Tucker Carlson abruptly departed Fox News in April. Despite the unceremonious exit, the former host still is grateful for certain aspects of his tenure with the cable channel.
During his latest Tucker on X episode, Carlson told Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy that he was never interfered with during his time at Fox News.
“My view on Fox hasn’t really changed. They let me say whatever I want, whatever I wanted really for 14 years,” Carlson said as he emphasized the word “whatever”. “And I’ll never stop being grateful for that. And then obviously, I said too much. And I’m not exactly sure what I said that was bad. No one ever told me. But one day, they were like, ‘Nope! Can’t have this anymore.’ And they fired me.
“And I even told them as they were firing me, like, ‘It’s your business.’ I made a mental note: ‘Never work for anyone else again’, and I never will. But I can’t be mad about it. I mean, they were great to me. The Murdochs were always nice to me and one day, for whatever reason they had enough. My feelings weren’t hurt. I was not expecting it!”
Carlson later mentioned that while executives may have shared displeasure with something he did, said, or featured on Tucker Carlson Tonight, those critiques never came directly to him.
“They never got in my way at all. They were always super nice to me. But… it’s a company run by fearful women. You know what I mean? And there were always second-tier people who were hassling my producers. But no one ever called me,” continued Carlson. “I got along with everybody. I think they knew the censorship — I don’t welcome that, you know? But they never actually got in the way of anything.”
