Tucker Carlson Says ‘Fearful Women’ Run Fox News as He Speaks Out About Firing
Former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson was interviewing Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy on Thusday’s (August 31) Tucker on X episode, during which the host touched on his firing from the news network.
In explaining his dismissal from Fox News back in April, Carlson told Portnoy that his former employer is “run by fearful women,” noting that he was surrounded by “incompetent” people running the network.
Carlson went on to say that he “didn’t have a problem” with Fox or its owner Rupert Murdoch and his son, Fox Corp. chief Lachlan Murdoch; in fact, he was very complimentary toward the Murdochs, saying they “were always nice” and “never got in my way at all.”
“They let me say whatever I want… whatever I wanted, really, for 14 years, and I’ll never stop being grateful for that,” he shared. “And I even told them as they were firing me, like, ‘It’s your business.’ But I made a mental note: never work for anyone else again, and I never will. But I can’t be mad about it.”
Ep. 21 Dave Portnoy founded Barstool Sports and just completed the most impressive business transaction of our lifetime. He also just got into an epic fight and shared the video with us first. Watch. pic.twitter.com/W7AJ10kZni
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 31, 2023
He added that he isn’t “exactly sure what I said that was bad” that led to his firing, and also claimed “no one ever called me” regarding the dismissal.
Carlson reflected on his firing, saying, “Being humiliated in public, being fired, which has happened to me a couple of times, is good for you in the end. It keeps you from thinking you’re Jesus.”
It wasn’t long after exiting Fox News that Carlson started his own show on Twitter/X alongside his senior executive producer, Justin Wells, who was also booted from Fox and named in a toxic work environment lawsuit filed by Abby Grossberg earlier this year.
“Within an hour of that happening, Elon [Musk] called [Wells] and said, ‘You should come to Twitter,’” Carlson recalled. “So I’ll never stop being grateful for that. We don’t work for Elon or anything, but we’re using the site just like everyone else is using it, which is a platform that is not censored.”
