Comments on: Tucker Carlson: Supporter of State-Sponsored Terrorism

By: Pandagon

Pandagon — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:51:00 +0000

Good play by the 49ers in that game, huh, Tucker?

Tucker Carlson mistakes France for a football team and the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior for a memorable play. MADDOW: Can I just note that you just made a non-mocking reference to France? That’s the first time. CARLSON: Actually, I…

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:33:20 +0000

Chris, of course there are right wingers engaged in actual violence, and of course the right wing pundits refuse to talk about it. But it’s a gift to us when they affirmatively praise right-wing terrorism, because it’s right out there in the open.

I really don’t want to see this Carlson thing go away. I want him sacked as a warning to others of his kind that excusing terrorism will get you canned.

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By: Pepper

Pepper — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:33:20 +0000

Unusually sheltered people with no social skills just love it when violence happens … to others. I believe it when Carlson doesn’t understand that PEOPLE DIED in the Rainbow Warrior incident. All violence to Tucker is movie-violence because it is always in service of the plot.

By: Chris Clarke

Chris Clarke — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:17:06 +0000

Thomas, it's a lot more than just two.

By: Scott Lemieux

Scott Lemieux — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 19:35:46 +0000

What a guy. No wonder “The Situation” on some nights is able to beat public access shows where people read from Star Wars novelizations!

By: Ralph

Ralph — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 19:00:02 +0000

Tucker is already going to burn in hell for saying that John Edwards made all his money from a hot tub case. What more are you going to do to him?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:54:13 +0000

The lesson today, folks, is that the members of the right wing noise machine do not actually oppose political violence. They only oppose its use by folks they do not agree with.

This is not only Carlson’s view. Ann Coulter famously said that her only problem with Tim McVeigh was that he didn’t blow up the New York Times building. (When she said that, someone I love worked in that building.)

Once is a lone nut, but twice is a vocal minority. Therefore, we can safely say: a vocal minority of the right wing pundit choir supports the use of terrorist bombing to suppress liberal and progressive political speech.

By: dread pirate roberts

dread pirate roberts — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:32:43 +0000

i think you could have left out “accused” in your blog title. seems to me that we could straight ahead say “tucker carlson in favor of murderous terrorism.” the new zealanders had a rather different take on the incident. they didn’t like french terrorism in their harbor.

so tuckie. was 911 just bigger vandalism?

By: charles

charles — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:14:10 +0000

unreal. i never did like his stupid bowties.