From O'Reilly's commentary.....
This was a shock to Tucker Carlson and his staff. They were putting together Monday night's program. They were actively involved with with getting things together and boom, Tucker Carlson is history at the Fox News show.
There are a number of things in play. On 60 Minutes last night, a man named Ray Epps tells the audience that Tucker Carlson ruined his life.That's a pretty strong assertion on 60 Minutes. A lawsuit will be coming against Tucker Carlson and Fox News from Ray Epps. Carlson hypothesized that he was involved with staging the January 6th riot.
There are a number of lawsuits going to be filed shortly against Fox News board of directors. People who sit on the board by shareholders, people who own the stock. So FNC is aware those lawsuits are coming. And the board of directors themselves, the individuals sitting on the board. They're going to have to defend themselves. That's big.
Smartmatic, which I don't think is a very important lawsuit since the Smartmatic Company only had one county in the 2020 election where the machines were used. So they're suing for 2.6 billion. That's just insane. They'll settle, I believe, with Fox, but not nearly what Dominion got. But that's an opinion of mine.
But the fact is there this litigation against Fox News is ongoing and destructive. Tucker Carlson is the lightning rod.
He made a very shrewd decision. He decided to go to get viewers from the committed right. A lot like Rush Limbaugh did. And he went into that precinct and he programmed for those Americans. His base was about 3 million people, which in this day and age puts him ahead of most other cable news outfits.
In doing that, his commentary became, in many cases, conspiratorial. You can make a lot of money doing that. And there's nothing wrong with doing that. As long as you tell people this is my opinion and speculation, and what I think. There's nothing wrong with that. I don't disparage that.
The conspiracy industry is huge. Russian collusion. That was insane. And every news organization except Fox embraced that conspiracy, did they not?
So Carlson had a very successful run at Fox and was very influential among committed conservatives. They're different than casual conservatives. They're right there every day. They want to know what is going on.
At the same time. Fox News changed dramatically from a tightly structured operation run by a guy named Roger Ailes, who is no longer there to what they call fiefdoms. Each show did its own thing and it maintained its lead over CNN, completely hapless. And MSNBC, which is as crazy left as you can get.
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