Thread by @ErikWemple

This was a remarkable moment in @foxnews history.

https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1329595108078063619

@FoxNews By ripping Sidney Powell with unequivocal language, @tuckercarlson has raised some eyebrows on the left and has apparently alienated some @foxnews diehards, to judge from his mentions. 2/

@FoxNews @TuckerCarlson What matters here, however, is the timing: Baseless allegations from various Trump campaign types have been spilling out for two weeks now, and @tuckercarlson has helped keep them alive. 3/

@FoxNews @TuckerCarlson Remember, for instance, how he picked up the dead-voter story and ended up having to issue a correction over one of the people. More generally, he treated the voter-fraud claims with a friendly deference. 4/

@FoxNews @TuckerCarlson By this point, however, the fraud of the voter-fraud team is just too overwhelming to ignore. Seeing the obvious, @tuckercarlson tonight got out of the way of this whole disaster, the better to preserve his cachet as a iconoclastic truth-telling guy. 5/