The Rude Pundit: The Quickest, Easiest Destruction of a Conservative Pundit You'll See Today

[meegbear]

Tucker Carlson - that bow-tie wearing cockhole, one of the most purely stupid "thinkers" the right has produced in the last twenty years, belonging to the decent-face, dim-brain species that includes S.E. Cupp and Ben Domenech - now prances and preens with his internet concern, The Daily Caller, which is sort of like Huffington Post except with less side-boob and more full-on boob obsession.

Lately, The DC (see? Isn't that clever?) has been hawking the "story" of how Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez might have hired prostitutes in the Dominican Republic. The Washington Post did some, you know, reporting and discovered that one of the prostitutes was hired to read a script on video and lie to incriminate Menendez. The DC accused the Post of talking to "the wrong prostitute." Carlson himself spoke to the Post's Erik Wemple to say that the newspaper was wrong and Carlson's website's story was right. Wemple helpfully points out another part of the Post's story: "FBI agents conducting interviews in the Dominican Republic have found no evidence to back up the tipster’s allegations."

Today, we are not concerned with Menendez. No, today we are concerned with Tucker Carlson and the way that conservative allegations on anything skeevy that a Democrat may or may not have done automatically become articles of faith around the right-wing biosphere.

For we can take Carlson apart so easily on this matter it barely requires more than a Google search of "Tucker Carlson" and "David Vitter." In case the kids out there don't remember, Vitter (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288868,00.html) is the Republicans senator from Louisiana who frequented prostitutes in New Orleans. He got reelected in 2010, post-scandal, precisely because conservatives like Carlson decided that, when it comes to their own, who gives a happy monkey fuck what they do, as long as they toe the ideological line.

In fact, let's let Carlson speak for himself, as he did on his then-MSNBC show Tucker, on July 11, 2007. It is an object lesson in how repulsive this bottom-feeding scum worm actually is. Remember: Vitter wasn't "accused" of whoring it up. He did it. And, believe it or not, even in New Orleans, that's illegal. Carlson, talking to Michael Rectenwald, the head of some fucking organization that released the names of public figures who visited the brothel of a certain madam, actually said, "How could you justify doing something like this? Why is it your business?"

Remember, again: Vitter, a Senator, broke the law. "I don‘t remember David Vitter making any case that people who frequent prostitutes ought to be punished more severely than they are," Carlson offered.

Remember, one more time: Carlson acknowledges that Vitter had sex with prostitutes, which is against the law. But still he could say, "I don‘t know anything about you other than you are holding up this guy‘s sex life to public ridicule. And you ought to be ashamed of yourself."

Now, all that is fine and dandy. We could stop there, having shown that Carlson is a hypocrite, of course, of course. But let's nail this coffin shut and toss it in the ocean with Carlson still alive inside. Let's show the true depths of delusion, the miasma of hypocrisy in which the right wallows.

Tucker Carlson, whose internet news outlet is unrelentingly pursuing Bob Menendez on whether or not he had sex with prostitutes, who proclaimed that David Vitter's actual sex with prostitutes was off-limits for discussion, said on July 11, 2007, on a program that bore his first name, "If this were (Democrat) Russ Feingold...I would be up there making the same argument that Russ Feingold's personal (life) ought to be off limits from creeps and scandal mongers like you...who profit from digging into other people's sex lives."

Annnd...scene.

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[wilt the stilt]

1. I actually know someone who knows Tucker very well

he went to college with him. Tucker is actually really smart. He could put off a term paper until the very end and then write it in a blaze the last 48 hours before it was due and write it perfectly and get an A. He did like his toot and did it all the time. Oh and he is a dick.

[DemoTex]

2. Tucker => Trinity College, Hartford Ct.

But "Brains" Carlson left Trinity without a degree.

On edit: Carlson is also a SoCal "blueblood." He is a privileged prick and he is the reason I won't buy Swanson's chicken broth.

[wilt the stilt]

4. yes I know all of that

he is a a dick but my friend knows him very well. He is actually really smart and was a heavy coke head

[lady lib]

33. Coke? Do tell. nt

[Warren DeMontague]

37. would surprise me not one bit.

a lot of those bowtie-wearin' close cropped Reagan youth types were into blow.

If you're burning through that much cash, of course a capital gains tax cut sounds good.

[AlbertCat]

46. a lot of those bowtie-wearin' close cropped Reagan youth types were into blow.

Late 70's ... early 80's

EVERYONE was into blow! It was the drug de jour. Tucker was just being cool.

He's so pitiful though....and doesn't know it. It's kinda funny.

[datasuspect]

48. coke is the only reason why bob stigwood

got to make Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band the movie.

[Warren DeMontague]

50. I will neither confirm nor deny

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on the advice of my attorney

[blm]

51. Lawrence Kudlow's a major coke head, too.

Actually a lot of the RW women pundits were coke heads, too. Remember throughout the 90s when Kellianne was so skinny and her face covered in breakouts? Coke head.

