The Charlie Kirk Show - BREAKING: The Day Fox News Left Tucker Carlson

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, bombshell news.

00:00:01.000 Tucker Carlson out at Fox News.

00:00:04.000 We dive into it from every angle and reflect on what Tucker Carlson's been able to accomplish and why they went after him.

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00:02:14.000 The country over the last couple of years has been significantly blessed to have Tucker Carlson in the chair every night at 8 p.m.

00:02:24.000 Tucker Carlson came onto the scene after Bill O'Reilly left Fox News channel.

00:02:29.000 And, you know, we were used to Tucker Carlson being a weekend host on Fox and Friends, the bow tie man for many years.

00:02:36.000 Always very smart, charismatic, sharp in his commentary.

00:02:41.000 And I remember when he was brought onto the primetime menu or the primetime roster, people weren't really sure what to make of it.

00:02:48.000 But almost out of the gate, immediately, Tucker started to drive ratings and change the conversation.

00:02:54.000 Tucker Carlson was best known for his first couple years of broadcast.

00:02:59.000 People forget this for having wacky socialist liberals and having back and forth.

00:03:03.000 Ryan, you should pull some clips there.

00:03:04.000 It was actually what he did for years, and he changed his show.

00:03:07.000 People forget this.

00:03:08.000 For the first couple years, Tucker's show was a lot of back and forth with liberals and all this.

00:03:12.000 Tucker's first program was after Donald Trump won the presidency in November 2016.

00:03:19.000 It was very combative.

00:03:20.000 It was Tucker like debating with left-wingers.

00:03:24.000 It drove ratings.

00:03:25.000 People liked it, but it wasn't as good as what his new show would be.

00:03:29.000 Around 2018 and 2019, Tucker totally redid his format.

00:03:33.000 No more combative back and forth with liberals.

00:03:35.000 And Tucker decided to become basically the beginning point, the thought leader of the conservative movement, the incubator of the populist right.

00:03:47.000 Tucker Carlson decided to become a challenger on a mainstream network and a mainstream time with millions of viewers against neoliberalism.

00:04:00.000 The legacy of Tucker Carlson, as it was written, and it will be written, of his time at Fox News, will be the most effective, poignant critique, criticizer of neoliberalism in modern American history.

00:04:15.000 He transformed his monologues into thought pieces that transformed the thinking of millions of Americans, myself included, about their government.

00:04:22.000 I remember in January of 2019, his first show back from break, he said, why is Amazon allowed to become a trillion-dollar company?

00:04:29.000 They hate us and they hate the American people.

00:04:31.000 Why are we doing this?

00:04:34.000 He did long monologues about trade policies.

00:04:38.000 He challenged Donald Trump on going to war with Syria and Iran.

00:04:42.000 Tucker Carlson was one of the first people to cover the border invasion relentlessly every single night.

00:04:47.000 You see, Tucker Carlson did not just parrot the party line.

00:04:52.000 You know, Tucker Carlson was deep and he was thoughtful.

00:04:56.000 He was also ferocious against these cockroaches that are destroying Western civilization. 0.98

00:05:01.000 He was merciless against the left-wingers like the creepy porn lawyer of Michael Avenatti or Brian Stelter or AOC. 0.99

00:05:12.000 He pulled no punches.

00:05:14.000 Went after Don Laman, the race lady on MSNBC. 0.56

00:05:18.000 He played the win.

00:05:19.000 You see, Tucker Carlson going after neoliberalism is a thought crime on mainstream media networks.

00:05:24.000 You're not allowed to do that.

00:05:25.000 You're supposed to say we must invade the world, invite the world, and import products that we do not need that destroy American labor and those destroy American workers and earning potential.

00:05:36.000 But Tucker Carlson found those things to be objectionable.

00:05:39.000 He said, why are we going to war in eastern Ukraine?

00:05:44.000 I don't like that.

00:05:44.000 It doesn't make any sense.

00:05:47.000 Why are we having 5,000 people illegally cross into our country every single day?

00:05:51.000 Why do we have these insane green card policies that favor the tech companies?

00:05:57.000 And Tucker, more than anybody else, led on the issue of tech censorship.

00:06:03.000 He led on the issue of restraining Google.

00:06:06.000 I believe firmly, if it was not for the leadership of Tucker Carlson, I don't think that the ideological atmospherics would have been created for Elon Musk to purchase Twitter.

