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April 24, 2023 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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BREAKING: The Day Fox News Left Tucker Carlson
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Tucker Carlson Out at Fox 00:02:14
Hey everybody, bombshell news.
Tucker Carlson out at Fox News.
We dive into it from every angle and reflect on what Tucker Carlson's been able to accomplish and why they went after him.
They're coming after all of us one by one.
You better believe they're going to come after this program, the Charlie Kirk Show.
They are going to try to cancel us, censor us, eliminate us, take us off the chessboard the same way they did James O'Keefe, trying to do to Steve Bannon, Dinesh D'Souza, Donald Trump, and Tucker Carlson.
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Buckle up, everybody.
Here we go.
Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
I want to thank Charlie.
He's an incredible guy.
His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.
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Charlie Kirk Running the White House 00:14:39
The country over the last couple of years has been significantly blessed to have Tucker Carlson in the chair every night at 8 p.m.
Tucker Carlson came onto the scene after Bill O'Reilly left Fox News channel.
And, you know, we were used to Tucker Carlson being a weekend host on Fox and Friends, the bow tie man for many years.
Always very smart, charismatic, sharp in his commentary.
And I remember when he was brought onto the primetime menu or the primetime roster, people weren't really sure what to make of it.
But almost out of the gate, immediately, Tucker started to drive ratings and change the conversation.
Tucker Carlson was best known for his first couple years of broadcast.
People forget this for having wacky socialist liberals and having back and forth.
Ryan, you should pull some clips there.
It was actually what he did for years, and he changed his show.
People forget this.
For the first couple years, Tucker's show was a lot of back and forth with liberals and all this.
Tucker's first program was after Donald Trump won the presidency in November 2016.
It was very combative.
It was Tucker like debating with left-wingers.
It drove ratings.
People liked it, but it wasn't as good as what his new show would be.
Around 2018 and 2019, Tucker totally redid his format.
No more combative back and forth with liberals.
And Tucker decided to become basically the beginning point, the thought leader of the conservative movement, the incubator of the populist right.
Tucker Carlson decided to become a challenger on a mainstream network and a mainstream time with millions of viewers against neoliberalism.
The legacy of Tucker Carlson, as it was written, and it will be written, of his time at Fox News, will be the most effective, poignant critique, criticizer of neoliberalism in modern American history.
He transformed his monologues into thought pieces that transformed the thinking of millions of Americans, myself included, about their government.
I remember in January of 2019, his first show back from break, he said, why is Amazon allowed to become a trillion-dollar company?
They hate us and they hate the American people.
Why are we doing this?
He did long monologues about trade policies.
He challenged Donald Trump on going to war with Syria and Iran.
Tucker Carlson was one of the first people to cover the border invasion relentlessly every single night.
You see, Tucker Carlson did not just parrot the party line.
You know, Tucker Carlson was deep and he was thoughtful.
He was also ferocious against these cockroaches that are destroying Western civilization.
He was merciless against the left-wingers like the creepy porn lawyer of Michael Avenatti or Brian Stelter or AOC.
He pulled no punches.
Went after Don Laman, the race lady on MSNBC.
He played the win.
You see, Tucker Carlson going after neoliberalism is a thought crime on mainstream media networks.
You're not allowed to do that.
You're supposed to say we must invade the world, invite the world, and import products that we do not need that destroy American labor and those destroy American workers and earning potential.
But Tucker Carlson found those things to be objectionable.
He said, why are we going to war in eastern Ukraine?
I don't like that.
It doesn't make any sense.
Why are we having 5,000 people illegally cross into our country every single day?
Why do we have these insane green card policies that favor the tech companies?
And Tucker, more than anybody else, led on the issue of tech censorship.
He led on the issue of restraining Google.
I believe firmly, if it was not for the leadership of Tucker Carlson, I don't think that the ideological atmospherics would have been created for Elon Musk to purchase Twitter.
Tucker challenged the Leviathan in both private and public life, exposed the FBI.
He landed big interviews, all-star guests.
