Two days after Tucker Carson was suddenly pink-slipped by Fox News, the former cable host has broken his silence — at the exact same time that his long-running FNC show would have aired.
“The thing you notice when you take a little time off is how unbelievably stupid most of the debates you see on television are. They’re completely irrelevant,” he began in a video missive posted online just after 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET Wednesday.
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Lashing out at so-called “liars” and declaring “the iron law of the universe,” Carlson — who ironically just last week was the host of TV’s top-rated cable news show and among the most powerful people in television — postulated: “Our current orthodoxies won’t last. The people in charge know this, that’s why they’re hysterical and aggressive. They’ve given up persuasion. They’re resorting to force.”
He then offered: “Where can you still find Americans saying true things? There aren’t many places left, but there are some, and that’s enough. As long as you can hear the words, there is hope.”
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— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) April 27, 2023