Tucker Carlson has remained relatively quiet regarding his departure from Fox News.
It’s no secret that Tucker Carlson has kept mostly mum on the details surrounding his Fox News exit because he is still in a legal battle with the network over its efforts to keep him off-air through 2024.
But that all changed during a recent interview.
During a recent episode of his Tucker on X show, Tucker Carlson brought on Barstool Sports founder, Dave Portnoy, to discuss the entrepreneur’s impressive reacquisition of the company he founded for just $1 after selling it to Penn Entertainment for nearly $600 million.
But as Carlson was attempting to end the nearly hour-long interview, Portnoy interjected, and began quizzing the former Fox News host on his departure from the network and future endeavors.
And surprisingly, Carlson continued to essentially defend Fox, saying that the relationship was great until it wasn’t, even though he’s still not sure what specifically triggered his firing.
“My view on Fox hasn’t really changed,” Carlson explained. “They let me say whatever I want, whatever I wanted really for 14 years and I’ll never stop being grateful for that. And then obviously, I said too much. And I’m not exactly sure what I said that was bad. No one ever told me. But one day, they were like, ‘Nope! Can’t have this anymore.’ And they fired me.”
“And I even told them as they were firing me, like, ‘It’s your business,’” he added. “I made a mental note. Never work for anyone else again and I never will. But I can’t be mad about it. I mean, they were great to me. The Murdochs were always nice to me and one day, for whatever reason they had enough. So, I wasn’t — my feelings weren’t hurt. I was not expecting it!”
As Portnoy continued to dig a bit, Carlson ultimately hinted at the role Fox News executives, like CEO Suzanne Scott, played in his ouster, telling the Barstool Sports founder that the network is “run by fearful women,” who would apparently panic any time the woke left-wing outrage mob targeted the network for not simply regurgitating Democrat talking points, like the rest of the media.
Carlson added that while no one at Fox News ever attempted to control what he said on his show, “second-tier people” would hassle his producers over certain topics.
“Well, there was always internal — I mean, the Murdochs were always nice, they never got in my way at all,” Carlson explained. “They were always super nice to me. But there were, you know, small-mind — it’s a company run by fearful women. You know what I mean? And there were always like, you know, second-tier people who were hassling my producers. But no one ever called me. I got along with everybody, but I mean, I think they knew like, the censorship, I don’t welcome that. You know? So, but they never actually got in the way of anything.”
As Carlson admitted in the interview, even he is still not sure why exactly he was fired, and the network doesn’t seem to intend to shed light on that any time soon.
But from Tucker Carlson’s first true breakdown of what may have occurred, it’s clear that the ruling class elites running Fox News simply underestimated how much his departure would backfire on them.
Political Animal News will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.
