Tucker Carlson's double standard on political books for kids

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On the September 21 edition of MSNBC's Tucker, host Tucker Carlson blasted a new children's book by Jeremy Zilber titled Why Mommy is a Democrat, which, according to the book's website, "depicts Democratic principles of fairness, tolerance, peace and concern for the well-being of others." Carlson declared that the book is "propaganda, and it's always and everywhere wrong and creepy and should be obviously a bad thing to do to impose your politics on children," adding that "(i)t doesn't matter what your politics happen to be. Kids ought to be immune from politics." He then demanded: "Be quiet, don't push it (politics) on them." But Carlson had a very different reaction to a conservative children's book while interviewing its author in November 2005.

On the November 28, 2005, edition of Carlson's previous MSNBC show, The Situation with Tucker Carlson, he interviewed Katherine DeBrecht, author of the children's book Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed! (World Ahead Publishing, September 2005). During the segment, Carlson described a character in the book as looking like "a pretty mannish Hillary Clinton ," while DeBrecht added that "you also have Mayor Leech, who resembles a portly senator from Taxachusetts." But even though Carlson said, "I can't stand politics in children's books," he also claimed: "I thought I wasn't going to like it, but actually it's a clever book," adding: "I hope it sells."

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