Hey Tucker – the word of the day is “Integrity”

[waiting for hope]

My letter to Tucker Carlson - I had it on last night waiting for KO to start and his statements prompted this:

Dear Mr. Carlson,

Last night on your show Tucker, you had made a statement concerning Sen. Allen’s troubles with his Macaca comment that he made last month. You said, and I paraphrase “Don’t judge Allen for what he said (macaca), look at his position on Iraq and other issues.” Mr. Carlson, that statement explains exactly what is wrong with this country’s government. It lacks integrity. If you don’t know the meaning, I will provide it for you with a few examples:

in•teg•ri•ty:

the quality of possessing and steadfastly adhering to high moral principles or professional standards

i.e.

Randall Duke Cunningham:

A federal judge sentenced disgraced ex-congressman Randall "Duke" Cunningham on Friday to eight years and four months in prison for taking bribes and evading taxes, considered the harshest penalty delivered to a former member of Congress in a corruption case.

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060305/REPOSITORY/603050385/1013/NEWS03

Tom DeLay:

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was hit today with a felony conspiracy indictment for his alleged involvement in a Texas campaign finance scheme. The powerful Republican congressman was named, along with two political associates, in an indictment handed up by a Travis County grand jury.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0928051delay1.html


Bill Frist:

The Senate majority leader did not meet all the requirements needed to keep his medical license active even though he gave paperwork to Tennessee officials indicating that he had.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/bill_frist/index.html?inline=nyt-per

While Senate Majority Leader, Dr. Frist believed that Terri Schiavo should not have been diagnosed as persistant vegetative state (PVS). After her death, the autopsy showed signs of long-term and irreversible damage to a brain consistent with PVS. Frist defended his actions after the autopsy. Various complaints were filed with medical oversight organizations but they lacked jurisdiction to take any action.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Frist


Jack Abramoff:

Jack Abramoff, the once-powerful lobbyist at the center of a wide-ranging public corruption investigation, pleaded guilty yesterday to fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to bribe public officials in a deal that requires him to provide evidence about members of Congress.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/03/AR2006010300474.html


Bob Ney:

After two years of firmly denying that he did anything illegal or improper, Ohio Republican Rep. Bob Ney agreed Friday to plead guilty to two criminal charges in the congressional corruption scandal connected to former lobbyist Jack Abramoff and a lavish golf trip he took to Scotland in 2002.
Ney, a six-term congressman from Heath in Ohio's 18th District, faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $500,000. Federal investigators, however, plan to ask that he be sentenced to 27 months.

http://www.centralohio.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/B9/20060916/NEWS01/60916006/1002


George W. Bush:

(There are too many to name here but I site a few)

As explained by Kevin Phillips in his book, American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush, George W. Bush's businesses fail but he makes millions. Among Mr. Bush's business ventures:
• Arbusto, an oil exploration company, lost money, but it got considerable investments (nearly $5 million) because even losing oil investments were useful as tax shelters.
• Spectrum 7 Energy Corp. bought out Arbusto in 1984 and hired Mr. Bush to run the company's oil interests in Midland, Texas. The oil business collapsed as oil prices plummeted by 1986, and Spectrum 7 Energy was near failure.
• Harken Energy acquired Mr. Bush's Spectrum 7 Energy shares, and he got Harken shares, a directorship, and a consulting arrangement in return. Harken, under Bush, brought in Saudi real estate tycoon Sheikh Abdullah Bakhsh as a board member and a major investor. Over the next few years, Harken would turn out to have links to: Saudi money, CIA-connected Filipinos, the Harvard Endowment, the emir of Bahrain, and the shadowy Bank of Credit and Commerce International.
• A 1991 internal SEC document suggested George W. Bush violated federal securities law at least 4 times in the late 1980s and early 1990s in selling Harken stock while serving as a director of Harken. This is essentially the same kind of activity that Martha Stewart is going to prison over. Except at the time of the investigation, Mr. Bush's father was president and the case was quietly dropped.

http://alaric3rh.home.sprynet.com/science/bceo.html



Integrity, Mr. Carlson, is what the above politicians are missing. Your comment last night is asking your viewers to overlook that quality in Sen. Allen. What he did was reprehensible, deserving of the public’s scorn and disdain. Sen. Allen has protested many times that he didn’t know the meaning of the word “macaca” – that still remains to be seen. But regardless of Allen’s protestations, it’s what he said and how he said it:

“This fellow here over here with the yellow shirt -- Macaca, or whatever his name is -- he's with my opponent," Allen said. After suggesting that Webb was spending more time with "Hollywood movie moguls" than with real Virginians, Allen turned back to the subject of Sidarth. "Let's give a welcome to Macaca, here. Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia."

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/08/14/allen/index.html

Sen. Allen looked at Mr. Sidarth, judged him on his appearance only and trying to appease his audience, made derogatory and snide remarks directly into a live camera, knowing full well he was being recorded. That lacks character and integrity Mr. Carlson, and if you can not recognize that, then may I suggest you take a good long look at yourself and what is going on around you.

I, for one, will judge Sen. Allen. I will judge him as the whole person he is and the “macaca” moment was just the cherry on the sundae for me.

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1. Sweet.

I hope Tucker actually reads it. :thumbsup:

[waiting for hope]

2. I doubt it...but

it made me feel better to write it - he's probably honing up on his "dance skills"...Damn, that wasn't very nice.

[gratuitous]

3. Or that someone reads it to him

While he's working on bustin' his moves.

[acmejack]

6. Tucker probably needs someone to read it to him!

Ever check out his resume? Very thin on qualifications! He doesn't even hold a degree, not that is a bad thing, but as a pundit I have always wondered exactly what gives him the right?

[peekaloo]

4. There ya go, confusing him with facts again!

Nice effort! :thumbsup:

Tucks will need a professional commentator to help him read through this one because his reading comprehension is similar to his dancing. :-)

[Horse with no Name]

5. That comment really pissed me off as well

Seems very strange to tell people to IGNORE racial slurs.
Makes you wonder what century we are living in.

[Raster]

7. Fucker Carlson is a shill. Plain and simple. The only way he would pay

attention to the word "integrity" is if someone wrote it on a Ten dollar bill and passed it to him. Here's some new words for him: "wanna be," as in wanna be celebrity, wanna be journalist, wanna be someone important. Here's two more for him: not hardly.