Tucker Carlson (left) and Don Lemon (Fox News/Getty)
False victories can be a lot of fun, at least for a while.
They can make us feel good. They can give us a false sense of hope, or a distorted view of reality. They can do that because they’re based on fact but can be extrapolated to fiction.
And I’m afraid that could be the case with Tucker Carlson’s departure from Fox News.
You’d be hard-pressed to find two more different people than Carlson and Don Lemon of CNN, yet both lost their jobs with their respective networks on the same day. You have Lemon, a gay black man and a credible journalist, and Carlson, a white racist who’s built his career on fearmongering and lying.
Both men will have future opportunities if they want them, not only on television but in things like podcasts, writing books, newsletters, blogs, speaking engagements, and other forms of communication that give media folks options far beyond just working for a cable news network.
That’s bad news in the case of Carlson, a man seemingly determined to rip our country as far apart as possible. Whose societal value is less than that of the garbage you put out at your curb once a week.
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