“Do we have a plan for this? We could lose our audience,” he wrote, citing a Semafor co-founder Ben Smith tweet outlining the pickle Fox had found itself in.
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“Obviously I’d never do anything without full approval from the top.” The primetime star expressed concerns that any additional Fox on-air calls for Biden would irreparably damage Fox among its right-wing viewership. “Is there some way I could help?” he asked Baier. “We need to do something to reassure our core audience. “I continue to think the company isn’t taking the seriously enough,” Carlson wrote to Baier the following day. “Given the extremely narrow 0.3% margin and a new projection mechanism that no other network had, it’s hardly surprising there would be postmortem discussions surrounding the call and how it was executed, no matter the candidates.” “FOX News stood by the Arizona call despite intense scrutiny,” a spokesperson wrote in a statement to The Daily Beast. But if I can help in any way, I hope you’ll let me know,” Carlson concluded.Įven with that guidance from above, Carlson apparently reached out to Baier-the face of the network’s “news” operation-to strategize next steps. “We need to continue to be transparent about the call-let the data folks defend their decision,” Scott wrote back. “Please tell me if there’s anything I can do to help,” he wrote. 4, 2020, Carlson expressed to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott his worry that the network was “getting hammered” over its early and accurate call for Biden to win the Arizona vote, which led to a crisis within Fox as Trump fans abandoned the channel.
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In a separate exchange, currently redacted in official court documents, Carlson and Baier appear to strategize on how to delay Fox calling the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden-one day after the network’s CEO asked Carlson to let Fox’s Decision Desk handle the situation. “I mean you’re trying to embarrass me, you’re definitely succeeding as I am embarrassed.” (In this exchange, Dominion lawyers were referring to his texts with Baier, according to Carlson’s unredacted deposition.)Īs Confider’s Lachlan Cartwright reported last week: “Carlson being nailed in court documents for his repeated use of the overtly misogynist c-word was a key factor in his demise, as Fox News had rid itself of Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly after years of sexual-harassment complaints and could not have its biggest star undermining any supposed progress.” Can’t get enough of this reporting? Subscribe to Confider, The Daily Beast’s media newsletter here. When confronted by Dominion lawyers during a deposition on how often he “referred to Sidney Powell as a cunt,” Carlson stammered in defense: “You know I-I-I can’t know and I just want to apologize preemptively,” he said. Those texts were included in Dominion’s public court filings and figured into much of the reporting on the myriad reasons for Carlson’s ouster. 22 text, in which Carlson referred to her as “that cunt” and a “fucking bitch” to an unidentified Fox employee.
The first publicly known instance of him calling Powell the slur came in a Nov. As Confider previously reported, Carlson’s repeated use of the phrase, and the fact that Dominion lawyers grilled him on it during depositions, loomed large in his firing. That use of the sexist pejorative marks at least the second time the now-former Fox star deployed it in reference to Powell.
20, 2020, chat, Baier told Carlson that the “Sydnee Powell thing is troubling,” referring to the Trump lawyer’s refusal to provide evidence for her on-air claims that Dominion’s voting machines rigged the election for Biden. (Fox News on Wednesday argued in court that media outlets should not be able to unseal more redacted materials from the lawsuit, claiming their $787.5-million settlement was paid to “ buy peace.”) A source familiar with the lawsuit confirmed their veracity. The text messages are part of redacted court filings from Dominion Voting Systems’ now-settled defamation case against Fox News.
Previously unreported text messages between Carlson and his “straight-news” colleague, chief political anchor Bret Baier, which were obtained and reviewed by The Daily Beast, further confirm Carlson’s repeated use of the slur. Following Tucker Carlson’s shock firing from Fox News early last week, reporting has suggested a broad variety of reasons-among them, as The Daily Beast’s Confider newsletter reported, his frequent use of the vulgar and misogynistic “c-word” to deride female colleagues.
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