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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 08:01 PM
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The Full Disclosure Tucker Carlson Isn't Making (Wow)
Edited on Tue Feb-28-06 08:34 PM by TomInTib
Ever since Scooter Libby was indicted, Tucker Carlson has had a lot to say about the central players in the legal drama, Libby and Patrick Fitzgerald. On his MSNBC show and on his blog, he's been unfailingly supportive of Libby and critical of Fitzgerald.
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But with all he's had to say about the case, there is one thing that Tucker Carlson has failed to mention: That his father, Richard Carlson, is on the advisory committee of the Libby Legal Defense Trust, the GOP-heavy-hitter-laden group that has so far raised $2 million.

Indeed, Richard Carlson was the Early Money Is Like Yeast of Libby defense fund-raisers, having couriered a check to Libby's home the morning he was indicted.

And Tucker Carlson's connection to Libby's defense fund isn't just familial. A quick scan of the Libby website shows that Scooter's high-powered pals appreciate the things that Richard's boy is saying.

Here is the entire article by A Huffington:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/the-full-disclosure-tucke_b_16530.html
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 08:03 PM
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1. WHOA..... Thank YOU for the heads up!!
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Radio_Lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 09:01 PM
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18. Bowtie? Yep, I think he does!
Edited on Tue Feb-28-06 09:01 PM by Radio_Lady



Ambassador Richard Carlson

Richard Carlson is Vice Chairman of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a policy institute focusing on terrorism. He has experience in journalism and diplomacy and is a former United States Ambassador.
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Sydnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 09:04 PM
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19. So along with the money Tucker stands to inherit
daddy's tie collection! :rofl:
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Radio_Lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 09:47 PM
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29. Very funny, Sydnie! LOL!
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klook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:19 PM
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69. Bow-Tie Daddy
Edited on Wed Mar-01-06 02:21 PM by klook
Bow-Tie Daddy
by Frank Zappa

Bow tie daddy dontcha blow your top
Everything's under control
Bow tie daddy dontcha blow your top
'cause you think you're gettin' too old
Don't try to do no thinkin'
Just go on with your drinkin'
Just have your fun, you old son of a gun
Then drive home in your Lincoln

from We're Only In It for the Money, Mothers of Invention, 1968

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Touchdown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:30 PM
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66. He looks like the forensic scientist in the Naked Gun
Movies. You know the one who invented that anti-graffiti wall, that spray painted gang members, or went through all that research, but found the perp's wallet with a DL and address for Hecter Savage, employee of Quentin Hapsburg III?
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Sydnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 08:06 PM
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2. All in the Family
Amazing! Does his dad wear a bowtie too?
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Babel_17 Donating Member (948 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 08:09 PM
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3. Startling (recommended) nt
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 08:11 PM
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4. Gee, another impartial and fair journalist. Just like Miller, Novak,
Woodward.
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AwakeAtLast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 08:13 PM
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5. Curiouser and curiouser
That deserves a nom. Thanks for posting this.

Just shows that there are many more cockroaches in the walls.

:hi:
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 08:13 PM
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6. so, time to email msnbc and bow tie man
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kohodog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 08:20 PM
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7. Amazing. Rachel Maddow should confront him on this.
I haven't watched his show in months, but Rachel was the only bright spot and I don't know how much she's been on lately.
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DancingBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 08:21 PM
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8. Send this to Malloy and Majority Report - and ESPECIALLY Rachel!
I think everyone would like to see it.

