Could Tucker Carlson End Up On Talk Radio?

[bigdonho]

They were bolstered and cheered on by the leader of the free world, who was being guided by his "gut feeling".

And he has a lot of gut to have feelings.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

There are plenty of stories about times and ways the country as a whole had to pull together in the past to do things, or to get certain vaccines or to do something not just for them, but for the good of their fellow man, and at least some of those would never happen today. Personally, many of the things we were asked to do in order to help at least slow not only a nationwide but a worldwide pandemic just seemed to be just common sense and were rooted in medical science. Unfortunately many Einsteins out there who barely passed high school thought they knew better than epidemiologists who've been deeply educated and deal with this stuff for a living. They were bolstered and cheered on by the leader of the free world, who was being guided by his "gut feeling".

Some of the issues surrounding Fox News between 2020-2023 was very scary given that it was when a pandemic was at it's height and also we ran into the allegations of Fox News violating US Sanctions on Russia when Putin attacked Ukraine.

Also we ran into issues around this time when Trump and Jonestown comparisons came into play. Some of us saw the warning signs but didn't know how to get the rest of the country to know that. Tucker Carlson was a contributing factor at the time.

Trump's Rhetoric Is 'Similar' to Jim Jones, Says Woman Who Fled Jonestown

Yulanda Williams fled the remote settlement before the Jonestown massacre, orchestrated by Jones, on November 18, 1978.

www.newsweek.com

Scaramucci compares Trump to Jonestown cult leader: ‘It’s like a hostage crisis inside the White House’

Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci on Friday compared President Trump to the Rev. Jim Jones, the infamous cult leader who led hundreds to their death Jonestown, Guyana, i…

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[gr8oldies]

Just like a petulant 4 year old, the MAGA folks said "I am not going to get vacinated and you can't make me. Nah Nah Nah." Those of us who are old enogh remember that just about everyone wanted the polio vacine. Makes you wonder how people today would have handled the restrictions of WW2 when the whole country pulled together to win the war.

"I have a Constitutional right to buy gas any day I want!"

 

[davideduardo]

Personally, many of the things we were asked to do in order to help at least slow not only a nationwide but a worldwide pandemic just seemed to be just common sense and were rooted in medical science. Unfortunately many Einsteins out there who barely passed high school thought they knew better than epidemiologists who've been deeply educated and deal with this stuff for a living. They were bolstered and cheered on by the leader of the free world, who was being guided by his "gut feeling".

Giving a little balance to this: The new administration touted the vaccine as being as preventing the disease and its contagion.

I was there the first day that anyone other than health care workers could get the first shot. So, I am not in denial or an objector.

But I was promised something that was not true. The vaccine did not do what my 50's polio shot did in that it did not prevent my getting COVID nor would it prevent me from passing it to others if I should get it.

As time went by, I learned that the vaccine reduced the chance of death if I got COVID. It did nothing else, and I felt that I had been given a big dose of hype. Had I known the real facts, I still would have been there the first day. But I believe I was lied to by the new administration and spokespersons like Fauci, who changed his narrative multiple times over the next two years.

As someone who has had malaria and dengue and a couple of other tropical diseases, I am a firm believer in vaccination, whether to reduce or avoid a disease. I am not a believer in government dialogue in this kind of situation.

The annual flu shot does not prevent the flu. It prevents some variants and avoids severe cases for others. The COVID shot should have been introduced in that context, and not as something that it was not. Going into year 2 of the pandemic, I felt that anything Fauci was saying was a lie and government propaganda, and looked elsewhere for truth.

 

[KeithE4]

"I have a Constitutional right to buy gas any day I want!"

I remember quite a bit of that during the 1973 Arab oil embargo. Lots of complaints about gas rationing.

In Arizona, we were allowed to fill up one day a week, based on the last digit of our license plate. I was allowed to fill up on Mondays, and the line going to our closest gas station was a mile long. It took an hour to inch up that mile and then fill up. I had to get in line at 6 AM, fill up by 7, and make it to school (15 miles away in rush-hour traffic) for my first class. Not fun. And since I was driving a 1968 Plymouth Barracuda that got about 13 mpg, I had to make sure I could make that tank last a full week.

 

[Mikey Radio]

Giving a little balance to this: The new administration touted the vaccine as being as preventing the disease and its contagion.
I was there the first day that anyone other than health care workers could get the first shot. So, I am not in denial or an objector.
But I was promised something that was not true. The vaccine did not do what my 50's polio shot did in that it did not prevent my getting COVID nor would it prevent me from passing it to others if I should get it.

