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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) bashed Dominion Voting Systems over the departure of Tucker Carlson from Fox News, following a report that the popular conservative primetime host was fired from the network as part of its settlement with the voting software company.
Carlson was told by a member of the networks board of directors that he was taken off the air as part of the Fox News settlement with Dominion, according to Axios, which cited unidentified sources briefed on the conversations. Abbott said if the reporting was true, then he is happy that Dominion does not operate in Texas.
We may disagree with others positions, but we should never try to improperly silence views contrary to our own, Abbott said on Twitter on Saturday. If Dominion wants to do business with Texas in the future, they should first answer questions about what role, if any, they played in silencing a prominent conservative journalist.
A Fox News spokesperson in a statement to Axios said that the idea that Carlson was let go of as part of the settlement was categorically false. An attorney for Dominion also told the news outlet that it did not insist on Carlson being fired.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/abbott-knocks-dominion-over-tucker-120026902.html
Hey Governor Shit for Brains, Fox News fired Tuckems because he was a liability. Maybe there's a local station in your good state of Texas that will give him a job. Then you can watch him to your heart's content.
GenThePerservering
(1,824 posts)no one owes you an explanation, jackass.
Lovie777
(12,278 posts)good and evil. All the do is trash, lie, cheat, steal, make up shit, rinse and repeat.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)They have no shame whatsoever when it comes to hypocrisy or intellectual dishonesty (doubt most of them even know what those words mean though).
txwhitedove
(3,929 posts)others positions, but we should never try to improperly silence views contrary to our own, Abbott said on Twitter on Saturday. F'g liar.
spanone
(135,844 posts)ZonkerHarris
(24,229 posts)thats all they do
kimbutgar
(21,161 posts)They are both odious despicable jerks.
TwilightZone
(25,471 posts)As AG, he did nothing but sit around and think of ways to sue the Obama Administration. As Governor, he's spent most of his time figuring out how to screw Austin, Houston, and Dallas; take away rights; and whine about the feds.
DeSantis is (or acts) too dumb to get out of his own way. He's like a mini Trump. Abbott is competently evil. I think that makes him more dangerous, though either in the presidency would be a disaster akin to Trump. Maybe worse.