While conservatives mourned him, liberals like those at The View celebrated the announcement gleefully. Whoopi Goldberg announced the news, before Ana Navarro - one of the panel's few Republican hosts - led the audience in a chant of 'hey, hey, hey, goodbye!'
Home | Daily Mail Online "Tucker Carlson was blindsided by his firing from Fox News and learned of it on Monday morning shortly before it was announced, sources tell DailyMail.com.
"Even some of his closest staff were unaware that his show had been axed, reading about it for the first time on Twitter.
" 'No one I know was told about it beforehand. We were blindsided,' one senior staffer who works closely with Tucker's show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, told DailyMail.com
"Another insider revealed he still has no idea why he was let go so suddenly, and that many staffers are now questioning whether it's part of a wider plan by the Murdoch family to sell the media behemoth.
" 'Tucker still hasn't been given any indication of why he was taken off the air. His producer Justin Wells was fired too.
" 'We believe Rupert wants to sell the company and it's harder to find an institutional buyer with Tucker as the main star.
" 'Tucker gone makes it more of an appealing media company to buy,' the source said. ". . .
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