LOL - Tucker Carlson to video store clerk/blogger: I WILL @#!!@# DESTROY YOU

[CatWoman]

It all started with a simple video rental. Who knows where it will end?

Potomac Video store clerk Charles Williamson, 28, posted a message on his blog, Freelance Genius, Dec. 23 that described how he set up a movie rental account for MSNBC host Tucker Carlson at the MacArthur Boulevard store the day before.

"I could tell you what he and his ridiculously wasped-out female companion (wife?) rented if you really want to know," he wrote. "I won't tell you where he lives, though. That would be wrong and stupid." Williamson also joked that he wouldn't send 10,000 copies of Jon Stewart's best-selling political satire, "America (The Book)," to Carlson's home; Stewart ridiculed Carlson on "Crossfire" before the 2004 election.

A week later, Williamson had forgotten all about it, he told us yesterday. That is, until Carlson, 37, reappeared at the video store and, said Williamson, "got pretty aggressive." According to Williamson, Carlson confronted him about the blog and said he viewed the post as a threat to him and his wife. "He said, 'If you keep this up, I will destroy you,' " Williamson recalled.

Williamson said he agreed to remove the blog post and did so later that night: "All I remember thinking was I was worried about what this guy was going to do." He consulted a lawyer friend and was told he had probably not broken any laws. "What I said was pretty juvenile, I'll admit," he said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/12/AR2007011202036.html

[Captain Hilts]

1. I couldn't believe this when I read it. I always knew he was a major jerk, but...

this is really something.

He's a real nothing on so many levels.

[rurallib]

2. I've had 3 threats of great bodily harm by repukes

Must be something you have to do to prove your machomanliness. Better than joining the service, huh? The thought of Carlson fighting (I know he said 'destroy' which could cover many things) is a real chuckle. He'd have to hire it done.

[nosmokes]

3. someone needs to open up a big ole can o whoopass on tucker.

not that i'm advocating any violence aagainst neurotic hyperconservative bowtie wearing weenie no talent talking heads. absolutly not.

[stevedeshazer]

4. That pretty much sums up Preppy

Threatening a video store clerk.

Tough guy.

If I were that guy, Tucker would have some new late fees.

[MadMaddie]

5. Tucker and the other neocon assholes remind me of the nazi's

lower on the totem pole...so full of themselves, so arrogant, so bloated in the belieef that they were of better stock then oridinary citizens...

Well those henchmen were the ones who paid a heavy price...

Tucker and others like him...their 6 year glory days are over...the shoe will fall eventually..

[dsc]

6. Honestly speaking I would have been irate had I been Carlson too

though I wouldn't have handled it as he did. I would have yanked my membership and told the boss exactly why I did.

[jgraz]

9. Gotta agree with you here

Tucker is a dick, but threatening to post someone's video rentals is an invasion of privacy. I'd have been seriously pissed.

[DRoseDARs]

15. Here's the life-threatening blog entry that started it all...

"Tucker Carlson opened an account last night at my video store. I thought the name seemed familiar but I couldn't figure out why. It was after he left that I realized he was on the list of Gigantic Cobagz. I could tell you what he and his ridiculously wasped-out female companion (wife?) rented if you really want to know. I won't tell you where he lives, though. That would be wrong and stupid. I will also not be running around ordering 10,000 copies of America: The Book and having it sent to his place even if that would be more awesome than frozen urine treats for his home."



If I were Tucker Carlson, I'd be pissing myself with fear too.

:eyes:

Get a grip.

[CatWoman]

17. post of the year

:hi:

[bananarepublican]

23. Is the poster saying *ucker Carlson likes eating yellow snow? n/t

[Mz Pip]

29. Ridiculouly wasp-out female companion

(wife?) :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Maybe not. LOL

Mz Pip
:dem:

[dsc]

45. I didn't say afraid I said irate

that is a big difference. Just like everyone else, Carlson deserves to be treated with respect by the people who provide him services. I would be irate if I went to a store, rented a film, and then found out that the person who served me insulted my husband or boyfriend and wanted to post the movies I rent. You might want to learn to read before you respond to posters.