(edit: missed MR today, so I don't know if they covered it.)
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pretzel4gore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 08:21 PM
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9. carlson's father was nixon's ambassador to some dreadful killing field
i hope the bush monkeyfart's name can be made as widely recognised as woodward or miller, limbah-humbug, novack, gibson, brite hum etc.....
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Ecumenist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 08:22 PM
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10. F&cking figures...
This is par for the course for these people. Restoring dignity and integrity, huh? On what planet? We were told that the adults were in charge of the WH on arrival of the Pestilence of the United States... Adult what? Rabid dogs? Sewer Rats? I would rather have Clinton getting a 2 week serial BJ while still handling the country and actually knowing how to read, write and speaking intelligently than dealing with this dyslexic alcoholic, crackhead at the helm surrounded by sociopathic, murdering cowards screw up the world.
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A-Schwarzenegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 08:23 PM
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11. It's just a coincidence.
Tucker is a very busy man and probably didn't even know
that Pop was on that committee.
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Olney Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 09:30 PM
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26. LOL
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az chela Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 08:33 PM
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12. WOW
Does it ever end???So much deceit so little time!!!!
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H2O Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 08:39 PM
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13. Nominated.
He betrays the public trust with his pretense of objectivity.
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:26 PM
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71. honestly I do not see a conflict of interest here
His dad is giving money to Libby, not profiting from Libby. All this shows is that dad and Tucker agree about Libby and Fitzgerald.
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JudyM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 03:57 PM
Response to Reply #71
76. Still a conflict if he has affiliative ties, even if he's not profiting
directly. True, he's not getting paid to take the pro-Libby position, but he clearly, according to this report, has personal reasons for doing so. It's like hiring a friend of your spouse - you're not profiting from it in terms of money, but it's nice socially. That's still a conflict of interest because you are putting your social interest above the interest of your company. In the case of BowTie, there's at least an appearance of a conflict, that being that he's putting his social interest above the interest of his viewers (presumably) in honest, objective, arms'-length journalistic analysis.
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 04:32 PM
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77. appearance is one thing
but to say that he is saying one thing just to agree with his dad when he feels the actual truth is something else - that just does not make sense to me. It is like saying I have a conflict of interest if I post positive things about Clark here and somebody finds out that my dad is working as a volunteer for Clark's candidacy too. Suddenly my objectivity is suspect? Why isn't it just as likely that I convinced my dad of the merits of Clark? Or that we both came to like Clark on our own?
But it seems clear to me that his own position as a journalist probably has more to do with who his dad is than it does with his abilities.
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Talismom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 08:42 PM
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14. These thugs have no shame! LOL! It's just so amazing that they're
stupid enough to be so brazen--like no one would figure out what scum they are! Thanks for the info.
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Scout1071 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 08:51 PM
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15. K&R.
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Burried News Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 08:55 PM
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16. Maybe he kind find some time to raise funds for Santorum
just in case Hannity can't keep up with things.
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Ksec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 08:59 PM
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17. Cmon people. Youre makin a big deal of this . Clinton got a hummer
Thats what you need to remember.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 09:10 PM
Response to Reply #17
21. You are so right, Ksec. I guess I got a little carried away when..
I started this thread.

We all need to take a deep breath and keep this in some sort of relative perspective.

I do not know how to do the little "sarcasm" banner.
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DancingBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 09:15 PM
Response to Reply #21
22. colon, then the word "sarcasm", then another colon
And you get this!

:sarcasm:

Regards,

REO Speedwagon
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Ksec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 09:28 PM
Response to Reply #22
25. You shove sarcasm in your colon?
Sicko.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 10:27 PM
Response to Reply #25
35. That's the name of DB's gerbil
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DancingBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 08:26 AM
Response to Reply #35
50. One of 'em, anyway
The other is "pancreas."
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 09:48 PM
Response to Reply #22
30. Really?
Wow, thanks.

Life just became more simple.


I have been "Ridin' the Storm Out" on the Bay today. 80+ mph winds.

Guess "The Wheel in the Sky" has been turning a little too quickly.

Funny, I suddenly feel slight queasy.

Wait, which is the "colon"? : or ;?

I'm cereal,here.
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Maraya1969 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 05:59 AM
Response to Reply #21
47. Just click on "Smilies lookup table" and click on the picture you want
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jazzjunkysue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 09:10 PM
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20. Our boy Tucker is on "their" side?!!! What a shocker.
Whoever hired the pundit should have thought of that. It's Carlson's boss who's responsible for biasing the show.

Wonder who's pocket that producer's in???
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Czolgosz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 09:22 PM
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23. K & R -- that blathering conflict-of-interest must go -- what a bitch!
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ClayZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 09:25 PM
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24. Smarmy, bow tied, little twerp!
I loved it when Jon Stewart Called Tucker Carlson A Dick on Crossfire.

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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 09:33 PM
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27. Simply amazing!
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Olney Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 09:35 PM
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28. Tucker, we hardly knew ye.
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 09:50 PM
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31. Wow. You mean his whole silver spoon bratty nerd shtick isn't just an act?
Who'da thunk.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 10:36 PM
Response to Reply #31
36. Tuckie-poo was born into serious money...
Edited on Tue Feb-28-06 11:35 PM by TomInTib
His mother's family is really heavy.
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Nikki Stone 1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 09:54 PM
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32. BIG KICK
:kick:
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Catrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 09:58 PM
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33. Tucker/Libby and Chris Matthews/Abramoff?? They had everything
covered ~ what a joke. I'm so glad I cancelled them all a few months ago ~ when this administration falls, the entire media needs to be investigated also. How DARE they deceive the public this way ~ I will definitely pass this along to everyone I know.

