WorldNetDaily continued to have a sad over Fox News’ firing of Tucker Carlson well into June. Regular Tucker-fluffer Ilana Mercer kept it up in a June 1 column:
Your columnist’s April 25, live, “HARD TRUTH” podcast, recorded a day after Tucker Carlson’s dismissal, got it right. Tucker, like Trump, we contended, is transformational. Fox was finished (we chuckled). This forecast was echoed in a column whose lead said it all, “Fix News is finished, having just fired their only attraction, Tucker Carlson!” Clearly, if not “finished,” Fox News is sorely diminished. Joy!
I mean, who, pray tell, wants to watch Bret Baier’s “Common Ground” sanctimony – where the neoconservative anchor gloms Democrats and Republicans together? What treacle! MAGA men and women – we’re a “minority,” said Asa (Who?) Hutchinson to CNN’s Erin Burnett, on May 30 – will only ever reach across the aisle if it is to grab a member of the Treason Class by the scruff.
“Sacking Tucker Carlson has put a dent in Fox News’s ratings,” The Economist finally admitted, on May 16, when the truth could no longer be withheld. The consensus is that, “Fox News is currently down by more than a million viewers per show per night.”
King Tuck clearly carried the network and its nits.
[…]Tucker Carlson is planning to launch a new show on Twitter in the service of unfettered speech and a search for truth. That announcement on Twitter has been viewed 133.1 million times to date.
Rupert Murdoch will be remembered as the Money Man who fired Tucker Carlson and, by so doing, sank his network.
Actually, that viewing metric is all but meaningless as an accurate way to know who actually viewed the announcement.
In addition to linking to pretty much every new video Carlson posted on Twitter, more “news” articles followed throughout the month, by both WND writers and those republished from other sources like the right-wing Western Journal:
- Now Fox accuses Tucker Carlson of breach of contract
- Transcript of Tucker Carlson’s final unaired Fox monologue released
- Tucker Carlson’s Twitter show surpasses 100 million views for 1st episode
- Fox News escalates its war on Tucker Carlson
- Trump: Tucker’ Carlson is right about ‘wannabe dictator’
- Network exodus is underway: Big news for Tucker Carlson’s team
- Fox News doesn’t just want Tucker gone, now network wants do the unthinkable
- ‘Shockingly callous’: Fox News fires remaining Tucker staffers
Editor Joseph Farah — who urged Carlson to move to the fringe-right channel Real America’s Voice in the immediate wake of his firing — touted the channel again in his June 23 column as a stopgap fix for those missing Tucker:
I love Tucker Carlson so much I am going batty without him. When is he going to have a real nightly show again?
In the meantime, I have a sterling recommendation for you. Are you ready?
Grant Stinchfield at 7 p.m. Eastern on Real America’s Voice, if you’re lucky enough to get it or have Dish Network, on Channel 219. The network’s content also streams live on its website. Real America’s Voice also carries Steve Bannon and lots of other programs, including Gina Loudon, John Solomon and Bill Henry.
You might remember Loudon as the former WND columnist to tried to capitalize on her teenage daughter dating a 57-year-old man. WND helpfully deleted that column a few years later, presumably at her request as she sought credibility in Trumpworld.
Farah went on to insist that the folks at Real America’s Voice are “real journalists” — never mind the fact that actual media monitors find it wildly biased and barely credible. Farah’s dubious judgment here should make people wonder how he runs WND.