Advance to 6:40 for the relevant segment...

Ooooh, that was very good! The whole thing.

"If it's not Scottish, it's crap!"

And, yet another theory:


Did the CIA and the Pentagon Put the Quietus on Tucker Carlson?
https://www.fff.org/2023/04/27/did-the-c...tucker-carlson/
by Jacob G. Hornberger
April 27, 2023

One hypothesis for why Fox News fired popular television commentator Tucker Carlson is because he had been badmouthing company officials. But are top executives for a major U.S. corporation so sensitive to personal criticism that they’re willing to ditch their most popular commentator for saying some bad things about them? That’s hard to believe.

Another hypothesis is that Carlson was also saying bad things about Fox News colleagues. That too doesn’t make much sense to me. Doesn’t that sort of thing go on in most large companies? It’s called human nature. Again, it doesn’t seem serious enough to can the network’s most popular commentator.

Let me weigh in on another possibility — that the Pentagon and the CIA may have been the ones who put the quietus on Tucker and possibly signaled to Fox executives that he had to go.

Last December, Carlson broadcast a program on the assassination of President Kennedy in which he accused the CIA of having participated in the assassination. In doing so, Carlson violated a taboo that has existed within the mainstream media since November 22, 1963, the day that Kennedy was assassinated.

It’s considered permissible for the mainstream press to run articles and programs that analyze the assassination in an “objective” way, or that support the official lone-nut narrative, or that analyze why people subscribe to conspiracy theories. But what has been verboten since the assassination is the running of articles and programs that point to the Pentagon and the CIA as the orchestrators of the assassination or that feature evidence pointing to their criminal culpability.

By violating that sacred taboo, Carlson put himself at risk of being subjected to the omnipotent power and influence of the national-security establishment. As New York Congressman Charles Schumer candidly and succinctly put it, “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”

In upcoming episodes of my new video/podcast series “The JFK Assassination: Sixty Years Later,” I point to specific examples of where the mainstream press steadfastly and scrupulously avoided confronting clear and convincing evidence of criminal culpability by the national-security establishment in the Kennedy assassination.

Let’s examine one of those examples. (I’m covering several others in my new series.)

In 1992, the Assassination Records Review Board was brought into existence to enforce The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, which mandated that the Pentagon, the CIA, and other federal entities release their long-secret assassination-related records to the public.

The ARRB discovered the existence of a man named Roger Boyajian, who told the agency a remarkable story. He said that on November 22, 1963, he was a Marine sergeant stationed at the Bethesda National Naval Medical Center. After JFK’s assassination, he was ordered to the facility where the autopsy on President Kennedy’s body was to be conducted by the military. He told the ARRB that a team brought JFK’s body into the Bethesda morgue at 6:35 p.m. on that evening.

Boyajian’s statement presented problems for the military. That’s because the official narrative has always been that JFK’s body was brought into the Bethesda morgue only one time — at 8 p.m. — by an official honor guard consisting of the members of the armed forces. Boyajian’s statement meant that the military had lied — that there were actually two different entries of JFK’s body into the morgue on that evening.

Was there any corroboration for Boyajian’s extraordinary claim? Actually there was. Boyajian had kept a copy of his “after-action report” that he had submitted to his superiors the week following the assassination. The report, which he shared with the ARRB, confirmed that the president’s body was brought into the morgue at 6:35 p.m. Perhaps it’s worth mentioning that the Pentagon never disclosed that report to the ARRB, which the JFK Records Act required it to do.

Further corroboration came in the form of statements and testimony from several Navy enlisted men who said that they met a large black hearse outside the morgue and carried the president’s body from the vehicle into the morgue. They said that the president’s body was in a shipping casket rather than the heavy, ornate casket into which the president’s body had been placed in Dallas. The enlisted men said that there were men with suits in the hearse whose identities are still unknown to this date.

The ARRB also discovered a memorandum from Gawler’s Funeral Home in Washington, D.C., which performed the embalming of JFK’s body after the autopsy. The memorandum stated that the president’s body had been brought into the morgue in a shipping casket.-- excerpt, rest at link above --

Ex-US Army Psyops Expert: Fox News Fired Carlson to Maintain “Semi Lobotomized Quasi Retarded Population”
Host’s ouster spells “the death of American media.”
https://summit.news/2023/04/27/ex-us-arm...ded-population/
Published on 27 April, 2023
Paul Joseph Watson


A former US Army psychological warfare officer says that Tucker Carlson was fired by Fox News because of the regime’s agenda to maintain an “uninformed semi lobotomized quasi retarded population.”

