Opinion by Erik Wemple: An admission in a text message that reportedly played a role in the former Fox News host’s ouster speaks to his drift to the fringes of American political discourse.
as a “demonic force, a destroyer,” adding, “But he’s not going to destroy us.” After some back and forth about the insanity swirling in Trump’s America, Carlson riffed:A couple of weeks ago, I was watching video of people fighting on the street in Washington. A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living shit out of him. It was three against one, at least. Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It’s not how white men fight.
Like many passages in the discovery materials, that one was redacted in the court docket. But the Times secured the material, noting that it set off a panic among Fox News higher-ups when they read it in the lead-up to the trial. “The [Fox] board grew concerned,” wrote Times reporters Jeremy W. Peters, Michael S. Schmidt and Jim Rutenberg, “that the message could become public at trial when Mr.
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