Tucker Carlson: "Part of the beauty of being a Republican politician...

[Human Torch]

...is that you don't have to care what the gay rights groups think. By the way, who does care what the gay rights groups think?"

Right now, on his MSNBC show, discussing Foley.

[goclark]

1. He is a fool, such a fool nt

[Ian David]

2. If Tucker Carlson isn't gay, then I'm the fucking Pope. n/t

[driver8]

5. Ain't that the truth!! n/t

[bigdarryl]

8. You know something we don't know

Sgive us the details on Tucker

[Bucky]

12. That's a rather insulting thing to say about gays.

If being gay doesn't make you a pedophile, then being a douchebag doesn't make you gay.

[Ian David]

20. Tucker isn't gay because he's a douchebag.

He's gay because he wears a bowtie and triggers my gaydar.

[Up2Late]

16. I guess this proves that he does believe in "Gay Marriage"

We've had "Gay Marriage" here in Georgia for decades, the only thing that has change is that all involve usually know that it's one now.

I just found this too, he's got 4 kids and a wife! <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1227121/>

[driver8]

3. He really said that??

One more reason I would love to punch his lights out.

[Human Torch]

10. That's a 100% word-for-word quote.

When the transcript is posted tomorrow I'd like to update this post so that there's some context. He was discussing Foley, but I heard the statement and hadn't been paying particularly close attention to what came before it.

:patriot:

[gademocrat7]

4. Why is this idiot still on the air??

Oh, wait that could be said for the majority of the corporate media.

[rocktivity]

6. Part of the beauty of being a liberal politician

If that you don't have to care what Republicans think--because they don't know how.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Crunchy Frog]

7. But but but...

I thought that the whole reason why they didn't do something about this earlier was that they didn't want to appear to be "gay bashing", and they wanted to be all sensitive 'n everything.

[babylonsister]

9. That 'toon is priceless!

:rofl:

[Human Torch]

11. The cat is what really makes that one...

...and as a cat lover, that's a hard statement for me to make, but that's one killer cartoon.

:rofl:

[conscious evolution]

13. Fat Freddy's cat

For some reason fat freddy's cat popped to mind when I first saw that

[Human Torch]

14. I can see that too...I'm a big "FFFB" fan!

Welcome to DU, conscious evolution!

:toast:

[conscious evolution]

17. Thanks

Been lurking here for a couple of years now.Finally in a position where I can afford to buy them tubes that connect to the internets.

[elperromagico]

19. That's just a feeble attempt at framing.

By saying that they're avoiding homophobia, they are trying to say that anyone who does attack Foley is a homophobe. It isn't working; I haven't seen a story out of DC that so thoroughly disgusted people in long time, and Foley's sexual orientation has very little to do with that disgust.

[sandnsea]

15. Well Bob Shrum does

He just went to town for gays on some show on MSNBC, was even smart enough to use 'sexual orientation' instead of 'preference'. So yeah, there are people (and parties) who DO care what gay rights groups think.

[TheDonkey]

18. It's only a matter of time before Carlsons gay lovers expose him

he's probably burning all his computers right now