Oh, Tucker...

[D-Backs Hack]

Jesus, can we try this one more time?

Carlson called an Edwards case in which a girl's intestines were ****ing ripped out a "jacuzzi case," clearly implying that it was frivolous.

There is nothing left or right about it. It's a stupid-ass opinion. He's an idiot, a ****ing idiot, for saying it.

And evidently any complaints from the right are constructive criticism and free exercise of the right to dissent, while the same from the left is whining from a "limited worldview," which must be the latest buzzphrase from the blast faxes.

Nice.

 

[zeke12]

Again, you make a logical leap.

I might disagree with what you say.

I might also think you're an idiot.

The two are likely related.

But correlation does not equal causation.

Tucker Carlson is an idiot independent of where you perceive his political leanings to be.

 

[jimmymcd]

The initial post, which I was responding to, was about Carlson calling out Edwards on something completely apart from the "jacuzzi case". Guess I should use the quote function more often.

 

[D-Backs Hack]

Well, in the link with the initial post, Carlson seems to be holding Giuliani to one standard, and Edwards to another, for the same activity: charging a fee for speaking appearances.

I can see how a reasonable person would deduce that to be idiotic.

 

[jimmymcd]

That's debatable, Joe, if only for the fact that that slapdick Giuliani has never (as far as I know) said anything about the idea of "two Americas"... everyone knows he's a rich slime, and I don't think he's claimed otherwise (well, leaving out the slime part).

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

No love for Tucker the former newspaperman?

Heh, I didn't think so.

At least he hates Grover Norquist, as odious and disgusting a creep as there is on the right.

 

[NDub]

Beyond the bowtie and douchosity, when I think about Tucker Carlson I reminisce about Jon Stewart owning him on 'Crossfire.'

Magical.

 

[JBHawkEye]

I watched about five minutes of his show today. Painful.

 

[Birdscribe]

At least he hates Grover Norquist, as odious and disgusting a creep as there is on the right.

Wow, LJB. That's a pretty big matzah ball to bite off. Too many contenders for that title.

Carlson is a tool for his flippant remark about an 8-year-old getting disemboweled. That he was Jon Stewart's ***** not only worked on the karma front, but made for incredible TV.

 

[pallister]

I always preferred Oscar to Grover.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

bird, Norquist is a coalitionist and the head of Americans for Tax Reform who wants Hamilton taken off the $10 and St. Ronnie's smiling visage -- big boy Grover's hero -- placed upon it. He regards almost any effort to regulate or tax anything as a Bolshevik infringement on freedom.

Not a household name, but he's one of the most dangerous people in Washington and regarded a framer of the terms of our political debates, if not a mover of modern history. Think of Nixon, only without the charm, good conscience or social graces.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

I wasn't too big on Grover as a child. Grover's lips looked like they were made of erasers.

 

[friend of a friend]

Super Grover, on the other hand, was badass.

 

[pallister]

Sesame Street-jack!

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

On my way, to where the terms are not consecutive.....

 

[Bucknutty]

Silly me for thinking it was a Tucker McLaughlin thread.

Carry on...

Count me as also being disappointed, dawg. Tucker Max would also have been acceptable to a lesser extent.

 

[zeke12]

That's debatable, Joe, if only for the fact that that slapdick Giuliani has never (as far as I know) said anything about the idea of "two Americas"... everyone knows he's a rich slime, and I don't think he's claimed otherwise (well, leaving out the slime part).

Logical Fallacy: False Dichotomy.

It is not, in and of itself, hypocritical for a rich person running for office to talk about issues that affect the poor and middle class.

Everyone running for office is rich, to one extent or another. To label any of them speaking about poverty as hypocrisy is nothing more than an attempt to disenfranchise half of the electorate -- with the ancillary benefit of getting to take a shot at John Edwards while you do it.

 

[Birdscribe]

bird, Norquist is a coalitionist and the head of Americans for Tax Reform who wants Hamilton taken off the $10 and St. Ronnie's smiling visage -- big boy Grover's hero -- placed upon it. He regards almost any effort to regulate or tax anything as a Bolshevik infringement on freedom.

Not a household name, but he's one of the most dangerous people in Washington and regarded a framer of the terms of our political debates, if not a mover of modern history. Think of Nixon, only without the charm, good conscience or social graces.

LJB, I know who Norquist is; I've seen him on TV, read a feature about him in one of the magazines several years ago and am familiar with his evil handiwork. I know he's a power behind the powers-that-be who regards government as a symbol of evil.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

I love the R trope about how rich people can't advocate for poor people, and the proud intellectual gleam they give it, like it hadn't ever been used on FDR, JFK, or RFK, and the notion that, if an authentically poor leader of the poor started to talk about poverty, any of those hyenas would give him the time of day.

 

[Ace]

The best friend a poor person ever had was an old, rich person with a guilty conscience and estate tax issues.