In a lengthy note to The Daily Beast from Clarke's email address, an unnamed "assistant" to the sheriff wrote that after years of appearing as a "guest host" on Fox, he spoke to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott in late 2017 about becoming a paid contributor, "no longer wanting to work for free for them while they made money on ratings off of him."
According to Clarke's "assistant," the sheriff then never heard again from Scott or any Fox News producers. Because of this, the sheriff senses a left-wing conspiracy at play. "It may have had something to do with the very liberal Rupert Murdoch boy taking over after Roger Ailes and Bill Shine, who was in charge of programming, were let go. Ailes and Bill Shine liked the sheriff," Clarke's rep wrote.