The only way to stop this is to totally boycott them all until the plants are all uncovered and removed ~ and isn't he on PBS also?

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stop the bleeding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 10:01 PM
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34. WOW
:wow::wow::wow::wow:
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Oilwellian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 10:36 PM
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37. Let's email Little Lord Bowtie
Tucker@msnbc.com
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upi402 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 10:40 PM
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38. I'm sure there is some sort of FAIRNESS DOCTRINE somewhere
IN THE PAST!!!
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 11:13 PM
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39. Oh my!
No wonder Tucker bad mouth Fitzgerald every chance he gets. Asshole!
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Missy Vixen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 11:51 PM
Response to Reply #39
42. Bok-bok-boooooooook
Tucker's afraid of Patrick Fitzgerald. Somehow, I don't think America's Hottest Prosecutor lies awake at night and worries about this.

Julie
still president for life of the PFEB
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:06 AM
Response to Reply #42
43. "....lies awake at night and worries about this."
Of course not, Julie. Because he's probably sleeping in his office. LOL!

p.s. I was going to say something else but it would only make you and the others blush. :blush:
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:08 AM
Response to Reply #43
44. Oh, come on, cat_girl....
let's hear it.
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Missy Vixen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:06 PM
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57. It probably would
>I was going to say something else but it would only make you and the others blush.<

You know me. :blush: Of course, we must hear it anyway!

In the meantime, one of America's Sexiest Men surely has better things to do with the zillions of women chasing him than worry about what Tucker Carlson thinks of anything, hm?

Julie
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Pacifist Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 11:36 PM
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40. Well there's a wee bit that might affect journalistic integrity.
Not that I for once presumed Carlson ever had any. I've been fighting the urge to gag him with his stupid little bowtie for years.
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:43 PM
Response to Reply #40
73. well he was supposed to eat the tie along with his shoes
wasn't he? But they got Hillary to show up with a cake that looked like a shoe.
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against all enemies Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 11:45 PM
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41. And I thought he stayed on the air because he had pictures of
someone. i knew it wasn't talent. An asshole in a bowtie, with daddy's money.
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bliss_eternal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:10 AM
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45. Just when I thought I didn't have enough reasons
to dislike Fu--I mean Tucker. Here's another one. He's so clueless it's sometimes hard to hold him accountable for his ignorance, but he really should attempt to be more objective if he's going to call himself a 'reporter.'
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caligirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:37 AM
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46. This was so predictable- look at Tuckers tie, and how
does anyone think he got his job? Talent? Jon Stewart nailed the bow tie boy. No talent and obviously he has repug parents- the tie is a dead give away.
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AuntiBush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 08:03 AM
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48. Just When You Think
they can't go any lower... the tie and that innocent (REPUKE) face. Didn't they say Jeffrey Damer was a "really nice, normal looking guy?"

Ya can't judge a book by its cover.
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 08:10 AM
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49. Wouldn't surprise me if Tucker's written a check himself. n/t
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Katherine Brengle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:20 PM
Response to Reply #49
65. Is that illegal?
Either way, it's still a non-disclosure issue, but if it isn't illegal to make a donation (in his position) or unethical, then that's a non-issue.
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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 08:38 AM
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51. Every time you buy a Swanson frozen dinner, Tucker smiles.
Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson's mother is a Swanson's Foods heiress.
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 10:35 AM
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52. It's no longer "the Republicans and the media." Now just "the Republicans"
Here's a little history. Way back when Reagan first ran, George Will was on ABC critiquing a speech Reagan gave. He loved it and was full of his pious praise. It turned out that Will had written the speech! There was a minor furor.

Carlson will stick around. The networks will do nothing, after all it's GE (which owns NBC.

In fact Tucker will be there when the networks have about an 8% share and everything is on the internet.

In "The Importance of being Ernest" Lady Bracknell asked our hero: "What do you do?" Ernest responded, "I smoke." The good Lady retorted: "Good every man needs something to do." (doing this from memory folks, apologies to Oscar Wilde;)

Tucker does cable.
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ooglymoogly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:53 AM
Response to Reply #52
56. one more thing to boycott...SWANSON
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noonwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:17 AM
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53. That headline made me think that there was some salacious revelation
Edited on Wed Mar-01-06 11:18 AM by noonwitch
Like that Tucker was gay or something. Not that being gay is in and of itself salacious, but a gay republican pretending to be Mr. Family Values is always salacious.
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:45 AM
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54. geez the committee names are a scary bunch huh?
http://www.scooterlibby.org/committee/

Ambassador Mel Sembler, Chairman
Mel Sembler is the Chairman of the Board of the Sembler Company, a real estate and shopping center development company. He served as United States Ambassador to Italy under President George W. Bush from 2001 through the summer of 2005.

