On Morning Joe, Carlson compared Clinton to a "cat in a box" and a "drunk party guest"

[DeepModem Mom]

Media Matters for America: On Morning Joe, Carlson compared Clinton to a "cat in a box" and a "drunk party guest"
Tue, May 27, 2008

Discussing Sen. Hillary Clinton's decision to remain in the presidential race, MSNBC senior campaign correspondent Tucker Carlson, during the May 27 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe, said of Clinton, "Look, she's a trapped animal, there's absolutely no question about it. As I've thought to myself many times, if you've ever tried to get your cat in a box, you know what Hillary Clinton is doing right now." Carlson then imitated a screeching cat, and added, "with all four paws out, all the hair standing up? Look, she is in feral mode." After co-host Mika Brzezinski said, "I don't know what to say," and guest co-host Mike Barnicle said, "Tucker Carlson, ladies and gentlemen," Carlson asserted, "And I say that as a compliment, I admire her tenacity. I do." Brzezinski then said, "I'd just like to point out, I have scars from trying to do that to one of the cats that I own," to which Carlson replied, "OK, then you know how Obama feels." Later in the segment, Brzezinski referred to Clinton as "the cat in a box, as Tucker so aptly put it."

Later on Morning Joe, Carlson also compared Clinton to "the drunk party guest who won't go home, the cab's idling out front, and she's opening a new bottle of wine." He added: "And the hosts of the party, the press and the Democratic establishment, want her to go home, and she won't." At the conclusion of that segment, Carlson's last on that day's program, Brzezinski asked Carlson to "do the cat in the box thing just one more time before you go. Who's the cat in the box?" Carlson complied, again imitating a screeching cat....

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From the May 27 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe:

....(MIKE) BARNICLE: So we've gone from a cat to a drunk party guest.

BRZEZINSKI: I am sorry. I think that's just just too far. That's just not true.

BARNICLE: That's Tucker Carlson, ladies and gentlemen.

BRZEZINSKI: Our love for Barack Obama? Tucker. I just, I--

CARLSON: Of course it's true.

BRZEZINSKI: Oh, come on.

CARLSON: Everybody in the press loves him. Mika you know that. Look into your heart, you know that's true.

BRZEZINSKI: All right, do the cat in the box thing just one more time before you go. Who's the cat in the box?

CARLSON: (Screeching cat noise)

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[Drunken Irishman]

1. Drunk party guest, yes.

[brooklynite]

2. MY cat loves to climb into boxes...

[samdogmom]

3. Good lord! Is she embarrassed by this take?

How humiliating for Hillary to be compared to a "cat in a box"! (Unfortunately, much as I dislike Tucker, this is an apt description! I guess this is how he got a job on TV in the first place!)

I could never understand his appeal...I still really don't! But, maybe it just takes one "brilliant" observation to get the gig! Go figure!

[frylock]

4. don't know why media matters decided to run with this..

so what? is "cat in a box" some new super-secret veiled attempt at sexism?

[AnnieBW]

5. Barnacle:

invertebrate (spineless) creature that sticks to the side of a boat and fouls up the engines. 'Nuff said.