“One of the first things you realize, when you step outside the noise for a few days, is how many genuinely nice people there are,” Carlson said in a video posted on Wednesday.
Tucker Carlson has spoken out for the first time since Fox News abruptly announced his departure from the network on Monday.
“One of the first things you realize, when you step outside the noise for a few days, is how many genuinely nice people there are,” Carlson said in a two-minute video statement posted on Twitter on Wednesday.
While he did not directly address his departure or mention the network, he did say it was “heartening” to learn about the “genuinely nice people there are in this country.”
“The other thing you notice when you take a little time off is how unbelievably stupid most of the debates on television are,” he went on to say. “They’re utterly unimportant. They are meaningless. We won’t even remember having them in five years. Trust me as someone who has been a part of them.”
Carlson went on to say that civil freedoms, developing science, demographic change, natural resources, conflict, and corporate dominance have not gotten “legitimate debate.”
“It’s been a long time, and things like that are not permitted in American media,” he continued, claiming that “the people in charge” are “hysterical and aggressive.”
He ended the video with a foreboding message: “True things prevail.” “Where can you find Americans saying the truth?”
“There aren’t many left, but there are a few.” That’s all there is to it. There is hope as long as you can hear the words. “I’ll see you soon.”
Carlson’s final Fox Network show aired on April 21 after being with the network since 2009.
“FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways,” FOX stated on April 24 in a statement. “We thank him for his service to the network as a host and, prior to that, as a contributor.”
The news of the TV star’s departure came shortly after Fox News paid $787.5 million to resolve a $1.6 billion lawsuit made against them by voting equipment business Dominion Voting Systems.
In March 2021, Dominion Voting Systems sued Fox News, accusing it of deliberately airing false assertions claiming Dominion helped rig the 2020 presidential election against former President Donald Trump. In the aftermath of the results, the IT company was accused of extensive election fraud and other misconduct.
In a statement provided to Read full story in the midst of the legal dispute, a Fox representative accused Dominion of using “distortions and misinformation” in a “PR campaign to smear FOX News and trample on free speech and freedom of the press.”
