A new book about Fox News put Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in a tight spot. According to \u201cThe Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty,\u201d DeSantis \u2018kicked\u2019 Tucker\u2019s dog during a dinner in Florida.<\/p>\n
DeSantis was Rupert Murdoch\u2019s pick to be the GOP presidential candidate in 2024 and he wanted his top anchors to get on board. But Tucker wanted to get to know Ron first and more importantly, he wanted his wife, whose opinion he valued above all others, to do the same. So Tucker Carlson and his wife Susan invited Ron DeSantis and his wife Casey to dinner.<\/p>\n
But during dinner, Ron kicked Tucker\u2019s dog under the table causing a horrified Susie and Tucker to turn their backs on DeSantis. From the book:<\/p>\n
\u201cThere had been quiet urgings at Fox for Carlson to be open-minded about Murdoch\u2019s favored candidate.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy early spring 2023, this had culminated in the DeSantises coming to lunch at the Carlsons\u2019 home in Boca Grande, an exclusive community on Florida\u2019s Gasparilla Island. And certainly, for DeSantis, this was a significant moment \u2014 an opportunity to reach out, to break bread, to make nice, to suck up to a plausible kingmaker.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe DeSantis strategy, to the degree that he had one other than embodying the media dream of any alternative to Trump, was to make quick proof-of-product inroads into the MAGA base, for which he was heavily dependent on Fox.<\/p>\n
\u201cWinning Carlson over would be an important part of making good use of the network.<\/p>\n
\u201cCarlson put DeSantis\u2019s fate to a focus group of one: his wife. When they lived in Washington, Susie Carlson wouldn\u2019t even see politicians. Carlson himself may have known everyone, dirtied himself for a paycheck, but not his wife.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn her heart, it was 1985 and still a Wasp world, absent people, in Susie Carlson\u2019s description and worldview, who were \u201cimpolite, hyperambitious, fraudulent.\u201d She had no idea what was happening in the news and no interest in it.<\/p>\n
\u201cHer world was her children, her dogs, and the books she was reading. So the DeSantises were put to the Susie Carlson test.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey failed it miserably.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey had a total inability to read the room \u2014 one with a genteel, stay-at-home woman, here in her own house.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor two hours, Ron DeSantis sat at her table talking in an outdoor voice indoors, failing to observe any basics of conversational ritual or propriety, reeling off an unself-conscious list of his programs and initiatives and political accomplishments.<\/p>\n
\u201cImpersonal, cold, uninterested in anything outside of himself.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Carlsons are dog people with four spaniels, the progeny of other spaniels they have had before, who sleep in their bed.<\/p>\n
\u201cDeSantis pushed the dog under the table. Had he kicked the dog?<\/p>\n
\u201cSusie Carlson\u2019s judgment was clear: She did not ever want to be anywhere near anybody like that ever again. Her husband agreed.<\/p>\n
\u201cDeSantis, in Carlson\u2019s view, was a \u201cfascist.\u201d Forget Ron DeSantis,\u201d the book\u00a0says.<\/p>\n\n
Sharing is caring! A new book about Fox News put Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in a tight spot. According to \u201cThe Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty,\u201d DeSantis \u2018kicked\u2019 Tucker\u2019s dog during a dinner in Florida. DeSantis was Rupert Murdoch\u2019s pick to be the GOP presidential candidate in 2024 and he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}