00:06:22.000 Tucker challenged the Leviathan in both private and public life, exposed the FBI.

00:06:29.000 He landed big interviews, all-star guests.

00:06:32.000 He was ahead of the curve time and time again, predicting discord and nonsense.

00:06:40.000 He was one of the most important voices in the midst of the COVID lockdowns.

00:06:44.000 And I think if you were to say, Charlie, what was Tucker's all-star moment where I think Tucker hit his stride and he was at the crescendo of his career is when we needed him the most.

00:06:56.000 It was during Floyd de Palooza.

00:06:58.000 While other hosts kind of went around the edges and were afraid to dive into the racial conversation, Tucker came out swinging when everyone was doing the black squares of BLM, giving $10 to Black Lives Matter.

00:07:14.000 Tucker Carlson, night after night, was relentless in exposing the Marxist movement, that is Black Lives Matter.

00:07:22.000 There was one broadcast I'll never forget where he said, Black Lives Matter is now a political party.

00:07:26.000 It is one of the most popular movements in America.

00:07:30.000 When everyone else was engaged in idolatry, Tucker melted the golden calf of BLM.

00:07:36.000 They called him a racist.

00:07:38.000 They called them all the different names, and he did more.

00:07:40.000 And you know what?

00:07:41.000 Tucker Carlson almost single-handedly moved the Overton window over 60 days, where we went from a country that was worshiping BLM by the time August came and Kenosha was burned down.

00:07:52.000 BLM was unfavorable in people's eyes.

00:07:54.000 It was negative.

00:07:55.000 It was exposed as a Marxist, anti-family organization.

00:07:59.000 And Tucker Carlson did that.

00:08:00.000 He didn't care about the advertiser boycotts.

00:08:03.000 He didn't care about the people coming for his life.

00:08:05.000 He leaned in.

00:08:06.000 But Tucker was not done.

00:08:08.000 You see, the conservative movement used to be full of people like the gutless wonder, Asa Hutchinson.

00:08:13.000 Live and let live.

00:08:14.000 Who am I to tell another person what to do? 1.00

00:08:18.000 If they're a child, they should be able to cut off their breasts. 1.00

00:08:20.000 Take Lupron, pharmaceutical drugs. 0.99

00:08:23.000 You see, the conservative movement was behind the times in the intellectual community on the trans issue.

00:08:31.000 And then again, who stepped up to bat?

00:08:33.000 While other shows were afraid and they were mincing words, Tucker Carlson leaned in.

00:08:38.000 Tucker Carlson said, you know what?

00:08:39.000 I'm going to have people that are defending this on my show.

00:08:43.000 He had Asa Hutchinson on his show and he skewered him when Asa Hutchinson said, you know, it's in the tradition of Ronald Reagan to allow kids to take gender-altering drugs that chemically castrate themselves.

00:08:57.000 In fact, Tucker Carlson coined the term chemical castration that is now ubiquitous in the trans debate.

00:09:03.000 He exposed the authoritarianism during COVID while simultaneously showing how the trans thing is not going to stop. 0.78

00:09:12.000 He might have single-handedly went after the Vanderbilt Children's Hospital medieval mutilation clinic more effectively than anybody else.

00:09:21.000 What would it be the trans issue, the race issue, the COVID issue, the border issue, the neoliberal issue, or how about the Ukraine issue?

00:09:28.000 Who else but Tucker Carlson on the mainstream network was willing to say that we should not be funding a proxy war against Russia.

00:09:37.000 There's almost a requirement.

00:09:39.000 It was almost expected of you to just say what the CIA wants you to say.

00:09:44.000 Not only that, Tucker Carlson would be doing segments on the Kennedy assassination.

00:09:52.000 Tucker Carlson had Robert Kennedy Jr. on his program.

00:09:56.000 Tucker Carlson had Dr. Malone.

00:09:58.000 Tucker Carlson was the only mainstream host in the summer of 2020 and early 2021 that was willing to have program after program after program on the adverse events and side effects of the vaccine.

00:10:12.000 He remade the rights.

00:10:15.000 He inspired us to think critically about these issues, about the prevailing lies and dogmas of our day, platforming voices that were otherwise suppressed and censored and putting them right into the mainstream zeitgeist.

00:10:29.000 And today, April 24th, it is now announced.

00:10:33.000 The biggest voice on the right, the heir, the baton informally passed from Rush Limbaugh being number one to Tucker Carlson being number one.