[DRoseDARs]

46. It's funny that you tell me I should learn to read when you didn't even bother reading my post...

...or are at the very least making shit up. Did I or anyone else say YOU were afraid? Idiot, but still smarter than the Bowtied Manchild.

[dsc]

50. Here is your quote

If I were Tucker Carlson, I'd be pissing myself with fear too.

Now I don't know about you, but the last time I checked people who pissed themselves with fear were afraid. Maybe words mean a different thing to those with the obviously superior intellect that you have, but in the English this lowly peon speaks people who are afraid experience fear. And yes, I mean to be every bit as much a smart ass as I am being in this post after you called me a name.

[DRoseDARs]

51. Two things: I misread you title and I apologize...

I read it as "I didn't say (I'd be) afraid I said irate" meaning you personally. I rushed to respond because I was already in a foul mood yesterday. Just like it's a bad idea to drive while angry, so to is it to type.

Secondly, Little Tucker DID say he was afraid. You needlessly made this exchange about you. So you rushed to respond too, it seems.

[dsc]

52. I am sorry too

I should have counted to 20 before posting.

[DRoseDARs]

54. Truce?

:grouphug:

[dsc]

56. Truce

[grasswire]

7. Williamson was fired over this.

And what's this about?


"He implied he was going to come and do something to my house," Carlson said. "I've got four kids at home and I've had serious problems with stalkers twice. . . . This guy is threatening to come to my house and I'm on the road all the time. What would you do? This guy is threatening my family."

I don't see where any threat was issued. Williamson said he would NOT SEND Jon Stewart books to Tucker's house. How is that the same as what Tucker says?

[Dover]

24. OMG! This young man's entire future in video rentals is OVER.

Over, I tell ya.

What he did is probably not illegal under the current regimes laws and unethical tactics.
But it should be.

[Conan_The_Barbarian]

44. Carlson has big connections with the CEO of Blockbuster

this kid is done!

[bananarepublican]

25. *ucker Carlson is as delusional as any other right-wing-freak-show member!

No threat was issued. For this he gets someone fired? What an over-sensitive-cretinous-moranic-*ucker *ucker is!

[crispini]

35. Good heavens. Overreact much, bowtie boy!

Ye cats. That's pretty sad. All the clerk posted was that Tucker Carlson was -- gasp! -- a member of some video store, somewhere! :eyes:

[TroglodyteScholar]

48. As much as I hate to side with Tucker in even the remotest way...

...when you've been a victim of stalking before, even clear "non-theats" like this one end up looking like threats. The FEAR of another stalker really clouds out all rational thoughts when faced with a situation like this. If Tucker had never been stalked before, this clerk saying "I WON'T do something to his house" wouldn't have raised an eyebrow. But because Tucker's already living in fear, "I WON'T do something" becomes "I just might do something" in his mind.

I've got no love for Tucker, but I understand how this could freak him out...even tho it looks like nothing to rational-thinking people outside of the situation.

[Mythsaje]

8. How, exactly, do you "destroy" a video store clerk?

Even if you ARE a bow-tie wearing talking head?

[Change has come]

37. Refuse to rewind?

:shrug:

[halobeam]

57. almost choked on an m&m there...

:rofl:

[tuvor]

10. Can't say I wouldn't do the same if someone did that to me.

What was Carlson supposed to do, just laugh it off?

If the blogger had done the same to, say, Al Franken, I think we'd see a lot of DU support for any threats Al might have made.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

11. Hope he's enjoying feeling big.

Cuz he's well on the way to irrelevancy.

[marmar]

12. I will "destroy" you?

Who is he, Darth Vader? What a meglamaniacal little prick. Clearly Tucker is trying to overcompensate for some other inadequacy. :think:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

13. How is what he wrote

that much different than the gossip pages like the Gawker (I think that is the name) which reports sightings of celebrities in Manhattan. They told, for example, that Sam Waterston got a sample of Stinking Bishop, a kind of cheese, at Whole Foods, and then bought some of it to take home. I think there was even some sort of joke about it after the information. I never saw Sam getting all huffy about it--isn't that the price of celebrity?

[Roland99]

14. That bowtie has been so tight it cut off blood flow and caused perm. brain damage

What an asshat

[Bluebear]

16. Tucker can't even manage to get past round 1 of a rhumba contest

Let alone "destroy" someone.

