$2.7 billion reasons for Murdoch to can him.

Trump will always love him though.

Like Trump loves Proud Boys, patriots who beat cops with poles of American flags (NOT kneel before the flag!),  Kim Jong ... etc.

Meanwhile here's an example of what Fox News was doing tonite, culture wars with Gaetz which Marjorie was thrilled to tweet--and do note the female afro-american anchorperson (doesn't look at all like Lou, hmmmm)

wondering if they are going to play this clip on Fox as regards the new GOP patriotism talking points:

it really is on fire on  Twitter. This is one good reply to the GOP talking points:

Stelter adds a point that is often missed: high ratings does not necessarily always equal high profit in advertising dollars! From Feb. 6 Mediaite article by Caleb Howe of CNN show:

CNN’s Brian Stelter on Saturday called the cancelling of Lou Dobbs a “curious” move by Fox, saying it isn’t clear why they would punish him but not other on-air personalities that were equally to blame for spreading Donald Trump‘s claims about a stolen election and drawing massive lawsuits against the company.

Stelter also suggested that, even though this is a literal cancellation, it’s less an example of cancel culture than it is “consequence” culture.

Anchor Victor Blackwell discussed the new $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox and Dobbs, and then asked Stelter “Do you know how much of that factor the lawsuit played in, potentially into Dobbs’ firing?”

“Right, that certainly seems like it was a factor, but sources at Fox say there were other factors as well,” said Stelter. “They say Dobbs’ show, although relatively high rated for Fox Business, was actually a loss leader, because advertisers did not want to be associated with his extreme right-wing content.”

Stelter then brought up Fox News host Tucker Carlson as an example of a similar situation with advertisers.

“Of course that’s true for others at Fox, like Tucker Carlson. But Carlson has a much bigger audience. So there are definitely multiple factors here, but the timing is clear,” said Stelter. “The timing is obvious. He was on the air Thursday, the lawsuit was filed on Thursday, he was off the air on Friday, he’s never coming back. That is a shocking move by a network, to make.” 

“You have to wonder if what the network is doing is basically coming up with a sacrificial lamb in the midst of this massive lawsuit, and then waiting to see what will happen next,” he continued. “I know that Dobbs and other hosts on Fox rail against cancel culture, they say they’re being canceled. Well this is an actual cancellation, but this might really be more like a consequence culture. There are consequences for constantly peddling falsehoods on television, and at least in this one case, perhaps there are real consequences for Dobbs.”

After a bit more discussion about the lawsuit in particular, Stelter brought up consequences again [....]

hilarious-OAN's legal disclaimer for Lindell's show: