Tucker Carlson offers no apology for saying 'naughty' things on a radio show

[UpInArms]

Source: Marketwatch

Fox News host Tucker Carlson, many years ago, would regularly call in and chat with the host of the Bubba the Love Sponge radio show. The idea, as it is with any shock-jock program, was to stir up a buzz by discussing some controversial topics.

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One of those topics, according to the Media Matters website, focused on Warren Jeffs, who was on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list for his role in arranging illegal marriages between adults and underage girls.

Carlson said criminal charges against Jeffs were “bullshit” because “arranging a marriage between a 16-year-old and a 27-year-old is not the same as pulling a stranger off the street and raping her.”

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He didn’t stop there. Carlson called journalist Arianna Huffington a “pig,” and labeled Britney Spears and Paris Hilton “the biggest white whores in America.”

Carlson also referred to Martha Stewart’s daughter Alexis as “cunty.”

Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tucker-carlson-offers-no-apology-for-saying-naughty-things-in-a-radio-interview-2019-03-11?mod=mw_latestnews

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Bow tie boy needs to get fired

[TwilightZone]

1. I'm not sure there's a bigger hypocrite in politics (other than Trump) than Carlson.

In addition, his lack of self-awareness is world-class.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. I have never understood what this little wanker's appeal is...

or whom he appeals to.


(grammar nerds-- I have an affection for my participles, and long may they dangle)

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

7. It's the angle of your dangle that offends!! haha!!

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[underpants]

11. His dad gave him a job on C-Span

Or PBS

He wore a bow tie

That's pretty much it.

[The Wizard]

27. He appeals to jerkoffs (NT)

[Midnight Writer]

3. Sounds like a ratings grab from Fox News to me. Carlson's ratings will surely rise.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Tucker is so delusional to think the world wants to know his opinion of various women.

Someone who lives on hatred has no standing to take shots at anyone. He's a total disaster, himself.

[LuvNewcastle]

5. And he's not a whore?

Jesus, what does that piece of shit think he gives to the world? He just needs to thank Satan he’s got his evil little job and quit putting down the other people doing the same shit he does.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

8. Without question... the Fucker's hypocrisy needs to be hammered home relentlessly.

[Mike Nelson]

6. His fans...

… will love him more...

[scrutineer]

9. He has been fired

Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson, the favorite Fox host of white nationalists, has been fired - from CNN, MSNBC and PBS.

[FiveGoodMen]

26. Can't find that anywhere outside your post.

[scrutineer]

32. Tucker McNear Swanson Carlson

Which part - his support among the white right or his failed TV career before Fox ?

A long and somewhat depressing read on Tucker McNear Swanson Carlson includes:

Other vocal fans of Carlson include Richard Spencer, David Duke, and white nationalist website The Daily Stormer. On August 24, 2018, The Daily Stormer published a post that noted gleefully, “Tucker Carlson is basically ‘Daily Stormer: The Show.’ Other than the language used, he is covering all of our talking points.”

https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/tucker-carlson.php

A more fun read from Alex Prareen seven years ago:
https://www.salon.com/2012/04/26/tucker_carlsons_downward_spiral/

Tucker McNear Swanson Carlson falsely claims that he resigned from CNN, but he was fired.
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/06/business/media/cnn-will-cancel-crossfire-and-cut-ties-to-commentator.html

He and Paul Gigot were hired to do right wing propaganda at PBS by Cheney-Bush Crime Syndicate operative Kenneth Y. Tomlinson. There were lots of complaints and a number of local affiliates wouldn’t run the shows. By the time Tomlinson was forced to resign over miscellaneous shenanigans (ghost employees, misappropriation of funds, running a horse racing business, using government employees for personal use - you know, Republican stuff) Tucker McNear Swanson Carlson had moved to MSNBC and Gigot to Fox.

By 2008, somebody at MSNBC figured out that cable TV didn’t two Foxes, and Tucker McNear Swanson Carlson was let go.

It must have been awkward for Tucker McNear Swanson Carlson to finally settle for Fox after all the nasty things he’d said about them ( "I don't know who would want to watch that shit. Do you?" ), but that TV money is too sweet to pass up.
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2010/02/06/after-blasting-fox-news-and-oreilly-tucker-carl/160152

[William Seger]

10. "not the same as pulling a stranger off the street and raping her."

Yeah, it's more like pulling a stranger off the street and raping her, then keeping her as a sex slave/baby factory/housekeeper for as long as you like.

[rainin]

15. at 14, no less and with the parents' blessing.

A stranger might hope to be saved one day. These girls know no one is ever going to save them.

[Blue_Tires]

12. Tucker's BFF Glenn Greenwald was unavailable for comment

I look forward to seeing the Intercept trying to spin this...

EDIT: Greenwald's minion Michael Tracey has chimed in!

Link to tweet

[ET Awful]

13. I can't think of Tucker Carlson without thinking of Jon Stuart calling him out AND

calling him a dick

[rainin]

16. What amazing television. I think Jon Stewart dropped off the map

because the hours he spent watching this garbage eventually got to him. I heard him say he watched fox for hours in preparation for his show. That would take its toll on any sentient being. He is missed.

[FakeNoose]

18. It's a shame, but also understandable

He should have assigned "watching Faux News" to people on his staff, and it could have been a rotating assignment. Rachel Maddows and Lawrence O'Donnell have staff researchers who do most of the legwork for show preparation. Jon could have had a team working for him too, and it wouldn't have taken such a toll on him.

I do hope Jon Stewart comes back to TV eventually.

[mercuryblues]

28. That clip was from 2004

the same time frame where he made the comments on the radio show.

[Yeehah]

14. Dirtbags like Carlson lack the moral courage to apologize

Right wing propagandists lack character.

[Honeycombe8]

17. I started seeing Carlson around many years ago.

He was on CNN, I think, on the show "Crossfire." While he was an obvious conservative, he wasn't this vile and demented. What the hell happened to him? Or was the conservative Carlson of years ago just a put-on, hiding his real self, that was freed by the rise of the hateful alt-right?

He goes past conservative values. This is outright hatred of individuals, women in particular. Was he radicalized? Maybe so.

[mercuryblues]

29. These comments were made 10

years ago, when he was on CNN. he's always been like this, just his it well on air. I mean on Fox he comes across as a sexist, racist turd. So it is no surprise that he is a vile racist, sexist turd.

[Honeycombe8]

30. He didn't make such statements on Crossfire.

CNN probably didn't allow it. Crossfire ended over 10 years ago, and I don't think I watched it after a while. My work hours increased or I got bored with it or it changed time slot. It wasn't as good a show as it had been. I had watched it when Mike Kinsley was on, representing the left.

The statements in that article in the OP were for a radio show 10 years ago.

[mercuryblues]

31. He went to a podunk radio show

to make those comments. He thought he was safe making those comments there. Apparently he was a frequent guest, as more tapes are surfacing. He had to go somewhere to get it out of his system. My guess he still talks like that when he is surrounded by his bros.

[dalton99a]

19. Republicans are sociopaths - they regret nothing

[yuiyoshida]

20. THIS!

Link to tweet

[47of74]

21. Or as I call him, Fucker Carlson.

[Miigwech]

22. tucker is in the dirty old man club !!!!!

[Oneironaut]

23. I think we should just rename Fox News "4-Chan TV."

95% of their content now is alt-right shitposting in verbal form.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

24. "naughty" ?????

No. Vulgar. Vile. Repulsive. Indefensible.

[pwb]

25. His family owns Swanson foods if you want to hurt the source of this pig.

I don't buy any of their brand. They bred him.