Rupe, can you cut me a break? For old time’s sake

Police! Don't move, motherfucker.

    
                   
I'll blow your brains out.
Shut the car off.

    
                   
I thought I was dead, but when I
heard the noise I knew they were cops.

    
                   
Only cops talk that way.

    
                   
Don't fucking move.

    
                   
If they had been wiseguys, I
wouldn't have heard a thing.

Carlson’s exit is related to the discrimination lawsuit filed by Abby Grossberg, the producer fired by the network last month, the sources said. Carlson’s senior executive producer Justin Wells has also been terminated, according to insiders.

Grossberg was moved off of “Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo” and onto “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” where she alleged she was bullied and subjected to antisemitic comments, according to a lawsuit in New York.

In deposition testimony, the former Fox News producer also said she was coerced by company lawyers to give misleading answers in the Dominion defamation case against the network. Fox News denied the claim and said she was terminated for disclosing privileged company information. . .

“Tucker Carlson’s departure from Fox News is, in part, an admission of the systemic lying, bullying, and conspiracy-mongering claimed by our client, former top producer, Abby Grossberg,” said Tanvir Rahman, one of Grossberg’s attorneys. “Mr. Carlson and his subordinates remain individual defendants in the [Southern District of New York] case and we look forward to taking their depositions under oath in the very near term,” . . .

Carlson, who did not respond to a request for comment, has now been fired by all three cable networks, having been pushed out from his previous stints at CNN and MSNBC.

In baseball, they call that a “golden sombrero.”

Carlson’s comments about Fox management, which were revealed as part of Dominion’s lawsuit, also played a role in his firing, according to the Washington Post. Murdoch was also concerned about his coverage relating to January 6, 2021.

“This is just classic Murdoch assassination – you’re their closest friend, their favorite child and now you’re dead,” a source close to Fox leadership told Semafor.

Is anybody sitting shiva yet for Glenn’s Fox News career?

I hope it’s not possible to literally OD from schadenfreude, or if it is, there’s a metaphorical equivalent to Naloxone out there somewhere.

. . . check out the mavericky candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination:

This guy should have his photo in the urban dictionary next to both “Failson” and “nepo baby.”