The Fox News producer responsible for the words “wannabe dictator” flashing on the screen during President Joe Biden’s Tuesday night speech has resigned from the network, according to former network host Tucker Carlson.
In the latest episode of his independent Twitter show, he revealed that the producer resigned amid the “scandal” that erupted over the “wannabe dictator” chyron.
“Inside Fox, the women who run the network panicked. First they scolded the producer who put the banner on the screen. Less than 24 hours after that, he resigned,” Carlson said.
“He had been at Fox for more than a decade. He was considered one of the most capable people in the building. He offered to stay for the customary two weeks, but Fox told him to clear out his desk and leave immediately,” the former Fox News host added.
Ep. 4 Wannabe Dictator pic.twitter.com/MDcs5g0gxB
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 15, 2023
The Daily Beast has since identified the former employee as Alexander McCaskill, who it turns out used to be Carlson’s own producer prior to his termination.
After McCaskill ran the “wannabe dictator” chyron, Fox News rushed to apologize for the apparent offense, telling a reporter, “The chyron was taken down immediately and was addressed.”
Continuing his Twitter monologue, Carlson then wondered aloud why a scandal had even erupted over something so seemingly innocuous.
“But why were they angry if the banner on Fox was false? Why the hysteria? Lies don’t seem to bother anyone anymore. If some cable news producer had called Joe Biden a genius or accused him of being secretly Sudanese, would anyone be yelling about it? Would Fox News have apologized for it? Probably not. But calling Joe Biden a wannabe dictator, that stung,” he said.
Why did it sting? Because the president does sometimes act like a dictator, though Carlson never said this during the episode of his program. Instead, he cleverly suggested it by saying Biden “could not possibly” be a dictator, but then turning around and listing all the ways in which the president acts like one.
Biden mocks ‘brave right-wingers’ support of second amendment in script resembling a ‘tin-pot dictator’ https://t.co/j52D704tCo pic.twitter.com/BV75Lat81M
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) August 31, 2022
“The main reason that Joe Biden is not a wannabe dictator is because he just does not fit the profile as a man. Dictators have that look: you know one when you see one. Dictators build cults of personality around themselves, and they use those cults to deny the glaringly obvious,” he said.
Carlson then slyly likened the current president to deceased North Korean dictator Kim Il-sung, the grandfather of the current ruler.
“In his later years, North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung developed an enormous baseball-sized tumor on the back of his neck. It was huge. It was grotesque. It was right there. You couldn’t ignore it. You couldn’t possibly not see it. But in North Korea, state media did ignore it. They pretended it didn’t exist. And so in some important sense, it didn’t. If a tumor grows on a neck but no one acknowledges it, is it really there? Thankfully, nothing like that is happening in our country or ever will,” he said.
“If Joe Biden ever developed some profound physical or medical problem that was obvious to everybody, journalists would say something. This is not North Korea. We don’t have state media here. If Joe Biden was, say, incapable of completing a full sentence or mistook his sister for his wife or suddenly started falling down in public for no reason, The New York Times would report on that and then get to the bottom of what was actually happening. That would be its duty in a free country like ours. It’s not like they would cover it up,” he added.
Biden jokes he was ‘sandbagged’ as media flies into action to spin away concerns over fall https://t.co/2mxlQ3XmCQ pic.twitter.com/ZLTmrgQfmS
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) June 5, 2023
Carlson then cleverly repeated the maneuver but this time with deceased dictator Saddam Hussein and his two sons, Uday and Qusay.
“If Joe Biden was a wannabe dictator, he’d have the family to match. All dictators do. Saddam Hussein had Uday and Qusay. They were princelings who lived above the law, indulging their most decadent fantasies with total confidence they would be never held to account by the police. As the sons of a dictator, they knew they could do exactly what they wanted and so that’s what they did. There’s no one like that around Joe Biden,” he said.
The joke, of course, is that there IS someone just like that around the president:
IRS removes ‘entire investigative team’ in Hunter Biden probe on orders from DOJ https://t.co/pmiEVSWCXj pic.twitter.com/dgkpcFSk6R
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) May 19, 2023
“He doesn’t have weird sex scandals at the heart of his family that no one in the media will ever talk about. He doesn’t have a ne’er-do-well former nightclub-owning brother who’s made a living for 30 years by being related to him. Not at all. That’s dictator stuff. Joe Biden doesn’t award ridiculous inflated titles to his relatives that the media are then required to take seriously. He doesn’t call people doctor who didn’t go to medical school and then force you to nod along like it’s real when everyone knows it isn’t,” Carlson added.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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