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Tucker Carlson Speaks To Elon Musk, To Torch Fox News? · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  So we have new information trickling in about Tucker Carlson and his situation and what
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  he plans to do in the future. It's trickling in. We've got some
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  info here about a possible link with Elon Musk, about actually a fairly large
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  offer that he's already received, and about his contract status with Fox News,
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  which is going to determine whether or not he can do anything or not or
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  when he can do something else as then you go to another network or start
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  up his own thing. But let's take a look. Here's that The headline
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  from Axios scoop Tucker Carlson ready to torch Fox News, And really the headline
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  here should be Tucker Carlson wants out of his contract and he's willing to get
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  nasty to do it. Says Tucker Carlson is preparing to unleash allies to attack
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  Fox News and an effort to bully the network into letting him work for or
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  start a right wing rival. And that was told to Axios apparently from sources
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  close to Tucker. What does that mean? Well, I guess we have
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  to take their word for it, don't we. Now He's contract at Fox
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  doesn't explore until January twenty twenty five. That's after the presidential election obviously,
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  so that's a long time. Keep in mind, he's making twenty million dollars
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  a year to do nothing, apparently, But already Tucker's got an enormous amount
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  of money. He probably would never need any more, would he. So
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  I imagine that he's still ambitious and he wants to get back to work again,
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  says here. Brian Friedman, the high powered Hollywood lawyer that Carlson has
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  retained for the contract dispute, told Axios quote the idea that anyone is going
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  to silence Tucker and prevent him from speaking to his audience is beyond preposterous.
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  Well yeah, I mean it all comes down to the legal part of it,
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  though, doesn't it. I mean, there is a contract in place,
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  says here at Why it matters Tucker versus Fox could reshape the conservative news
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  world. At Fox, which has seen its ratings plunge in Carlson's spot since
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  he was let go thirteen days ago, wants to sideline him by paying him
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  twenty million a year not to work. Not bad if he can get it
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  right. But again, I think Tucker's obviously got something else. In mind.
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  Axios is saying that they've been told that Carlson has been contacted by outlets
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  including the right wing Rumble and Newsmax that offered to pay him more than his
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  Fox contract, which honestly I'm not surprised by, especially seeing the ratings collapse
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  a Fox and Stucker's gone. He's worth every penny. I saw this as
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  well. Patrick Bette David from a Value Attainment offered him one hundred million over
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  five years as well. Now, I would not expect that Tucker would go
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  to Value Attainment. I don't think they're quite big enough for him. But
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  it's just to give you an idea of the kind of money that's rolling around
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  for him. Now. Axios is saying that they've learned that Carlson and Elon
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  Musk have had a conversation about working together, but didn't discuss specifics. Now,
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  I believe that there was a suggestion earlier which on Twitter Elon Musket poo
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  poo at any suggestion that they might bring Tucker Carlson onto Twitter in some capacity.
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  But that said, obviously Carlson has enormous value, so it would have
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  to be something that you'd at least consider let's see Carlson confidants say so confidants,
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  So you take that with a grain of sault. Say is also contemplating
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  building a direct to consumer media outlet where his millions of fans could pay to
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  watch him At Carlson's predecessor, in his foxlot, BULLA. Riley, created
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  a blueprint for this. It's also something that like the Daily Wire, is
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  doing extremely well with. I think Carlson could easily make more money than he
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  was making at Fox, and he's doing that. So as to this contract
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  that he's in and he wants to be let out of, I think this
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  is pertinent. The ousted host quote knows where a lot of bodies are buried
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  and is ready to start drawing a map that a Carlson source who wasn't authorized
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  to speak publicly, again anonymous, take it with a grain of sault,
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  says Carlson. Allies with big platforms are prepared to attack Fox for trying to
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  keep him on the shelf. Bare knuckle brawlers from Trump World are standing by,
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  apparently quote They're coming to him and saying, do you want me to
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  hit Fox? A close Carlson friend said he's been saying no, I want
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  to get this done quiet and clean. So that's what he's been saying.
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  But I guess maybe it started to get dirty. Here's a quote that now
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  we're going from peace time to def Con one. The friend added his team
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  is preparing for war. He wants his freedom. In a sign of what
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  could be coming, Megan Kelly hit her former employer for its post Carlson ratings
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  by tweeting a reference to conservative attacks on bud Light. My audience is calling
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  them Foxweiser. Yeah, this really hasn't gone well for Fox. Hasn't gone
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  well at all. And you know they'll survive. They will survive this,
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  but but in a long term, you know, with an increasingly obsolescent media
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  platform, Yeah, it's not been good. And I gotta say this a
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  hashtag Foxweiser thing that's pretty catchy. And hey, this is coming from buddy
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  who wants Fox News to do well. I want conservative media to do well.
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  We need it. But what they've been doing with Tucker, these have
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  been terrible decisions anyway. So there you have it. I mean a lot
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  of speculation there. One thing we can be certain of is that Tucker is
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  going to make an enormous amount of money. You know with whatever he does
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  once he gets back up on his feet again after Fox News. And also,
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  you know, whatever they might gain by preventing Tucker from starting something else
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  and taking a bunch of his viewers with him, that may be less than
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  the than the bad blood that they create with the rest of their audience.
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  For trying to basically silence there their most popular person or the guy who was
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  their most popular host. It seems like kind of a no win to me
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  for Fox News. They're probably better off just letting them go. But in
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  any case, what Tucker's real plans are, well, I don't think anybody
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  knows but him and those that are very very close to him, if he
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  even knows for short what he's going to do himself right now. Anyway,
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