The remarks were made by US counter-terror expert Scott Bennett.

Carlson and Fox News “parted ways” on Monday with speculation still raging as to the specific reason why the network canned its highest rated and most popular host.

According to Bennett, Carlson posed too much of a threat to institutional power because he turned Americans into proper “researchers and thinkers”.

Carlson offered an “intellectualism, truthfulness, and an analytical depth that no other news personality has ever done in the history of the United States as far back as I can remember,” said Bennett.

Tucker needed to be “silenced” because he represented too big a threat to the “powers and principalities, institutions and agendas that seek an unenlightened uninformed semi lobotomized quasi retarded population that do not question, do not research, do not analyze but simply digest and follow instructions,” according to Bennett.

“Tucker Carlson also exposed the fraud and money laundering racketeering crimes of FTX and the Democrat Party in Ukraine involving the United States government. He exposed the US biochemical labs in Ukraine and their connection to the Democrat Party, President Barack Obama, Vice President Biden, Hillary Clinton, George Soros, Bill Gates, and other US government agencies and pharmaceutical companies,” Bennett told Sputnik.

The ex-host’s anti-regime rhetoric “could no longer be tolerated by the corrupt American media and political establishment,” said Bennett, adding that his exit signals “the death of American media”.

The former US army psyops officer suggested that Senator Chuck Schumer had threatened to utilize the CIA and the FBI to deploy secret government operations against Tucker to get him off air unless he was fired.

Schumer previously called for Carlson to be taken off air after he broadcast footage showing the January 6 ‘riot’ leaders were actually allowed into the Capitol and chaperoned around by authorities.

As we highlighted earlier, one of the reasons behind Tucker’s dismissal is a lawsuit fired by former show producer Abby Grossberg, who claims she was bullied and subjected to sexist and anti-semitic harassment.

However, Grossberg’s own lawyer revealed that she has never even met Carlson.-- excerpt, rest at link above --

Leaked Tucker Carlson Videos Are Truly Embarrassing — for the Leaker
By Matt Margolis 10:14 AM on May 03, 2023
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/ma...leaker-n1692237


Last week, it was reported that Fox News had compiled a secret “oppo file” on Tucker Carlson, to be used as an insurance policy against him in the event he sues the network. As per a Rolling Stone article, eight Fox News insiders acknowledged the file’s existence. The network denied the existence of the secret file, of course, but this week, the left-wing media “watchdog” site Media Matters started leaking videos of Carlson in an apparent attempt to smear him.

In the end, it was Media Matters that looked silly.

The videos are behind-the-scenes footage of Carlson on set, and that should tell you something about how Media Matters obtained them.

The first video, tweeted out by Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz, features Carlson on the phone with a producer from Fox Nation (Fox News’s subscription-based service), trashing the platform. “I don’t want to be a slave to Fox Nation, which I don’t think that people watch anyway,” Tucker is heard saying. “But nobody’s going to watch it on Fox Nation. Nobody watches Fox Nation because the site sucks.”

Upon the release of the above video, there was a collective yawn on social media as people wondered if this was really the best that Media Matters got. Was it supposed to be scandalous or make Tucker Carlson unemployable? Gertz quickly found out that the public didn’t see it as a big deal; social media users pointed out that the ex-Fox host was correct and mocked Gertz for thinking that Tucker criticizing a poorly-functioning website was somehow a scandal.

Gertz tried again with more videos the following day. The first showed Tucker chatting and joking around with Piers Morgan before an interview.-- excerpt, rest at link above --

The Secret Campaign to Destroy Tucker Carlson; Can Free Beer Save Budweiser?
Crossroads
https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-secret...tent=05-03-2023
JOSHUA PHILIPP

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is facing public hit pieces. Leaked internal videos from Fox and internal communications at the network have been provided to The New York Times and to leftist organization Media Matters. It appears public sentiment is still more on the side of Carlson, but the attacks are raising questions of whether or not these leaks were motivated by business.

In other news, Anheuser-Busch is still reeling from boycotts following a Bud Light promotional campaign with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. But they might have a solution: free beer.

In this episode of Crossroads, we’ll discuss these stories.
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Fox reportedly not releasing Tucker Carlson's documentary about tyranny in Canada
Alex Nitzberg
May 01, 2023
https://www.theblaze.com/news/fox-news-t...Breaking%20News


Conservative media personality Tucker Carlson is no longer on the air at the Fox News Channel — and apparently, his documentary about tyranny in Canada won't be released.

The Canadian Press reported the documentary had been slated for release on Monday. But according to the outlet, a Fox spokesperson noted "there are no further episodes of Tucker Carlson Originals running" on Fox Nation.

