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Mickey Kaus quits one conservative website, because they pulled his column that blasted FOX for not going after illegal immigration harder.

Basically Kaus had been writing for Daily Caller since nearly it's inception. Of course, Daily Caller is run by Tucker Carlson.

So he wrote up an article about "How Fox Makes It Easy for Amnesty Supporters in the GOP".

Well Kaus found out that Tucker himself ordered the article pulled, because

Quote:"It's pretty simple," Kaus said in an interview, "I wrote a piece attacking Fox for not being the opposition on immigration and amnesty -- for filling up the airwaves with reports on ISIS and terrorism, and not fulfilling their responsibility of being the opposition on amnesty and immigration.... I posted it at 6:30 in the morning. When I got up, Tucker had taken it down. He said, 'We can't trash Fox on the site. I work there.'"

Kaus wasn't going after FOX for going so heavy on ISIS, he even says that in the article (now on his website), but for sleepwalking over the illegal immigration (DHS funding) story.

And the politico column adds in a line:

Quote:Kaus says when he told Carlson he needed to be able to write about Fox, Carlson told him it was a hard-and-fast rule, and non-negotiable.

"He said it was a rule, and he wouldn't be able to change that rule. So I told him I quit," Kaus explained. "I just don't see how you can put out a publication with that kind of giant no-go area. It's not like we're owned by Joe's Muffler Shop, so we just can't write about Joe's Muffler shop."

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"It's a larger problem on the right: Everybody is scared of Fox," he said. "Fox is their route to a high-profile public image and in some cases stardom. Just to be on a Fox show is a big deal. And I think that's a problem on the right, Fox's monopoly on star-making power."

Good for Kaus for sticking to his guns on this one.