Tucker Carlson released a video last night that has been viewed by well over 50 million people. It was a two-minute and 14-second clip with a message that has gone viral on social media. Fox News fired Tucker.
00:00:21.000It is a lot of favorable response so far.
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00:01:52.000It is a two-minute and 14-second video.
00:01:56.000Well over 50 million people have viewed at least part of the video.
00:02:00.000Over 17 million people have watched the video in its entirety.
00:02:04.000At first glance, it just seems to kind of be a normal video of Tucker talking about big themes, but there's a lot to it.
00:02:11.000So first, we must get our facts right.
00:02:14.000Tucker Carlson is still in a contract dispute with Fox.
00:02:18.000Reports are showing that Fox is going to try to keep Tucker Carlson on the sideline, still pay him his $20 million a year salary, but keep him out of the 2024 race.
00:02:28.000Number two, it's likely that Tucker Carlson has a non-disparagement clause with Fox, which means anything he says publicly, he can't bash Fox.
00:02:36.000He can't go after the leadership of Fox.
00:02:38.000Now, we know that he's under contract at least until next spring, but maybe into the spring of 2025.
00:02:44.000Fox made a calculated move because of Tucker's effective critique of neoliberalism, because of the mounting lawsuits, or because of whatever you want to believe.
00:02:53.000They believe that it's okay to take a 47% rating hit, which is what's happened so far, keep Tucker on the sideline and pay him $20 million a year and try to rebuild the network.
00:03:03.000You know, there's a tall poppy syndrome that exists at Fox News.
00:03:07.000Tall Poppy Syndrome is a Scandinavian mentality, which is that no person can be greater than the others.
00:03:14.000And if you actually know tall poppy syndrome, it comes from this idea that as soon as you try to get too high above the rest, they take you out.
00:03:20.000It's literally how it works in growing poppies.
00:03:25.000Literally, if one gets too high, doesn't even allow to exist in the state of nature.
00:03:30.000I've always heard that in Australia and New Zealand, mostly, but it's also Scandinavian as well.
00:03:35.000It's this idea that no person is greater than the rest.
00:03:37.000There's a Norwegian, Norwegian saying that says, no, one of us is not greater.
00:03:42.000It's Swedish saying, not one person is greater than the other.
00:03:45.000Yeah, it's the law of gent in Swedish.
00:03:48.000So the point is that Fox News has actually always had this mentality, that one show is not greater than the collective Fox News.
00:03:57.000Now, this all can go back to Chris Steywalt on election night, 2020, which I'm sure many of you remember when Chris Stirewalt came out and called Arizona way too early.
00:04:09.000And that is what set off the blaze of criticism against Fox News, where all of a sudden Chris Steywalt and Fox News said, Arizona is called.
00:04:19.000And then, so therefore, in November and December 2020, they saw their ratings plummet.
00:04:23.000They saw a lot of Fox boycotts happening from the audience, and they try to recover.
00:04:28.000And they saw Tucker Carlson as a way to rebuild brand loyalty and rebuild their audience.
00:04:40.000They built him a studio both in Maine and Florida, an unusual offer of any sort of cable host at Fox.
00:04:48.000Usually they make you go into a bureau.
00:04:50.000And they did this as a way to try to save their brand identity.
00:04:54.000They were very afraid that this might be the end of their network.
00:04:57.000And by doing so, they also, you know, that was when the Dominion stuff came on their airwaves with Maria and not even Tucker to an extent of it.
00:05:05.000But the point being is that this all started with a preemptive call of Arizona on election night.
00:05:12.000I'm sure many of you in this audience remember that.
00:05:13.000You probably have a pit in your stomach of remembering how angry you were where Fox beat MSNBC and CNN by days calling Arizona.
00:07:14.000And again, many of our team members know him even better than I do, which is first, number one, Tucker is one of the most talented writers alive in the Western hemisphere.
00:07:41.000He was, wow, he was an old school magazine writer, thoughtful, interesting, provocative.
00:07:46.000And so the first criticism people said against Tucker Carlson's video yesterday was that, well, it looks like he's reading.
00:07:53.000Oh, if he's reading a teleprompter, that means he wrote it.
00:07:58.000And if he wrote it, that means he spent a lot of time and thought behind every single word, knowing the parameters, right, of you can't disparage Fox, you can't manage Fox, you can't attack Fox.
00:08:11.000At the same time, here he is on the same studio set.
00:08:15.000He's on the studio set that we got so comfortable looking at on Fox News on the Tucker Carlson today.
00:08:23.000And so the first 22 seconds of the video are pretty standard, saying there's a lot of hilarious people.
