Rachel Maddow Says Tucker Carlson Firing Puts Fox News — and GOP — at Crossroads: ‘There Will Be Someone After Him (Video)
thewrap.comsurprise firing of the channel’s controversial opinion host Tucker Carlson.“Conservative media and the conservative movement are very effective.
They’re rich, effective, successful, thriving enterprises,” Maddow said during her show as she addressed what Carlson’s shocking departure means for conservative media. “And for at least the past generation, that really is where the political success has been on the American Right.
It’s in conservative media and the conservative movement — that’s where they are strongest. And conservative media and the conservative movement tend to drag the actual Republican Party around like a rag doll that’s missing a limb or two.
I mean, the Republican Party is comparatively very weak, very disorganized and has no idea how to talk to people. The Republican Party has lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections.”While Maddow emphasized that conservative media is in one of its “periodic crises,” she warned that there will be a new “episodically dominant figure” after Carlson.
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