On Wednesday, Tucker Carlson made his first public statement since his abrupt exit from Fox News two days earlier.
In a roughly two-minute video posted to his Twitter feed, Carlson references how he’s stepped “outside the noise for a few days.” He then speaks for a while about “how unbelievably stupid most of the debates you see on television are. They’re completely irrelevant. They mean nothing.” He continues in that vein for a while.
If there is any allusion to his recent firing, it comes in a veiled fashion around the 1:38 mark. “When honest people say what’s true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful,” he says. “At the same time, the liars who’ve been trying to silence them shrink. They become weaker. That’s the iron law of the universe.”
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— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) April 27, 2023
Fox News parted ways with its polarizing, primetime anchor on April 24. But there was zero indication of Carlson’s exit the previous Friday, when at the close of what would be his final episode he said to viewers a typical, “We’ll be back on Monday.”
“Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways,” the network said at the time. “We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.” And that was it.
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