I need to know how these people got to where they are.

[devilgrrl]

Tucker Carlson
Laura Ingraham
David Brooks
Max Boot
Ann Coulter
etc...

Have they ever done anything for anyone else? Why are they here? How is it that they're able to make a living while contributing absolutely nothing to society?

Please tell me because I don't get it.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Well in defense of Max Boot, he was at least a fellow at a real think tank

even though he is a complete neo-con..he was at Brookings for several years

[Mabus]

2. It's not who you know...

it's who you blow. It's the only thing that makes sense to me. :shrug:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. Well in defense of Max Boot, he was at least a fellow at a real think tank

even though he is a complete neo-con..he was at Brookings for several years

[SoCalDem]

4. AEI...Heritage Foundation..Rush Limbaugh

and of course Fox..

It's a symbiotic relationship./. Fox has a LOT of time to fill., and the "foundations" are very happy to send "personalities" top help fill the time ..

The "guests" build up a following, anf then Regnery is right there to provide them a publishing contract (and Murdoch has many publishing venues too)..

They buy the books themselves to boost the sales to the top ten, and then host "seminars" where the books are given away...

rinse/repeat

[OneBlueSky]

5. no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence . . .

of the American people . . .

[Solly Mack]

6. Richard Mellon Scaife for the idiot females

they were part of his bimbo brigade

He also sponsored Barbara Olsen and Whitney Adams

During the attack against America by the right wing under Clinton, Scaife funded the Arkansas Project and his bimbos did a lot of the dirty work

[pretzel4gore]

7. such influential pigs...er guys, as limbah-humbug, scaife, norquist

not to mention klan uberdragon rove...notice they never subjected to the media ratfink treatment...

[Solly Mack]

10. Pig is far too kind a word for Scaife. I call him skank-ease

Limpdick and the wobble twins, Grover and Rover, are definitely pigs.
...but Scaife...he's just plain nasty on top of all his other icky qualities.

[pretzel4gore]

11. i have never seen a pic of the assh**e, ..er guy!

does he really have 2 heads?

[Solly Mack]

12. Yes but he keeps his 2nd head in a gym bag he carries

around with him

He's ugly inside and out

[Mabus]

8. Here's the skinny on some of them

For the most part, remember what I said before.

Tucker Carlson is the son of Richard W. Carlson, who was president and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting from 1992 through 1997. His stepmother is Patricia Carlson, heir to the Swanson frozen-food fortune. Carlson is married to Susan Andrews. They have four children. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carlson More than anything I think his stint at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (VRWC) as an editorial writer.


Laura Ingraham: worked as a speechwriter in the Reagan Administration, and also served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham


Ann Coulter: As an undergraduate in Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences, Coulter helped to launch a conservative newspaper, The Cornell Review, with funding provided by Richard Mellon Scaife's Collegiate Network. Coulter graduated with honors from Cornell in 1984. She went on to receive her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was an editor of The Michigan Law Review. At Michigan, Coulter founded a local chapter of the Federalist Society. She also received training at the National Journalism Center. After practicing corporate law for four years, she became a congressional aide in Washington, D. C. in 1994, working as counsel to Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, then worked for a public interest law firm.

<snip>

Coulter debuted as a figure on the public scene during her days as a lawyer by helping Paula Jones sue President Bill Clinton for sexual harassment. Coulter stated that "We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the president", even though that had been Jones' express intention since the beginning of the suit (Isikoff, 1999, p. 183). According to Coulter herself, quoted in the Hartford Courant in 1999, she leaked the details of Jones's testimony to the press in order to prevent Clinton from avoiding publicity by settling. This does not necessarily mean, however, that Coulter actually acted contrary to Jones' best interests and/or wishes, which would constitute legal malpractice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter

[femme.democratique]

9. AnnOrexia is the top dog on the scum pile ..... eom