[NewJeffCT]

5. Interesting

Trinity is usually considered a fairly liberal school, if I'm not mistaken - though, it's also for wealthy & upper middle class kids that weren't good enough to get into Yale, Harvard or Princeton.

[marias23]

44. Smarts?

Intelligence does not mean wisdom.

[geardaddy]

9. Writing a paper is more of a skill.

You do have to be intelligent, but to write a "perfect" paper is impossible, since it's subjective.

[wilt the stilt]

28. just sayin'

he is smart. My friend is really smart. we work in high tech together. we were a couple of the first people in our company and now we are close to 500. The company I work for is very cool.

[geardaddy]

29. Yeah, I know what you mean.

But not all smart people can write well. Just sayin'

[whathehell]

42. So he's smart...Big deal...A lot of people are smart

I don't think, honestly, that most of the world's troubles

stem from a lack of intelligence, I think they stem from the

lack of something else, something called "wisdom".

Wisdom generally includes intelligence, but is broader and more encompassing. It includes

qualities like introspection, integrity, compassion and understanding.

If, in this over competitive world, we rewarded those traits at least

as much as narrow intelligence, I think we'd all be living in a better world.

[Downtown Hound]

15. Whatever, I used to do that in college all the time

It doesn't mean I'm super smart. It means I have a knack for writing and like to procrastinate, which I did fairly often in school.

[Major Nikon]

21. I'm guessing you didn't have the benefit of attending a private boarding school in New England

[Downtown Hound]

23. Nope, Humboldt State University.

[Semi_subversive]

27. Good Ol HSU

Hills, stairs and umbrellas!

[NBachers]

35. HSU Dad here and proud of it!

[Semi_subversive]

45. Me, too!

My youngest son was studying environmental resource engineering and mistakenly took a year off. He can't get back in. You've got to be an incoming frosh or continuing student. In the meantime, he's a cook and sushi guy at Tomo on the G Street Plaza.

[NBachers]

54. Yeah, mine fulfilled his "food service requirement" at Six Rivers Brewery in McKinleyville

He's now in the kitchen at Ma Ma da Vinci's in Glasgow, Scotland, of all places

[pink-o]

40. And a "special" crop that if the Feds legalized

Could make our state richer than Germany!

[Major Nikon]

18. Stupid is as stupid does

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

34. Most people are "smart" in one way or another. One who can't see their own blatant hypocricy is

not smart in a way I can respect.

[FailureToCommunicate]

43. I actually know Tucker. And I would agree with the last thing you said.

[JPZenger]

52. Fox News Spent 10 full minutes on the Menendez allegations yesterday

I was stuck watching Fox News in a doctor's office yesterday. They spent a full 10 minutes of air time on the allegations against Menendez and quoted Daily Caller as saying that the wrong prostitute was claiming the story was fake.

[Berlum]

3. Ahh, the Republican Diaper-sex Coalition CHAIRman (R)

Vitty got a freaking STANDING OVATION from his Republican Senatorial colleagues to applaud his brazen-ass diaper-sex frolics with prostitutes.

Kinda makes a person wonder...about a lot of things...

[NewJeffCT]

7. But, the foot-tapping bathroom senator

was asked to resign, if I recall. (Forgot the senator's name)

[Angry Dragon]

11. Sen. Craig I believe

[AlbertCat]

47. Sen. Craig I believe

That's him! What a comedy act!

His favorite food (he put the recipe in some GOP cookbook, if you can imagine such a thing) is a baked potato with a hotdog stuck thru the middle of it (also if you can imagine such a thing).

I loved his "I'm not gay" media event when he said: "I'm glad you all came out today..."

I remember Rachel Maddow face palming and saying "Just stop talking Larry...just stop!"

[Berlum]

12. Republicans: eXtraMarital Diaper Sex with hookers is cool, Toe-tapping Bathroom Sex is uncool

It sure helps a lot to sort out the Republican 'values' on these important pubic matters.

Doubtless the new Pope (R) will be appreciative.

[MyshkinCommaPrince]

24. Our side: hypocrisy is uncool.

But I thought our stance was also that people's sex lives shouldn't be a problem, as long as no one is harmed or coerced. Maybe that's just me. We should criticize Vitters and others like him for the ugliness of their ideas and the hypocrisy of their actions, in light of those ideas. It's the lying and the effort to control others, surely? But to attack him for having an unusual sexual fetish seems like it should be beneath us. Surely there are diaper fetishists on our side. Maybe they're distasteful or risible or baffling, but they're people too, and not hurting anyone. It seems unfair to weaponize the preoccupations of such people, to score easy political points.

Just my thought. Please don't crush me like a bug.

[Berlum]

25. I've no problem with people's consensual sex lives

But the rank Republican moralizing & hypocrisy riles my bile.