He was ahead of the curve time and time again, predicting discord and nonsense.
He was one of the most important voices in the midst of the COVID lockdowns.
And I think if you were to say, Charlie, what was Tucker's all-star moment where I think Tucker hit his stride and he was at the crescendo of his career is when we needed him the most.
It was during Floyd de Palooza.
While other hosts kind of went around the edges and were afraid to dive into the racial conversation, Tucker came out swinging when everyone was doing the black squares of BLM, giving $10 to Black Lives Matter.
Tucker Carlson, night after night, was relentless in exposing the Marxist movement, that is Black Lives Matter.
There was one broadcast I'll never forget where he said, Black Lives Matter is now a political party.
It is one of the most popular movements in America.
When everyone else was engaged in idolatry, Tucker melted the golden calf of BLM.
They called him a racist.
They called them all the different names, and he did more.
And you know what?
Tucker Carlson almost single-handedly moved the Overton window over 60 days, where we went from a country that was worshiping BLM by the time August came and Kenosha was burned down.
BLM was unfavorable in people's eyes.
It was negative.
It was exposed as a Marxist, anti-family organization.
And Tucker Carlson did that.
He didn't care about the advertiser boycotts.
He didn't care about the people coming for his life.
He leaned in.
But Tucker was not done.
You see, the conservative movement used to be full of people like the gutless wonder, Asa Hutchinson.
Live and let live.
Who am I to tell another person what to do?
If they're a child, they should be able to cut off their breasts.
Take Lupron, pharmaceutical drugs.
You see, the conservative movement was behind the times in the intellectual community on the trans issue.
And then again, who stepped up to bat?
While other shows were afraid and they were mincing words, Tucker Carlson leaned in.
Tucker Carlson said, you know what?
I'm going to have people that are defending this on my show.
He had Asa Hutchinson on his show and he skewered him when Asa Hutchinson said, you know, it's in the tradition of Ronald Reagan to allow kids to take gender-altering drugs that chemically castrate themselves.
In fact, Tucker Carlson coined the term chemical castration that is now ubiquitous in the trans debate.
He exposed the authoritarianism during COVID while simultaneously showing how the trans thing is not going to stop.
He might have single-handedly went after the Vanderbilt Children's Hospital medieval mutilation clinic more effectively than anybody else.
What would it be the trans issue, the race issue, the COVID issue, the border issue, the neoliberal issue, or how about the Ukraine issue?
Who else but Tucker Carlson on the mainstream network was willing to say that we should not be funding a proxy war against Russia.
There's almost a requirement.
It was almost expected of you to just say what the CIA wants you to say.
Not only that, Tucker Carlson would be doing segments on the Kennedy assassination.
Tucker Carlson had Robert Kennedy Jr. on his program.
Tucker Carlson had Dr. Malone.
Tucker Carlson was the only mainstream host in the summer of 2020 and early 2021 that was willing to have program after program after program on the adverse events and side effects of the vaccine.
He remade the rights.
He inspired us to think critically about these issues, about the prevailing lies and dogmas of our day, platforming voices that were otherwise suppressed and censored and putting them right into the mainstream zeitgeist.
And today, April 24th, it is now announced.
The biggest voice on the right, the heir, the baton informally passed from Rush Limbaugh being number one to Tucker Carlson being number one.
He is out at Fox News.
I want your thoughts.
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This is beyond significant.
This is going to change conservative media, maybe for the better, maybe for the worse, maybe right down the middle.
But it will change.
Things will not remain the same.
This is abrupt.
This is sudden.
This is unexpected.
And you better believe it is significant.
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Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News.
The significance of this is serious.
Fox has massive distribution.
They're part of the central cable news distribution network.
And to be in 100 million homes and to be able to access that many people is a big deal.
The question then remains: who is then going to be a forceful voice against Fox Nation?
Against not Fox Nation.
Sorry, I'm getting too many messages.
Against neoliberalism.
Let's play cut 15.
Whoopi Goldberg and the View celebrating, being nasty against Tucker Carlson.
Play Cut 15.
