Fox chairman Rupert Murdoch ordered Tucker Carlson’s firing over a discrimination lawsuit filed by a former producer on his show, the Los Angeles Times reports.
According to the Times, Murdoch was also “concerned” about Carlson’s insistence that undercover government agents were involved in the January 6 insurrection.
Carlson is the focus of a lawsuit from his former senior booking producer, Abby Grossberg, who filed two separate suits.
In a lawsuit filed in the Southern District of New York, Grossberg accused Carlson and Fox of sexism and harassment, alleging that his show’s workplace was flurried with examples of misogyny.
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Her lawsuit claims, among other things, that mocked-up photographic images depicted then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “in a bathing suit revealing her cleavage” and that staffers were polled — on two separate occasions — on which of two female candidates for Michigan governor they would rather have sex with.
But the network gave no reasoning for the abrupt firing Monday.
According to a statement released on Monday, FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways.
“We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,” said Fox News in a statement.
“Mr. Carlson’s last program was Friday April 21st. Fox News Tonight will air live at 8 PM/ET starting this evening as an interim show helmed by rotating FOX News personalities until a new host is named,” said Fox News in a statement.
Tucker Carlson is an American television host, conservative political commentator, and writer. He has hosted the nightly political talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News since 2016.
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Carlson was born in San Francisco, California, in 1969. He is the son of Richard Carlson, a former journalist and diplomat, and Lisa McNear Carlson, an artist. Carlson graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1991.
Carlson began his media career as a writer for The Weekly Standard and other publications. He joined CNN in 2000 as a commentator and co-host of the network’s prime-time news debate program Crossfire. Carlson left CNN in 2005 and joined MSNBC, where he hosted the nightly program Tucker from 2005 to 2008.
Below is a compilation of Tucker Carslon’s very familiar and funny laugh. Wherever he ends up, Newsmax, OAN, or? His laugh will remain.
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