As everyone in the country knows by now, Tucker Carlson has left Fox News, a move that has was basically like an earthquake in conservative media circles. Carlson’s final broadcast of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” aired last Friday, and at the end of that show, Carlson gave no mention that it was to be his last, which many feel means Tucker wasn’t aware it was his last either.

LMAO this is Tucker's last show — stuffing his face with pizza and saying "we'll be back on Monday"

H/t @tylermonroe7 pic.twitter.com/H7jqeEJv0A

— Lis Power (@LisPower1) April 24, 2023

“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,” Fox News said in a statement.

Carlson joined Fox News as a contributor in 2009 and served as a co-host of “Fox and Friends Weekend” from 2012 to 2016. His absolutely awful fascistic nightly show debuted in November 2016, and he moved into the primetime 8 p.m. slot in April 2017.

News of Carlson’s departure from Fox News comes days after the network reached a $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems. The voting technology company filed a lawsuit against the cable news giant in March 2021, accusing it of knowingly airing false statements claiming Dominion helped to rig the 2020 presidential election against former Donald Trump. However, it is not believed that Dominion was the reason for Carlson’s firing, as Carlson wasn’t one of the anchors that went heavy on the “Big Lie” like other anchors like Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro did.

But, it is interesting to see the texts that Carlson sent that were disclosed during the depositions in the Dominion lawsuit. Many of which Fox News doesn’t want people to see. So, I thought it was my duty to go through them, and cull some of the best for you.

On Fox News’ Arizona call:

“We devote our lives to building an audience and they let Chris Wallace and Leland fucking Vittert wreck it,” Carlson texted in a group conversation with Ingraham and Sean Hannity roughly two weeks after the election. Vittert was a Fox News reporter who was frequently criticized by Trump, and he left the network in April 2021 for NewsNation.

On Trump being a wrecker of things:

“What he’s good at is destroying things,” Carlson texted producer Alex Pfeiffer on November 5. “He’s the undisputed world champion of that. He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong.”

This one is pretty well known, but I have to include it just cause I love it:

“I hate him passionately,” Carlson texted Pfeiffer on January 4, days prior to the riot at the U.S. Capitol. He added, of Trump’s presidency, “We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest. But come on. There really isn’t an upside to Trump.”

On election denialism:

On November 5, in response to his producer Alex Pfeiffer, who had written that “I really think many on ‘our side’ are being reckless demagogues right now,” Carlson wrote, “Of course they are. We’re not going to follow them. The sun will rise tomorrow and we want to wake up intact. I always think that.”

On Trump skipping Biden’s inauguration:

“Hard to believe. So destructive,” he texted Pfeiffer on November 10. “It’s disgusting. I’m trying to look away.”

On the prospect of ditching Trump coverage on Fox:

Two days before the Capitol riot, Carlson wrote to a colleague that “we are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait.” The day after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, he texted his producer that “Trump has two weeks left. Once he’s out, he becomes incalculably less powerful, even in the minds of his supporters. He’s a demonic force, a destroyer. But he’s not going to destroy us. I’ve been thinking about this every day for four years.”

And here are some great texts from Rupert Murdoch himself:

On the infamous Rudy Giuliani press conference with the hair dye dripping down his face:

“Stupid and damaging,” Murdoch wrote to a friend on November 19, the day of Giuliani’s meltdown. “The only one encouraging Trump and misleading him. Both increasingly mad.” Murdoch said he had heard that Trump was “apparently not sleeping and bouncing off walls” and that he worried about “what he might do as president.”

On calling the election for Biden:

“I hate our Decision Desk people!” Murdoch emailed former New York Post editor Col Allan on the day the election was called. “And pollsters! Some of the same people I think. Just for the hell of it still praying for Az to prove them wrong!” Later that day, he emailed his son Lachlan, writing that Fox News “should and could” have called the election for Biden before any other network. “But at least being second saves us a Trump explosion!”

And I will leave you with a few other great ones:

From Laura Ingraham on Rudy Giuliani:

“Rudy such an idiot,” Ingraham texted to an unknown recipient on January 12, 2021.

Sean Hannity on Rudy Giuliani:

“Rudy is acting like an insane person,” Hannity texted to an unknown recipient on November 11.

And one last infuriating one where Maria Bartiromo refused to call Biden the President-Elect:

“I want to see massive fraud exposed,” Bartiromo texted Steve Bannon a week after the election, adding that she instructed her team to hold off on referring to Biden as “president-elect” — “not in scripts or in banners on air. Until this moves through the courts.”

Such awful people. Yeah, they might not have needed to admit they lied, but you don’t pay $787 BILLION with a B because you’re a bastion of truth.

We all know they are filthy liars. Now, if only their viewers understood the same.