The Honorable Spencer Abraham
Spencer Abraham is Chairman and CEO of The Abraham Group, an international strategic consulting firm based in Washington, DC. After being nominated by President-elect George W. Bush, Spencer Abraham was sworn in as the tenth Secretary of Energy in United States history on January 20, 2001

Mr. Lawrence E. Bathgate II
Mr. Bathgate is the senior partner at Bathgate, Wegener and Wolf, attorneys-at-law, Lakewood, NJ. The firm represents many domestic and multi-national corporations in a variety of business-related matters.

The Honorable Wayne Berman
Wayne Berman is a Principal at the Federalist Group. He also was the founder of Berman Enterprises, a business development consultancy that merged with the Federalist Group in January 2004.

Ambassador Stuart Bernstein
Stuart Bernstein was sworn in as Ambassador to Denmark on August 16, 2001 and served through January 2005. As Chairman of the Bernstein Companies, Stuart Bernstein was a recognized leader in real estate development, investment and management in the Mid-Atlantic region, with the focus of his business efforts centered in Washington, DC.

Ambassador Richard Carlson
Richard Carlson is Vice Chairman of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a policy institute focusing on terrorism. He has experience in journalism and diplomacy and is a former United States Ambassador.

Mr. David Flaum
Mr. Flaum is a leading real estate developer in upstate New York and is the founder and CEO of Flaum Management Company, Inc. of Rochester, New York.

Mr. Steve Forbes
Forbes is Editor-in-chief of business magazine Forbes as well as president and chief executive officer of its publisher, Forbes Inc. Forbes was a candidate in the U.S. Presidential Republican primaries in 1996 and 2000.

Mr. Sam Fox
Sam Fox is chairman, chief executive officer, and founder of Harbour Group, Ltd., a privately owned company with a remarkable record of success in acquiring and building high-quality companies.

Professor Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama is Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University, and the director of SAIS’ International Development program.

Mr. Shelly Kamins
Mr. Kamins is a Washington area real estate developer, venture capital investor and a long-time Republican activist.

The Honorable Jack Kemp
Former Vice-Presidential candidate, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Congressman from New York, Jack Kemp has been one of the nation’s leading advocates for strong economic growth, free markets and lower tax rates.

The Honorable Jeane Kirkpatrick
Former United Nations Ambassador Kirkpatrick was called “a giant among the diplomats of the world” by former President Ronald Reagan.

Ambassador Howard Leach
Howard Leach was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to France on July 16, 2001. He arrived in Paris on July 17, 2001, and presented his credentials to President Chirac on September 4, 2001.

Professor Bernard Lewis
Professor Lewis is the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus at Princeton University and the author of The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; The Emergence of Modern Turkey; The Arabs in History; and What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response, among other books.

Ms. Mary Matalin
Mary Matalin served as assistant to President George W. Bush and counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney from January 2001 through January 2003, and was the first White House official to hold that double title.

Frederic V. Malek
Fred Malek is Founder and Chairman of Thayer Capital Partners, a Washington D.C. based merchant bank that has $1.5 billion of equity under management and focuses on management buyouts. Mr. Malek is also Founder and Chairman of Thayer Hotel Investors, a hotel investment company that has acquired and owns approximately $1.4 billion of hotel assets.

The Honorable Bill Paxon
A member of Congress from 1989 to 1999, Bill Paxon played a key role as chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee in electing and re-electing the first House Republican majorities since the 1920s.

Ambassador Mercer Reynolds
Ambassador Mercer Reynolds III is the co-chairman of Cincinnati-based investment firm Reynolds, DeWitt & Co., and Chairman and CEO of Reynolds Plantation in Greensboro, Georgia.

Ambassador Dennis B. Ross
Ambassador Dennis B. Ross served as Special Middle East Coordinator, from 1988-2000, playing the leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process and in dealing directly with the negotiations.

The Honorable Alan Simpson
Alan K. Simpson served as a Senator from Wyoming from 1979 to 1997. From 1985 to 1995 he was Republican Whip in the Senate and also served as Chairman of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee.

Mr. Allan Tessler
With a specialization in the area of turnaround financing, Mr. Tessler combines extensive management experience with proficiency in corporate and securities legal matters.

