Know whyTucker Carlson was forced out of Fox News, Bill O'Reilly says the GOP is in a fix

Bill O’Reilly, the onetime host of the Fox News show “The O’Reilly Factor,” was fired in 2017 amid a sexual harassment scandal.Credit...Mary Altaffer/Associated Press The removal of Tucker Carlson from Fox News, according to Bill O'Reilly, who was fired from the network in 2017, could have "a tremendous effect on the future of the Fox News Channel" as well as on the 2024 presidential election. "Because the Republican Party, most of it, paid attention to Tucker Carlson," O'Reilly said on Monday on an episode of his show, "No Spin News." "But the Republican profile in the media is much less now," he added. "And that will have an effect on mostly independent voters. Because, you know, the word won't get out as fast, whatever the word may be." Fox News, according to O'Reilly, is run in the form of "fiefdoms," with each show controlling its own programming. According to O'Reilly, Carlson's sphere of influence was the Americans on the "committed right." His audience will have few well-known personalities in the right-wing media sector to look to now that Carlson has left Fox News, he claimed. [caption id="attachment_163626" align="aligncenter" width="630"] Image credit : Politico[/caption] "So Carlson had a very successful run at Fox and was very influential among committed conservatives. They're different than casual conservatives. They're right there every day," O'Reilly said. Also read : Elon Musk, the co-founder of OpenAI, says he tried to make it ‘next big thing from Google’ after differing with Larry Page over AI safety Fox News made a shocking revelation on Monday that Carlson will no longer be hosting its primetime program. The dismissal of Carlson differs slightly from that of O'Reilly: According to The The New York Times., the latter was ejected from Fox News after a wave of sexual harassment claims were filed against him. A week before to Carlson's dismissal, Fox paid Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million to settle a significant defamation claim that was brought against it. Dominion said that Fox News and its hosts, including Carlson, damaged its reputation by making unfounded allegations of electoral fraud in the 2020 presidential contest. Abby Grossberg, a former producer of Carlson's, has also filed a complaint against him and other Fox officials. Grossberg claimed in her complaint that Carlson and the other CEOs established "a work environment that subjugates women based on vile sexist stereotypes."