THE GREAT AMERICAN-MEDIA SPRING CLEANING: TUCKER CARLSON IS VANISHED FROM CONSERVATIVE FOX NEWS

THE GREAT AMERICAN-MEDIA SPRING CLEANING: TUCKER CARLSON IS VANISHED FROM CONSERVATIVE FOX NEWS

OK. Tucker Carlson is gone from the media stage, so far. (Gargle with vinegar and salt.)

For years I’ve wanted the too-contrived, over-practiced, too-expensive Botox-job voice of Tucker Carlson to disappear from conservative media, specifically from Fox News (Tucker’s employer and Cuckoo’s Nest for other MAGA-Republican mouthpieces such as Sean Hannity.)

And lo, last Friday, April 21 (2023), Fox News apparently fired Tucker. ‘Apparently’ because Fox held it in close to the chest, then announced Tucker’s ‘leaving’ on Monday morning, April 24, 2023. This is the timeline of things according to media and Fox PR.

Tucker was ‘evaporated’ from Fox News as with an expertly wielded fly-swat … a fingerprint of the behind-the-mirror Murdoch style (the Rupert Murdoch family own Fox News.)

Further, Tucker’s abrupt ‘disappearing’ has so far been marked by the absense of both a ‘lead-up’ fanfare and the ‘traditonal’ send-off last show — the tradtional protocol that bookends the end-of-tenure for such media stars as Tucker Carlson. Instead here has been only a simple ‘thank’s for your service’ from the Fox network.

Tom Boggioni’s April 24, 2023, piece in RawStory examples the effect left by Tucker’s abrupt leaving Fox News (‘Did he kill someone?’ Critics stunned by Tucker Carlson’s abrupt departure from Fox News”.)

Without the guidance of a traditional ‘leaving protocol’, Fox News has dropped it in our laps to weave our own ‘splain‘n’… from fog and mirrors. The media has to do the best it can with ‘Nada’…consequently it stands agape, ’strung out and tongue-hanging.’ ‘Marvelous’, because we see now how desparate the conservative media looks for a ‘lead mule’ to point the way for them.

(Carlson himself claims he had no clue that last Friday, April 24, was to be his final day of employ at Fox News…certainly, we didn’t’ have a clue, the audience to the conservative media circus.)

The ‘hidden-meanings’ flavor of Carlson’s departure is like the ‘wake and ripple’ of a submerging shark. But, shark-fins do reappear, and we best be ready to adminster the harpoon when we see Tucker again at the mike spewing his poison. (Alternet surmises about potential scenarios for Carlson’s resurfacing, somewhere.)

In defense of Democracy, Tucker Carlson should never again be allowed to ‘poison and warp’ America’s minds with his ‘transmissable’ toxicity of hate, racism, fear and mysogyny… all combined, interestingly and like Donald Trump, with an abject bowing to Russia, America’s sworn and very palpable state enemy.

AlterNet reports that Russia Today is hinting at a possible swooping invitation to Tucker to join their own ‘news’ staff (AlterNet: ”Russian state outlet RT reaches out to Tucker Carlson.”

Personally, it’s a mystery how Tucker has gotten away with his too-close support of Russia’s foreign policy and propaganda. In this respect, it wouldn’t be a shock to see him again ‘at desk’ punditing willingly as a RUSSIAN ASSET at Russia Today…well-trained in warping Truth without moral regret…and with a deep, grudging, hating of America. Carlson, in sum, is a privileged, trust-fund, spoiled brat.

(Note: Tucker’s vanishing act so far comes off as masterful Media Empire scripting to minimize audience fallout…and it appears this has been accomplished.

However, Fox News’ stage crafting may be lost on Tucker’s support base who are too used to being passively fed, with no thought required, to fill in the blanks. Second, Tucker’s base are a mostly self-selected, intellectually unfit bunch who are unequipped to deal with subtlety.

(The Carlson base need direct, crude, dog-whistle ‘triggering’ to get energized.)

Fox News’ way of removing Tucker Carlson from the American airways is like a neat surgical excision of a smelly tumor. Let’s hope Fox‘s surgery will last…although, knowing the greed of Fox News (i.e., the Murdochs), return of the Murdoch’s media cancer will always be possible.

Despite all this turmoil, Tucker’s bad seed might sprout anew from the dank murk of Fox News and siblings such as ***One America News*** (OAN).

A final thought: has Tucker Carlson forgotten how ‘Big Wheels’ turn? They have a habit of hitting the hubris-filled in the ass. Cocky Tucker just might find himself soon in a ‘Gulag Resort’, sitting neck deep in ‘it’ with no toilet paper but his left hand… a fitting irony. Karma.