Stephen LeDrew returned to the Tucker Carlson program on Fox News out of Washington Wednesday night, exactly two weeks after his appearance there that caused him to be fired. LeDrew said that in the end, Bell fired him for “mocking” the huge conglomerate because they had suspended him for appearing on “the competition.” The notion that Fox News represented anything like competition to a regional news channel like CP24 in Toronto was a source of some amusement to Carlson. Both he and LeDrew professed puzzlement at the reasoning. The former noon hour gadfly told in greater detail than he had previously what happened the morning of Thursday, November 30. “Thursday morning I was called by one person.”
“ONE PERSON”
“Bell Media is a great organization.” LeDrew said, “but one person runs the local cable show. I was told it’s against the rules.” LeDrew said he asked “What’s the rule? They (Fox) didn’t pay me. They (the one person) said Fox is competition to CP24. You can’t go on the competition. Later that day I was suspended,” LeDrew said. “You don’t tell everybody that (you are) suspended for seven days without saying why, so I said clearly they thought Fox was competition to CP24 in Canada. And after that they (Bell Media) said, well now you’re fired because you’re mocking us. No one likes to be ridiculed, it’s a ridiculous decision.” Carlson said that LeDrew should come to the US as a refugee and he would be taken care of. LeDrew responded that he didn’t need “to be taken care of. I haven’t sold my Rolls Royce yet. I’m still in pretty good shape,” he said laughing.
