Tucker and Elon, a match made in heaven

Created
Thu, 11/05/2023 - 03:30
Updated
Thu, 11/05/2023 - 03:30
On Monday of this week, Variety reported that Fox News is experiencing a burst of new advertising sales in the 8 o’clock hour formerly held by the recently fired celebrity Tucker Carlson. He had had the dubious distinction of having cable news’ top ratings for his time period but scaring away most respectable companies from buying time on his show. So it’s possible that despite the ratings slump the time slot has been experiencing since his departure, the network won’t actually suffer any more losses than they already did in their epic $787 million settlement with Dominion voting machines. They may also be saving a few dollars if it turns out that Tucker Carlson’s latest move results in his breaching the reported non-compete clause in his contract worth $25 million. Carlson posted a twitter video on Tuesday announcing that he’s going to resume his show on twitter as a way of striking a blow for free speech against all the rest of the lying media. If you haven’t seen it, here it is in all its glory: Since we know that Carlson is interested in money more than anything on earth (I wrote about that here) it stands to reason that the second richest man in the world who also happens to own Twitter, Elon Musk, must have offered him a bundle to give up 25 million dollars. However, after Carlson made his announcement, Musk tweeted: On this platform, unlike the one-way street of broadcast, people are able to interact,…