Fox News Media announced Monday that the network and Tucker Carlson had “agreed to part ways,” and according to Politico, there are Defense Department officials who are pleased about the split.
Without disclosing their identities, the outlet cited two defense department officials.
“We are a better country without him ambushing our military every night in front of hundreds of thousands of people,” a senior defense department official said, according to Politico. That person also claimed that Carlson “repeatedly cherry-picked department policies and used them to destroy the DoD as an institution,” according to the outlet.
“Good delivery,” said another defense department official.
Politico reported that when asked to respond to the news that Pentagon officials are pleased about his split from Fox News, Carlson texted, “Ha! I’m sure.”
Following Fox News Media’s announcement on Monday, many people took to Twitter to declare that they had canceled their subscriptions to Fox Nation.
People have also shared personal stories about Tucker Carlson: Radio host Larry O’Connor recalled that Carlson invited him to Thanksgiving dinner at a time when he would have otherwise had a vacation.” lonely”.
Fox News Channel senior meteorologist Janice Dean wrote of Carlson that “there are stories aplenty of him quietly helping his friends, behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.”
Carlson had apparently hoped to be back on the air Monday, because on Friday’s episode of his prime-time Fox News Channel show he said, “We’ll be back Monday.”
But in Monday’s press release, Fox News Media announced that “Carlson’s last show was on Friday, April 21. Fox News Tonight will air live at 8:00 PM / ET from tonight as an interim show led by rotating FOX News personalities until a new host. it’s called.”
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