00:10:44.000 He is out at Fox News.

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00:10:50.000 This is beyond significant.

00:10:52.000 This is going to change conservative media, maybe for the better, maybe for the worse, maybe right down the middle.

00:10:56.000 But it will change.

00:10:57.000 Things will not remain the same.

00:11:00.000 This is abrupt.

00:11:00.000 This is sudden.

00:11:01.000 This is unexpected.

00:11:03.000 And you better believe it is significant.

00:11:07.000 Not just for media, but for the entire civilization.

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00:11:50.000 Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News.

00:11:53.000 The significance of this is serious.

00:11:54.000 Fox has massive distribution.

00:11:56.000 They're part of the central cable news distribution network.

00:12:01.000 And to be in 100 million homes and to be able to access that many people is a big deal.

00:12:07.000 The question then remains: who is then going to be a forceful voice against Fox Nation?

00:12:14.000 Against not Fox Nation.

00:12:16.000 Sorry, I'm getting too many messages.

00:12:17.000 Against neoliberalism.

00:12:18.000 Let's play cut 15.

00:12:20.000 Whoopi Goldberg and the View celebrating, being nasty against Tucker Carlson.

00:12:25.000 Play Cut 15.

00:12:27.000 Word has just come down that Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways.

00:12:36.000 We thank you for his service to the Let Market Host of Prior contributor.

00:12:41.000 Wave.

00:12:49.000 Come on, folks.

00:12:50.000 Na-na-na-na.

00:12:52.000 Na-na-na-na.

00:12:54.000 Hey!

00:12:56.000 Good God!

00:12:59.000 He is responsible for the degradation that we see somewhat of our democracy in this country.

00:13:05.000 And I just think, as a faithful person, look at God.

00:13:08.000 Look at God.

00:13:09.000 Well, Russian propaganda hardest hit.

00:13:12.000 I mean, he's been the biggest purveyor of pro-Russian coffee.

00:13:14.000 Yeah.

00:13:15.000 So it's a good day for the Ukraine. 1.00

00:13:17.000 Karma doesn't lose anyone's address.

00:13:19.000 I have a lot of thoughts, some of which I will not share with you based on that video.

00:13:24.000 It's interesting.

00:13:26.000 He's responsible for the degradation of our democracy.

00:13:29.000 That means he's effective.

00:13:31.000 And they think that they've taken him off Fox, that they've completely muzzled him.

00:13:35.000 Where is he going to go next?

00:13:36.000 I'm going to tell him, hey, I think you should go to Rumble and go to Real America's Voice.

00:13:39.000 Go do a deal.

00:13:41.000 Go to rumble, R-U-M-B-L-E.com and maybe even come on this beautiful network and we'll see what happens.

00:13:46.000 But we're going to get more information as it goes on.

00:13:48.000 But this is important, everybody.

00:13:50.000 What does the National Rifle Association, James O'Keefe, and Tucker Carlson have in common?

00:13:58.000 They've all been mass targets of the left, and they've tried to take them off the chessboard.

00:14:03.000 They took James O'Keefe out of Veritas.

00:14:05.000 They took Tucker off Fox News.

00:14:06.000 You realize what you're seeing is coordinated.

00:14:08.000 This is not some sort of random act.

00:14:10.000 No, they picked their targets and they try to take them out.

00:14:13.000 They've tried to do that to turning point on us.

00:14:15.000 And praise God, we're stronger than ever, and they're going to come again, and they're going to come again.

00:14:19.000 We're dealing with a very sinister enemy.

00:14:21.000 We're not dealing with good people.

00:14:24.000 They arrested Donald Trump in New York.

00:14:26.000 This is their playbook.

00:14:27.000 Take him off the board.

00:14:28.000 We can't beat them.

00:14:29.000 So we are going to go to other means.

00:14:33.000 What are the means?

00:14:34.000 How are they able to do it?

00:14:36.000 On Fox News?

00:14:37.000 I have no idea.

00:14:39.000 How are they able to get Fox News to release Tucker Carlson?

00:14:42.000 They say it's mutual.

00:14:43.000 I don't know.

00:14:43.000 We'll find out if that's true.

00:14:45.000 But you know who's celebrating right now?

00:14:46.000 I mean, you see you celebrating.

00:14:47.000 The View is celebrating.

