- Tucker Carlson was barely talked about by his previous fellow Fox News hosts just after he was fired Monday.
- Carlson’s present was taken about by Brian Kilmeade, who advised viewers the previous host agreed to section means with Fox, “as you may have listened to.”
- Sean Hannity only outlined Carlson to say “We are not speaking about him” and that he had no particulars.
NEW YORK (AP) — The day he was fired, Tucker Carlson was approximately invisible on the Fox News primary-time lineup that he made use of to dominate.
“We’re not chatting about him,” previous colleague Sean Hannity said in one of the two really transient mentions of Carlson’s name on Fox News on Monday evening. In contrast, his ouster was the direct story on ABC, CBS and NBC night newscasts.
Carlson was abruptly bounced from his popular prime-time show previously in the day without the need of any rationalization from Fox. It was considerably less than one week soon after Fox experienced agreed to spend a $787 million settlement to Dominion Voting Methods above the network’s dissemination of bogus election conspiracy theories, and it came as more lawful threats loom.
Brian Kilmeade took over Carlson’s hour, telling viewers that Carlson and Fox had agreed to element ways, “as you may well have listened to.” He swiftly moved on to other tales.
Hannity led his hour-prolonged broadcast with a tale on Hunter Biden, the president’s son, and interviewed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin.
Carlson’s identify came up when Hannity did a section on the other massive media tale of the working day, CNN’s firing of anchor Don Lemon. He introduced on Kellyanne Conway, previous aide to President Donald Trump, to criticize Lemon as a studio audience cheered.
“We’re not conversing about Tucker,” Hannity mentioned, unprompted. “I never have any information on it. He experienced a large audience and he experienced a big pursuing. This dude (Lemon) had nobody.”
Fox’s other key-time host, Laura Ingraham, did not point out Carlson. Rather, she criticized Democrats in her guide tale, “Regardless of what Happened to Hope and Alter?” She also did a section on a contest in Belgium the place folks pretended to screech like seagulls.
Carlson, Hannity and Ingraham appeared near in November 2020. That is when they engaged in a 3-way textual content dialogue bashing their personal network’s information division following the presidential election, in accordance to paperwork revealed as aspect of Dominion’s lawsuit before this yr.
Fox has reported that rotating visitor hosts will occupy Carlson’s previous time slot right up until a total-time replacement is named.
