Perhaps it is surprising – perhaps not? – that one week after Fox News settled its alarming defamation lawsuit with Dominion, the network’s most popular host, Tucker Carlson, has been quietly nudged out the door.

Dominion Voting Systems settled for $US787.5 billion, around half of what they originally asked for, putting an end to the media circus surrounding Trump’s election saga. It is widely assumed that if the Dominion trial had proceeded, Tucker Carlson would have been called as a witness.

Tucker Carlson, who has been with the network since 2009, was apparently informed of the decision to part ways on Monday morning, ten minutes before the announcement was made public. No further comment has been made by the network, except to say that his last show will air this Friday.

‘Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,’ said Fox News.

Fox shares slid 4 per cent following the announcement, which is to be expected. Carlson might be controversial, but he is still Fox News’ biggest star and his absence will hurt the brand – at least, initially. Meanwhile viewers, indifferent to corporate politics, are likely to pick up their TVs and follow Carson to his next venture.

The commentary surrounding Carlson’s departure has been just as ridiculous as US politics over the last few years, with some calling him a ‘top promoter of conspiracy theories and radical rhetoric at the network’.

The Sydney Morning Herald said of the event, ‘…a voting machine company [Dominion] had become caught up in the big election lies promulgated by Donald Trump, his ragtag band of legal conspirators, and Fox News itself, which invited the conspirators time and time again onto its channel.’

The Guardian wrote, ‘In his climb to the top of the Fox ratings, Carlson relied on xenophobia and stoked white fears about America’s changing demographics.’

Reading through endless reports today, it appears media publications are more touchy about what Carlson said about Covid than the US Presidential election, proceeding to call his comments on Covid ‘conspiracies’ while ignoring their in-house commentary which turned out to be a mixture of fake news and exaggerated promises by pharmaceutical companies.

While Elon Musk is running around putting labels on media Twitter accounts, he could probably slap a few ‘endorsed Covid conspiracies’ on MSM – in the interest of, what is it they say these days? Equity…

To be fair, Carlson has voiced his fair share of outlandish things during his time as a network star, and some of it turned out to be wrong. He is punished for the sins of his peers because he is influential, not because he is alone.

There are plenty of detractors coming out of the woodwork.

President of Media Matters for America, Angelo Carusone, is reported to have said: ‘Tucker served as the bridge between Fox News and the most extreme parts of the rightwing base – laundering anti-trans paranoia, Infowars nonsense, election lies, and venomous rhetoric including the great replacement conspiracy theory nightly.’

The detail amounts to Carlson’s ongoing criticism of mass migration from third-world nations – something many people in the West agree with and which other nations, such as China, simply refuse to engage in at all (with no criticism from Western Liberals, it should be noted).

Other commentators have fallen afoul of these bizarre labels, including the wonderful Neil Oliver on GB News who was labelled an anti-Semite for criticising the horrific and totalitarian rise of the anti-human globalist movement.

This sort of behaviour from the press is intended to burn the fingers of anyone who manhandles their favourite ideological toys.

‘For far too long, Tucker Carlson has used his prime time show to spew antisemitic, racist, xenophobic, and anti-LGBTQ hate to millions,’ said the head of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt.

Even Wikipedia writes, ‘Carlson has been described as a leading voice of white grievance politics.’

To be fair, Carlson may find himself in genuine difficulty after he painted himself into a corner with his leaked comments about Trump. It has been reported that he was ‘enraged’ by his private text messages going public. After the media settled down, there does not appear to be any hard feelings between the two.

Former President, Donald Trump said of Tucker Carlson during a Newsmax interview on Monday:

‘I was shocked. I’m surprised. He’s a very good person – a very good man – and very talented and he had very high ratings. He’s been terrific, especially over the last year or so he’s been terrific to me.’

The next race to the White House is going to be savage as conservative politics finds its feet and picks a leader to battle against the toxic rise of collectivism that has infected the Democrat regime.

Already the story is turning to what happens next… Carlson’s commercial value is too high for him to be left on the cancel culture shelf, surrounded by broken statues, deleted works of fiction, and Bill [F**k it, we’ll do it live!] O’Reilly.

Is Tucker Carlson going to throw his hat into the Presidential ring? Will he be snatched up by a brave competitive news network? Or is Carlson going to start touring the public speaking circuit as a political giant…?