![]() As the Times piece itself reported, “It was not guaranteed that the text would have been revealed in open court.” That sounds right. You can believe the board was troubled by the Carlson text, and you can believe that Fox might have fretted about the board-ordered investigation of Carlson that the Times reports, without taking the leap that the board was intervening at this late date to limit Fox’s exposure in the Dominion case. But who wants to give the board this sort of slack? This might explain why their hair turned white when they read what was, by Carlson standards, a fairly anodyne text. Perhaps board members missed these salient facts about Carlson because they don’t even own televisions. Hernandez, Jacques Nasser and Paul Ryan, when Carlson routinely said much more inflammatory things on his program? Perhaps the board has never tuned in to hear Carlson’s gems about the “great replacement theory” or about immigrants making the country “poorer, and dirtier and more divided” or know about his blatant white nationalist sentiments or viewed the episode in which he argued the January 6 Capitol riot was a largely peaceful demonstration. Why should this text message “alarm” the Fox board, which includes Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, William A. Carlson was on the stand, creating a sensational and damaging moment that would raise broader questions about the company.” The board grew concerned that the message could become public at trial when Mr. Writes the Times, “The text alarmed the Fox board, which saw the message a day before Fox was set to defend itself against Dominion Voting Systems before a jury. Why theorize in this direction? Because the story that’s currently being put out there just doesn’t add up.Īccording to the Times and the Post, the Fox board got spooked when it saw the unredacted message (Exhibit 276 from the case) in which Carlson texted about his reaction to the beating of a purported Antifa member. ![]() It’s like a fighter jet releasing a flare to fool an enemy’s heat-seeking missile. Why have so many powerful actors chosen this moment to slag Carlson, when none of the behaviors described clash with the way he’s carried on for years? One possibility is that people who are working for Fox have assembled a PR campaign to discredit the network’s former star that will throw the press pack off doing additional coverage on the Dominion case. The point of this inquiry isn’t to provide Carlson any relief - he deserves all the scrutiny his firing has brought him - but to examine the motives of the unnamed sources who have risen against him in recent days. ![]()
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