[Moochy]

18. He was so mad, his little bow tie spun around!

Are those his baby teeth?

:evilgrin:

[Dover]

32. Ohhhhh............can someone PLEASE do a bowtie animation!!!!

I don't have the skills. But that would be a fun one to do.

[w4rma]

19. Carlson lied big time.

…
In a phone interview Thursday, Carlson acknowledged that he approached Williamson in the store and said he was "very aggressive" because he wanted the post removed: "I don't like to call the police or call his boss. . . . I'm a libertarian. I'm not into that."

On Monday, Williamson said, his Potomac Video manager called and fired him. Williamson said he was told the company was threatened with legal action "and the owner doesn't like that." He re-posted the original Carlson item later that day. Williamson said he later learned that a man who identified himself as a lawyer for Carlson had been in the store and asked Potomac Video employees questions about him.
…

[Missy Vixen]

20. We got in an argument with Carlson at a "Crossfire" commercial break

a few years back. I started off by asking him why he was so afraid of Al Gore. The argument was over Steno Sue's (Washington Post reporter,) political affiliation. Carlson visibly fumed long after I'd made my comments.

Tucker, if you're reading, you still owe us $20.

Julie

[Dover]

21. But hey, if the Bushies want to know what you're reading and watching...

what's good for the goose is good for the Carlson.

[bananarepublican]

26. Impeccable logic! n/t

[Dover]

27. LOL!

So glad you were able to follow my labirynth of logic.

[NotGivingUp]

22. little bow tie boy is a spoiled little brat twit

[The Gunslinger]

28. Who is Tucker going to destroy

I know 12 year olds that could kick his ass.

[Dover]

30. Next thing ya know, the guy that works for your internet server

will disclose your latest recipe swaps and politically juiced email conversations in his blog.

Oh wait.....I believe that the 'regime' has already passed that one into law.
Oh well, I knew that I couldn't keep my meatloaf recipe a secret much longer....

[The Gunslinger]

31. For all those who defend the mother tucker

the video clerk made NO threats, revealed NO information. Whats the problem. All he basically said is that he is a member at the store.

[tabasco]

33. Wow. The power to destroy a video clerk.

Tucker the Fucker has really accumulated vast power hasn't he?

[SeattleGirl]

34. Wow, Tucker! I didn't realize was a MAN you are!

Threatening a video store clerk who DIDN'T threaten you! My stars, but I am SO IMPRESSED! :sarcasm:

[kevinbgoode]

36. Sure ya are, Tucker. . .

just like you were gonna twinkle-toes your way to the championship round of Dancing With The Stars.

[Warren DeMontague]

38. Ah, I was a clerk at an indie video store for years. Before the dawn of blogs.

I had more than a few encounters with various minor celebrities, rock and roll stars, television personalities. I could tell you what some of them liked to rent. Even the smut. Oh, especially the smut.

But... that would be wrong. :evilgrin:

[BuelahWitch]

39. Must have been renting some hardcore porn

Just sayin'...

[earth mom]

40. Thugs like Tucker don't give a damn if they invade OUR PRIVACY...

but invade theirs and all hell breaks loose! What a hypocrite! :puke:

[kevinbgoode]

41. Wow..! Is Tucker like...one of the Power Rangers?

eom/

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

42. I don't blame Tucker.

He has had problems before w/ the freeps posting his address and phone number on jim rim jobs site, and his wife getting their stupid calls.
He's just looking after his family.

[CatWoman]

43. jesus fucking christ

no one posted any information about him - only that he visited the store.

scroll up for the blog entry.

[mwb970]

47. The blog post seems unnecessary to me.

I thought it was Michelle Malkin and her ilk who sent loonies out to get their enemies. It's far-fetched, but not impossible, that some wacko would use the clerk to get to him. Carlson was protecting his family. The clerk, well, I don't know what he was doing.


Edit: typo

[malaise]

49. I hate that preppie

Richie Rich 'Fugger'.

[Stephanie]

53. Pussy.

[Virginia Dare]

55. The worst thing that could happen to Tucker...

is if people stopped giving a shit about him.