Tucker Carlson’s abrupt departure from his post as the face of Fox News on Monday caused shock waves in the political and media worlds – and no one seemed more shocked than Seth Meyers, the “Late Night” presenter, who had just returned from a two-week vacation. to a news attack on Monday.
“When I heard that news, I studied all the phases of Tucker’s face in one sitting,” Meyers said, pointing to a supercut of the cable host’s signature hyperbolic expressions.
“First I was shocked, then confused, then I made Tucker laugh,” he added, playing a chuckle that sounded oddly like the canned joy Carlson was famous for.
“But then I For this reason a lot of questions,” Meyers continued. What are we going to do without Tucker? Who else is going to tell us that M&Ms can’t be beat anymore?
Meyers particularly enjoyed Fox News’ own broadcast announcement of the network’s departure from Carlson, saying that “it felt like a decree from public television in some sort of weird, cult-like dictatorship.”
But he was even more surprised at how quickly Carlson’s disappearance happened, meaning that Carlson’s (probably) last Fox News episode was not a tearful, conspiracy-ridden farewell, but a promotion of a new Tucker-produced special. titled Let Insects Eat.
Carlson left on Friday night, promising “We’ll be back on Monday,” and Meyers said, “No, you won’t. It even turns out HE it was a lie.”
Ultimately, however, Meyers believes his surprise dismissal was truly the most “suitable end” for Carlson, “because he had always feared he would lose his show after being suspended on two other cable networks (CNN and MSNBC). And he was particularly afraid that it would be Donald Trump who would destroy him. That’s why Tucker spent so much time spoon-feeding Trump’s bullshit to his audience, even though he knew it was all bullshit.”
Much has been said about the fact that Carlson’s execution came less than a week after Fox News was ordered to pay $800 million to settle a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems; ” and sees the former president as an “evil force”.
Meyers said in an interview that one of Carlson’s latest acts as a Fox News employee, in which he pretended to be mesmerized by every word that came out of Trump’s mouth, seemed “poetic” to send him to Mar-a-Lago “to kneel in an interview with Trump”. . ”
Meyers added that the result was more like Carlson’s “12-year-old boy listening to his brother talk about touching a woman’s breast for the first time” than a 53-year-old “journalist.”