Tucker Carlson On Grover Norquist

[Syrinx]

I just came across this comment about Grover Norquist that Carlson made in 1997, and thought it was interesting.

Of course there are still apologists on the Right who pose as journalists. You point to Grover Norquist as one of them. You're right, Norquist is a mean-spirited, humorless, dishonest little creep. But in my experience, there aren't many Grovers in positions of prominence on the Right, and virtually none in conservative journalism. Which is why I wrote a piece about him in the first place, because he's an embarrassing anomaly, the leering, drunken uncle everyone else wishes would stay home. Norquist is repulsive, granted, but there aren't nearly enough of him to start a purge trial. Yet you write as if the Norquists of the world controlled the right-wing press from above, and as if only a courageous few conservative journalists--yourself, needless to say, prominently included--dared contradict them. Do you really believe this?

I had no idea that Norquist even pretended to be a journalist, but I like what Carlson said about him. I wonder if Tucker still thinks that "Grovers" are rare?

http://www.slate.com/id/3654/entry/23930

[shenmue]

1. Those two are really...

the same stench.

[Supersedeas]

2. are they beginning to eat their own?

[warrens]

3. That's from 1997

I doubt Tucker would try that rationale now. Brock was right, he's wrong, except about Norquist. Bill Bennett, Britt Hume, George Will, Cal Thomas, and a pack of old-timers were around then and were conveniently overlooked. The Moonie Times, Fox News, etc. were around then too. And today they've been joined by a whole new generation of thugs and crooks masquerading as journalists.

[bryant69]

4. What crap

It's like Coulter - Republicans like to play the game of pretending that she's an extremist and an anomoly. "See I'm a rational thinker, just like you. I don't like Ann Coulter." The truth is that on every issue that matters Norquist and Carlson are on the same page. They want they same things, they support the same programs, they hate the same people. Simple.

Bryant
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