It’s Monday. It was another chilly weekend here in Illinois. It was my girlfriend’s birthday on Saturday so we got together with family for dinner at a local country club. The food was fantastic and we had a good time. We have a lot of April birthdays in our family, so at the least we’ll be eating well this month.
As I mentioned earlier, with the weather being crappy outside, I didn’t mind taking it easy on Sunday. I always love the racing at Talladega and this one did not disappoint. As I said before, anything can happen and it did. There were several large wrecks but the big surprise was Kyle Busch coming out of nowhere to snag the win. I don’t think his name was mentioned once the entire race up until the final three laps! It’s high speed chaos, but I love it!
I finally finished Ozark on Netflix and loved the finale! I think Ozark is the best organized crime series since The Sopranos. If you haven’t seen it, ya gotta check it out. Just watch the first episode. If it doesn’t grab you then move on. Oh, and I started watching the new Netflix series The Diplomat. I’m only 3 episodes into it and it’s really good. Looking forward to continuing it.
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Tucker Carlson Out At Fox
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Tucker Carlson is leaving Fox.
The news comes just days after Dominion Voting Systems and Fox Corporation reached a $787.5 million settlement in a massive $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion.
Throughout the lead-up to the trial-that-never-was, a stream of documents revealed how many Fox hosts and executives, including Carlson, knowingly perpetuated lies surrounding the 2020 election and false conspiracies surrounding voting systems like Dominion’s rigging the election.
It’s unclear whether Carlson was fired. But in a press release Monday, Fox noted that his “last program was Friday April 21st.” Given the separation is effective immediately, and Carlson has no formal opportunity to say goodbye, the exit does not appear to be on entirely good terms.
The Washington Post reports that “a person familiar with the company’s thinking” believes that Carlson’s comments about Fox’s management may have led to the departure. The revelations in the Dominion case were just the tip of the iceberg; had the trial continued as planned, more details about the inner workings of Fox may have been revealed.
Carlson’s departure follows a series of incredibly deferential interviews to both Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Two weeks ago, Carlson hosted Trump in an hour-long special, in which the Fox host barely said a word, while the twice-impeached former president rambled on, telling fantastic tales of courthouse workers crying as he was arraigned—and praising Saudi Arabia, Vladimir Putin, and Xi Jinping.
Days later, in a two-part special with Musk, Carlson spent most of his time serving as the equivalent to a Twitter Blue subscriber brainlessly responding to every Musk assertion with laugh emoji after laugh emoji.
In his last segment on air, between bites of pizza and plugging a conspiratorial special about the establishment forcing everyone to eat bugs, Carlson seemed (or pretended) to have no idea that his departure was coming.
“We’ll be back on Monday,” Carlson said, while closing his segment last Friday.