That night, a violent storm ambushed them as they were fishing eighty miles offshore. On November 17, 2012, two men left the coast of Mexico for a weekend fishing trip in the open Pacific. Carlson’s show has been accused of mainstreaming white nationalist talking points such as the overtly racist “great replacement theory.Declared "the best survival book in a decade" by Outside Magazine, 438 Days is the true story of the man who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean. The Fox board’s dramatic reaction to the text might seem at odds with the commentary Carlson regularly pushed on his Fox News show. The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to Fox News for comment. Fox ultimately settled the Dominion suit for $787.5 million.Ĭiting people with knowledge of the situation, the Times reports that the text, part of redacted court filings, was yet another factor pushing Fox to jettison Carlson, the most popular anchor on cable news. The Times reports that the Fox board saw the text the day before the Dominion trial was set to begin, and they were worried that it would become public during legal proceedings, particularly if Carlson was called to the stand. If I don’t care about those things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?” He concluded, “I should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this kid, and would be crushed if he was killed. Much as I despise what he says and does, much as I’m sure I’d hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn’t gloat over his suffering. “I’m becoming something I don’t want to be,” he writes.
Later in the text, Carlson admonishes himself for his bloodlust.
MTV Movie & TV Awards Features Pretaped Sketches, Acceptance Speeches and "Best of" Clips Amid Writers Strike I could taste it,” the text published by the Times said. “Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him. It’s not how white men fight,” Carlson writes. “Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It is unclear what race the protestor was. In the text, Carlson reacts to three Trump supporters beating one lone protestor. Capitol attack and was a reaction to a video clip of an assault that occurred weeks earlier. The New York Times reported Tuesday night that the discovery of Carlson’s message, and the language it contained, “set off a panic” among Fox executives on the eve of the defamation trial brought by Dominion Voting Systems against the cable news network.Ĭarlson’s text, published in full by the Times, was sent the day after the Jan. A racially charged and bloodthirsty text sent by Tucker Carlson about the assault of a protestor by Trump supporters was reportedly a key factor that precipitated the anchor’s shock exit from Fox News last week.
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