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FROM JC

Late yesterday evening, likable, partially-eyebrowed, science-following never-Trumper Brian Kilmeade chippily hosted Tucker Carlson Tonight, which was suddenly and unexpectedly renamed Fox News Tonight, instead of that despicable anti-science anti-vaxxer, the election-denying, insurrection-denying, Putin-loving, transphobic Tucker Carlson, who was nowhere to be seen, because he’d suddenly and unexpectedly got his pink slip a few hours earlier, in a spangly rainbow-colored envelope.

And just like that, the instant HR clicked the “send” pixels on Tucker’s notice email, the entire Fox News Network’s background testosterone levels dropped by 90%, immediately causing the handful of remaining men to feel their shirts tightening from creeping gynecomastia.

Sometimes I try to imagine the difficult conversations. “Brian, so what are you doing tonight at 8pm? You free?” One has to imagine Kilmeade wasn’t exactly elated over the surprise career opportunity, knowing that literally millions of seething Tucker fans would be watching, grinding their teeth, and sinfully wishing him to have an on-air vaccine coincidence.

In fact, Kilmeade started the show by gliding past the news of Tucker’s firing going about 90 mph. It was so fast the DC Enquirer included that fact in its headline: “WATCH: Brian Kilmeade Fills In For Tucker, Glosses Over Carlson’s Departure From Fox News.”

Hot takes have flooded the Internet airwaves. The real reason for Carlson’s firing, whatever it is, lies buried under two metric tons of speculative cow patties. Nobody really knows. Tucker isn’t talking, and probably shouldn’t until he calms down. Fox isn’t talking, and probably shouldn’t so they don’t give Tucker any excuse to sue them.

After all, Fox JUST stroked a check to Dominion for almost $800 million dollars in what looked from the outside to be an un-loseable lawsuit.

Two highly-suggestive things happened in the days before Tucker got his notice. The first was Fox’s announcement of the Dominion settlement, which must have stung. Consider this, from a jaded lawyer’s imagination: what if the reason they were forced to settle was something dumb Tucker said in an email or text message that came out in discovery? The Murdoch boys could’ve been saying to themselves, this $35 million-a-year joker just cost us $800 million bucks, which would’ve paid for another super-yacht.

To be clear: I have no reason whatsoever to believe that, except I’ve seen that kind of thing happen in lawsuit after lawsuit. But it’s just a wild guess.

The other thing that happened — again, mere days preceding termination — was Tucker took it to pharma over the vaccines in his strongest tirade yet, calling them dangerous and ineffective, and accused the other networks of shilling for the deadly snake oil. I note without further comment that, days after James O’Keefe ran his own Pfizer exposé, Project Veritas ritualistically slaughtered its golden goose JUST LIKE Fox News has now done to its prime time lineup.

The similarities are remarkable.

I am starting to think that we, the people, the citizens of this once-great Nation, may have to quit Waiting for Superman and take it upon ourselves to dismantle Big Pharma. If we can boycott the biggest beer brand in America (Bud Light) because of a silly transvestite label, we should be able to delete the largest pharmaceutical firms in the country because of the mountains of corpses of our friends and relatives.

In future posts I will further develop this theme, believe me. So stay tuned. This aggression will not stand, to quote The Dude, who himself was quoting terrific anti-communist and deep-state whipping-boy Richard Milhous Nixon.

Anyway, don’t count Tucker out. Consider his universe of options, now that he’s been unshackled from his Fox contracts and his demanding 8pm nightly time slot. What would it look like if Tucker and O’Keefe paired up? Or imagine Tucker joining the Republican ticket as say, somebody’s Vice President? Or running for Senate somewhere? Or joined the growing Daily Wire team? Or if he did something completely new, like pal’d up with Elon Musk to anchor a Twitter-based news network?

Elon is already working on something similar.

When God closes the door, he opens a window. Tucker’s opportunities are limitless. We will watch his future career with great interest.

And finally, I hate to stir the pot, but it is worth noting that Blackrock/Vanguard own substantial parts of both Fox and Dominion (through State Street). The unearned $800 million in voluntary settlement payments will be extremely helpful to Dominion going into the 2024 elections, don’t you think? Just a coincidence, I’m sure.