Tucker's Carlson's dad contributed big bucks to Libby's defense fund

[iconoclastic cat]

via dKos: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/1/23/16219/0262

Libby Gets A Little Help From His Friends
More Than $3M Donated To Legal Fund For Indicted Former Cheney Aide

I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby won't lack powerful friends or financial resources when he goes on trial on Tuesday. A private fund set up to pay the legal bills of the former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney has collected more than $3 million since Libby's indictment 14 months ago.

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One of those friends is Dick Carlson, a former ambassador and Republican stalwart who has headed the Voice of America and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (Carlson’s son is Tucker Carlson, the conservative TV pundit.)

Like many of Libby’s well-heeled friends, Carlson wasted no time in coming to his aid. On the day the indictment was announced in October 2005, Carlson said: "I sent a check by courier to Scooter’s house in McLean with the assumption that he’d need it."

That check was the impetus for what quickly morphed into The Scooter Libby Legal Defense Trust. A source close to the trust said more than $3 million has been collected to pay Libby's legal bills. The public face of the defense fund is a cadre of Republican heavyweights that include Mary Matalin, Steve Forbes and Jack Kemp.

[LSparkle]

1. I'd think Dan Abrams would know better

He should have made sure F*cker didn't mention that case, considering the connection.

[AValdoux]

3. That's why I e-mailed MSNBC

My blood boiled watching that. I sat down for the first time today to watch the MSM coverage of the Libby case and I got Tucker.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x16311

AValdoux

[LSparkle]

7. Dan's a lawyer and, from what I've seen, a smart guy

That's just such a STUPID mistake and he's just set himself up for big criticism.

I'll be watching F*cker in another half-hour and will be interested to see if he mentions ANYTHING about the Libby trial ...

[aquart]

2. That man is insufficiently taxed.

[malaise]

4. Fugger is a shameless hack n/t

[H2O Man]

5. Right.

A good journalist would be up front about the conflict of interest.

[AX10]

6. As another poster said, that man is undertaxed!

So Tucker Carlson's father supports criminals....that would explain his son.....

[Lone_Star_Dem]

8. I just found this out a few minutes ago.

I want to give your post a K&R so more people get to see this.

[Supersedeas]

9. And attempting to influence the jury with the Silver spoon in the ass Bow-tie boy--Daddy, would you?

[w8liftinglady]

10. let's get a few email addresses ,etc and let them know we are on to them

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3891881/
this is the site to report errors and corrections.I feel a conflict of interest is a huge error in judgement,and will write them now...

[Graybeard]

11. Another k&r from me...

...when a MSM talking head goes on a rant like TC did today he HAS to reveal his conflict of interest. If Dan Abrams let's this slide he is in very slimey FauxNews territory.

[tanyev]

12. Hey, is that how *ucker got his short-lived PBS show?

Daddy called in a few favors?

[nealmhughes]

14. I always wondered myself... now I want to know why Dinesh D'Souza has an audience?

He has an undergraduate degree from Dartsmouth, that's it...

[halobeam]

13. sent them a letter.