The View resumes celebrating Tucker Carlson exit, mourns Don Lemon termination
Julia Johnson
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The hosts of The View were overjoyed on Monday when they found out about the shocking departure of Tucker Carlson from Fox News.
However, they didn’t celebrate for just one day, as they continued to discuss the news on Tuesday.
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“I am happy to know someone like him no longer has the platform he had built in by Fox News,” Sara Haines said of Carlson.
According to her, he lied and “shopped around some really dangerous things” during his time at the network.
Sunny Hostin remained skeptical of the network’s goals with Carlson’s exit, saying, “Fox News is not a news division.”
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“They know very well that their anchors are spewing hatred and divisiveness and that they are, I think, partially responsible for the demise of our democracy — degradation of our democracy,” she told her co-hosts.
“I’ve kind of known Tucker over the years,” Alyssa Farah Griffin began. “This decision he’s made in the last number of years, where it’s, like, he actively lied to his audience, at the end of the day, the paychecks don’t matter — your integrity does. And I have to wonder if he’s thinking, ‘Man, I could have been George Will, or somebody respectable or reputable, or I went this route.'”
When the news broke on Monday, the hosts announced it to their live audience, whom they then led in song. Whoopi Goldberg also initiated “the wave” with her fellow hosts to celebrate.
Many on the Right swiftly criticized their reaction, including former Fox News host Megyn Kelly.
“Ana Navarro, in your wildest imagination, you could never solo host a show,” Kelly said. “You will only ever make it as part of an ensemble, and you could never hope to achieve the success that Tucker Carlson has.”
“So you can sit in your little cheap seats all day long and enjoy your little negative hen-pecking,” she said.
According to a statement on Monday from a Fox News spokesperson: “FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.”
It remains unclear what led to the exit of one of Fox News’s most successful hosts.
While the news of Carlson’s ouster was welcome for the controversial daytime hosts, Don Lemon’s firing from CNN was more of a sore point.
“I know that I’m biased here because Don is my friend,” Hostin said. “He has been my friend for 20 years. … I don’t believe, in my experience with him, that he’s a misogynist. I think he loves women.”
“I am stunned,” she added. “And I hate that people are comparing Tucker’s firing with Don’s firing.”
She further spoke on the embattled ex-CNN host’s previous controversies, saying: “Don, yes, said some things that were sexist and, I think, ageist. He apologized for them and received formal training.”
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Griffin agreed that Lemon’s termination was “so different” from Carlson’s exit.
Goldberg, who has also admittedly “known Don forever,” further asked: “If you’re concerned that somebody is a misogynist, why would you put them with two women to do a show — if you feel that way, if you feel that concerned?”
“So for me, it seemed odd when they gave him that show,” she said in reference to his most recent CNN program, CNN This Morning.
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On Monday, Lemon tweeted that his agent had let him know about his termination from CNN. The “stunned” former host also said: “After 17 years at CNN I would have thought that someone in management would have the decency to tell me directly. At no time was I ever given any indication that I would not be able to continue to do the work I have loved at the network.”
However, CNN has said this statement was “inaccurate.” “Don Lemon’s statement about this morning’s events is inaccurate. He was offered an opportunity to meet with management but instead released a statement on Twitter,” the network tweeted.