George Rebane
Fair, balanced, and scared shitless?
Unbeknownst to Tucker Carlson, last Friday he broadcast his last show, a program that has become an iconic fixture in the homes of the largest fraction of America’s cable news audiences. Readers of these pages have known for the last several years of my assessment that Fox News was losing its edge as the leading media voice against the anti-American Left that is daily championed by the Democratic Party through its boot-licking broadcast and online outlets.
Tonight Bret Baier’s flagship ‘Special Report’ took the Scared Shitless Trophy by not acknowledging the major news item of the day, let alone daring to even repeat the sparse announcement of the event that was released by Fox Corporation about the “parting of their ways.”
Everyone tonight is asking how did Fox come to that decision to fire Carlson. It’s known that Rupert Murdoch is a tough old bastard who makes business decisions based on dollars and cents. So people on other smaller and independent networks like Megyn Kelly on Newsmax are favoring reasons based on future profitability that requires moving FN toward the center of the political spectrum.
Meanwhile, the rest of us are standing by to see how Tucker, who can write his own ticket, will now land on his feet in a new sandbox more to his liking. When he finally does land, you can expect a seismic shift of cable audiences. The risky part is that he will then have to deliver even more of his gloves-off impactive commentary than in the past. His new copy will have to shoulder not only the ongoing leftwing and government travesties, but also the added burden of real and represented slings and arrows that this transition made him suffer.
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