Another red-hot Fox News hater is departing CNN. Oliver Darcy -- or as we call him, "Farcy Darcy" -- is going independent. You could count on Darcy to sympathize if you wish like the NAACP that Fox News could just be banned. Because you want to "save democracy."

You could get the so-called CNN "Reliable Sources" newsletter for free, but Michael Grynbaum of the New York Times reports subscriptions to the new Darcy newsletter, simply called "Status," will begin at $15 a month or $150 per year; an elite membership, with perks like private Zoom calls, is available for $595 annually.

Someone apparently thinks a private Zoom call with Farcy Darcy is a "perk" worth $595. Here's who Darcy's leftist commentary attracts: Keith Olbermann, who lamented "Well there goes one of the few useful reporters @cnn." Howard Polskin of The Righting newsletter gushed "Darcy is a sharp wordsmith who knows how to make words dance."

In recent years, Darcy ripped into the new regime of CEO Chris Licht, who lamely attempted to calm down the hyperbole in CNN's Trump coverage. During the recent Republican National Convention, Darcy called out the network for airing “lie-filled speeches” with “little to no pushback.” The CNN brass must have wished they sent him packing alongside Brian Stelter in 2022.

Nevertheless, CNN CEO Mark Thompson proclaimed “Oliver has established himself as a tough but scrupulously fair leading voice in media reporting and commentary – never afraid to call it as he sees it.” Conservatives would not use words like "scrupulously fair." Darcy constantly warned of "the truth under assault" by the conservative media, as if truth was an exclusively liberal category.

The Times account continued: 

Mr. Darcy plans to start with an initial sponsor (he declined to specify the company) and an ad sales partnership with The Ankler, a start-up that covers Hollywood. He has no outside investors, and for now Mr. Darcy will be reporting alone.

“My pitch to readers is this is a 100 percent independent voice,” he said. “I don’t think there’s one product out there that does exactly what we do.”

This will be as "independent" as the "independent fact-checkers" -- in other words, a reliably leftist source. 

A CNN spokesperson said their "Reliable" newsletter would go on hiatus for the rest of the summer, returning in the fall with a new lead writer.