Carlson’s Firing Sends WND’s Root Into Conspiracy Mode

When Fox News settled the defamation lawsuit Dominion filed against it for a whopping $787 million, WorldNetDaily columnist Wayne Allyn Root had a fit, insisting that the settlement didn’t affect his pet election fraud conspiracy theories. When Fox News fired right-wing host Tucker Carlson shortly afterward, it was for another fit by Root, and he delivered in his April 29 column, which began this way:

Did you hear about the new Fox News TV series? “Two spoiled brats and a clueless RINO.” It’s the tragic story of Rupert Murdoch’s two spoiled-brat sons from liberal, woke Europe, and the quarterback running their Fox News playbook: hapless, clueless, bitter Paul Ryan.

Fox News in a matter of days ended relationships with the No. 1 host on cable TV (Tucker Carlson) and the No. 1 host of weekend cable TV (Dan Bongino).

Great moves, if you want to be the new Bed Bath & Beyond.

[…]

Think of what destroyed Bed Bath & Beyond. The company made one fatal decision: to fire Mike Lindell and stop selling “My Pillow” products. What a terrible miscalculation. Their audience was middle-class America: the Silent Majority. That audience is overwhelmingly conservative. From the moment they fired “My Pillow,” their sales imploded. Bed, Bath & Beyond committed economic suicide by offending their own base of customers.

As we’ve noted, what actually bankrupted Bed Bath & Beyond was spending money on stock buybacks instead of investing it in business operations, not refusing to sell products from a discredited conspiracy theorist.

Root then moved on to insulting the Murdoch family that runs Fox News, sneering that “Rupert Murdoch is a very old, out-of-touch billionaire who is now semi-retired and busy trying to marry gals 30 years younger” and that his children “are kids that were born on third base and think they hit a triple.” He also lashed out at Fox News board member Paul Ryan: “Paul Ryan is a clueless deep state RINO (Republican in Name Only) who has no idea how real conservative patriots think. His life is dedicated to destroying former President Donald Trump – because Paul Ryan is blind with rage and envy at how conservatives hate him, but love and adore Trump. Paul Ryan is “The Grinch” of GOP politics. His heart is filled with rage and envy.”

Because Root is a salesman at heart (albeit one that believes in crazy conspiracy theories), Root plugged his own book:

I just wrote a No. 1 bestselling book, “The Great Patriot BUY-cott Book.” It’s about the huge divide in America. I believe conservative patriots need to start building a parallel conservative economy. We need to separate from the extreme, radical, madness and destruction of the Left. We need to spend our money only with companies led by conservatives. We need to punish and defund the Left.

But my book is also about the main issues that the Silent Majority and real conservatives care about:

No. 1: The communist takeover of the USA … and along with it, the weaponization of government.

No. 2: Rigged and stolen elections (the hallmark of communism).

No. 3: The COVID-19 vaccine disaster – the deaths and crippling injuries from this poison vaccine, and the cover-up by Big Pharma, government and the mainstream media.

No. 4: The fraud and corruption of the Ukraine war funding and how the deep state is leading us into World War III.

Fox News doesn’t want to talk about those issues. Fox News is scared to death of those issues. My book went to No. 1 bestseller without one FNC interview. 

Root offered no evidence that his book is a “No. 1 bestseller.” He was already moving on to a new/old conspiracy theory:

I believe the final decision about firing Tucker was based on his commentary just a few days ago about the dangers and deaths from the COVID-19 vaccine and how mainstream media are responsible for taking bribes (i.e., hundreds of millions in advertising sales) from Big Pharma to cover up the biggest health care scandal in human history. Think about how many of their own loyal viewers may have died because Fox News covered up the truth?

Keep in mind James O’Keefe of Project Veritas exposed and humiliated scores of liberals with his undercover videos for many years – and he never faced any repercussions. But as soon as his undercover videos exposed the alleged corruption and deception of Pfizer and the COVID-19 vaccine, his own board fired him within days.

Just like Tucker. Come out against Big Pharma, expose the vaccine dangers and suddenly your job (no matter how successful you are) evaporates overnight. That’s the power and hold Big Pharma has on the media.

Actually, O’Keefe was fired because of financial improprieties, including spending company money on himself. But why let the facts interfere with a pet conspiracy theory?

Root ended with another conspiracy-related comment: “I believe Fox News is finished. The question is, what’s their next move? Maybe Fox News is about to sell the network to Pfizer. Maybe Pfizer plans to convert Fox News to a 24/7 vaccine propaganda network.”