{"id":1927994,"date":"2023-05-10T08:10:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T12:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/frank-gaffney-says-fox-news-willing-to-pay-handsomely-to-keep-tucker-carlson-off-the-air\/"},"modified":"2023-05-10T08:11:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T12:11:26","slug":"frank-gaffney-says-fox-news-willing-to-pay-handsomely-to-keep-tucker-carlson-off-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/frank-gaffney-says-fox-news-willing-to-pay-handsomely-to-keep-tucker-carlson-off-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Gaffney claims Fox News will pay a lot to keep Tucker Carlson away from broadcasting."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffrank-gaffney-says-fox-news-willing-to-pay-handsomely-to-keep-tucker-carlson-off-the-air%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1927994&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Is Fox News Paying Tucker Carlson to Stay Silent?<\/h2>\n<p>Despite being taken off the air, Fox News may still be paying Tucker Carlson millions of dollars to keep him under contract, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-urge-biden-to-keep-embassy-in-jerusalem\/\" title=\"House Republicans Urge Biden to Keep Embassy in Jerusalem\">foreign policy analyst<\/a> and political commentator Frank Gaffney.<\/p>\n<h3>The End of an Era<\/h3>\n<p>Gaffney believes that the end of Carlson&#8217;s primetime show, &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight,&#8221; is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woke-corporate-virtue-signaling-reeks-of-hypocrisy-rubio-rips-mlb-for-moving-all-star-game-despite-ties-to-cuba-china\/\" title=\"\u2018Woke Corporate Virtue Signaling \u2026 Reeks Of Hypocrisy\u2019: Rubio Rips MLB For Moving All-Star Game Despite Ties To Cuba, China\">significant loss<\/a> for conservatives. He says that the show was &#8220;arguably the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fcc-ftw-commissioner-rips-absurd-claim-govt-can-block-musks-purchase-of-twitter\/\" title=\"\u2018FCC FTW\u2019: Commissioner Rips \u2018Absurd\u2019 Claim Gov\u2019t Can Block Musk\u2019s Purchase Of Twitter\">important platform<\/a> that conservatives have had, certainly in the past few years. And it comes at a moment when that\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cruz-unloads-on-democrats-election-bill-schumer-inadvertently-is-right-this-is-jim-crow-2-0\/\" title=\"Cruz Unloads On Democrats\u2019 Election Bill: Schumer \u2018Inadvertently\u2019 Is \u2018Right,\u2019 This Is Jim Crow 2.0\">deeply injurious<\/a> to the effort to wage the war of ideas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Gaffney doesn&#8217;t always agree with Carlson&#8217;s views, he acknowledges that the show gave a voice to many thoughtful, informed individuals who wouldn&#8217;t have had the opportunity to communicate beyond the normal reaches of the conservative movement.<\/p>\n<h3>Contractual Constraints<\/h3>\n<p>Other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftist-commentators-erupt-at-tom-brady-for-not-wearing-mask-before-and-after-super-bowl-win\/\" title=\"Leftist Commentators Erupt At Tom Brady For Not Wearing Mask Before And After Super Bowl Win\">political commentators<\/a>, including former Fox News host Megyn Kelly, believe that Carlson hasn&#8217;t technically been fired and that Fox News will continue to pay out his current contract in a way that prevents him from taking his talents elsewhere. Gaffney shares this belief.<\/p>\n<p>Gaffney thinks that Fox executives ended Carlson&#8217;s shows to prevent him from talking about ideas or policies that the network&#8217;s owners dislike. He says that Fox News &#8220;seem to be willing to pay handsomely for the privilege of keeping [Carlson] essentially, incommunicado.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not entirely clear what contractual constraints still tie Carlson and Fox News together. However, Carlson appears to have retained Bryan Freedman, a lawyer who previously represented Kelly during her split with NBC News.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is Fox News trying to silence Tucker Carlson?<\/li>\n<li>What contractual constraints still tie Carlson and Fox News together?<\/li>\n<li>Why is the end of &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight&#8221; a significant loss for conservatives?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are just a few of the questions that remain unanswered as we wait to see what happens next in this ongoing saga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News may be willing to keep paying Carlson millions of dollars to keep him under contract despite taking him off the air, at least according to foreign policy analyst and political commentator Frank Gaffney. \u201cIt seems as though Tucker is still under some constraints from Fox, at least as best I can tell for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1759,"featured_media":1927995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[24656,3703,4856,7690,5988,26340,8417,4133,5280,3748],"class_list":["post-1927994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-broadcasting","tag-carlson","tag-claims","tag-fox","tag-frank","tag-gaffney","tag-lot","tag-news","tag-pay","tag-tucker"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}