here in Pittsburgh who did a Conservative AM talk show. Jim Quinn.
Was incredibly popular show.
Left wing nutter took over and fired him, just because he didn’t like conservatism. Station has NEVER recovered in the AM Slot in the ratings.
His firing had nothing to do with ratings or anything but the new guy running it being a liberal.
How are these “Tucker messages” getting out? Did the NYT hack Fox? These are Fox internal messages. I Fox dripping these out to hurt Tucker? Does other Fox talent have something to fear?
Fox was so worried that the email would become public that they leaked it?
“abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz” ‘Circle C’
Copyrighted by me.
> So what f it’s not how white men fight, who then fights the way he described?
That’s what gets me. It’s a silly comment. I like Tucker and he speaks for me a lot, but white men absolutely do fight like that with many people against a single person. Black men fight like that. Women fight like that. If you say that white men only fight under Queensbury rules is either kidding themselves or want to shine others on.
“None of that applies in a news sense.”
Of course it does.
Why do you think we can only post excerpts here for most sources?
Can a newspaper publish a bootlegged novel from a best selling author because it’s newsworthy?
Exactly. Stupid comment. And a dog whistle.
US Dominion, Inc., Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., and Dominion Voting Systems Corporation, Plaintiffs, v. Fox News Network, LLC, Defendant.
Case No. N21C-03-257 EMD CONSOLIDATED Public Version Filed on February 16, 2023
. . . may be downloaded at:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/59b93674-ba03-4bc1-94da-5e15f776fc43.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_10
The PDF file is 192 pages.
The Tucker Carlson text message that the New York Times included online at:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02/business/media/tucker-carlson-text-message-white-men.html
and I included in my reply 28 above, does NOT show in that PDF file, supposedly because, as the NYT states:
"The text is part of redacted court filings and its contents were previously unreported. The contents of the text were disclosed in interviews with several people close to the defamation lawsuit against Fox. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they did not want to be identified discussing a message that is protected by a court order. In public filings, it remains hidden behind a block of black text."
But I *suspect* that the particular message is actually part of Abby Grossberg's lawsuit. Because the content of the particular Tucker Carlson message, is not related to the Dominion matter - instead, the content points to Abby Grossberg's complaint re prejudice.
Also, I have been scrolling up and down thru the Dominion case, and I have not found any leading or following information that might indicated where the particular Tucker Carlson message would be.
I have not found any evidence online, or in the PDF file, that Tucker Carlson said what the New York Times claims.
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