I haven’t written about Tucker Carlson being fired by Fox “News” because I just haven’t cared enough. To be clear, I’m thrilled he was fired – it’s good for democracy – but to me, that’s pretty much the end of the story. The “Why?” is of little interest to me. If you have fallen off a cliff and are hanging on to a ledge by a hand, with a 10,000 feet drop below, and someone above yells, "I'm throwing a rope down,” the idea of yelling back, “Why?” probably will not occur to anyone. The fact that someone threw a rope and saved you is all that matters.
Now, yes, the “Why?” behind Tucker Carlson being fired is something fun to ponder. But that’s largely all it is, something to ponder. And honestly, I not only don’t think most analysis of The Reason is anything more than just guesses – my sense is that there isn’t any One Reason, but rather that were a lot of reasons that built up over time, and something else happened, and it wasn’t The Reason, but just finally too much, the last straw and “Goodbye, don’t let the door hit you when you leave.” For that matter, most of the reasons guessed at are things that had been going on for a long time and Fox likely knew all about. His misogyny, his conflicts with his bosses, his still pushing election fraud, his toxic workplace, his emails that got released during the Dominion lawsuit, his lack of sponsors, most of whom had dropped him. None of these came as a sudden, shocking surprise to the powers that be at Fox “News.” More to the point, whatever reason he was fired for, it was not because of his fascist, near-treasonous views. He’s been slamming Ukraine, supporting Putin and Russia, criticizing vaccines (despite getting vaccinated himself), insisting there was no Insurrection, encouraging belief that the election was stolen, smearing women and minorities and more. And it never got him fired. So, whatever The Reason he finally did get fired, it wasn’t for any of that. Which means The Reason is pretty unimportant. At worse, it was because – to Fox “News” he finally crossed the line and went too far. But of course, in the real world, Tucker Carlson went too far long ago. He’s been fascist, misogynistic, racist, anti-Semitic, White Supremacist, Russia loving, near-treasonous for years. And Fox “News” will remain who it has always been. Just without Tucker Carlson. By the way, that’s no small thing. As extremist and divisive as Fox “News” is, Carlson had a deeper reach into fascism and conspiracy theories and giving those idea and those voices a platform than the others at Fox. So, while Fox “News” was fine with tolerating a Tucker Carlson for years – and may find another one eventually – the overall channel generally focused more on their basic extreme-right, divisive agenda of Democrats being evil, Joe Biden being horrible and liberals are woke panderers and destroying what was good about America in the 1840s. So, in the end, I’m just glad that Tucker Carlson is gone from Fox “News.” He show up someone, probably on his own online service like Glenn Beck, Alex Jones Mark Levin, Joe Rogan and others. Or something else. Like enter politics. Or whatever. But “Why” he is gone just doesn’t matter to me. I just like that he’s gone, and it was done by Fox. In fact, I think I’ll the best explanation of why Tucker Carlson is gone comes from lunatic MAGA pastor Shane Vaughn who pouts out lunatic videos. And so, I think his views on the subject are the best way to go out, and we’ll give him the final word. "Tucker Carlson is gone because of spiritual warfare. I want you to listen closely to me. There is something much bigger than the elites. There's something much bigger than Charles Schwab, George Soros, or Rupert Murdoch.” Wait, Charles Schwab?? Never mind, back to Pastor Vaughn. "There is something that is working for the destruction of America. It works in the background. You don't see it. You like to call it the Cabal, all the podcasters love to talk to you about the Cabal, they love to talk around about Black Rock, and that's fine, and it's all true. But ladies and gentlemen, you are focusing on the symptoms, rather than the disease.” And what is that disease? It goes beyond Q, he says. Indeed, it goes to Alpha and Omega. And finally, he gets to the nub of it all. “Beyond all of that, there are some people that know what's going on, and we know how to fight against it because we know that Tucker Carlson was a victim of demonic power." Demonic power got rid of Tucker Carlson. That explanation of The Reason is as good as any. Especially when fascist, misogynistic, racist, anti-Semitic, White Supremacist, Russia loving, near-treasonous and reality are too hard to face.
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