by Sharon Rondeau
(Apr. 25, 2023) — On Monday’s edition of “Infowars,” founder and host Alex Jones expounded on the news that Fox News’s top-rated prime-time commentator, Tucker Carlson, had been fired precipitately that morning.
MadMaxTV captured and linked to Jones’s immediate commentary following his learning of the announcement, which was put forth in a three-paragraph press release perfunctorily thanking Carlson for his contributions to the network, which spanned approximately 14 years.
For a time Tuesday morning, “Alex Jones” was the top trend on Twitter, with some users pointing out that on March 8, 2023, Jones predicted Carlson would not appear on Fox much longer if he were not able to air certain footage of the January 6, 2021 incursion at the U.S. Capitol.
In early March, Carlson did, in fact, present previously unseen footage he and his producers obtained from Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy’s office of protesters, some of whom were jailed for years without charges or trial, conducting themselves peacefully in the presence of U.S. Capitol Police officers who made no move to arrest them.
According to a report from The Los Angeles Times Monday afternoon, one of the reasons Carlson was fired, a decision reportedly made personally by News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, was Carlson’s investigation and reporting of the January 6 incident which the political left terms an “insurrection.”
The second reason cited by the article is that two lawsuits recently filed by former Fox employee Abby Grossberg, who worked as a producer for Maria Bartiromo’s show and later for Carlson until she was fired, allege Carlson’s office practiced sex- and religious-based “discrimination.”
According to Business Insider, Fox denied the claims and said it would “vigorously defend” against them in court.
On March 27, 2023, The Huffington Post reported that Grossberg claimed she was unjustly terminated “for correcting a deposition that she said hid information at the direction of Fox News’ attorneys” during litigation brought against Fox by Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., which Fox said it would fight but ultimately settled last week for approximately $787 million.
On Twitter Monday night, Grossberg celebrated Carlson and another Fox employee’s ousters as “a step towards accountability for the election lies and baseless conspiracy theories spread by the network, something I witnessed firsthand there…”
Likewise, former “Fox & Friends” co-host Gretchen Carlson, who in 2016, along with “at least” 19 other women, accused the late Fox News Channel founder Roger Ailes of sexual harassment, tweeted her support for Grossberg as well as writer David A. French’s description of Tucker Carlson’s “public presence” as one containing “malice and dishonesty.”
On March 4, 2022, Carlson celebrated visiting Joe Biden at the White House upon his signing of a bill “designed to free victims of sexual harassment and sexual assault to seek justice in court” rather than through arbitration, as she was bound to do through a non-disclosure agreement.
During his monologue, which is divided into several segments, Jones observed that Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe, III was ousted by his board of directors, which occurred in late February; that Jones himself is the object of those who would like to see his show discontinued; that on Friday Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called Carlson’s regular commentary on Fox “very clearly incitement of violence“; and that CBS News depicted Ray Epps, who Carlson intimated through video footage could have been an instigator of the January 6 incident, as blameless and a victim without showing any proof.
Jones said he “knew” O’Keefe would be silenced after he aired footage in late January of a Pfizer executive admitting the drug company is creating new COVID-19 variants for financial gain and that AOC’s call for Carlson and others to undergo “federal government” censorship is resulting in an apparent media “purge.”
In 2017, Jones reminded his audience, he was “banned” from numerous social-media sites, including Twitter, Facebook, Apple, YouTube and Google, YouTube’s parent company at approximately 3:00 a.m. one day.
“Tucker called for peace, but they’re framing us with violence,” he said. He also called attention to Carlson’s two-part interview with Twitter CEO Elon Musk last week, characterizing it as, “You don’t say that…and you decide to go against the globalists…because I’ve experienced it.”
“We talk a lot; we’re friends,” Jones said of his relationship with Carlson beginning at 5:50.
As of his broadcast, Jones said, he was without a cell phone but “they’re fixing my phone right now at the AT&T store” but would call him as soon as possible.
According to Jones, some years ago the Republicans asked Carlson to “sell out” in exchange for which he would have “been president in 2024” but that Carlson repudiated their offer, a sentiment he again expressed in his Friday address to The Heritage Foundation.
“You can try to shut Tucker down; you can try to shut Joe Rogan down; but you’re not going to shut us all down, but believe me, they’re trying, and there’s a lot more inside baseball and things that go on,” Jones said at 7:17.
“Tucker Carlson is going to come back stronger than ever; he’s not going to be compromised, and he’s been very upset at Fox,” he said. “And I haven’t talked to him yet, but there’s a good chance that he said, ‘I’m going to put’ whatever the story was on air or ‘Fire me’ and they said, ‘You’re fired,’ because I know the inside baseball of some previous things that went on, but I’m not going to talk about it until I talk to Tucker and see what’s OK with him.”
“I know he came very close to quitting about a month ago or giving them an ultimatum,” Jones continued, “because his contract says he can interview anybody he wants. He took a massive pay cut, when we’re talking a fraction of what they were offering, to have freedom on his show, and they’ve not been giving him that on places like having Alex Jones on or going on Alex Jones’s show,” Jones revealed. “And I encouraged him to just continue to do whatever good he could there, but I think when it comes out we’re going to learn…that he said, ‘No, I’m going to do’ whatever the interview was he wanted to do, and they said, ‘No.'”
That belief, Jones said, stems from a conversation he had earlier Monday with “high-level federal officials” allegedly revealing that “Biden is knowingly giving small children to hard-core rapists who are convicted…”
“So it’s all going down, man,” Jones said. “The fight is happening now…”
“Mark my words: you’ll be seeing Tucker Carlson on the show soon,” Jones announced following a commercial break.