I may be wrong, and I'm sure if that's the case you'd be able to produce articles or statements to prove it, but I thought that was nearly always the stated situation with the Covid vaccine: It wasn't necessarily a full-on "prevention", but it would at minimum lessen the effects for at least most, and depending on things like age and risk factors, it may keep some out of the hospital who may have been admitted otherwise, and most importantly, kept others out of the morgue who may have died from the disease had they not had the jab.

 

[gr8oldies]

I may be wrong, and I'm sure if that's the case you'd be able to produce articles or statements to prove it, but I thought that was nearly always the stated situation with the Covid vaccine: It wasn't necessarily a full-on "prevention", but it would at minimum lessen the effects for at least most, and depending on things like age and risk factors, it may keep some out of the hospital who may have been admitted otherwise, and most importantly, kept others out of the morgue who may have died from the disease had they not had the jab.

From what I understand, the vaccine was originally formulated for the first virus but was less effective for the variants, but still kept people out of the hospital. My wife and I outran the virus for 2 years (no, not by hiding in the basement as those of us who took precautions are accused of) before finally getting breakthrough cases. Had the government gone full "let it rip" as some of our leaders wanted us to (no vaccines, no precautions, no work-from-home, nothing closed or cancelled) and we had gotten it we may not have survived. As it was we felt like crap for a couple of days and apparently no lingering effects. Thank God and science (and even Dolly Parton, who contributed financially for the research at Vanderbilt) for the vaccine.

 

[TheBigA]

Giving a little balance to this: The new administration touted the vaccine as being as preventing the disease and its contagion.

Giving a little more balance, this was a living virus that changed every few months, so everything you said or believed changed every few months. What was true at one point changed because the virus itself changed. This wasn't just a US problem, but a worldwide problem. At the same time, you had an organized campaign by some politicians and a part of the media that was opposed to any kind of verification system, so you never knew who was vaxed and who wasn't. You couldn't mandate the vaccine, and you couldn't even ask if you had been vaccinated. They basically wanted to protect the carriers, and that made it harder to shut down the spread. I think all of that doubt unnecessarily extended the length of the pandemic, deepened mistrust, and now people are angry about an economic crisis that was caused by something they believe never happened.

 

[gr8oldies]

Giving a little balance to this: The new administration touted the vaccine as being as preventing the disease and its contagion.

I was there the first day that anyone other than health care workers could get the first shot. So, I am not in denial or an objector.

But I was promised something that was not true. The vaccine did not do what my 50's polio shot did in that it did not prevent my getting COVID nor would it prevent me from passing it to others if I should get it.

As time went by, I learned that the vaccine reduced the chance of death if I got COVID. It did nothing else, and I felt that I had been given a big dose of hype. Had I known the real facts, I still would have been there the first day. But I believe I was lied to by the new administration and spokespersons like Fauci, who changed his narrative multiple times over the next two years.

As someone who has had malaria and dengue and a couple of other tropical diseases, I am a firm believer in vaccination, whether to reduce or avoid a disease. I am not a believer in government dialogue in this kind of situation.

The annual flu shot does not prevent the flu. It prevents some variants and avoids severe cases for others. The COVID shot should have been introduced in that context, and not as something that it was not. Going into year 2 of the pandemic, I felt that anything Fauci was saying was a lie and government propaganda, and looked elsewhere for truth.

The other sources were people hyping horse paste, or saying Covid was harmless so let 'er rip, or Texas Lt. Gov Dan Patrick saying that older and immunocompromised people should die for the economy, because I'm sure if we killed everyone in your or my town who has high blood pressure, it would have no effect on the economy whatsoever. "Why isn't anybody serving me curly fries!"

 

[Larry]

Gov Dan Patrick saying that older and immunocompromised people should die for the economy, because I'm sure if we killed everyone in your or my town who has high blood pressure, it would have no effect on the economy whatsoever. "Why isn't anybody serving me curly fries!"

That’s correct. When discussing labor shortages no one mentions everyone who died from COVID (nor the limits on immigration.).

 

[anotherguyTN]

I'm about to start a new job (Back in IT) with a hospital system and I was definitely asked if I had been vaccinated for COVID and I believe they had every right to because of it being in the medical industry, even though I might not have any contact with patients.

 

[TheBigA]

I'm about to start a new job (Back in IT) with a hospital system and I was definitely asked if I had been vaccinated for COVID and I believe they had every right to because of it being in the medical industry, even though I might not have any contact with patients.

And yet a lot of other people in the medical industry sued their employers for asking the question or mandating the vaccine.

Healthcare Workers Awarded $10.3M, Win Mandatory COVID Vaccine Lawsuit

NorthShore is required to pay employees $10.3 million to over 500 employees after the mandatory covid vaccine policy which did not allow religious exemptions.

nurse.org

BTW no organized religion actually banned the vaccine. In fact the Pope advocated vaccination.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

Tucker Carlson could see Rebekah Mercer, Peter Thiel invest in his media company

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson could see Rebekah Mercer and Peter Thiel become investors into his new media company.

www.cnbc.com

Tucker Carlson in talks to get investors to his "New Media Company".

