Are Tucker Carlson’s Days Numbered?

[babylonsister]

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Are Tucker Carlson’s Days Numbered?
Filed under: General — Mark @ 2:41 am

As I reported last month, Tucker Carlson’s ratings are a sinkhole that is sucking down the whole of MSNBC’s schedule. I wondered when MSNBC’s programmers might come out of their nepotism-induced coma and drop the ax on Tucker. There are days when his numbers are barely half of either his lead-in, his lead-out, or both.

It would stand to reason that the network honchos would want to jettison the biggest loser on their team so that they might actually make some money during that time period. Certainly the programs adjacent to Tucker would be love to see him go as he is hurting their performance as well. Last June, in an apparent effort to staunch the bleeding, one of the two daily hours allotted to Tucker was replaced by a straight newscast. But half of Tucker is still a whole flop.

So what will MSNBC do now? I don’t know. But I do know that rumors a year ago that Tucker had been fired elicited this impassioned protest from cable’s fortunate son:

“It’s bullshit. It’s total bullshit. I talked to Abrams last night. I’ve got another year on my contract. That’s my comment: Bullshit.”

If I’m not mistaken, I would conclude that he viewed the rumors of his demise as some sort of “bullshit,” but I could be wrong. However, I’m fairly sure that I’m correct in calculating that a year has transpired since his blustery declaration that he had another year on his contract. The expiration would come next month, to be precise.

I haven’t heard any of the customary splashy announcements celebrating a new term as was done when Keith Olbermann re-upped for four more years last February. And on a purely subjective note, it seems to me that Tucker has been phoning it in since his airtime was slashed in June. So I wouldn’t be surprised if he was quietly ushered out the back door before long. What would be surprising would be if he was kept on.

[PCIntern]

1. I hope so...

Besides the obvious, his delivery and snobby sarcasm has descended to a new level of stupidity. He's just automatically gainsaying anything which anyone left of Orrin Hatch says. Creepy.

Rather than use inflammatory language which will get some people's underwear in a twist, let me just say that he's so...Weird.

[wake.up.america]

2. Not the brightest guy around.

[SoCalDem]

4. Just another silver-spoon toady.. like our president

And what I find most amusing is that he was born in San Francisco :)

and apparently his stepmother gave birth to him..

NO bio ever mentions his "real" mother..only his frozen-food-heiress stepmomma.. :) (she's a swanson heir)

[peekaloo]

22. Don't you remember his birth was documented on that failed TV reality show

"Fetus Swap".


From the freezer to the delivery table in 30 minutes!

:hide:

[Submariner]

Tucker, a college dropout, mimics much of the right-wingnut world

I've noticed that Limbaugh and Hannity both flunked out of their freshman year in college, and Beck, who barely got out of high school, is a druggie like Limbaugh. I'm sure their are others, but it is surprising that the repubtards put so much stock in this ignorant lot of idiots.

[frogcycle]

3. 'half of Tucker is still a whole flop'

:rofl:

[B Calm]

5. He thought Dancing With the Stars would help his ratings, but

people soon realized he couldn't dance either..

[frogcycle]

6. what a mother, tucker

[monmouth]

7. I noticed Shuster had taken his spot a couple of times. Maybe that

placement is in the future. I would hate to see Shuster taken off the newsbeat however, he does such a wonderful job on that. I like Mika, get her away from Sloe Joe and give her a shot. A pretty, smart and "on her toes" female between Tweety and KO might work, who knows???

[babylonsister]

8. Shuster disappoints me occasionally, like last week when

interviewing Eli Pariser. He has done some great reporting though. For me, I wish they'd give Rachel Maddow a shot at her own show. That woman can think on her feet and I suspect would be way more fair and balanced than fucker ever thought about being.

[monmouth]

13. Love Rachel, she would be great...

[liberalla]

16. Oooh yes! Rachel Maddow would be fantastic!

But then I'd miss her on the radio... oh well!

[SoFlaJet]

10. Schuster would be great

might even make me stop having to change the channel to Scrubs whenever his show comes on

[martymar64]

18. Maybe give John C McGinley a news show

It would make the dilemma even worse.

[KharmaTrain]

9. We're Paying Him...Might As Well Play Him...

Remember, Abrams did axe one high ticket MSNBC loser...Rita Cosby. The last thing corporate America like to do is admit a mistake and nothing says mistake more than having to eat someone's contract (especially if its a high profile hire). The networks spend millions on the contracts and then the staff and promotion. If a show is cancelled, the cost has to be justified...call it screwy, but that's how the game is played. A baseball analogy is the free agent who your team hires...but he doesn't perform as expected...and you've spent all the money. Most teams will play the free agent no matter how poor the guy performs just to make it appear that the money wasn't wasted.

Tucker has been safely removed from prime time and I suspect his demise is not too far off if his contract expires.

IRC, MSNBC announced several months ago a revised line-up that moved Tweety and Olbermann an hour earlier (bye bye Tucker) and loading up with more retread prison and "predator" shows. I haven't seen a follow up about this.

[spanone]

11. get that whiney piss-ant off my television...even when I'm not watching he pisses me off.

[malaise]

12. Bubye you little

clown parading as a journalist when you're nothing but a Richie Rich impersonator and a Democratic party hating little twat. Adios Fucker - good riddance. :puke:

[Holly_Hobby]

14. I keep MSNBC on in the background while cooking dinner

Usually, I'm cooking during Tucker's hour.

I heard him say last week that he's "under-employed". One can only hope this will soon become "un-employed".

[peekaloo]

15. When asked to comment on the insightful, intellectual and weighty subject matters

found on his show and how long viewers will be made to suffer Carlson responded, “It’s bullshit. It’s total bullshit. I talked to Abrams last night. I’ve got another year on my contract. That’s my comment: Bullshit.”

