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Tucker Carlson Kicked Off Fox, And SCOTUS Kicks Big Oil Back To State Courts [1]

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Date: 2023-04-25  

It's not often that we get good news, so today's roundup is going to be short, sweet, and celebratory.

To start, the Supreme Court denied Big Oil’s request to block the litany of local accountability lawsuits from moving to the federal level. Exxon and other defendants have routinely tried to have the cases moved to federal court because they hope they'll get a more favorable ruling there than in state courts . They're still going to try to stonewall and drag out the cases as much as possible, but now at least we know the Supreme Court isn't eager to step in.

But even more exciting was yesterday's surprise announcement that Tucker Carlson's final Fox News broadcast was last Friday, a move that apparently caught even Fox's programmers off guard as they were still running promos for Tucker's show as of Monday morning. Per The Washington Post , Carlson's show wasn’t canceled because it was packed with racism ( and climate disinformation ) or even because of Tucker's eagerness to share false claims about the 2020 election . Instead "it was Carlson's comments about Fox management, as revealed in the Dominion case, that played a role in his departure from Fox." (Though there's also speculation and sources claiming it could be more due to potentially damaging revelations from a lawsuit brought by one of Carlson's former producers.)

Tucker wasn't even given a chance to say goodbye to viewers, leaving a promo for the bug-eating special we talked about last week as possibly " the last frame from his last Fox broadcast ."

Now, will Carlson parlay his fame and fortune into a presidential campaign, independent podcast, or other media effort? Unfortunately, we're probably not going to be lucky enough to never hear from him again. After all, Tucker's not the first former Fox News fixture to part ways with the company. Remember Bill O'Reilly? He spent two decades on Fox enjoying record ratings until revelations that the company had to pay women millions of dollars to keep quiet about sexual harassment allegations led to his unceremonious removal from Fox's lineup.

In the six years since, O'Reilly has launched a podcast, streaming service, and radio show, gone on public speaking tours, and otherwise done his best to remain relevant. But without Fox's MAGA-megaphone, he's certainly not doing the damage he once did. He’s still feeding his loyalists, but he can’t recruit new ones like he could from Fox’s primetime lineup.

We can only hope the same will be true for Tucker, and since wins don't come easily, we'll just forget for a minute that someone else will easily fill Carlson's role, like he did with O'Reilly’s time slot , and be happy that one of the most noxious people in the world is no longer regularly broadcasting to millions of people watching Fox "News."

Hopefully, Tucker can now spend all his time eating bugs and working on his tan , having accomplished the incredible feat of being fired by all three major cable news channels: MSNBC, CNN, and Fox.

Is there an EGOT for getting fired from cable news? Or should we just be happy enough that 'egot fired?

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