Is the extreme right cannibalizing itself? The firing of Tucker Carlson may be another big turn away from Trump and Trumpism. Opinion by andrewphil
which like Fox is part of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. empire, that was the final straw for the company. Emails and texts unearthed as part of the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against Fox reportedly showed Carlson sent “abusive” and “vulgar” messages about other people at the network. In one, he called a senior Fox executive what the Journal refers to as “the C-word.”
At the same time, Carlson’s hefty ratings may not have been as valuable as they looked. He’d become so toxic that big mainstream advertisers wouldn’t go near him. When your biggest commercial supporter is the MyPillow guy, you’re clearly not translating audience into dollars in the most efficient way.
It’s just possible that even the media masters at Fox have limits, that there are lines beyond which even they will not go. It’s well known that Rupert Murdoch himself soured on Donald Trump after the Capitol Hill riot. One of his newspapers,Dumping Carlson may be another big turn away from Trump and Trumpism.
The Trump movement, he reasons, is marked by a rejection of norms and a drive to shatter institutions, be they the Republic establishment, government or media. But like all extremists, they come to the point where they turn on each other.
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