Word has just come down that Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways.
We thank you for his service to the Let Market Host of Prior contributor.
Wave.
Come on, folks.
Na-na-na-na.
Na-na-na-na.
Hey!
Good God!
He is responsible for the degradation that we see somewhat of our democracy in this country.
And I just think, as a faithful person, look at God.
Look at God.
Well, Russian propaganda hardest hit.
I mean, he's been the biggest purveyor of pro-Russian coffee.
Yeah.
So it's a good day for the Ukraine.
Karma doesn't lose anyone's address.
I have a lot of thoughts, some of which I will not share with you based on that video.
It's interesting.
He's responsible for the degradation of our democracy.
That means he's effective.
And they think that they've taken him off Fox, that they've completely muzzled him.
Where is he going to go next?
I'm going to tell him, hey, I think you should go to Rumble and go to Real America's Voice.
Go do a deal.
Go to rumble, R-U-M-B-L-E.com and maybe even come on this beautiful network and we'll see what happens.
But we're going to get more information as it goes on.
But this is important, everybody.
What does the National Rifle Association, James O'Keefe, and Tucker Carlson have in common?
They've all been mass targets of the left, and they've tried to take them off the chessboard.
They took James O'Keefe out of Veritas.
They took Tucker off Fox News.
You realize what you're seeing is coordinated.
This is not some sort of random act.
No, they picked their targets and they try to take them out.
They've tried to do that to turning point on us.
And praise God, we're stronger than ever, and they're going to come again, and they're going to come again.
We're dealing with a very sinister enemy.
We're not dealing with good people.
They arrested Donald Trump in New York.
This is their playbook.
Take him off the board.
We can't beat them.
So we are going to go to other means.
What are the means?
How are they able to do it?
On Fox News?
I have no idea.
How are they able to get Fox News to release Tucker Carlson?
They say it's mutual.
I don't know.
We'll find out if that's true.
But you know who's celebrating right now?
I mean, you see you celebrating.
The View is celebrating.
But the war industry is like, boy, we don't have to worry about that 8 p.m. on Fox News hour.
Raytheon, Northrop, Grumman, get those weapons into Ukraine.
You know who else is breathing a sigh of relief right now?
Johnson and Johnson and Pfizer, AstraZeneca.
They just say, boy, we can keep on pushing the vaccine, and that 8 p.m. hour is not going to question us anymore.
You know who else is smiling?
The open border crowd.
The open border crowd is very happy because they'll say we no longer have to worry about that 8 p.m. hour.
Tucker Carlson remade the right.
That is one thing I will agree with the view on.
He was more powerful than anybody else since the death of Rush Limbaugh in reshaping the rights, in moving the Overton window, in pushing forward positive narratives, in challenging Operation Mockingbird.
And I could say this as somebody who knows Tucker very well.
He did not care about the backlash.
He did not care about the threats.
He did not care about what you're not supposed to say.
He is a legitimate free thinker.
He's a man of courage.
I have no idea.
I have zero inside information about the dynamics of what led to his departure.
I have my own speculation, knowing how Tucker is and how he doesn't put up with crap and BS.
So we could all kind of guess what happened there.
But more importantly, here's what I will say: is that he committed himself to telling the truth.
And that is so rare in media.
Remember when we found out that our own government, the NSA, was targeting Tucker Carlson and spying on him?
Tucker had to deal with constant hostility.
He would get harassed on airplanes, harassed at fishing shops in Montana.
He was practically driven from his home in DC that he loved living in because the activists and the terrorists came after his family and his wife.
And he never wavered.
O'Keefe, NRA, they're coming for all of us one by one.
Boost Energy with NAD 00:02:51
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Massive Disruption in Conservative Media 00:15:11
We're getting a ton of emails here.
And some, I just want to address a sentiment.
We got a couple hundred emails of people say, Charlie, I don't understand why this is a big deal.
Tucker's going to be fine.
You're right.
Tucker will be fine.
And Tucker will find a way to communicate to his audience.
Guy's a workhorse.
