Fox News reportedly gave Miami Republican Mayor and 2024 presidential hopeful Francis Suarez’s supporters an ultimatum: Take former Fox News host Tucker Carlson out of your campaign ad or forget about running it on the network.
Appearing Friday on Newsmax’s “The Balance” with Eric Bolling, Carlson biographer Chadwick Moore called the move, “Stalinesque.”
Titled “Joe Biden’s America: Freeing Murderers, Arresting Heroes,” the hard-hitting video shows “disturbing” images of a police car burning and a street shootout before cutting to former Marine Daniel Penny, who subdued NYC subway agitator Jordan Neely in a chokehold that ultimately proved fatal, being led away in handcuffs.
“In Joe Biden’s America,” the narrator’s voice booms, “murderers are released while heroes are indicted.”
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At one point, the ad cuts to a Fox News clip of Carlson reporting, “It’s a pretty amazing success story. The city of Miami is on track for the lowest crime rate since the 1930s.”
Bolling spoke with Chapin Fay of SOS America PAC, the creators of the ad in question, prior to Moore’s segment and Fay said Fox News demanded that “all images and video of Tucker Carlson” be removed, as well as “violent crime scene footage that included guns or shootings, or they wouldn’t air the ad.”
“We revised it and sent them a new ad so we wouldn’t be off the air there,” Fay said, according to Mediaite.
Newsmax, he added, was good with running the ad in its original form.
“Fox tends to do that,” said Bolling, himself a former Fox News host. “If they bounce someone, if they fire someone or get rid of someone, they scrub them from as many aspects of Fox as they can. Off their website.”
“Are you shocked that they did this?” he asked Moore. “I was shocked that they did this. You know, it seems like they, they want to double and triple down on this firing of Tucker.”
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“It’s Stalinesque!” Moore exclaimed. “Didn’t he have people removed out of photos when he didn’t want them pictured anymore?”
“You know, Tucker is Voldemort!” the biographer continued. “It is, ‘He Who Shall Not Be Named.'”
Citing “Fox staffers,” Moore said that, within a day of Carlson’s shocking dismissal, Fox fired off a memo banning “the T-word” from the air.
“Everyone complied,” he said. “So that is the nature — the ‘state,’ I should say — of free speech at 1211 6th Avenue at the moment.”
Moore was “very surprised” that Fox was so “direct” with Fay in their demand that Carlson’s image be cut from the ad.
“This is really turning out to be the most bizarre scandal that I think has ever hit cable news, and Fox continues to prolong this by simply not giving the public an answer,” Moore said. “They have not said what is going on and why they’re treating him this way.”
Bolling recalled his time on “The Five,” Fox News’s “most popular show.”
“I was there for six and a half, almost seven years. On their ten-year anniversary, they did some look-backs of the first few days and Kimberly Guilfoyle and Eric Bolling were edited out of all of those look-backs,” he said. “It just seems so mean-spirited.”
“It’s so nasty,” Moore agreed.
“Their default setting seems to be maximum aggression in all situations,” he said. “And this is just one of another example like that.”
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