Tucker Carlson is from San Francisco..

[SoCalDem]

and his step Mom's family (Swanson) "invented" tv dinners...

Yet another rich little brat swinging on the family coattails...



http://www.nndb.com/people/765/000027684/

This site is totally cool (found by accident)

anyhoo.. here's some othe tucker-trivia. Too bad if his brother wants to name a son after himself.. Tucker named his own son his brother's name..

Tucker Carlson

Tucker CarlsonAKA Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson

Born: 16-May-1969
Birthplace: San Francisco, CA

Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Pundit, Columnist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Conservative dweeb on MSNBC

Tucker Carlson's father was a longtime anchorman on local news in Los Angeles and San Diego, who later in his career served as Director of Voice of America in Europe, and then as President and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Prior to his hiring at MSNBC, Carlson wrote for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Policy Review, and The Weekly Standard, and came at issues "from the right" on CNN's Crossfire. He now hosts Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered on PBS.

His stint with CNN came to an end after a October 2004 episode of Crossfire, wherein comic Jon Stewart skewered Crossfire and specifically Carlson for "hurting America" with debate that was loud but rarely enlightening. "What you do is not honest," said Stewart. "What you do is partisan hackery. You have a responsibility to the public discourse, and you fail miserably." Several weeks later, in announcing that Carlson's services would no longer be needed, CNN president Jonathan Klein said, "I agree wholeheartedly with Jon Stewart's overall premise." He promised that CNN would be moving away from what he called "head-butting debate shows".

Carlson famously promised to eat his own shoe if Hillary Clinton's memoirs sold a million copies. When the book sold well over a million copies, Clinton presented Carlson with a cake baked in the shape of a "right wing-tip."

But unlike some right-wing pundits, Carlson doesn't sidestep criticism of right-wing figures. In a 1999 article for Talk magazine, it was Carlson who wrote that candidate George W. Bush swore like a truck driver. He also quoted Bush mocking Karla Faye Tucker, pleading "Please, don't kill me," after Bush signed her death warrant. In a 2000 column for CNN, he described Bush as "light, even when he shouts. And even when he shouts, he still can't seem to speak correctly." Carlson wrote that having Bush share the stage with John McCain made McCain seem like Winston Churchill. He has called Bill O'Reilly "a humorless phony."

Carlson, on America's relationship with Canada: "Without the U.S., Canada is essentially Honduras, but colder and much less interesting."

Carlson, on the Iraq war: "I think it's a total nightmare and disaster, and I'm ashamed that I went against my own instincts in supporting it. It's something I'll never do again. Never. I got convinced by a friend of mine who's smarter than I am, and I shouldn't have done that. No. I want things to work out, but I'm enraged by it, actually."

Father: Richard W. Carlson (Los Angeles news anchorman, later VOA Director)
Mother: Patricia Caroline Swanson (stepmother, heir to the Swanson frozen-food fortune)
Brother: Buckley Carlson (Executive VP, right-wing PR firm McCarthy Communications)
Wife: Susan Andrews Carlson
Daughter: Lillie Carlson
Daughter: Hopie Carlson
Daughter: Dorothy Carlson
Son: Buckley Carlson

High School: St. George's School, Newport, RI (1987)
University: History, Trinity College, Hartford, CT (attended, no degree)

Esquire Regular Contributor
Talk Regular Contributor
Atlantic Monthly
Policy Review Editorial Staff
The Weekly Standard Reporter
Reader's Digest Columnist
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Editorial Writer
Rape Louisville, KY (2001), according to lawsuit, no charges filed

TELEVISION
Crossfire Co-Host (-2005)
Unfiltered
Hardball with Chris Matthews Panelist
MSNBC

Author of books:
Politicians, Partisans and Parasites: My Adventures in Cable News (2003, autobiography)

[Fenris]

1. I didn't realize he doesn't have a degree.

Not that it matters in the least.

[ClintonTyree]

10. I think it SHOULD matter.....

for a person who is in the public spotlight, debating policy, critiquing those who DO have degrees and are the overall power structure of our country. What bona-fides does he bring to any discussion other than, "rich man's kid"? Nothing. His future (just as the future of another "rich man's kid" we all know and loathe) was preordained. He didn't have to do anything to succeed. He was, so he is. :grr: This kind of shit drives me cray! :silly:

[rpannier]

2. I find his biography quite interesting

Unfortunately, the man is quite a boorish lout.
He also comes across as rather unenlightened.

[SoCalDem]

3. Rape Louisville, KY (2001), according to lawsuit, no charges filed

I never even heard about this one.. Interesting article from Salon

http://dir.salon.com/story/books/feature/2003/09/13/carlson_excerpt/index.html

[rpannier]

7. Interesting

On this issue, I feel badly for him. Nobody deserves to be falsely accused of having committed a sex crime.
It makes me wonder how many people are falsely accused of any crime and wind up in jail because they don't have Carlson's money to get the right lawyers to represent them.


On Note: While I feel badly this woman suffers from a mental illness. It also irks me that a fraudulent claim of sexual assault was nearly filed. When real cases of sexual assault occur, they are sometimes dismissed by the public because of instances like this.

[bliss_eternal]

4. How can he come from SF and be so clueless...?

He's so unenlightened and doesn't seem particularly intelligent. I don't get it or him at all.

[SoCalDem]

5. He did not grow up there, apparently

and being a hoity-toity rich kid, he could have been a brat no matter where he grew up :)

[bliss_eternal]

8. Very true, SoCalDem...

...don't know how, but I frequently forget that he comes from money. I try not to think of him at all, because I find him so annoying. lol.

:hi: Good to see you!

[EFerrari]

6. If he went to high school in Rhode Island, he's not from here!

Rhode Island can have him, lol.

:)

[Ecumenist]

9. Are you flippin' kidding?

That moron is from The City? He has to be a transplant from Bakersfield or the 'No. Tell me it ain't so..