00:14:48.000 But the war industry is like, boy, we don't have to worry about that 8 p.m. on Fox News hour.

00:14:53.000 Raytheon, Northrop, Grumman, get those weapons into Ukraine.

00:14:56.000 You know who else is breathing a sigh of relief right now?

00:14:58.000 Johnson and Johnson and Pfizer, AstraZeneca.

00:15:02.000 They just say, boy, we can keep on pushing the vaccine, and that 8 p.m. hour is not going to question us anymore.

00:15:09.000 You know who else is smiling?

00:15:10.000 The open border crowd.

00:15:12.000 The open border crowd is very happy because they'll say we no longer have to worry about that 8 p.m. hour.

00:15:18.000 Tucker Carlson remade the right.

00:15:21.000 That is one thing I will agree with the view on.

00:15:23.000 He was more powerful than anybody else since the death of Rush Limbaugh in reshaping the rights, in moving the Overton window, in pushing forward positive narratives, in challenging Operation Mockingbird.

00:15:39.000 And I could say this as somebody who knows Tucker very well.

00:15:42.000 He did not care about the backlash.

00:15:47.000 He did not care about the threats.

00:15:49.000 He did not care about what you're not supposed to say.

00:15:52.000 He is a legitimate free thinker.

00:15:54.000 He's a man of courage.

00:15:56.000 I have no idea.

00:15:57.000 I have zero inside information about the dynamics of what led to his departure. 0.98

00:16:00.000 I have my own speculation, knowing how Tucker is and how he doesn't put up with crap and BS. 0.94

00:16:07.000 So we could all kind of guess what happened there. 0.95

00:16:10.000 But more importantly, here's what I will say: is that he committed himself to telling the truth.

00:16:16.000 And that is so rare in media.

00:16:19.000 Remember when we found out that our own government, the NSA, was targeting Tucker Carlson and spying on him?

00:16:26.000 Tucker had to deal with constant hostility.

00:16:29.000 He would get harassed on airplanes, harassed at fishing shops in Montana.

00:16:33.000 He was practically driven from his home in DC that he loved living in because the activists and the terrorists came after his family and his wife.

00:16:43.000 And he never wavered.

00:16:45.000 O'Keefe, NRA, they're coming for all of us one by one.

00:16:53.000 Are you feeling burned out and a little tired?

00:16:55.000 Look, I want to tell you about something that I've become a big believer in.

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00:17:00.000 You could fact-check me.

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00:17:03.000 NAD is a precursor for your body to be able to create ATP, which is basically the life force of everything that you do.

00:17:11.000 And look, there's a lot of people out there that are promising energy and doing all this, but go do some research on NAD and go see actually how incredibly important it is for high performance to be able to go actually get it to the next level.

00:17:24.000 And so, what does NAD stand for?

00:17:26.000 Well, try to take a note here.

00:17:28.000 It is nicotinamide adenonide dinucleotide.

00:17:33.000 I did that pretty well, don't you think?

00:17:34.000 NAD.

00:17:35.000 It's a coenzyme that is central to metabolism.

00:17:38.000 Again, don't take my word for it.

00:17:40.000 Go watch a YouTube video or two or three or four and go fact-check me on it.

00:17:43.000 I've been taking NAD for quite some time.

00:17:45.000 And people say, Charlie, how do you travel 2,700 days in a decade?

00:17:50.000 How do you do the 300 days a year?

00:17:51.000 How do you do that?

00:17:52.000 Look, it's not only because of this.

00:17:53.000 I eat well and do other things as well.

00:17:56.000 But if you look at NADH, especially when it combines with CoQ10 and marine collagen, it boosts your body's cellular function.

00:18:03.000 I would never tell you guys to go do something I myself did not do.

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00:18:35.000 NADH has been called the anti-aging enzyme that helps with so many issues like brain fog, short-term memory loss, blood pressure, heart disease, blood sugar retention, and so much more.

00:18:45.000 And look, it's not a magic pill.

00:18:46.000 It's like, oh, I'm going to start taking this and I'm going to be super smart.

00:18:49.000 It's an additive, an amplifier on people that want to get better.

00:18:54.000 But I could tell you, it makes a big difference.

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00:19:45.000 We're getting a ton of emails here.

00:19:47.000 And some, I just want to address a sentiment.

00:19:50.000 We got a couple hundred emails of people say, Charlie, I don't understand why this is a big deal.

