Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson took a shot at leadership at the network, which fired him earlier this year, saying the conservative media giant is run by “fearful women.”
“The Murdochs never got in my way. They were always good to me,” Carlson said during the most recent episode of his video show on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “But there were always small minded. … It’s a company run by fearful women, you know what I mean?”
Carlson said that while he was at Fox, he did not face direct pressure about what topics he could provide commentary on and holds no ill will toward the network, which still has him under contract.
Fox took Carlson off the air in April just days after it agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787 million to settle claims of defamation stemming from false statements about its software made on the network’s airwaves.
As part of the Dominion litigation, a trove of internal messages from Carlson showed him complaining about how Fox was covering the fallout of the 2020 election and disparaging female leadership at the network.
The watchdog Media Matters for America weeks later published leaked, unaired footage of Carlson making sexist comments on the set of his Fox show.
Carlson last week published a wide-ranging interview with former President Trump, who skipped the first Republican primary debate, citing a “hostile” relationship with Fox.
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