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deminks

(11,014 posts)
Sun Jul 14, 2013, 04:02 PM Jul 2013

Tucker Carlson: Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton are ‘hustlers and pimps’

Judging by the comments from the reich wing all day today, it seems they want to see riots and destruction and death, and are hugely disappointed it didn't happen.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/14/tucker-carlson-jessie-jackson-al-sharpton-are-hustlers-and-pimps/

Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Sunday said he was outraged that the media portrayed Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton as civil rights leaders because both men were simply “hustlers and pimps.”

The morning after a Florida jury found George Zimmerman not guilty for the murder of Trayvon Martin, Fox News host Clayton Morris asked Geraldo Rivera if he agreed with defense attorney Mark O’Mara that the trial would never have happened if the defendant had been black.

Rivera acknowledged that O’Mara was “onto something” because “this was bald face race politics, the president gave the signal, Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton — two men I hold in very high regard — but when they stirred things up, they did it in a way that I think was way over, over the top.”

(snip)

Carlson said that he felt “terrible” for the Martin family, but he was “positive that people like Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton do not deserve to be called civil rights leaders. They are not.”

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Tucker Carlson: Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton are ‘hustlers and pimps’ (Original Post) deminks Jul 2013 OP
Well, they don't have to hide it anymore n/t Scootaloo Jul 2013 #1
That was my immediate thought too gollygee Jul 2013 #4
Carson is a little punk just his comment is racial in tone bigdarryl Jul 2013 #2
Post removed Post removed Jul 2013 #3
Tucker Carlson? That dweeb is still around? Adsos Letter Jul 2013 #5
Get him off the air before he offends anyone else... kentuck Jul 2013 #6
Likewise mitchtv Jul 2013 #7
So says the Tori Spelling of TV Punditry htuttle Jul 2013 #8
tucker carlson is a no-talent hustler and pimp. HiPointDem Jul 2013 #9

gollygee

(22,336 posts)
4. That was my immediate thought too
Sun Jul 14, 2013, 04:10 PM
Jul 2013

It has just been shown that racism is fine and dandy, up to and including profiling and killing someone just for being black. Racist people can apparently say and do whatever they want now.

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