Getting Foxed out: Carlson is out, but will either he or Fox News ever change?
Then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson speaks at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest 2022 on Dec. 17, 2022, in Phoenix. - Brian Cahn/ZUMA Press Wire/TNS
April 26, 2023
As Tucker Carlson departs Fox News, the big question isn’t about the rationale for showing the profitable prime-time host the door, but whether Fox will ever take any responsibility for putting a racist conspiracy theorist on air, night after night, long after it became apparent that Carlson was uninterested in reality. Why did it take a legal settlement of more than three-quarters of a billion dollars for defaming Dominion Voting Systems to mark him as a liability, and not his pushing openly bigoted "great replacement" drivel, or working overtime to platform Trump’s election denier henchmen e...