Paul Sacca
Former Fox News star Megyn Kelly provided
her insight into the Tucker Carlson departure from the top cable news
network.
Earlier this week, it was
revealed that Carlson and Fox News were parting ways. The shocking
departure ignited shockwaves across the media landscape.
Megyn Kelly, who left Fox News
in 2017 after being at the cable news juggernaut for 13 years, weighed in on
Carlson's sudden abdication from the reigning top cable news TV show.
Speaking on "The Megyn
Kelly Show" on SiriusXM, the former Fox News anchor spoke about Carlson's
sudden departure from the network.
"I want to, I think break
some news for you. Tucker Carlson hasn't actually been fired," Kelly said
on her podcast.
"He's still an employee
of the Fox News Channel," Kelly stated. "What happened was Suzanne
Scott called him, she's the CEO, on Monday morning and said he was not going to
be allowed to do any more shows and that he had been kicked out of his company
email."
She added, "And now
they're going to have to negotiate an exit, some reporting, to me, suggests
that she said it's going to be an amicable parting."
She said that the departure
caught Tucker "completely off guard."
According to Kelly, Carlson
inquired as to why he was being let go from the cable news network and that
they refused "to tell him why."
Kelly noted that Carlson is
"not free to launch a podcast or a digital show or negotiate with other
employers at all," adding that he is "still under contract."
Kelly said that Fox News fired Carlson's executive producer, Justin Wells.
Speaking of Carlson's
dismissal, Kelly started, "I mean, to me, that's just so disheartening.
He's been at the company for years. He'd been in the primetime for seven years
and saw Fox News through one of the most difficult times in its history — the
immediate era post-Roger Ailes where they didn't know left from right."
She noted that before Tucker,
Fox News had lost Bill O'Reilly and herself.
"He smashed the ball out
of the park," Kelly said of Carlson's Fox News show. "And he took a
lot of risks, and he was heterodox ... he pushed against the orthodoxy on so
many different things."
She added that Fox News had
"dripping disdain" for Carlson for speaking his mind.
"He doesn't get to tell
his own team — he doesn't get to say goodbye," Kelly said. "I mean,
it's absolutely disrespectful to him. And unlike Don Lemon, he
hadn't been immersed in controversy after controversy inside the building
against his own colleagues."
Kelly appeared on "The Jesse Kelly Show" on Friday and cemented her
opinions regarding the Carlson departure.
"I just think it's
absolutely disgusting how Fox not only fired him, but [is] clearly determined
to destroy him," Kelly told host Jesse Kelly. "It's not enough to
fire the guy from his number one show that has made Fox millions of dollars."
She claimed that the Fox News
public relations team is attempting to "drive a wedge between Tucker and
his audience."
Kelly complimented Carlson for
getting Fox News' conservative audience through the "Trump era."
Kelly proclaimed, "And
for what? What did he do again? Did he cost the company money? No. He wasn't
behind the Dominion settlement. That wasn't a Tucker Carlson problem, that was
another talent and executives problem."
"He won for them. He put
points on the board. He made them relevant," Kelly proclaimed, "He
got them through the Trump era, which was a very tricky time for media."
Kelly admitted, "I don't
know what the real reason is behind Tucker's firing."
Kelly claimed that Carlson
"touched all the third rails."
Kelly referenced recent Fox
News coverage, "In truth, they're just as elite as anybody else and don't
want certain cows being touched. And Tucker touched all the third rails. There
was nothing he wouldn't do. There was no orthodoxy to which he subscribed,
which is one of the reasons he was interesting and a threat."
Kelly noted that Carlson may
have "outlived his usefulness, and that too is disgusting because probably
Trump is gonna be the GOP nominee. Then is what is Fox gonna do?"
Coincidentally, Carlson
reportedly hired Los Angeles-based attorney Bryan Freedman — who represented Kelly in her
departure from Fox News as well as Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo for their
separations from CNN.
Paul Sacca, Blaze Media,
April 28, 2023
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