The Honorable Fred Thompson
A former United States Senator from Tennessee (1994-2002), former prosecutor and accomplished film and television actor, Thompson currently appears in the Emmy Award-winning drama series “Law & Order” as the District Attorney.

The Honorable R. James Woolsey
Former CIA Director, R. James Woolsey joined booz Allen Hamilton in July 2002, as a Vice President and officer in the firm's Global Assurance practice located in McLean, Virginia.

Mr. Michael Green, Trustee
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:16 PM
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58. Wow!, just hold on a minute.....
A lot of these characters make the rounds on the teevee shows.
I believe a little more disclosure is in order.

You should post this by itself, if you haven't already done so.
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:18 PM
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59. be my guest! it's certainly an interesting list isn't it? maybe we should
send it to David Brooks at MediaMattersforAmerica.org?
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:42 PM
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61. Why don't you do it?.....
I just woke up and cannot come up with an appropriately pithy (pissy?) lead.

Either way, let's get that puppy up there.

It will get them howling for sure.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:09 PM
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62. posted, thanks
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alarcojon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:24 PM
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70. I sent it to media matters
but I don't have to be the only one...
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confludemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 10:30 AM
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79. A bunch of nasty white guys. What else?
Edited on Thu Mar-02-06 10:32 AM by confludemocrat
With a few bitches thrown in. They should all be lined up against a wall and shot.
OK not really, but you know hat I mean.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:49 AM
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55. No wonder tucker has that
"just shat in his pants" look! Little tucker is scared shitless someone is going to bust him for his sneaky bob woodward moves.
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Marr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:21 PM
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60. All these no-talent idiots are the sons of wealthy party insiders.
Edited on Wed Mar-01-06 12:23 PM by Marr
I think it's got to be part of the reason for the Neoconservative movement's unbelievable incompetence. Bush is the standard, not the exception. They've all got a blend of mediocrity and arrogance that can only be found in the dull children of wealthy assholes. Carlson, Bill Kristol, Michael Powell, little Georgie himself...

The list is so long, it'd be easier to make a list of prominent conservatives that are *not* the offspring of some other rich political insider.
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Norquist Nemesis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:12 PM
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63. Well, it makes sense his father is a Dick!
Mr. Libertarian who shills himself as a Conservative Pundit was trained from birth to have a forked tongue.
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file83 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:17 PM
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64. Tucker and Libby, sitting in a tree...
C.O.R.R.U.P.T.
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OutsidetheBox Donating Member (103 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:35 PM
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67. My email to Tucker....
Just had to send the scum this email regarding his daddy and his interview last night with David Horowitz (100 most dangerous professors):


To Tucker or the lackey charged with reading his email:

Congratulations on stooping, yet again, far below the level of journalism, even by today's mediocre standards and proving, yet again, that in a more objective and less nepotistic world you would have no place gracing America's airwaves. Drooling in agreement like a Pavlovian dog at the idiocy emanating from Horowitz, becoming both his Amen corner and his stenograph, trying to convince only the dumbest among us about the demented fictions of an insecure and disgruntled lemming of a man, you should be ashamed to even call yourself a journalist.

In reality, you are nothing more than the corporate hack you have been bred to become, protecting the interests of the elite and coporotacracy. Thank you for joining the likes of Rita Cosby, Brit Hume, John Gibson, Wolf Blitzer, Bill O"Reilly and so many more in succeeding in dumbing down further the minds of Americans, making our nation one of the most ignorant in modern history.

Since your college days were so obviously filled with contempt for the education you received, making you the poster child for today's reactionist conservative, perhaps one day you will do us the favor and send your children to Bob Jones University or Liberty or Oral Roberts, where they can learn nothing, becoming the sheep protected by wolves, brainwashed into ignorance and conditioned back into backwardness.

It is the same education you chastise and smear in lies that has made this nation great, putting enlightenment and reason and logic into young minds, allowing millions ot think for themselves. It is the same education you criticize that insures that progress never stops and darkness never again rises.

Telling truth to students and educating them about real history and real events and the real intentions of their government, even if uncomfortable, should not make professors the objects of McCarthy-style blackballing. Telling these truths are the epitome of patriotism. Preaching peace is much more honorable than brainwashing for corporate war. It is quite obvious your kind feels threatened by the freedom to think education engenders, as well as by the knowledge honorable and truth-telling professors bring young minds. It is they, after all, that must correct the lies, distortions and deceits inculcated into the young by the education system your kind perpetuates.

