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TUCKER CARLSON Hit With Cease And Desist Letter By Fox News · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  So Fox News has obviously been paying attention to what Tucker Carlson's been doing since
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  they unceremoniously booted him off Fox News. And what has Tucker been up to?
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  Well, obviously he's doing Tucker on Twitter to incredible results one hundred and
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  fifteen million views for episode one, fifty five point nine million views for episode
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  two, and in the meantime, Fox News's own ratings have fallen off a
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  cliff. Now, I'm sure Fox News expected some blowback after getting rid of
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  by far, their most popular host, but did they expect a fifty percent
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  drop in his spot on the twenty five to fifty four year old demographic shrinking
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  by two thirds. That's catastrophic. Yeah, I'm not sure they anticipated quite
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  this reaction, although they should have because it's not happening in a vacuum.
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  I mean, you've got Project Veritas kicking out, firing James O'Keefe and now
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  suing him, and of course the endless political persecution of Donald Trump. And
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  I'm sorry, but after the endless Russia hoax stuff and the impeachments, are
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  we actually expected to believe that this is all legit? Especially since every president
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  ends up having documents after they leave. Biden had them in his garage at
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  his house, A constant assault against Biden's political enemies, calling them a white
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  supremacists and all their rest constantly. Is it any wonder that Fox News viewers
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  might feel under attack and they might feel betrayed by Fox News by getting rid
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  of their favorite guy, a guy who is the most popular voice in news
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  right now. So this has been a disaster for Fox News. And what
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  is their response, cease and assist. They're trying to shut him up,
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  and make no mistake, a lot of people would leave Fox anyway, because
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  I mean, ione watched Fox for Tucker Carlston. I didn't watch anything else,
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  maybe a bit of Greg Gutfeld occasionally, and I would say that the
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  articles on the website or decent, They're fine. But the way this all
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  went down, on what they continue to do, feels certainly like a betrayal
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  of the loyal Fox viewer, doesn't it. And the betrayal continues. Fox
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  News sent Tucker Carlson a cease and desist letter after the network's former primetime host
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  began broadcasting a new series of monologs on Twitter last week. The network accused
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  Tucker Carlson of breach of contract after he posted his first Tucker on Twitter ten
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  minute spots to the social media platform, which garnered roughly one hundred and fifteen
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  million views, the second fifty five million. So Fox News is arguing that
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  Tucker is still under contract, they're still paying them, and therefore he can't
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  compete with them. Now, Tucker, for his part, does not agree
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  with all this. He accuses Fox of fraud and contract breach. He sent
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  apparently an aggressive letter from his lawyers to Fox to argue that the non compete
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  provision in his contract is no longer valid, freeing him to launch his own
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  competing show or Media Enterprise says the Twitter move would seem to technically violate Carlson's
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  contract with Fox, but his lawyer's letter effectively holds that Fox breached the contract
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  first. Now, Carlson's contract runs out January twenty twenty five, and Fox
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  wants to keep paying him, which would prevent him from starting a competing show.
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  That's their argument. And my understanding is that right now he's arguing that
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  Twitter is not actually a direct competitor of Fox News and therefore it doesn't matter
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  anyway. But I have to say, I do find it all. It
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  does seem strange, doesn't it Just a lot of coincidences. James O'Keefe Tucker.
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  This all happening while the political persecution of Trump continues, all leading up
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  to what what is it? Leading up to the next election? And Fox's
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  part in this at does not look good. And I just can't help but
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  feel that the longer that Fox News persists with this this with trying to silence
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  Tucker, the worse and worse they look, the more and more viewers they
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  shed. And for what is already a struggling industry cable news, I'm just
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  not sure how long they can really afford to keep it up. But there's
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  one thing that I am sure of. I am definitely looking forward to episode
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  three of Tucker on Twitter anyway. That's all I got to say about that.
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  you for that. I will see you next time.