The View Dunks on Tucker Carlson’s Post-Fox Career Slide: ‘Somebody’s Basement with a Podcast’
The View bashed Tucker Carlson Wednesday — taking turns mocking the former Fox News host over what became of him since his firing from the network.
The panel started their Wednesday show by discussing a preview excerpt from Network of Lies, the upcoming book by Brian Stelter that will examine the circumstances behind Carlson’s ouster. Between Fox’s $787 million settlement with Dominion and the ongoing legal battles they face, Sunny Hostin argued that Carlson got axed because “he cost them too much” and became a liability for the network.
Hostin proceeded to cite unspecified reports claiming Carlson was fired as “part of the deal” from the Dominion settlement. Carlson has also made this claim before, though Fox News and Dominion have both denied there was any condition that involved his firing. Stelter’s book also dismisses the idea Carlson’s firing was a secret provision of the settlement agreement with Dominion.
The conversation moved on to the panel’s agreement that “everyone is expendable” and “everyone is replacable,” including former Fox Newsers who believed otherwise in the past. Alyssa Farah Griffin outlined the trajectory of Carlson’s career, all the way to his current show on X — formerly Twitter.
[Carlson] has the distinct privilege of being the only host whose ever been canned by MSNBC, CNN and Fox News. All three. But what fascinates me in this story how fame and power can corrupt… I’ve seen it hatch to too many people. I’ve known him for a decade, and he used to want to be the future George Will. He want to elevate the discourse. He wanted the Republican Party to be the party of ideas. Now he’s on Twitter hosting a deranged conspiracy theorist who claims he’s Obama’s gay lover that he did crack with. How the mighty have fallen
As The View speculated on how Carlson spiraled into his current persona, Griffin continued to argue that “the power and the hubris of being the most watched man on cable news” magnified his worst aspects. She also compared him to Bill O’Reilly by saying “There’s always this question of ‘They don’t need Fox News, they’ll be just as powerful.’ No, no, no. You need the institution.”
“They end up in somebody’s basement with a podcast,” Joy Behar mocked to the laughter of her colleagues.
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