Steve Bannon: Murdoch Paid Out Tucker Carlson’s FOX News Contract to Keep Him Off the Air
Steve Bannon: And, here’s what the Tucker drill is going to be. He’s got a long-term contract. The Wall Street Journal said yesterday that he was negotiating an extension to 2029. Right? And I think he still has got a couple of years, two or three years left on the contract. Just like Lou Dobbs and the other guys. They pay him out under the terms because they don’t want to set up their competitors. They pay him out the $20 million. He doesn’t have the option of going somewhere else. This is to take the voice of Populism and the voice of MAGA off of primetime. As I said in that speech, if DeSantis is not the guy to do it, they’ll find Glenn Youngkin or Tim Scott or Brian Kemp. They’ll find anybody to chop-block Trump in the primary. If that doesn’t work, they’ll get in back of Joe Biden. Right? And it’s all about stopping Trump and stopping MAGA…
…I think what they’re going to do is try to pay him out on his contract. And just like they do with Lou Dobbs, other guys, and Megan Kelly. Tt’s only when your contract expires can then you start your podcast… This play, I believe, and I could be wrong, this play is to make sure that the Trump movement MAGA, and even where Tucker maybe is not full MAGA, he covers the issues in a sophisticated way for the audience to be able to kind of say, okay, I understand this, and grapple onto it. If you look at the punch list of what he covers, it’s amazing. They want that off primetime. They don’t want to give any support to Trump.
The timeline of everything that happened to Fox News and Tucker Carlson over the past few weeks sends a CLEAR message: If a corporate media outlet refuses to follow the government-approved narrative, it WILL be destroyed. pic.twitter.com/kwHbTFHBgC
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) April 25, 2023
Popular conservative icon Glenn Beck gave his opinion on how and why Tucker Carlson was fired. He believes it boils down to going against the “government-approved narrative,” and those who go against it “will be destroyed” in his view.
Beck laid out the timeline he saw:
“The past few weeks at Fox News, the timeline of events is a little telling,” he started.
“First of all, back in February, Blackrock decided to invest in Fox. On Tuesday, Fox settled a lawsuit for $787 million. On Thursday, Dan Bongino announced he was leaving Fox because they just couldn’t come up with any kind of contract for him. On Sunday AOC went on MSNBC where she blamed Fox News for the incitement of violence.”
“Later that day, ’60 Minutes’ ran a story with Ray Epps where he said Tucker Carlson was, quote, ‘trying to destroy my life.’ And yesterday it was announced that he [Tucker Carlson] was leaving Fox News.”
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