*content edited for my amusement*

[graywarrior]

17. Bring back Ashley Banfield in his place

[Marr]

19. It's amazing how far a fool can go with the right parentage, eh?

You can be an incompetent idiot and still be placed at the helm of a national newspaper (Bill Kristol), or put in charge of the FCC (Michael Powell), or handed a string of television shows and tank them all (Tucker Carlson), or get your own propaganda hour on cable (Chris Wallace)... hell, daddy's friends will even steal the White House for you.

It seems like the last 10 years or so have been dominated by the idiot sons of the rich-- am I imagining this?

[Democrat 4 Ever]

20. I have Dish Network. Have always suspected they know what

I what from I have on at anytime. Just my theory. I know they record who TiVos what but not sure about just regular viewing. That said, the minute the Fucker Carlson comes on I make sure that no TV in the house is tuned to that show. (And I have Faux blocked just so they know I won't put up with BS.)

I don't want to give Fucker even the slightest bump in the slightest chance that anyone cares what channel my TV is set on. Every night at 6 pm my TVs are set to any channel but MSNBC - usually C-Span - or go silent. I also TiVo Keith every night even though I watch it live for the same dang reason...

From your keyboard to God's ears - please let Fucker be gone. He is a dishonest, biased, whiny little "moran" who is hurting our country (thanks Jon Stewart!). And he gave up any pretense of "journalistic integrity" (okay, he never had any but if there were a sliver of a chance he flushed it for Scooter) when he ranted night after night about the railroading of poor Scooter Libby when Fucker's Daddy headed the collection of funds for poor Scooter's legal defense fund.

Fucker I hear there is a chair with you name on it at one of the reichwing stink tanks just waiting for you. Go for it man.

[in_cog_ni_to]

21. His departure would be one of the best things to happen to MSNBC! BRING BACK DONAHUE!

If they want high ratings in that time slot.....PHIL DONAHUE would bring them! What better way would there be to undo the damage they have done to that network by deciding to be FAUX NEWS lite and firing their HIGHEST RATED HOST?

We should have a DU write-in to MSNBC to BRING BACK PHIL!

[BigBearJohn]

47. Donahue would never do it. Not the way they dumped him.

[Oceansaway]

23. Rachel would do it for me !!!...n/t

spelling

[AnotherMother4Peace]

24. I hope so - He might have retooled that smirk of his for nothin'

I'm wondering why glenn beck is still on the air. I can't imagine anybody watching that loony tune.

[Mend]

25. Dan Rather, Phil Donahue, Rachel Maddow....think about them and then

wonder what a fool like carlson is doing on the air.

[Old and In the Way]

26. There will always be a place for Tucker on Fox......he'd be right at home on the Republican News

Network. Maybe his dad can talk to Roger Ailes and arrange it.

[babylonsister]

27. Goody! I hope he goes there; then I never have to see his mug! nt

[Diane R]

28. He's the perfect age to enlist! He could really make news if he went to fight in Iraq!

[B Calm]

32. Wearing camouflage and a bow tie. That would be too cool!

[AlCzervik]

29. his show is terrible and the only time it's ever remotely interesting is when David Schuster fills i...

[havocmom]

30. Notice his face is finally aging a bit. Without apple-cheeked boyish looks...

what else has he got to offer? ;)

Yep, his days are numbered.

[rhett o rick]

31. I hope so, and I hope the number is single digits. nm

[Cha]

33. So who does tucker carlson know

that keeps him on msnbc when the viewing audience find him repulsive?

[AlCzervik]

34. his Dad?

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_W._Carlson

[Cha]

38. Oh yeah...I remember now..

"Richard Carlson "is Vice Chairman of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a policy institute focusing on terrorism. He has experience in journalism and diplomacy and is a former United States Ambassador."

Yeah, like we're a "Democracy"..freakin' chauvinistic 1984 Enforcers.

[AlCzervik]

39. if his Dad was an insurance salesman or electrician nobody outside of The Carlson's would know who

Tucker was.

[Cha]

40. Lucky world...same with that asshole in

our whitehouse.

[Ghost in the Machine]

35. !

[Horse with no Name]

36. Please let it be so!

An hour of ear-piercing shrill whistles would be more entertaining than Lil Fucker Tucker.

[Initech]

37. I think Tucker's remaining audience consists of Comedy Central writers.

:rofl:

[libodem]

41. let that little

bow tie motherfucker go to Fox or CNN. I'm still astonished that CNN lets Glenn Beck have his own show and say he's an Independent thinker. What a cake hole on that putz.

[DavidDvorkin]

42. Everyone's days are numbered

The questions always is, What's the number?

[LostInAnomie]

43. It would be great if they would use his hour to show the news FROM Iraq.

Not the news about Iraq, not pundits discussing Iraq, but the actual news FROM Iraq. Reports about individual incidents of market places being bombed, semi-trailers being found with a dozen executed men in them, the parliament breaking down into sectarian and regional factions, mercenaries shooting up public places, etc.

All the stuff we don't see, but should.

[doc03]

44. Don't get excited Faux will pick him up n/t

[Stinky The Clown]

45. I've been sensing the Carlson boy's imminent teevee demise for a while now. Even **he** seems ......

.... to be essentially acknowledging it by his lazy assed manner when doing his show.

Two things bring him down ...... his smart-assed frat boy demeanor and his bankrupt, have-it-both-ways right wing spew.

I hope that other frat boy asshole, Willie Geist, leaves with him.

[BlooInBloo]

46. The beauty is: you're guaranteed to be right *eventually*.

[TheUniverse]

48. If they get rid of him

I hope they dont replace him with OJ coverage or Lockup, or something else trashy. How about some real news MSNBC?