Kari Lake, a former Arizona gubernatorial candidate and television host, congratulated Carlson on the move.
“The best decision I ever made was leaving Fox. Good for you, @TuckerCarlson. You’re free & uncensored!” she tweeted.
Former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, who frequently lambasted the Fox News host in the past, said it’s “about time” after all his “lies and defamation.”
Democrats echoed a similar sentiment, characterizing Carlson’s departure as a win for democracy.
“Crazy thought, but maybe it’s time to face some consequences after blatantly lying to millions of Americans and actively eroding democracy for years,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) wrote on Twitter.
Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) blasted the primetime host, calling his program “a sewer of countless lies and hate spewed out every single night” in a tweet. “One of the leading election deniers and opponents of democracy in America and abroad will no longer have a primetime platform. That’s a good thing.”
In his 14 years as a political analyst at Fox News, Carlson made a name for himself as a conservative firebrand, often creating controversies that landed him in hot water with Democrats and Republicans alike. Before that, he was a host on MSNBC for three years.
In March, Carlson said rioters were “right” to believe the 2020 presidential election was “unfairly conducted,” despite there being no evidence of election interference.
Carlson has also expressed his support for Russian President Vladimir Putin, once saying “Why do I care what is going on in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia? I’m serious. Why shouldn’t I root for Russia? Which by the way I am.” He later backed away from the statement, claiming that he was joking.
And in 2018, a number of advertisers cut ties with his show over immigration-related remarks in which Carlson said some lawmakers tell Americans they have a “moral obligation to admit the world’s poor … even if it makes our own country poorer and dirtier and more divided.”
The announcement by Fox News was followed shortly after by CNN host Don Lemon’s announcement that he was fired by his company, citing “some larger issues at play.”
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Hyderabad: City police commissioner CV Anand on Tuesday commended the investigating officers and court duty officers, SHE teams officers for their work after the accused school driver of DAV public school who sexually assaulted a four-year-old was sentenced to imprisonment for 20 years.
The commissioner said that the concerted efforts of all arms of the criminal justice system led to the conviction of the accused in record time.
A fast-track court on Tuesday sentenced Beemana Rajani Kumar (34), a driver of a private school in Hyderabad to 20 years in jail for sexually assaulting a four-year-old LKG student. However, the court acquitted the school principal S Madhavi.
Kumar, who was working as the principal’s driver, was arrested on October 19, 2022, for sexually assaulting the LKG student. The principal of DAV Public School in Banjara Hills was also arrested for negligence.
The incident came to light after the parents of the victim noticed behavioural changes in her.
The SHE teams and Bharosa team counselled the victim, comforted her and worked in tandem with the police officers throughout the trial.
CV Anand felicitated P Rukmini, Bharosa and SHE teams inspector, legal counsellor Kalpana, counsellor Radharani, Dharani, who supported the team. Banjarahills subinspector B Manoj Kumar, court duty and summons officers K Naresh Kumar, S Ramulu, Venkat Krishna, MA Baig, V Venkatesh, Akkula Reddy and public prosecutor Pratap reddy.
The entire trial was closely monitored by investigation officer, Narender under the supervision of West Zone deputy commissioner of police Joel Davis, said a press release.
I allowed myself to be encouraged by my father that the talent I have has no market in India. He was convinced that it is the USA where my talents would bloom. My younger brother was already settled. That is the only open society where you will find good bearing, he had advised. I took off from India with a blind stroke of a straight bat, hoping to continue after one stop in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, putting my USA dream on hold.
Being a master’s scholarship student of Urban Planning in the New Delhi’s prestigious ‘School of Planning and Architecture’ SPA with Housing as specialization I was confident of doing something worthwhile. The SPA Director’s vision was to make everyone in the class of 35 the best after two years of the master’s programme completion. Prior to my departure I had my own office with a colleague of SPA and a teaching job in Jawaharlal Technological University in Hyderabad. But I found myself on a blind date.
Before I proceed, a brief SPA experience would add value to my sojourn.
In SPA I got embroiled with a senior student from my own state, Andhra Pradesh. After my admission in SPA in an all-India competition, I arrived on time and was ushered into a good room in the SPA hostel on the top floor on a first come first serve basis.