00:08:27.000They have to be the majority of the population.
00:08:47.000And yet at the same time, this is an amazing thing.
00:08:50.000The undeniably big topics that will define our future get virtually no discussion.
00:08:54.000So I'm going to stop there for a second.
00:08:55.000Basically, this is a very powerful point.
00:08:58.000A powerful point behind this is that Tucker Carlson is basically saying the replacement of what's now happening on the 8 p.m. hour is just talking about silly stuff.
00:09:09.000It's not getting down to the root of the issues.
00:10:05.000That's Tucker saying without saying, I'm going to fight you.
00:10:09.000That right there is a direct act of defiance of, oh, I know I have NDAs and I know I have non-disparagements, but him being on that set, that's not his set.
00:10:48.000The fact that he hasn't had a television show last couple of days means that he was probably working on this, tapping it away on his phone and editing and auditing and every single word because he knew it was going to be poured over.
00:10:58.000And I'm going to show you some little Easter eggs, little nuggets about probably, in my own speculation, a looming cataclysmic war that is going to come between Tucker and Fox News.
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00:12:44.000One of the first things you realize when you step outside the noise for a few days is how many genuinely nice people there are in this country, kind and decent people, people who really care about what's true, and a bunch of hilarious people, also.
00:13:14.000In five years, we won't even remember that we had them.
00:13:17.000Trust me, as someone who's participated.
00:13:20.000Tucker then continues to talk about the issues that do matter.
00:13:25.000The topics that define our future: civil liberties, emerging science, and then this is an interesting one: demographic change.
00:13:34.000This is a total challenge to the neoliberal orthodoxy.
00:13:40.000The issues that Tucker chose to name are very revealing.
00:13:44.000By emerging science, I'm guessing he meant vaccine stuff.
00:13:48.000In some ways, he was general, but Tucker picked issues that got him in the most trouble.
00:13:53.000You see, Tucker didn't talk about tax policy and this or no, but he decided to say war, civil liberties, emerging science, demographic change, corporate power, and natural resources.
00:14:06.000The rest of the conservative media regime never would say the phrase demographic change.
00:14:14.000Tucker wants to talk about it more, not less.
00:14:21.000He's not just promising to hit Biden or do the, oh, Biden is sleepy and can't make sentences.
00:14:27.000But you see, what he's showing here by his selection of issues, we'll play this tape in a second, is Tucker is making an argument that if it was not for his show or not for his commentary, who else is going to talk about this?
00:14:46.000Are they now going to fill the 8 p.m. hour talking about how Zelensky is a corrupt foreign oligarch?
00:14:52.000Are they going to have the 8 p.m. hour talking about adverse events when it comes to the vaccine?
00:14:58.000But the tone that Tucker is setting is that I'm going to keep on talking about it.
00:15:04.000You see, what he talks about here: war, civil liberties, emerging science, demographic change, corporate power, and natural resources are all untouchable topics to the neoliberal dogma.
00:15:18.000You're allowed to go on TV and debate about tax policy.
00:15:23.000You're allowed to go on television and debate about spending.
00:15:30.000You're allowed to go on TV and debate about healthcare, corporate-selected issues.
00:15:34.000To go on TV and say, hey, why are we funding a proxy war in Ukraine?
00:16:41.000What is so brilliant about this video is that he third-party personed his departure without ever mentioning Fox or ever mentioning his name.
00:17:04.000He's saying, hey, if you're willing to actually listen to this video, I got removed because I talk about war, civil liberties, emerging science, demographic change, and corporate power.
00:17:14.000That's why I got removed, and the American media and the one-party state removed me because of it.
00:17:20.000That's what he's saying in this video.
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00:18:44.000What Tucker signaled to you through laying it out, and then his second part of the argument is that this was an ideological removal of Tucker Carlson.
00:18:55.000This was because he was exposing thought crimes.
00:19:17.000Now, of course, we know that's not true.
00:19:20.000It continues by saying: American media and both political parties and their donors have reached consensus on what benefits them, and they actively collude to shut down any conversation about it.
00:20:02.000And yet at the same time, and this is the amazing thing, the undeniably big topics, the ones that will define our future, get virtually no discussion at all.
00:20:25.000Debates like that are not permitted in American media.
00:20:29.000Both political parties and their donors have reached consensus on what benefits them, and they actively collude to shut down any conversation about it.
00:20:39.000Suddenly, the United States looks very much like a one-party state.
00:20:43.000Looks very much like a one-party state.
00:20:48.000They actively collude to shut down any conversation about it.
00:20:55.000He talks about the issues that they don't like, and then he talks about how he has been silenced.