00:19:55.000 Tucker's going to be fine.

00:19:56.000 You're right.

00:19:57.000 Tucker will be fine.

00:19:57.000 And Tucker will find a way to communicate to his audience.

00:19:59.000 Guy's a workhorse.

00:20:00.000 He works his tail off.

00:20:01.000 He'll figure it out.

00:20:02.000 The issue is not that.

00:20:03.000 The issue is that a mainstream cable network having a voice like Tucker was a good thing for the country.

00:20:09.000 It was.

00:20:11.000 That is an undeniable fact.

00:20:13.000 The fact that you could have on one of the few cable news channels, which is in 100 million homes, or like 115 million homes, somebody that is as conservative and effective as Tucker Carlson is undeniably important.

00:20:30.000 Tucker will succeed wherever he goes, and he will keep on speaking the truth.

00:20:33.000 But having another Fox News that is able to reach as many people as Fox was is very hard.

00:20:41.000 It's like we said last week.

00:20:42.000 You could not rebuild Fox from scratch today.

00:20:45.000 They have grandfathered in cable contracts.

00:20:49.000 So therefore, the country was benefiting from having a nightly drumbeat like Tucker Carlson.

00:20:55.000 But it's not just Tucker.

00:20:57.000 I'm sad to say that the news on Friday was also the great Dan Bongino is done at Fox News.

00:21:04.000 Dan Bongino could not come to terms and they move on.

00:21:09.000 So both Dan Bongino and Tucker Carlson within 72 hours have moved on.

00:21:15.000 I do want to just say for all of you in the Real America's voice audience that are pretty fired up about this.

00:21:21.000 I want to make sure we're enlisting you to tell your friends about Real America's voice.

00:21:27.000 We need to get more people to know about Salem Radio Network.

00:21:30.000 We need to get more people to know about our podcast.

00:21:32.000 There is a massive disruption right now happening in conservative media.

00:21:35.000 If you're pleased about what we're doing on this program, what Steve Bannon is doing, what John Solomon is doing, if on radio, if you're pleased with what Dr. Gorka is doing or Prager or Gallagher or Brandon Tatum, tell them about these alternative media channels.

00:21:49.000 It's very important.

00:21:50.000 I'm amazed that still there is not full market saturation of awareness of the great content that these channels are doing.

00:21:57.000 It's very, very important.

00:22:00.000 I just want to remind you before I go into some other news.

00:22:02.000 It's just today is unbelievable with media news.

00:22:05.000 This is how the left operates.

00:22:08.000 Rules for Radicals, of course, which was written, the dedication written to Lucifer. 0.61

00:22:12.000 Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

00:22:16.000 That's rule 13.

00:22:18.000 Number eight, keep the pressure on.

00:22:21.000 The left largely operates with Solinsky's Rules for Radicals.

00:22:24.000 If you do not know what Rules for Radicals is, you should read it.

00:22:26.000 You should internalize it.

00:22:27.000 And you'll be like, wow, now I understand the left a lot better.

00:22:30.000 They have publicized their blueprint.

00:22:32.000 We know their playbook.

00:22:34.000 And they try to go off one by one.

00:22:36.000 I mean, Steve Bannon, they're trying to put in prison.

00:22:38.000 He's already under federal government conviction.

00:22:42.000 And then the Department of New York comes after him.

00:22:43.000 And Dinesh D'Souza, they tried to indict, and they raided Rudy Giuliani's home.

00:22:46.000 You get it.

00:22:47.000 That's how they operate.

00:22:48.000 And yeah, they're going to keep on coming after me, and they're going to keep on coming after Turning Point USA.

00:22:53.000 And we'll be ready for it.

00:22:53.000 And by the grace of God, we'll keep on growing stronger.

00:22:55.000 And thanks to all your support, James O'Keefe.

00:22:58.000 I mean, I could go one by one, by one, by one, but they isolate, they move on.

00:23:02.000 They isolate, they move on.

00:23:03.000 They isolate, they move on.

00:23:06.000 Now, it's some just interesting news.

00:23:08.000 I have to imagine that the executives at CNN saw the Tucker Carlson news and they said, all right, finally, do it.

00:23:18.000 They've been wanting to fire Don Lamon for quite some time now.

00:23:22.000 And so they saw the Tucker news.

00:23:23.000 They said, okay, how do we bury this in kind of a flurry of media departure news?

