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This time I'm really done with Fox.

I've said that earlier, at least to myself, especially after their premature phone call of the Arizona results on election nighttime 2020.

Only getting rid of Tucker Carlson was the last straw. Given the new technologies, does anyone truly need Pull a fast one on News Channel any longer?

Full disclosure: I'thou on the payroll of Newsmax — the streaming service, N2 — and I piece of work out of their offices for more than half the year. Only like everybody else I know I still watched Trick, or at least Tucker, until he was summarily axed last week, while at the absolute top of his game, and more chiefly, the ratings.

My ain theory is that Tucker was the victim of a Deep Land hit. All the stories about Rupert's fiance, or the corporate emails, or the second-string producer'south lawsuit — nonsense, cover stories.

Tucker'south problem was that he had drifted off the reservation. Someone got to Rupert'south child, Lachlan, who is to the Murdoch clan what Fredo was to the Corleones.

Simply why would even a pampered puke with a woke wife like Lachlan want to demolish the last remaining relevant bear witness on Daddy'due south channel?

Well, consider Tucker's contempo roster of guests — Elon Musk, RFK Jr., Kanye Westward, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Wolf, Alex Berenson, Riley Gaines, etc.

How many of the above exercise you think you'll always see once again on Play a joke on? Just when it comes to Mitch McConnell, going forward seldom will be heard a discouraging give-and-take. Lisa Murkowski and Willard M. Romney, ditto.

Should you decide not to cut the cord on your cable Tv set, stand up by to hear a lot of this on Play a trick on from at present on:

"Thanks so much for joining us this evening, Vice President Pence!"

"A new poll shows Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida rapidly closing in on the evil former President Donald Trump…."

"Ambassador Haley, your amazing speech yesterday to the Council on Strange Relations has gone viral…."

With Tucker'southward departure, here's some of what is at present verboten at Fox: skepticism about the Ukraine war and the 2020 election. The Democrats' COVID-19 disaster may be addressed, just only gingerly. Don't want to offend Big Pharma, after all.

Tucker Carlson will survive, stronger than ever, for sure. (I hope the TMZ speculation almost taking over Newsmax is true, although I doubt it.)

What's sadder to see is Rupert Murdoch going out like this at age 92. He used to exist a real swashbuckling character back in the day, a disrupter in all the good ways. But like Richard Two, Rupert wasted time and now fourth dimension doth waste him.

I met him a long time ago — when he was merely on his second married woman. He was buying this newspaper, and I was introduced to him as the guy who had been the Herald'southward lead columnist just quit to become into TV because the paper was well-nigh to fold.

"You made the correct determination," Rupert told me.

Later, when I went back to print, he used to fly into Boston every Christmas for a boozy dinner with Herald management. At the fourth dimension, Murdoch was setting upwards the Fox television network, simply he wanted everyone to know he hadn't forgotten his newspapers.

"Whatever happens," he would say, "print people will always be the backbone of this system. You must accept a background in print to succeed in any media endeavour."

Nosotros didn't totally believe his reassurances. Just in that location was truth to what Rupert Murdoch said. He was an ink-stained wretch himself, later on all. He loved laying out the front pages of his papers.

I mention this because for all intents and purposes, Tucker was the last print guy at Fox. He started out at a regional newspaper. I met him when he was working for the Weekly Standard and doing a story on Patches Kennedy'southward lackluster pre-Congressional career as a state rep in Providence.

I was the curator of the videotapes showing Patches stumbling around drunk on the floor of the Firm. Nobody at the Providence Journal was interested in them — it was a "serious" paper, and you know what that means. So the pols down there would send me videos of his drunken escapades, anonymously.

Hey, I worked for Murdoch, I knew what to practice with them. In print and on broadcast media.

I met Tucker at the State House printing gallery and handed over the videotapes. He did a cracking job with the fabric. He e'er does.

Now who's left at Fox? I get along with all the talent, simply they're mostly hired easily, lifers. You can sum up the remaining Fox News hosts the manner they used to depict journeyman ball players:

"Won't brand waves, likewise won't make All-Star team."

In the old days, earlier time doth wasted him, Rupert didn't bow to pressure. In some cases, he still doesn't.

There's a major Brit media personality named Jeremy Clarkson. He had a huge hit testify on the BBC until he was fired in 2018 — for assaulting one of his producers over a mix up in a catering order.

Clarkson got picked upwardly on waivers by Murdoch. Concluding December he wrote a cavalcade for the Sun about how much he hated Meghan Markle. He said that he dreamed of the day "when she is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowds chat 'Shame!' and throw lumps of excrement at her."

Seems a bit harsh, doesn't it, no matter what your feelings about the gilt-digging Duchess of Sussex?

Was Clarkson fired by Rupert Murdoch? Hell no. He just tweeted out a simpering, half-assed apology, blaming it all on a flawed Game of Thrones reference:

"Oh love, I've rather put my foot in it… I shall have to be more than careful in the future."

He's still on the payroll. So is Tucker Carlson, of course — for $1.nine million a month, simply only as long as he keeps his mouth shut. The departure is, Clarkson is even so working.

I just checked out his weekend column — he came out against unisex bathrooms and Bud Light. Very edgy stuff indeed.

On Mon later the news I texted Tucker. I mentioned how he had stolen the thunder of his old foil on CNN, who got canned an hour or then after Tucker.

"Look at it this mode — you ruined Don Lemon's twenty-four hours. Information technology'south similar Aldous Huxley on Nov. 22 1963. Some people probably still don't know he's dead."

Come to retrieve of it, Tucker was probably the last guy on Fox who would fifty-fifty become that joke.

Tucker's out, so am I, and then are millions of others. It's a Dauntless New World.