Tucker: Zucker's Out

Tucker talks about why he’s not celebrating CNN’s firing of Jeff Zucker.

Highlights include:

“You’ve probably heard CNN president Jeff Zucker got fired this morning. In a statement, Zucker said he’s been dating a colleague, didn’t disclose it, and when his bosses found out they made him leave. That’s not true, everyone in the TV business already knew about Zucker’s relationship with the head of CNN’s marketing department.”

“But as usual, with CNN, you’ve got to wade through a lot of lies to get to what actually happened.”

“On this day, when we should be celebrating Jeff Zucker’s departure, we’re not celebrating. Why is that? Because we see a pattern here.”

“Only a certain type of CEO ever gets fired. It’s not the weak ones. The guys who do what they’re told — those people tend to keep their jobs til they retire.”

“More than at any time in our history, America is run by people like that. It’s only the strong who are punished. Strong leaders tend to be abrasive, they’re arrogant, sometimes they’re what we now call ‘abusive.'”

“A lot of modern people are put off by strong leaders, but you’ve gotta’ have them.”

“Our current leaders are fearful because they are old. But the opposite is also true. They kept power into their 80s because they put safety first. They put it over creativity, over courage, over leadership. Nancy Pelosi never built anything. Neither has Joe Biden or Mitch McConnell. They’re not capable of building anything. At the very best, they can preserve what others have built, not that they’ve even tried to do that.”

“Jeff Zucker, whatever else we have said about him, and meant, Jeff Zucker tried to do something new. We hated what he did, we did not share his vision, we found it repugnant and destructive. but at least Jeff Zucker had a vision. Too few still do.”

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