He works his tail off.
He'll figure it out.
The issue is not that.
The issue is that a mainstream cable network having a voice like Tucker was a good thing for the country.
It was.
That is an undeniable fact.
The fact that you could have on one of the few cable news channels, which is in 100 million homes, or like 115 million homes, somebody that is as conservative and effective as Tucker Carlson is undeniably important.
Tucker will succeed wherever he goes, and he will keep on speaking the truth.
But having another Fox News that is able to reach as many people as Fox was is very hard.
It's like we said last week.
You could not rebuild Fox from scratch today.
They have grandfathered in cable contracts.
So therefore, the country was benefiting from having a nightly drumbeat like Tucker Carlson.
But it's not just Tucker.
I'm sad to say that the news on Friday was also the great Dan Bongino is done at Fox News.
Dan Bongino could not come to terms and they move on.
So both Dan Bongino and Tucker Carlson within 72 hours have moved on.
I do want to just say for all of you in the Real America's voice audience that are pretty fired up about this.
I want to make sure we're enlisting you to tell your friends about Real America's voice.
We need to get more people to know about Salem Radio Network.
We need to get more people to know about our podcast.
There is a massive disruption right now happening in conservative media.
If you're pleased about what we're doing on this program, what Steve Bannon is doing, what John Solomon is doing, if on radio, if you're pleased with what Dr. Gorka is doing or Prager or Gallagher or Brandon Tatum, tell them about these alternative media channels.
It's very important.
I'm amazed that still there is not full market saturation of awareness of the great content that these channels are doing.
It's very, very important.
I just want to remind you before I go into some other news.
It's just today is unbelievable with media news.
This is how the left operates.
Rules for Radicals, of course, which was written, the dedication written to Lucifer.
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
That's rule 13.
Number eight, keep the pressure on.
The left largely operates with Solinsky's Rules for Radicals.
If you do not know what Rules for Radicals is, you should read it.
You should internalize it.
And you'll be like, wow, now I understand the left a lot better.
They have publicized their blueprint.
We know their playbook.
And they try to go off one by one.
I mean, Steve Bannon, they're trying to put in prison.
He's already under federal government conviction.
And then the Department of New York comes after him.
And Dinesh D'Souza, they tried to indict, and they raided Rudy Giuliani's home.
You get it.
That's how they operate.
And yeah, they're going to keep on coming after me, and they're going to keep on coming after Turning Point USA.
And we'll be ready for it.
And by the grace of God, we'll keep on growing stronger.
And thanks to all your support, James O'Keefe.
I mean, I could go one by one, by one, by one, but they isolate, they move on.
They isolate, they move on.
They isolate, they move on.
Now, it's some just interesting news.
I have to imagine that the executives at CNN saw the Tucker Carlson news and they said, all right, finally, do it.
They've been wanting to fire Don Lamon for quite some time now.
And so they saw the Tucker news.
They said, okay, how do we bury this in kind of a flurry of media departure news?
Announce that we fired Don Lemon or Don Lamont.
He's out.
CNN has now announced, according to Don Lamon.
I was informed this morning by my agent that I've been terminated by CNN.
I am stunned.
After 17 years at CNN, I would have thought that someone in management would have had the decency to tell me directly.
At no time was I ever given an indication that I would not be able to continue to do the work I have loved at their network.
It is clear that there are some larger issues at play.
With that said, I want to wish the people I work with the best and they're the most talented journalists and da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
So, Don Lamon will probably not bounce back.
I mean, Brian Stelter, how's Brian Stelter's podcast doing?
Not too well.
You see, what makes Tucker unique, this is very important, is that for a period of time when people were not trusting Fox very much, it's a fact.
During the Dominion stuff, the network needed Tucker Carlson more than Tucker Carlson needed the network.
And Tucker largely was able to, he was the glue that kept a lot of the base trust together of people that kept on coming back to the network and Fox Nation.
Tucker gave Fox a lot of credibility.
And Fox recognized this, by the way.
They acknowledged it.
They paid Tucker very well.
