Fox News remains in the headlines for a multitude of reasons, and will eventually have to find its way through a trying time.
As the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit continues, nearly daily headlines show the network engaged in peddling falsehoods centered around the 2020 presidential elections.
In primetime, Fox News host Tucker Carlson has continued to show previously unseen video footage from the January 6th Insurrection at the Capitol and has received strong criticism for his characterization of the events, calling the riot “mostly peaceful chaos”, claiming the intruders were mere “sightseers” and not insurrectionists.
Keith Olbermann discussed Carlson at the top of his latest Countdown with Keith Olbermann podcast, noting one of the more undercovered aspects of the documents released reveals Carlson called a story written by Holocaust denier David Cole “a good piece”.
Olbermann then noted that Fox News has been plagued by previous scandals and there is a common theme on how the network exits the headlines.
“Fox ‘News’ is on the ropes. Tucker Carlson is on the ropes. Both may very well escape intact. Fox has before,” Olbermann said. “It survived the Roger Ailes rape scandal, it survived the Bill O’Reilly harassment scandal, it survived the Glenn Beck anti-Semitism scandal.
“However, it survived the Glenn Beck anti-Semitism scandal by firing Glenn Beck. It survived the Bill O’Reilly harassment scandal by firing Bill O’Reilly. It survived the Roger Ailes rape scandal by firing Roger Ailes. If it survives the combined Dominion and January 6th video scandals, it will do so by firing somebody.”
The former cable news host is not the first person to question Carlson’s future with the network. Former Fox News contributor Jonah Goldberg questioned Carlson’s motive as he “doubles and triples down” on the insinuation that January 6th wasn’t as bad as authorities have made it out to be.
“Maybe he thinks he’s un-firable,” Goldberg posited. “Maybe he’s playing a stop-me-before-I-kill-again game with Rupert (Murdoch), trying to get himself fired so he can make himself a martyr.”
