Chris Wallace Burns Ex-Fox Colleague Tucker Carlson: ‘I’m Employed and Tucker Really Isn’t’
Former Fox News host Chris Wallace took a dig at ex-colleague Tucker Carlson in a rare appearance on MSNBC.
Wallace, now with CNN, joined Wednesday’s episode of The Beat, where host Ari Melber asked him about private criticisms of him by his former coworkers. During discovery in Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit against Fox last year, it was revealed that Carlson and Laura Ingraham were upset at Wallace and the network’s news division in the wake of the 2020 presidential election. Some Fox hosts and guests suggested or claimed that the company helped rig the election against former President Donald Trump. Fox ultimately settled the suit for $787.5 million.
“My anger at the news channel is pronounced,” Ingraham said at the time in a text that Melber read to Wallace.
“It should be,” Carlson replied. “We devote our lives to building an audience and they let Chris Wallace… wreck it.”
Fox fired Carlson shortly after the settlement. Nowadays, he hosts a show on X where he interviews the likes of pseudo-historians who don’t think Hitler was so bad.
“Your response,” Melber said to Wallace after reading the texts.
“Well, I’m employed and Tucker really isn’t anymore. So, that’s part of my response,” Wallace replied. “I had a very good 18-year run at Fox, and they never messed with me the whole time.”
Wallace said he “sensed a Fox as time went on” after the 2020 election. He noted that Trump and his supporters were “very upset with us.”
“There was less interest in – even in the news side – in sticking, sticking to the truth, and more in telling that audience – to try to win them back – what they wanted to hear,” he said. “And they paid a big price for it. You know, you talk about the misinformation about the elections. You know, I have to say I’m not unhappy that Fox had to pay $787 million because there ought to be a price to pay when you don’t tell the truth and you deliberately misinform people about things that the evidence, in that case, showed that higher-ups at Fox knew wasn’t true.”
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