But various other "Tucker Carlson Originals" documentaries currently remain available to view on the Fox Nation streaming service.

A preview of the Canada-focused documentary is still posted on the Fox News YouTube channel. "But what if tyranny arrived right next door? What would that look like? And what would our government do in response?" Carlson asked. He then asked whether the U.S. would "liberate the people living under authoritarian rule as we have around the world?"-- excerpt, rest at link above --

Report: Tucker Carlson Speaking with Donald Trump About Moderating Republican Candidate Forum
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/...andidate-forum/
Wendell Husebø
4 May 2023

Tucker Carlson, the recently ousted popular Fox News anchor, has shown interest in moderating Republican candidate forums and has reportedly discussed the possibility with former President Donald Trump.

The former president and Republican primary frontrunner recently floated the idea of skipping the forums moderated by Fox News after the “hostile” network failed to seek his advice on the issue. According to the Washington Post, Carlson has spoken with Trump about displacing Fox News as the hosting moderator to “take a jab at his former employer”:

Carlson and his team have discussed the possibility of moderating a candidate forum outside of the traditional protocols surrounding the GOP primary debate system, according to two people familiar with the considerations. These people said the setup — as well as Carlson’s availability to take on that kind of role, given the noncompete constraints of his contract with Fox — remain unclear. But Carlson has personally expressed enthusiasm about the idea, according to people familiar with his comments. At least one major candidate — Trump — has told Carlson he’s interested, according to a person familiar with the exchange.

The former Fox host’s interest in a debate is said to stem in part from its potential to loosen the Republican National Committee’s grip on the process, as well as to challenge the role traditionally played by the major television networks. “He could go straight to the candidates, stream it live, invite the networks but maintain control over the process,” said one person familiar with the discussions.

Carlson’s interest in hosting the candidate forums coincides with reports that he is taking calls from networks interested in employing his services. Those networks include Trinity Broadcast Network, One America News Network, and Newsmax. “A stronger pitch has come from Newsmax, the conservative media company that has seen a prime-time ratings surge this past week at the same time Fox was losing viewers from Carlson’s old time slot,” the Post reported.

Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy told the paper he would be open to “rebranding Newsmax under Tucker’s name,” an idea that has reportedly peaked Carlson’s interest.

But Carlson’s contract status remains at issue with Fox News, which could thwart any immediate professional moves for one of the most popular TV hosts of all time.

“As of right now, the plan remains the same: pay out Carlson’s contract and keep him on the sidelines through the 2024 elections,” a source close to Fox News senior executives told Breitbart News last week. “They knew they would take a beating for this, but-- excerpt, rest at link above --

Walter Kirn@walterkirn
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It occurred to me that in silencing its top host and collapsing its own ratings Fox News concluded there is no more money to be made in the legacy economy and it might as well get in good with those who will rule over the ruins

Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson Had ‘Conversation about Working Together’
David HawkinsMay 7, 2023 - 11:04 am
https://slaynews.com/news/elon-musk-and-...aily-newsletter


Ex-Fox News star Tucker Carlson has reportedly been in talks about getting back to work.

Multiple conservative networks have offered Carlson big money and a lot of power to sign a deal.

The video platform Rumble is trying to make a deal with Tucker.

Streaming services are also hot on his trail.

And now Axios is reporting that Carlson and Twitter CEO Elon Musk “had a conversation about working together.”

Tucker is still under contract with Fox News, however,

The exit negotiations are expected to turn nasty.-- excerpt, rest at link above --

Tucker Carlson Ready to Torch Fox News: ‘From Peacetime to Defcon 1’
David Hawkins
May 7, 2023 - 10:47 am
https://slaynews.com/news/tucker-carlson...aily-newsletter


Tucker Carlson has reached his limit with Fox News’s attempts to damage his reputation and is preparing to unleash a coordinated attack on the network.

According to reports, Carlson wants Fox News to let him out of his contract so he can work for a rival or start his own media company.

Bryan Freedman, the lawyer Carlson hired for the contract fight said: “The idea that anyone is going to silence Tucker and prevent him from speaking to his audience is beyond preposterous.”

Carlson’s contract expires in January 2025.

Fox does not want to compete with Tucker, however, so will be reluctant to end his contract early, especially before the 2024 election.

The network is trying to pay out his contract and keep him off the air and away from any rivals.

But Tucker wants to get back to work.

Sources close to Carlson told Axios that Tucker is seriously looking at starting a direct-to-consumer media outlet like Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly did.-- excerpt, rest at link above --