I suggest before criticizing truthtellers and educators you look in the mirror at the hypocrisy embedded inside your being. Protecting and defending Scooter Libby while your father serves his interests, while you fail to state this truth, reminds me of the anti-American and treasonous activities your kind have perpetuated on the American people for generations. You and your clown-like bow tie are but the latest in a sad parade of elite conservatives rotting this nation to its core. Except now you have the airwaves to accelerate the process. Again, congratulations!

In utter contempt,

OutsidetheBox

Just had to be said.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 03:11 PM
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75. Good for you.. great letter...
You should post this.
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Nothing Without Hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:11 PM
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68. Commentary on the Huff Post story at Firedoglake - PERMALINK:
http://firedoglake.blogspot.com/2006_02_26_firedoglake_archive.html#114117995483246282

Tucker's Got a Secret



(snip)

According to Arianna, this isn't the first time Tucks has failed to mention such a potential conflict involving Daddy and a story on which he was reporting. It's an exceptional article, filled with all sorts of bits, including all those pesky quotes that Tucker no doubt wishes he could soften or, perhaps, be up front and honest about his bias before opening his yap. I'm afraid "bygones" isn't gonna cut it on this one, Tucks.

Such a teensy detail as "my Daddy's money is keeping Scooter afloat while he's indicted for five felonies" must have just slipped his mind. Perhaps that bow tie is a little tighter than we thought.

Or maybe Tucks ought to ask Libby for the name of that memory expert he hired (Olbermann reported on that this evening, you know facts, names, stuff Tucker might want to consider using on his show) -- might be useful to have the guy on board when he explains things to the producers at MSNBC. I can hear it now: "Erm...yeah, well, I forgot Daddy had a check messengered to Scooter's house the very day he was indicted. Maybe I should have been more up front about that with you and my viewers." Oh, ya think?

Conflict of interest, much?

(snip)

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thereismore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:36 PM
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72. Imagine KO: "Tucker Carlson - the WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD!" nt
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Mabus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:54 PM
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74. Remember the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Clinton - Tucker was there
From Tucker's bio on the wiki:

Journalism career

Prior to his television career, Carlson was a member of the editorial staff of Policy Review magazine, one of the country's leading conservative journals, and a staff writer for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carlson#Journalism_career


This excerpt explains Tucker and his "journalistic" ethics

Pundit's Progress

Conservative pundits, Tucker agrees, are meant to be professional outsiders. They don't go to journalism school, or work for the New York Times, or Time, or the Washington Post. They may even have been raised in different ways (the thing about conservative pundits is that they all seem to have found their calling in grammar school). In some sense, they are like East German athletes, or the Boys from Brazil -- they are discovered young, and then the system, the network, takes care of them.

The conservative way is not so much a career choice, they tend to believe, as it is the result of liberal-Establishment bias. Tucker would have liked to work for the New York Times. That he didn't or couldn't, he believes, with some small resentment, is partly a school thing. He went to Trinity College, which, while the alma mater of George Will, is, he says, not an A-school (and his fortunes there are less than clear -- "I think I'm technically a graduate"), plus "there were other factors, which I'm not going to articulate, in journalism hiring in 1991" that stood in the way of his getting a fancy job. Then, too, as a conservative, or "essentially libertarian," he would not, anyway, he supposes, have been suited to life in a large organization.

So he went the right-wing route. His first job was at Policy Review, a publication of the Heritage Foundation; next he went to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette to write editorials for the famous Clinton-hater Paul Greenberg (credited with the phrase "slick Willie"); then he was one of the earliest hires at The Weekly Standard, the Murdoch-backed conservative journal edited by Bill Kristol, which he still writes for; then he began his on-air career at Fox.
http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/columns/medialife/4272/index1.html


Apparently there are a lot of things Tucker doesn't like talking about, like how he got his start in journalism by repeating the lies of the Arkansas Project.
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:33 PM
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80. It helps having a daddy in the Republican elite.
Like Fearless Leader, nepotism rules.
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Mabus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 12:23 PM
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81. especially when your first big gig is Clinton-bashing
after Tucker established his creditials going after Clinton and helping to write editorials asking for Clinton's impeachment he went onto other aspects of the Arkansas Project. As we all know, Clinton bashing was a sure fire kick start to a lot of careers - Barbara Olson, Dick Morris, Fox News, etc.
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babsbunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 06:10 PM
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78. You have to send this to Rachel Maddow
on air America Radio. She is on with Tucker sometimes.
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