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I don't see how Tucker Carlson could have been fired over the Dominion Lawsuit because he wasn't the one pushing the allegedly defamatory allegations. They were mostly on Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo's shows, and Bartiromo still has a job.
Makes sense if you see the lawsuit as being actually about the company recouping losses and reputation. If you see it as the Cathedral trying to destroy anything that threatens them i.e. wanting to destroy fox news in general, then going after their top show makes more sense.
I’m really of the cathedral mindset here. Tucker was one of the biggest names they had. A huge draw, huge audience. Unless someone specifically wants him out as a condition of the settlement the move itself makes no sense. It’s probably like setting your own house on fire to get rid of your biggest draw on the heels of losing tons of money in lawsuits. It would be suicidal to try it. OTOH, I think the theory that the cathedral sees FOX and Tucker as threats to be quashed by any means necessary fits very very neatly into the general zeitgeist— Fox is dangerous and must be stopped before they create alt-right beliefs— that are common refrains among the journalists and thinkers and influential people.
The 60 minutes expose was hilarious. Also evidently the FBI is willing to tell 60 minutes Epps isn’t an agent but isn’t willing to tell congress the same. Not the latter is under oath while the former isn’t. Will let you decide why the difference. Though with the. Umber of Biden appointees perjuring themselves I don’t know what would stop the FBI.
Directly lying to Congress under oath never seemed to hurt the career of James Clapper, who is still employed by CNN as a security analyst. He later apologized after the Snowden leaks, claiming that he "simply didn't think" of the Patriot Act, but was never punished.
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