Opinion: Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon get shown the door
Last week, Fox News star Tucker Carlson found out he was a small cog in the giant machine that is the Murdoch media empire. As popular as his show was, it was not as popular as Bill O’Reilly’s Fox show, and when O’Reilly was cashiered, the network rolled on without skipping a beat.Don Lemon, once a rising star for reasons that are still lost on me, was canned the same day as Tucker Carlson.
Lemon getting squeezed did not merit the same attention as Tucker’s termination, mostly, I believe, because not many people realized he still had a show. After being bumped from prime time to morning show oblivion, Don Lemon only made headlines for saying creepy things about GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley being “past her prime,” and apparently, being a jerk around his co-workers.
Bias alert! I never watched Tucker Carlson and haven’t seen Don Lemon since he asked the former inspector general of the Department of Transportation, Mary Schiavo, if Malaysian Airlines flight 370 could have been “swallowed by a black hole,” which was possibly the dumbest question in the history of open microphones.
That he remained employed as a news anchor after that, and his drunken foolishness on CNN’s annual unwatchable New Year’s Eve fiasco, might be a head-scratcher, but falls under the heading of normal TV incompetence. But Lemon’s transgressions jumped the shark when he tipped off race-fraudster Jussie Smollett that the Chicago PD considered him a suspect in what turned out to be a fake hate crime. It’s never good when a newsman makes the news.
We’ll likely never know all the reasons Tucker was cut loose; both Fox and Carlson have a mutual interest in not ticking each other off, unlike Lemon who immediately whined on social media only to have CNN call him a liar. Still, people at Fox have gossiped, and it appears Carlson said some pretty graphic things about his colleagues and management, in emails and texts, and that rarely ends well.
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