 

[Kelly A]

Getting back to the original question;

Could Tucker Carlson End Up On Talk Radio?​

Hasn't happened yet, has it? No radio syndicator in their right mind (pun intended) would be willing to put someone that cost Fox three-quarters of a billion dollars, plus legal fees, on their radio group or network. The man is persona non grata.

 

[TomásEstefan]

Getting back to the original question;

Could Tucker Carlson End Up On Talk Radio?​

Hasn't happened yet, has it? No radio syndicator in their right mind (pun intended) would be willing to put someone that cost Fox three-quarters of a billion dollars, plus legal fees, on their radio group or network. The man is persona non grata.

He probably should be Trump's VP pick...peas in a pod.

 

[boombox4]

Getting back to the original question;

Could Tucker Carlson End Up On Talk Radio?​

Hasn't happened yet, has it? No radio syndicator in their right mind (pun intended) would be willing to put someone that cost Fox three-quarters of a billion dollars, plus legal fees, on their radio group or network. The man is persona non grata.

And, at the same time, he could make more money doing a podcast.

Most talk hosts don't seem to have writers. They do prep, and/or have a staff do prep for them, but there is a difference.

Tucker had writers when doing his FNC show. You could tell, just watching the shows. Maybe he did some of the writing, or editing, but his monologues were scripted, and I'm sure he had writers doing most of it. I'm sure he has writers on his podcast, although I haven't seen any of his podcasts after the very first one, which was plastered all over the 'Tube.

The point being that talk radio would be a completely different animal, and there would be no guarantee that a large number of stations would pick him up -- even if he didn't have the legal issues he had that got him kicked off Fox Cable News.

Just because one is a conservative on media it doesn't necessarily follow that they will or would make a successful talk host on radio.

So yeah, it's no surprise he didn't go for a talk radio gig.

 

[Kelly A]

And, at the same time, he could make more money doing a podcast.

Without the captive Fox News audience, Tucker is gradually becoming less relevant. He believed that his brand was bigger than Fox, but like any true egotistical narcissist, Tucker thought he became bigger than Fox. A recent example was his Twitter/X exclusive interview with Trump didn't do that well. An example of his fate, one needs to look no further than Bill O'Reilly. He's still around, but a drop of water in a swimming pool as compared with his stint on Fox News.

Tucker had writers when doing his FNC show. You could tell, just watching the shows. Maybe he did some of the writing, or editing, but his monologues were scripted, and I'm sure he had writers doing most of it.

And at least one of those writer/producers made $12M after suing Tucker and Fox for creating a hostile work environment. Between the Dominion defamation settlement and various staff suits, and settlements, Newscorp will likely be out over a billion, with Tucker being a leading reason why.

The point being that talk radio would be a completely different animal, and there would be no guarantee that a large number of stations would pick him up -- even if he didn't have the legal issues he had that got him kicked off Fox Cable News.

I agree, but submit the days of some new wildly popular 'conservative' (right-wing) purely radio talk show host is officially over. The audience continues to die-off with no new, let alone chances for growth, coming in.

Just because one is a conservative on media it doesn't necessarily follow that they will or would make a successful talk host on radio.

So yeah, it's no surprise he didn't go for a talk radio gig.

Just not enough money, combined with the potential liability risks. That's the bottom line.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

Russian TV teases launch of Tucker Carlson show

The ex-Fox News anchor appears in a trailer on state-run Rossiya 24 but exact details are not clear.

www.bbc.com

Tucker Carlson says US government stopped him interviewing Putin

The former Fox News host gave the alleged blocking as an example of what he saw as an attempt to "subvert a democracy" by controlling the media.

www.newsweek.com

Apparently Russian TV is interested in Tucker Carlson.

 

[TheBigA]

Tucker Carlson says US government stopped him interviewing Putin

The former Fox News host gave the alleged blocking as an example of what he saw as an attempt to "subvert a democracy" by controlling the media.

www.newsweek.com

This is a 2 year old story. Tucker made this same claim in 2021:

Tucker Carlson says he was pursuing Putin interview around time of spying claims

Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Wednesday he had been attempting to schedule an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin before he publicly claimed last week that the National Security Age…

thehill.com

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

This is a 2 year old story. Tucker made this same claim in 2021:

Tucker Carlson says he was pursuing Putin interview around time of spying claims

Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Wednesday he had been attempting to schedule an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin before he publicly claimed last week that the National Security Age…

thehill.com

Apparently theres hype that Tucker is going to be on Russian TV is why the reported story resurfaces again. Only this time How does Tucker do this that puts him at risk of Sanctions violations.