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David Chalona's avatar

Something else to consider and something I heard on a podcast is that there have been rumblings and weird of a potential sale of Fox. Tucker, could have made the purchase unattractive as aPR nightmare. Anyone who purchased it would want to get rid of him but would look bad and make him a martyr in firing him or the gates and dealing with him indefinitely is not attractive. So there is the chance that firing him makes the network attractive for a buyer.

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Terry Wolfe's avatar

Whoever bought Fox would have the right to immediately fire Tucker on the spot, there's no logic to saying that they need to get rid of him first in order to get a buyer. In fact, one of the main reasons to buy a platform is to control who is featured.

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Howard Stein's avatar

Murdoch is willing to take a bath on Fox. His sons, as it turns out, will not get to run Fox. Murdoch wants to sell and there might be lawsuits waiting in the wings, not least from shareholders. But to make Fox palatable, appealing and marketable, he needs to sell as "clean" a station as possible. This is the reason Tucker was let go.

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Terry Wolfe's avatar

1) You have no evidence whatsoever that Fox is even being sold, or that "Murdoch is willing to take a bath on Fox", do you? Are you talking about Fox News, or the entire Fox corporation? Show sources, not just random rumors and conjecture.

2) Shares are plummeting due to Tucker being fired, and buying the company would be a negotiation, and the ability to hire/fire talent comes with the company. Firing the #1 host at the height of his popularity doesn't make anything "clean" or "marketable" in any world, it just throws the brand into disarray and turns off any buyers who would want to keep Tucker -- which any normal buyer would.

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Howard Stein's avatar

I'm not sure I agree with you — as, like you I imagine, we depend on news commentary re Fox being primed for sale. As to 2), unless you are deep within the power structures, you are again dependent on what is reported.

Tucker's continued pushing boundaries was a delight to me, but will certainly piss off left-leaning suitors. Anyway, thanks for commenting.

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C E's avatar

Please have a look into Tucker Carlsons father, him being the template of the sons style and topics of reporting, ... but mainly him being an employee of federal alphabet soup agencies involved in the information war part of the cold war! Also Tucker tried to apply "in vain" with "The Company" at the beginning of his career and the owners of his new network are heavily linked into the highest echelons of the military-industrial complex.

This is controlled opposition, this is running talking points like Hollywood would do it.

Please look into respective episodes at Candor Intelligence/Alexander Benesch on Youtube.

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C E's avatar

RFK Jr. is promoting end of 1st Amendment liberties for "climate deniers" and draconic punishments. There is a reason why they allowed this bootlegging mafia heir to be flown into Berlin for the huge anti-lockdown protests in the summer of 2020 lockdown while others barely scrambled their forces, voices and courage to again protest publicly on the street. The organizers of the Berlin protests are unbelievably deep state connected, anti-German-economy leaders, rather green-leftist with a sudden display of tolerance towards the ruffled and shaken young movement of conservative parliamentary opposition and on purpose aligning themselves with very fringe sovereign citizen style types to trigger official surveillance of the whole movement by the federal and state intelligence organs of government in Germany. It is all a deep fake and RFK Jr. is a dangerous elitist snob that conspires against our freedoms.

Alexander Benesch of Candor Intelligence also shows how the Kennedys always were huge fans of covert operations and black ops, not only against foreign forces but also against the domestic press. There are no heroes out there ready to come to our help!

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