They built Tucker's studios in places that other people would not have studios built.
He had a very big team.
And so that's how we can tell this is sudden.
That's why this is so shocking: it seemed as if Fox was continually going all in.
Tucker just landed the Elon Musk interview and the Donald Trump interview.
And those are not like little, those are 60-minute style accomplishments.
He was having documentaries published.
He was promoting them.
He was doing a day show.
I mean, he had a lot going on and he was being well compensated for it.
And boy, did he earn all of that?
God bless him for that.
I'm enthusiastically supportive of that.
However, Tucker, something happened over this weekend, over the last week that we may not know.
Does it involve the Dominion thing?
I don't know.
But it is clear, and this is one of the most important pieces of tape that we have to show to you today.
It's clear that there was somebody working in the grass.
There was a snake.
We don't know who the snake is.
You see, AOC is not very bright.
She's not.
She's not very bright.
And sometimes she says stuff she shouldn't say.
And you have to wonder.
See, AOC is sitting down with Jen Pesaki on MSNBC.
You got to wonder: did AOC say something she wasn't supposed to say?
Was AOC aware of some sort of subterranean, almost successful campaign going on at Fox?
Because this is a very strange piece of tape.
I'm not trying to overindulge in conspiracies and all that, but it's a very strange, very pointed, awfully precise sentence.
And then this news lands.
What did AOC know?
And why did she say this?
Play cut 10.
Federal regulation in terms of what's allowed on air and what isn't.
And when you look at what Tucker Carlson and some of these other folks on Fox do, it is very, very clearly incitement of violence.
Very clearly incitement of violence.
And that is the line that I think we have to be willing to contend with.
It's the AOC theme music.
So she says that yesterday, and then Tucker gets canned today.
Probably just coincidence.
Again, AOC didn't get him fired.
That's not what I'm suggesting.
But she knows how important Tucker was, but it's probably just a coincidence.
What we're seeing here is an entire community of people that think they have won.
They think they've taken him out.
And we don't know who's going to replace it right now on Twitter.
Done with Fox is trending on Twitter.
Real America's voice.
You guys can come.
We're waiting for you.
We're here every day working our tail off.
Steve Bannon does heroes' work, Jack Pesobic, John Solomon, the great team here.
They do a fabulous job.
We're growing here.
So welcome aboard, everybody.
Love to have you.
But it does bring me to a place of sadness, though, because if you actually look at the demographics of Tucker, you know who he was influencing?
A lot of Democrats watch Tucker's show.
A lot of Independents watch Tucker's show.
A lot of 18 to 29-year-olds watch Tucker's show.
A lot.
He was winning in the target demo.
He was winning a lot of people over.
He was making the country more right-wing.
He was doing the thing that we were always told, which is don't just talk to the choir.
He was actually persuading people because he can be very persuasive.
Every Tucker monologue was breaking millions of views on YouTube to that desired demographic.
And that's gone.
And if I were to venture a guess, this is just me speculating, out of all the reasons they wanted Tucker gone.
The vaccine, the border stuff, the trade stuff, the trans stuff.
Where was Tucker the most heterodox?
Where was Tucker the most contrarian?
Where is Tucker the biggest sand in the gears irritant of the uniparty regime?
Where no other show would go as far as Tucker would go.
It's very clear.
It's the war in Ukraine.
Where Tucker was the most courageously outspoken, was against this proxy war against Russia.
Almost no other show went as far continually and routinely as Tucker Carlson.
So if there is a group of people celebrating right now, it's the war machine at Raytheon.
It's the contractors at Northrop Grumman.
It's the Central Intelligence Agency.
It's the National Security Deep State.
They think they won.
And in some ways, they did.
I was attacked in every possible direction about eight months ago when I came to the defense of Alex Jones out of principal.
When Alex Jones was attacked and he was censored and he was a billion-dollar judgment, give me a break.
I said, they're going to try to go after everyone.
And I believe, if I'm drawing from my memory correctly, I said they're going to go after Tucker Carlson.
