Why is Tucker Carlson still on Fox?

Fox News’ top-rated host has been repeatedly accused of anti-immigrant and racist comments, which have cost his political opinion show many of its major advertisers. Yet Carlson endures in his prime-time slot. Carlson even attacked his own network’s chief news anchor on the air, with no real consequences.

What is Tucker Carlson’s legal defense?

The Legal Defense For Fox’s Tucker Carlson: He Can’t Be Literally Believed Fox News viewers don’t expect facts from Tucker Carlson, according to network lawyers who defended their star in a slander lawsuit filed by a woman who said she had an affair with President Trump. You Literally Can’t Believe The Facts Tucker Carlson Tells You.

Is Fox News host Tucker Carlson made of Teflon?

Fox News host Tucker Carlson “is not ‘stating actual facts’ about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in ‘exaggeration’ and ‘non-literal commentary,’ ” U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil wrote. Tucker Carlson appears to be made of Teflon.

Can you actually believe Tucker Carlson’s words?

Now comes the claim that you can’t expect to literally believe the words that come out of Carlson’s mouth. And that assertion is not coming from Carlson’s critics. It’s being made by a federal judge in the Southern District of New York and by Fox News’s own lawyers in defending Carlson against accusations of slander.

Was Tucker Carlson’s lawsuit dismissed?

Tucker Carlson. A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against Fox News after lawyers for the network argued that no “reasonable viewer” would take the network’s primetime star Tucker Carlson seriously.

What did Mary Kay Vyskocil say about Tucker Carlson?

US District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil agreed with Fox’s premise, adding that the network “persuasively argues” that “given Mr. Carlson’s reputation, any reasonable viewer ‘arrive [s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism’ about the statements he makes.”

What happened with Tucker Carlson and Shepard Smith?

Carlson even attacked his own network’s chief news anchor on the air, with no real consequences. That anchor, Shepard Smith, quit mid-contract shortly after Carlson went after him.

Why is the ADL calling on Tucker Carlson to resign?

The Anti-Defamation League called on the Fox News host Tucker Carlson to resign in an open letter published on Friday, accusing him of giving “an impassioned defense of the white supremacist ‘great replacement theory.’”