00:23:28.000 Announce that we fired Don Lemon or Don Lamont.

00:23:32.000 He's out.

00:23:32.000 CNN has now announced, according to Don Lamon.

00:23:36.000 I was informed this morning by my agent that I've been terminated by CNN.

00:23:40.000 I am stunned.

00:23:41.000 After 17 years at CNN, I would have thought that someone in management would have had the decency to tell me directly.

00:23:47.000 At no time was I ever given an indication that I would not be able to continue to do the work I have loved at their network.

00:23:52.000 It is clear that there are some larger issues at play.

00:23:54.000 With that said, I want to wish the people I work with the best and they're the most talented journalists and da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

00:24:04.000 So, Don Lamon will probably not bounce back.

00:24:07.000 I mean, Brian Stelter, how's Brian Stelter's podcast doing?

00:24:10.000 Not too well.

00:24:11.000 You see, what makes Tucker unique, this is very important, is that for a period of time when people were not trusting Fox very much, it's a fact.

00:24:24.000 During the Dominion stuff, the network needed Tucker Carlson more than Tucker Carlson needed the network.

00:24:32.000 And Tucker largely was able to, he was the glue that kept a lot of the base trust together of people that kept on coming back to the network and Fox Nation.

00:24:43.000 Tucker gave Fox a lot of credibility.

00:24:47.000 And Fox recognized this, by the way.

00:24:48.000 They acknowledged it.

00:24:49.000 They paid Tucker very well.

00:24:50.000 They built Tucker's studios in places that other people would not have studios built.

00:24:56.000 He had a very big team.

00:24:58.000 And so that's how we can tell this is sudden.

00:25:00.000 That's why this is so shocking: it seemed as if Fox was continually going all in.

00:25:07.000 Tucker just landed the Elon Musk interview and the Donald Trump interview.

00:25:11.000 And those are not like little, those are 60-minute style accomplishments.

00:25:16.000 He was having documentaries published.

00:25:19.000 He was promoting them.

00:25:20.000 He was doing a day show.

00:25:22.000 I mean, he had a lot going on and he was being well compensated for it.

00:25:27.000 And boy, did he earn all of that?

00:25:28.000 God bless him for that.

00:25:29.000 I'm enthusiastically supportive of that.

00:25:33.000 However, Tucker, something happened over this weekend, over the last week that we may not know.

00:25:38.000 Does it involve the Dominion thing?

00:25:40.000 I don't know.

00:25:41.000 But it is clear, and this is one of the most important pieces of tape that we have to show to you today.

00:25:46.000 It's clear that there was somebody working in the grass.

00:25:51.000 There was a snake.

00:25:52.000 We don't know who the snake is.

00:25:54.000 You see, AOC is not very bright.

00:25:56.000 She's not.

00:25:57.000 She's not very bright.

00:25:59.000 And sometimes she says stuff she shouldn't say.

00:26:02.000 And you have to wonder.

00:26:03.000 See, AOC is sitting down with Jen Pesaki on MSNBC.

00:26:09.000 You got to wonder: did AOC say something she wasn't supposed to say?

00:26:13.000 Was AOC aware of some sort of subterranean, almost successful campaign going on at Fox?

00:26:20.000 Because this is a very strange piece of tape.

00:26:22.000 I'm not trying to overindulge in conspiracies and all that, but it's a very strange, very pointed, awfully precise sentence.

00:26:33.000 And then this news lands.

00:26:35.000 What did AOC know?

00:26:37.000 And why did she say this?

00:26:38.000 Play cut 10.

00:26:40.000 Federal regulation in terms of what's allowed on air and what isn't.

00:26:45.000 And when you look at what Tucker Carlson and some of these other folks on Fox do, it is very, very clearly incitement of violence.

00:26:55.000 Very clearly incitement of violence.

00:26:57.000 And that is the line that I think we have to be willing to contend with.

00:27:03.000 It's the AOC theme music.

00:27:05.000 So she says that yesterday, and then Tucker gets canned today.

00:27:11.000 Probably just coincidence.

00:27:13.000 Again, AOC didn't get him fired.

00:27:14.000 That's not what I'm suggesting.

00:27:16.000 But she knows how important Tucker was, but it's probably just a coincidence.

00:27:19.000 What we're seeing here is an entire community of people that think they have won.

00:27:25.000 They think they've taken him out.