And people said, oh, no, Tucker's safe.
No, he's not.
He's out.
Again, Tucker will land on his feet.
Tucker will be more powerful than ever.
Knowing Tucker, he's going to be driven to proving people wrong, to influencing more people.
He's a patriot.
He's effective.
He's wicked smart.
He's got an IQ triple that of Don Lamont easily.
Brian Stelter, that's what's so different is that when, so at CNN, your relevancy comes from your distribution.
Okay?
So if they do not, they have the piping into 115 million homes, and they're only able to get a couple hundred thousand viewers.
It's pretty amazing.
So when Stelter and Laman or Chris Cuomo, Fredo, leave, they have no audience because they were so dependent on the distribution piping of the network.
Tucker is not dependent on the distribution piping.
He was keeping the network largely afloat.
He was keeping the network strong, especially in a time they needed it.
I don't know how Fox is going to deal with this.
They still have some fabulous people there.
That list is getting shorter.
Laura Ingram is terrific.
Jesse Waters is amazing.
I love Jesse Waters.
I got along really well with Brian Kilmead.
Stuart Varney's been great to me throughout the years.
So there's still some amazing people in that institution.
Certainly don't see eye to eye all the time with what management does, but whatever.
Maria Barta Romo is a gift from the heavens.
I think she's amazing.
Greg Gutfeld is one of the funniest people ever, and we need Greg Gutfeld.
So I'm not willing to say that the entire thing is over with, but this does not work in the favor.
Pete Hegseth is amazing.
This does not work in the favor of keeping Fox to be a strong network, nor should it.
Someone says here, Charlie, Tucker is not dead.
Stop using the past tense.
Okay, that's a fair piece of feedback.
The Tucker Carlson tonight is dead, though.
That's the point.
That's the essence: is that the Tucker Carlson tonight distributed to 115 million homes is dead.
That is a big deal.
The significance of that is profound and it has heaviness for the American political discourse.
Here's Oliver Darcy.
Not my favorite person.
I wonder if one of our team members likes Oliver Darcy.
I think he's a big Oliver Darcy fan.
Play Cut 18.
This comes days after.
Last week, you remember, Fox News settled this massive defamation lawsuit with Dominion voting systems over the election lies that it promoted.
Unclear, of course, whether this is related.
It's kind of hard to imagine that these coincidentally these things happen.
Tucker Carlson was sowing doubts about the U.S. election results just up until the last few weeks.
So it's possible that there was a relationship there, but really big news.
And I should also point out that they've stuck with him really through quite a lot.
Like he has promoted conspiracy theories about the vaccines.
He has said things that are just blatantly anti-immigrant.
He has, like I said, promoted doubt about the 2020 election.
They have stuck with him throughout all of this.
Yeah, you can't ask questions about the vaccine.
You got to, yeah, they stuck with him through that.
What a, what a, this is so.
The neoliberal order is shaking.
So here's the positive.
The positive is this is going to be a hit, but honestly, it's better that this is happening now in 2023 than a year from now.
It's better that this is happening in 2023.
We need to have our media situation pretty figured out for a presidential year.
It's actually okay that it's happening in 2023.
If there was an ideal time, if you were to say, hey, we would want a massive reshuffling and reconfiguration of conservative media, you would pick April 2023, like right there, in between the midterms, in between the midterms and the presidential.
And you've all this kind of horse race stuff that's just kind of nauseating.
It's not that important.
Now's the time to do it.
And so what ends up happening to Tucker is I think Tucker will end up being stronger, more liberated to speak his mind.
Just got to get him in the right platform, get him in the right place.
I think Real America's Voice would be a great place for him to land in conjunction with a deal with Rumble.
Makes perfect sense to me.
A lot of questions.
We're getting freedom at charliekirk.com.
One of the biggest questions we got is: what happened to the January 6th footage?
Does Tucker still have that?
Does that play a role into this?
I don't, we don't know.
It's a significant day.
We'll end up being stronger.
Genesis 50, 20, what the enemy meant for evil, God will use for good.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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