However, it was not liked by our state’s favored senior student who had come late. He kept harassing me to vacate the room for him. Since I was young and new, I felt restive and wanted to see the Director for my problem. Before I could meet the Director, the registrar briefed him about my case and gave me only 5 to 10 minutes to explain him and move out of his room.
The Director was very kind and explained to me that since I come from a ‘Hyderabadi type’ of soft background, I need to get adjusted in whatever way I could to continue my studies. He was aware that I was among the top five candidates from all over India. He narrated his experience of London School of RIBA regarding his own roommate who incidentally also was a Hyderabadi but shy and self-composed.
The major lesson he gave me was to be the best. He made me stand for more than an hour to listen to his doctrine of making the SPA students the best. I returned to my room and moved over to the ground floor.
After that episode my approach to life became thoroughly professional which helped me to be assertive up-front and result oriented. I was someone that did not look back. I always succeeded.
My foreign journey predicament
I landed in the coastal city of Jeddah for Hajj with only 2.5-pound sterling which the travel agent gave me before boarding. He had taken all documents signed in return of my travel documents that included my foreign exchange. I took a taxi to a handwritten address of a relative after cajoling the taxi man for one pound and eating a sandwich for another one. I was left with 50 shillings (5X10) coins, which is still with me among my heritage travel bags.
The initial first week I fulfilled all the sacred rituals and got dropped in the night near a Hajjis travel lodging. In the scramble of all that I misplaced the location paper of my relative. There was no place to stay. At the same time I had fallen sick. I took refuge in the travel lodge’s basement parking area. I visited the nearby government clinic where I was given a handful of multi-coloured tablets to take with meals. For food, I would walk by any group eating together to be invited. They were nice religious people. They would often ask me to join them for food. After a couple of days, I became weaker but as luck would have it, I manage to locate the residence of my relatives who lived around the corner.
I was sick for a couple of more days. Still I enquired about the address of the downtown where I had been told that numerous offices are located. Suffering with fever and weakness, I decided to look for the downtown. I took to the street with my meager projects’ portfolios. I had to find a job to survive. I entered a newly built office mall called the “Queen’s Building” and went through the ‘Building Office Inventory’. There were many engineering and construction offices in the list. That gave me hopes of finding some job. My desperation was such that I was ready to take up even the job of a typist if it was available. I entered one office that reflected its cosmopolitan image. There some men and women working together.
At the reception I enquired about an architect’s job opening. The young woman receptionist looked at me from top (shaven head) to bottom (very lean thin person). Surprisingly, she dared to say that I did not look like an architect. I was flustered. I rebutted in English that ‘I am not here for a beauty contest.’ She was not expecting such an answer from a walk-in job seeker.
She said sheepishly that the architect-owner of ‘IDEA Center’ would come in a few minutes and that I can be seated. Soon after a young, tall and handsome Saudi gentleman walked in his traditional attire and asked the receptionist in an American accent to clear the entrance as he was expecting an important client soon. He looked at me and asked, ‘Who is this’?
She told him that I was a job seeker. He advised her to clear the place and make me sit somewhere inside with the staff. I went inside and took an empty seat near the drafting board with a person working on it.
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SV Reservation Center, RDQ Sketch Perspective Concept sketch designed on the flight to Saudi Arabia.
It took a good amount of time. The Saudi gentleman barged in again to ask the person working on the drafting board to hurry up. He made three more visits every time making more noise. I stood up gently to see what exactly that person was doing and read the nicely drawn presentation. While sitting next to the drafting board, I took my pad and started sketching as it was my habit.
The owner came again and this time he snatched the drawing off the drafting board. For the next few seconds he saw the sketch I had worked on and asked directly, “What is this?’
I said, “It is my version of the assignment he had given to that gentleman.” He suddenly said it was fantastic and went on to ask me whether I could give him that sketch. I handed him over the sketch.”
He vanished again inside his office.
A few minutes later the same receptionist who had doubts about my looks came hurriedly towards me. She had a pad and pencil in hand. She asked for my needs to design the sketch as a project. She also asked in what time I can finish the design.
With my responses, I found something which I had not expected at all. I was immediately appointed to the job. I was told to start working from the next day. With the speed of turn of events, I was in a shock.
Was this real or a dream? I asked myself.
The answer was no it was not. It was the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia running with lightening speed to become one of the most happening countries in the world.