[MyshkinCommaPrince]

26. Absolutely.

I didn't think you did, but it might be easy to misinterpret the way we often label Vitters and others. Didn't mean to pick on your post. It's a thought I've had for some time now, while reading DU, but today I've had the right mix of adequate sleep and excessive coffee to prompt me to post things.

[HangOnKids]

13. Larry Wide Stance Craig n/t

[dsc]

16. He may have been asked to resign but he didn't

He didn't stand for reelection but he did serve out his term which had a decent amount of time left to go.

[NewJeffCT]

19. Yes

I remember, but he was asked to resign, while Vitter was given a standing ovation.

[Madmiddle]

6. There are

no bigger hypocrit pricks then any republican. They are the worst kind of people in life anywhere. Even when they are supposedly educated, and probably smart, they never ever show it.

[dreampunk]

8. Good post 'meegbear!

Carlson is breathing air WE could be breathing! I am learning to tone down some of my opinions here as it's easy to get 86'd.

[malaise]

10. Nail meet hammer

Rudie strikes again

[Babel_17]

14. Thanks, that was a good read! (nt)

[walkerbait41]

17. To the Rude Pundit

[GoCubsGo]

20. Always happy to recommend His Rudeness.

Well said, Rude One!

[rhett o rick]

22. Send Tuck a message here:

http://dailycaller.com/contact-form/?type=sendtip

[blm]

30. Don't forget Carlson helped CREATE the lie that Kerry had a girlfriend when he began leading

in the Dem primary. Created it with some of his DC pals and then spread it.

http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/politics/national/features/9221/

The Education of Alexandra Polier

Falsely accused of having an affair with John Kerry, the “intern” sifts through the mud and the people who threw it.


On the evening of Thursday, February 12, as John Kerry had just chalked up his twelfth state-primary win in his quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, I was at a dinner party in Nairobi, hosted by my friend Matthew Rosenberg, an Associated Press reporter based in East Africa. The male guests were discussing a recent poker game, while the women sat around trading recipes to give to their cooks. It promised to be your typical Nairobi night.

Five months earlier, I had quit my job at the AP in New York and moved to Kenya with my fiancé, Yaron Schwartzman, who’d grown up there. He had been offered a film-production job, and I wanted to try some foreign corresponding. That night the group included aid workers, diplomats, photographers, and the feisty AP bureau chief, Susan Linnee.

As we started dinner, I was dimly aware of Susan’s cell phone’s ringing. I didn’t know her well but was excited to talk to her in case a job in the bureau came up. She went outside to answer it, then came back and beckoned me to join her in the garden. “The New York office wants to talk to you,” she said, and then she dialed the number and passed me the phone.

“Hello, Alex,” said the familiar voice of my old boss, Tom Kent, one of AP’s deputy managing editors. He sounded brusque. “I hate to tell you this, but you’re on the Drudge Report,” he said, and then proceeded to read me Matt Drudge’s latest “world exclusive.”
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[RVN VET]

49. Carlson is drek

Total drek. A micron above Drudge on the evolutionary chain of maggot to rat feces.

I'm sorry to have to say things like that about Tucker who, had he a conscience, might actually have become a real man and done something useful with his life. Drudge, of course, is not as bright as Tucker and makes up for his lack of smarts by spewing even more obnoxious crud and spattering a broader cross section of people.

Both are defective humans who will die alone and unloved.

[xxqqqzme]

31. Actually the thing that did disgust

me was him having his jittery, deer caught in the headlights, finger twisting wife sitting next to him. She looked like she was ready to bolt at any second, but I think her legs were tied to the chair.

Respect yourself, my dear.

At least Sanford's wife had the good sense to divorce his ass.

[Historic NY]

32. I hope the FBI starts knocking on his door soon....

my guess is he bought the story hook, line & stinker. He plays the pivotal role in pushing it.

[uponit7771]

36. I was wondering why the FBI was involved

[Ligyron]

38. HA! 'Member when Carlson got his ass handed to him by Jon Stewart on "Crossfire"?

That was pretty much the end of Tucker on that show.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

53. "You're over thirty years old. And you wear a bow tie."

[Tigress DEM]

39. Love the smell of dellusion in the morning. Aw Tucker, crap falls out of both sides of your mouth.

"If this were (Democrat) Russ Feingold...I would be up there making the same argument that Russ Feingold's personal (life) ought to be off limits from creeps and scandal mongers like you...who profit from digging into other people's sex lives."


How's it feel to be a right wing whore, Tucker?

[pink-o]

41. If he's such a "smart" man, he's been in some really stupid situations:

The dumbest of all: jumping in the ring with Jon Stewart, and ultimately losing his job over it.

But in his defense: His parents named him Tucker. Named him that knowing he would go through Middle School with it. What the Tuck were they thinking????