Two things stick out immediately: his Friday show was his last. IOW, they denied him any opportunity to say goodbye to his audience on-air. The other is that, unlike with their announcement letting Dan Bongino go, the Carlson kiss-off memo doesn’t offer any good luck wishes for Carlson’s future endeavors. Those two things seemed to indicate this was not at all amicable. (You could say it was an unscheduled decoupling!)
When the news broke, apparently we weren’t the only ones giddy; the Fox News staff was elated Tucker had been tossed.
There was a great deal of speculation about why Carlson was fired so unceremoniously, but by yesterday afternoon, the truth started filtering out: it wasn’t just because of the Dominion lawsuit, but also his show’s former booker, Abby Grossberg, filed a lawsuit last month against Fox Corp, Fox News, Carlson, Justin Wells (“Tucker Carlson Tonight” Executive Producer and also fired with Carlson in Monday’s bloodletting), along with a number of other named defendants, alleging they created a hostile work environment. (You can read the entire 79 page filing here.)
It’s possible since this lawsuit was filed last month (and in light of the Dominion settlement), Fox conducted an investigation and decided it was better to cut Tucker loose since he was a serious liability.
If you read the Grossberg lawsuit, “gross” is a really good word to describe the toxic environment at Fox News…
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Lost in Abby Grossberg’s lawsuit was this nugget where Tucker was musing about statutory rape and sexual activity of 14 year old girls: “If it weren’t my daughter, I would love that scenario.”
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