I also ended up asking myself. Was it the way Saudi Arabia worked? Or was it my sheer luck?
Perhaps I was at that place at the right time.
I took it as a great opportunity and called my beginning there as ‘Instant Architecture’. My professional climb thereafter was based on the brand I subconsciously created as ‘Instant Architecture’, like instant tea which was getting marketed at that time. Ready to share and give architectural designs at any given situation. On hearing the requirements in any form my hand will start sketching the design as required.
SV HQ Bldg Jeddah KSA My Concept hand sketch design – Winning entry SV HQ Model
I owe appreciation of my work to my father who was the real super-visionary. He understood my potential and advised me to pursue my talents outside of India.
With a quirk of fate my architectural designs now grace great metropolises of India, the Middle East, Europe, and USA.
The self-belief helped me to design great architectures by traveling around the world in search of my identity.
In recent days I have given up active architectural design passion on persuasion of my children who proclaimed, “Enough is enough. You are not getting any younger.” They demanded that I spend more time with them. And that is what I am doing now.
My Dream HouseVilla Design – kept me in KSA SV Flight Trg Center, Jeddah Villa Design – kept me in KSA SV Flight Trg Center, Jeddah SV Jamia CTO Bldg, Jeddah SV Medical Center, Jeddah SV Medical Center, Jeddah
The article is a biographical narrative of Zahyr Siddiqi, a Hyderabad- born architect and urban planner who made his fortune in the Kingdom Saudi Arabia. He now lives in Chicago, IL, USA.
Early on, we got one of the rarities of such a speech: a solid laugh line. In talking about the bipartisan infrastructure act, he thanked the Republicans who voted for it, and then added this: “And to my Republican friends who voted against it but still ask to fund projects in their districts, don’t worry. I promised to be the president for all Americans. We’ll fund your projects. And I’ll see you at the ground-breaking.”
There was as well, the trumpeting of the economic news that has turned brighter in recent months — record low unemployment, an easing of inflation — and with a nationalist take on his economic agenda that may have made Donald Trump jealous.
“‘Buy American’ has been the law of the land since 1933,” Biden said. “But for too long, past administrations, Democrat and Republican, have fought to get around it. Not anymore. … On my watch, American roads, bridges and American highways will be made with American products.”
The meat of the speech, however, was a series of assaults on the forces that were costing Americans money — a group that included not just familiar villains of the progressive left, but those that likely never have been called out in a State of the Union speech before.
Yes, there was the specter of the ultra-wealthy who paid little or no taxes.
“I’m a capitalist. But pay your fair share. I think a lot of you at home agree. … Look, the idea that in 2020, 55 of the largest companies in America, the Fortune 500, made $40 billion in profits and paid zero in federal taxes? Zero? Folks, that’s simply not fair.”
Yes, Big Oil was in the dock again, with Biden blaming them for the spike in energy costs.
“Last year, they made $200 billion in the midst of a global energy crisis,” he said. “I think it is outrageous. Why? They invested too little of that profit to increase domestic production.”
But Biden also reached down into much more quotidian matters. Look at the examples he used:
“We’re making airlines show you the full ticket price upfront and refund your money if your flight is canceled or delayed. We’ve reduced exorbitant bank overdrafts, saving consumers more than $1 billion a year. We’re cutting credit card late fees by 75 percent, from $30 to $8. Junk fees may not matter to the very wealthy, but they matter to most folks in homes like the one on your bill. … The idea that cable, internet and cell phone companies can charge you $200 or more if you decide to switch to another provider. Give me a break.”
I suspect this part of the speech will be mocked in many corners, for the small-bore nature of the topics. But it was striking for referencing the kind of daily outrages that burden ordinary life at the drug store, the airport or at the kitchen table as the bills pile up. They are in sharp contrast to the State of the Union speeches weighed down with Washington-speak that makes eyes glaze over by the millions.
Biden sounded genuinely outraged, and that’s something people respond to.
When and if he kicks off his reelection campaign — and tonight’s speech made the “when” way more likely than the “if” — expect to hear a lot more like this from Biden from now until November 2024.
I still think the conventional wisdom is right — that these moments rarely if ever affect the political terrain. But the president and his team deserve some credit for trying to speak more plainly and clearly to the country.
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