Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson recently acknowledged his ex-employer and was “really” not happy about his coverage of January 6. That coverage included most significantly his speculations on law enforcement involvement in the riot via Mediaite.
During a podcast interview with comedian Roseanne Barr, the pair discussed the reasoning for his firing with Carlson speculating it was likely tied to his commentary on the Ukraine war and January 6th.
After settling the $787 million Dominion Voting defamation suit, Tucker Carlson, who hosted the number one cable news show at the time, was unexpectedly fired for unknown reasons.
“I didn’t expect to get, you know, my show canceled Monday morning,” Carlson told Barr. “But I wasn’t, if I took three steps back, I was not surprised at all. First of all, television is like that. People get fired. There are all kinds of lines that no one will explain explicitly.”
He added, “They were very nice to me the entire time I was there, but I could feel that they strongly disagreed in the war in Ukraine stuff,” he added. “But they really didn’t like that at all. The January 6th stuff.”
Following the riot at the Capitol, Carlson told his millions of viewers that the FBI incited the January 6th riot and speculated that individuals, such as Ray Epps, acted as undercover law enforcement agents during the event.
Epps is now suing Carlson and Fox News for defamation over allegations that he provoked the riot as an undercover FBI agent.
Carlson and his producers at Fox at the time made a documentary called Patriot Purge for Fox Nation, where the film reiterates the host’s beliefs about law enforcement involvement in January 6th.
Soon after its release, two former contributors Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes resigned from Fox, citing Carlson’s film as the last straw.
“I think a bunch of people quit over that,” Carlson continued. “Chris Wallace should not be on television or Jonah Goldberg or you know what I mean? These are people who obviously the audience hated and shouldn’t have been there in the first place, but they were so outraged because they said. You know, it seems like there probably a lot of feds in the crowd on January 6th.”
He concluded, “And now it turns out, of course, they were way more even than I imagined. The whole thing was a complete setup.”
