"After years of Carlson going on the air every weeknight to espouse white nationalism, foment racial hatred, and demean people of color with racist tropes and stereotypes, we're supposed to accept that the Fox board somehow came to its senses when confronted with a single 18-month-old text?" asked Talking Points Memo's David Kurtz. But while the text displayed racism and bloodlust - even as Carlson seemed to grapple with the morality of the latter - it was not, as many have since observed, any more extreme or incendiary than his nightly broadcasts.
Carlson was on the stand, creating a sensational and damaging moment that would raise broader questions about the company." While not the sole reason for his firing, the text nevertheless "contributed to a chain of events that ultimately led to" his ouster.
These seismic decisions to pay nearly $800 million, and then dismiss its biggest star came, the Times claimed, as "the board grew concerned that the message could become public at trial when Mr. Within days of discovering the texts, Fox would settle its case with Dominion Voting Systems, and fire Carlson shortly thereafter. But as The New York Times reported, Carlson's messages would later prompt "a panic at the highest levels of Fox" when they were uncovered two years later - just as the company was set to defend itself against a massive defamation lawsuit for knowingly airing false claims of 2020 election fraud. In and of itself, this is hardly remarkable - as the network's top broadcaster, it's perfectly understandable that Carlson and his team would be awake, discussing the day's historic significance and meaning.
6, 2021, just hours after a mob of violent supporters of former President Donald Trump had breached the Capitol building in the culmination of a months-long effort to subvert the results of the presidential election, Tucker Carlson was up late, texting with the producer of his eponymous Fox News program. Tucker Carlson Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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