00:27:27.000 And we don't know who's going to replace it right now on Twitter.

00:27:31.000 Done with Fox is trending on Twitter.

00:27:34.000 Real America's voice.

00:27:36.000 You guys can come.

00:27:37.000 We're waiting for you.

00:27:38.000 We're here every day working our tail off.

00:27:39.000 Steve Bannon does heroes' work, Jack Pesobic, John Solomon, the great team here.

00:27:44.000 They do a fabulous job.

00:27:46.000 We're growing here.

00:27:46.000 So welcome aboard, everybody.

00:27:48.000 Love to have you.

00:27:49.000 But it does bring me to a place of sadness, though, because if you actually look at the demographics of Tucker, you know who he was influencing?

00:27:59.000 A lot of Democrats watch Tucker's show.

00:28:01.000 A lot of Independents watch Tucker's show.

00:28:03.000 A lot of 18 to 29-year-olds watch Tucker's show.

00:28:06.000 A lot.

00:28:07.000 He was winning in the target demo.

00:28:10.000 He was winning a lot of people over.

00:28:12.000 He was making the country more right-wing.

00:28:15.000 He was doing the thing that we were always told, which is don't just talk to the choir.

00:28:17.000 He was actually persuading people because he can be very persuasive.

00:28:20.000 Every Tucker monologue was breaking millions of views on YouTube to that desired demographic.

00:28:29.000 And that's gone.

00:28:30.000 And if I were to venture a guess, this is just me speculating, out of all the reasons they wanted Tucker gone.

00:28:39.000 The vaccine, the border stuff, the trade stuff, the trans stuff. 1.00

00:28:46.000 Where was Tucker the most heterodox?

00:28:50.000 Where was Tucker the most contrarian?

00:28:54.000 Where is Tucker the biggest sand in the gears irritant of the uniparty regime?

00:29:04.000 Where no other show would go as far as Tucker would go.

00:29:09.000 It's very clear.

00:29:10.000 It's the war in Ukraine.

00:29:12.000 Where Tucker was the most courageously outspoken, was against this proxy war against Russia.

00:29:20.000 Almost no other show went as far continually and routinely as Tucker Carlson.

00:29:26.000 So if there is a group of people celebrating right now, it's the war machine at Raytheon.

00:29:32.000 It's the contractors at Northrop Grumman.

00:29:37.000 It's the Central Intelligence Agency.

00:29:39.000 It's the National Security Deep State.

00:29:41.000 They think they won.

00:29:43.000 And in some ways, they did.

00:29:48.000 I was attacked in every possible direction about eight months ago when I came to the defense of Alex Jones out of principal.

00:29:55.000 When Alex Jones was attacked and he was censored and he was a billion-dollar judgment, give me a break.

00:30:01.000 I said, they're going to try to go after everyone.

00:30:03.000 And I believe, if I'm drawing from my memory correctly, I said they're going to go after Tucker Carlson.

00:30:07.000 And people said, oh, no, Tucker's safe.

00:30:08.000 No, he's not.

00:30:09.000 He's out.

00:30:10.000 Again, Tucker will land on his feet.

00:30:12.000 Tucker will be more powerful than ever.

00:30:14.000 Knowing Tucker, he's going to be driven to proving people wrong, to influencing more people.

00:30:21.000 He's a patriot.

00:30:22.000 He's effective.

00:30:23.000 He's wicked smart.

00:30:24.000 He's got an IQ triple that of Don Lamont easily.

00:30:28.000 Brian Stelter, that's what's so different is that when, so at CNN, your relevancy comes from your distribution.

00:30:37.000 Okay?

00:30:39.000 So if they do not, they have the piping into 115 million homes, and they're only able to get a couple hundred thousand viewers.

00:30:45.000 It's pretty amazing.

00:30:46.000 So when Stelter and Laman or Chris Cuomo, Fredo, leave, they have no audience because they were so dependent on the distribution piping of the network.

00:31:01.000 Tucker is not dependent on the distribution piping.

00:31:05.000 He was keeping the network largely afloat.

00:31:12.000 He was keeping the network strong, especially in a time they needed it.

00:31:17.000 I don't know how Fox is going to deal with this.

00:31:20.000 They still have some fabulous people there.

00:31:23.000 That list is getting shorter.

00:31:24.000 Laura Ingram is terrific.

00:31:26.000 Jesse Waters is amazing.