00:21:01.000He continues by saying that is a depressing realization.
00:21:05.000But understand the argument Tucker is making about his own departure, and he would know because it's his departure, the media doesn't like it.
00:21:12.000The media doesn't want you to believe that this is ideological.
00:21:14.000I mean, come on, it's not because Tucker Carlson was effectively challenging neoliberalism.
00:21:20.000No, it's because he was a sloppy employee.
00:21:22.000Yeah, that's really rich coming from Joe Scarborough, Play Cut 70.
00:21:26.000Several people with knowledge of Fox's discussion told the Times the messages were a catalyst for Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch to sever ties with the hosts of their highest rated and highly profitable primetime program.
00:21:41.000And so, Willie, for everybody out there, and they're, well, not everybody, there are a few people out there, but some that are loyalists and Trumpists who are shocked and stunned and deeply saddened and think this is part of some great conspiracy.
00:21:55.000There's not, there's no conspiracy theory here.
00:21:59.000This is just, this is something that would literally get you fired anywhere in the United States.
00:22:06.000If what Joe Scarborough is saying is true, Joy Reed would be out of a job.
00:22:15.000Most of the talking heads on TV uphold power.
00:22:19.000The reason they did not get rid of Tucker Carlson earlier is because Fox was very worried about losing their audience post-preemptively calling Arizona on election night in 2020.
00:23:13.000But he wanted to use every nightly broadcast as a way, how can I do a different thing that is not being done on television to improve the country?
00:23:23.000But the talking heads on almost every other network, they're almost centurion guards for the regime.
00:23:33.000Tucker was the only one to lean into Ukrainian bio labs, vaccines, transgender surgeries for minors, election integrity, had Catherine Engelbrecht on about 2,000 mules.
00:27:35.000What Tucker is saying here is that they become weaker.
00:27:40.000The iron law of the universe is true things prevail.
00:27:42.000That is Christianity, believing that truth prevails ultimately, that there is a truth, that there is a telos, that there is an order to the cosmos.
00:27:53.000And that's what he's saying, not so subtly.
00:27:55.000He's saying that, look, those of us who speak truth, and he says that, as long as you can hear the words, there is hope.
00:28:03.000As long as you have the spoken word, the spoken truth, which is the logos, there is hope.
00:28:11.000When he starts with the issue, why he was removed, he's giving you a little bit of a preview that not only is he not going away, not only is he not going to disappear, but he's going to be more convicted than ever to speak truth.
00:28:31.000If the heads of Fox did not like his spiritual talk, what he's saying right there, you guys are liars.
00:28:40.000The whole regime that removed me is liars.
00:28:43.000And the iron law of the universe, which is the logos in Christianity, is that true things prevail.
00:30:15.000Tucker Carlson could have kind of made his show a little bit more boring, had the safe, comfortable guests on, picked five or six topics that are somewhat edgy.
00:30:23.000You know, the border thing, I don't think they would have got too worried or fired up about.
00:30:27.000But no, no, he went after corporate power, big tech, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, the trans thing, mutilation of kids.
00:30:34.000Boom, He could have had $20 million for the rest of his life, a year, until he died with contract renewals.
00:30:45.000But Tucker made a decision to use his period of time on 8 p.m. network television to start a movement.
00:30:54.000You know how few people would do that?
00:30:56.000Rush Limbaugh absolutely would do that.
00:30:59.000I think Rush and Tucker are right up there in the last 50 or 60 years as some of the most courageous broadcasters that defied orthodoxies and leaned into the truth regardless of the cost against them.
00:31:34.000Last piece of advice for young people: get married.
00:31:37.000Yeah, get married and have a ton of kids.
00:31:39.000I mean, get married when you're too young, have more kids than you can afford, take a job you're not qualified for, live boldly, stop getting high, stop doing anything that blurs your vision or makes time go faster.
00:31:50.000You're going to die before you know it.
00:33:00.000I think of the serenity prayer that Tucker embodied almost better than anybody else.
00:33:03.000God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
00:33:10.000Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time, taking this world as it is, and not as I would have it, trusting that you will make all things right if I surrender to your good and perfect will.
00:33:48.000Or as Douglas MacArthur said in the Philippines, I shall return.
00:33:53.000He's not off the chessboard yet, everybody.
00:33:56.000They've tried everything they can to remove him.
00:33:59.000And I think they have awoken a sleeping giant, a voice that cannot be silenced or censored.
00:34:04.000As long as Tucker Carlson has breath in those lungs, the cockroaches destroying America are going to be very nervous because he will be back.
00:34:15.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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