Tucker’s Texts Forced Fox’s Hand.
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In a newly revealed text message, ousted Fox News host Tucker Carlson made a racist comment and said he found himself briefly rooting for a mob of Trump supporters to kill a person, according to the New York Times.
“A couple of weeks ago, I was watching video of people fighting on the street in Washington,” Carlson wrote in the January 2021 text message to a producer, the New York Times reported late Tuesday. “A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living s**t 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. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. I could taste it.”
The text message, which was included in redacted court filings in the Dominion Voting Systems case, was swept up in discovery as part of the voting machine company’s defamation lawsuit against Fox, according to the Times.
The text message alarmed Fox’s board of directors and played a role in Carlson’s abrupt firing last month, the paper reported.”
Tucker Carlson was known as the firebrand, flaming conservative on Fox News since the dawns of Trump Administration. Apparently, he sent texts messages to people with no reason to believe they would ever see the light of day beyond the recipient. Then stepped in Dominion and their mega lawsuit against Fox that brought many emails, texts and other electronic communications out into the open for all to view. That was a problem that Fox wanted solve right away with Tucker’s his firing. It still remains to be seen what fallout the most recent revelations will have in the broader context of the winner take all political battles currently being waged.
