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Fox News stunned many on Monday when they announced that they had “parted ways” with host Tucker Carlson.
Soon after the news scorched across social media, Glenn Beck — a former Fox News host and the founder of Blaze Media — offered Carlson a job with his company.
“We would love to have you here. You won’t miss a beat. And together, the two of us will tear it up. Just tear it up. I think that will kill Fox, I really do. I know so many people that – you know – still kind of like Fox. And they watch the other shows. But they’re like, ‘Tucker, Tucker is the only one that I really trust,” Beck said on his radio show while discussing the news ouster Carlson’s ouster from Fox News.
The host concluded, “You lose Tucker Carlson, I think that really kills [Fox]. Where are you going to get the truth? Tucker was the only guy out there that I felt was in the mainstream media that was telling America the truth.”
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Fox News' goodbye message to @TuckerCarlson sure looks like what they said when I left. I have a feeling this will KILL Fox. pic.twitter.com/oOFXnv4sKp
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) April 24, 2023
Soon after news of his firing, former OAN reporter Christina Bobb said Carlson will “keep his influence in whatever he does” after leaving Fox News.
“Carlson is so good at what he does,” she said in a podcast posted Tuesday night. “He’s got such a big following…. Anything he ends up doing will be bigger and better.”
She said Fox News had “pushed out their viewers” and reacted with: “Oh no! He’s one of our best voices with this big platform.”
On Monday, former President Donald Trump offered his own thoughts to Newsmax on “the Tucker situation.”
“You don’t know if it was a firing,” he told the far-right rival to Fox News now gaining viewers. “Maybe he left because he wasn’t being given his free rein — he wants his free rein.”
The announcement set off a firestorm of reaction throughout the political media world.
And while the reaction to the news within the Fox News community was somewhat muted, late-night host Greg Gutfeld, also a co-host on “The Five,” made an interesting observation about what Carlson’s next move might be that did not get pushback from his show colleagues.
Gutfeld actually joked that Carlson will now run for president, and in response, co-hosts Dana Perino sipped on a drink, Jason Chaffetz laughed, and Jeanine Pirro immediately moved on and kicked the show over to a new segment on a different topic.
The table conversation kicked off with a discussion about President Joe Biden’s chances of winning re-election. Chaffetz made a prediction that, despite Biden’s probable announcement of candidacy, he wouldn’t finish a run; Biden did, however, officially declare his intent to run for a second term on Tuesday morning.
“I think she actually might be a candidate,” Chaffetz said of Susan Rice, Biden’s outgoing domestic policy director who announced she was leaving the administration last week. “I don’t think Joe Biden – even though he may announce tomorrow – I don’t think by the time he gets to the end of the year he’s actually going to run.”
As the end of the segment neared, Gutfeld joked about Carlson by saying: “And then so in 2024, it’ll be Susan Rice versus Tucker Carlson.”
“OK,” Pirro said before teasing the next segment and kicking the show to commercial.
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Gutfeld Jokes Tucker Carlson Will Run for President After Getting Fired by Fox Newspic.twitter.com/CDcbMfpdZP
— Patriot Alerts (@alerts___) April 25, 2023
“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. 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,” Fox News said in a statement.
As to who will take over Carlson’s slot, in a statement read on the program “Outnumbered,” co-host Harris Faulkner briefly stated that the network will have a series of rotating hosts to fill Carlson’s 8 p.m. slot.
Fox said Carlson’s last show aired Friday and that starting Monday night, the network will have “an interim show with rotating Fox News personalities until a new host is named.”