00:31:28.000 I love Jesse Waters.

00:31:29.000 I got along really well with Brian Kilmead.

00:31:31.000 Stuart Varney's been great to me throughout the years.

00:31:33.000 So there's still some amazing people in that institution.

00:31:36.000 Certainly don't see eye to eye all the time with what management does, but whatever. 0.76

00:31:40.000 Maria Barta Romo is a gift from the heavens. 0.99

00:31:41.000 I think she's amazing.

00:31:42.000 Greg Gutfeld is one of the funniest people ever, and we need Greg Gutfeld.

00:31:46.000 So I'm not willing to say that the entire thing is over with, but this does not work in the favor.

00:31:52.000 Pete Hegseth is amazing.

00:31:53.000 This does not work in the favor of keeping Fox to be a strong network, nor should it.

00:31:59.000 Someone says here, Charlie, Tucker is not dead.

00:32:01.000 Stop using the past tense.

00:32:03.000 Okay, that's a fair piece of feedback.

00:32:05.000 The Tucker Carlson tonight is dead, though.

00:32:07.000 That's the point.

00:32:08.000 That's the essence: is that the Tucker Carlson tonight distributed to 115 million homes is dead.

00:32:15.000 That is a big deal.

00:32:16.000 The significance of that is profound and it has heaviness for the American political discourse.

00:32:24.000 Here's Oliver Darcy.

00:32:27.000 Not my favorite person.

00:32:30.000 I wonder if one of our team members likes Oliver Darcy.

00:32:32.000 I think he's a big Oliver Darcy fan.

00:32:34.000 Play Cut 18.

00:32:36.000 This comes days after.

00:32:38.000 Last week, you remember, Fox News settled this massive defamation lawsuit with Dominion voting systems over the election lies that it promoted.

00:32:46.000 Unclear, of course, whether this is related.

00:32:48.000 It's kind of hard to imagine that these coincidentally these things happen.

00:32:51.000 Tucker Carlson was sowing doubts about the U.S. election results just up until the last few weeks.

00:32:57.000 So it's possible that there was a relationship there, but really big news.

00:33:02.000 And I should also point out that they've stuck with him really through quite a lot.

00:33:05.000 Like he has promoted conspiracy theories about the vaccines.

00:33:09.000 He has said things that are just blatantly anti-immigrant.

00:33:12.000 He has, like I said, promoted doubt about the 2020 election.

00:33:17.000 They have stuck with him throughout all of this.

00:33:19.000 Yeah, you can't ask questions about the vaccine.

00:33:22.000 You got to, yeah, they stuck with him through that.

00:33:24.000 What a, what a, this is so.

00:33:26.000 The neoliberal order is shaking.

00:33:29.000 So here's the positive.

00:33:31.000 The positive is this is going to be a hit, but honestly, it's better that this is happening now in 2023 than a year from now.

00:33:38.000 It's better that this is happening in 2023.

00:33:42.000 We need to have our media situation pretty figured out for a presidential year.

00:33:46.000 It's actually okay that it's happening in 2023.

00:33:49.000 If there was an ideal time, if you were to say, hey, we would want a massive reshuffling and reconfiguration of conservative media, you would pick April 2023, like right there, in between the midterms, in between the midterms and the presidential.

00:34:04.000 And you've all this kind of horse race stuff that's just kind of nauseating.

00:34:07.000 It's not that important.

00:34:07.000 Now's the time to do it.

00:34:09.000 And so what ends up happening to Tucker is I think Tucker will end up being stronger, more liberated to speak his mind.

00:34:15.000 Just got to get him in the right platform, get him in the right place.

00:34:18.000 I think Real America's Voice would be a great place for him to land in conjunction with a deal with Rumble.

00:34:21.000 Makes perfect sense to me.

00:34:23.000 A lot of questions.

00:34:24.000 We're getting freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:34:25.000 One of the biggest questions we got is: what happened to the January 6th footage?

00:34:28.000 Does Tucker still have that?

00:34:30.000 Does that play a role into this?

00:34:31.000 I don't, we don't know.

00:34:33.000 It's a significant day.

00:34:36.000 We'll end up being stronger.

00:34:37.000 Genesis 50, 20, what the enemy meant for evil, God will use for good.

00:34:43.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:44.000 Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:34:47.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

00:34:53.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - April 24, 2023

BREAKING: The Day Fox News Left Tucker Carlson

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