Tucker Carlson gets his panties twisted into a knot over JBE's "Asshole"

[paineinthearse]

This is a little dated, but always nice to see Tucker Carlson get his panties bunched into a knot. It was kicked off by an email from JBE announcing their pre-Falcon Ridge tour...CONGRATS ON THE SELECTION, JIM!

By email....

Hey Egomaniacs!

Jim's Big Ego won a coveted featured spot at this summer's Falcon Ridge Folk Festival (http://www.falconridgefolk.com). To help promote the event, Jim will be touring the Northeast for most of May along with Kym Tuvim, Chris Pureka and Jason Spooner in a shared evening of "rising stars." Be sure to catch a show near you:

5/5/06 Watertown Barn Concert - Watertown, CT
5/6/06 Cafe Fantastique - Worcester, MA**
5/7/06 Night Eagle Cafe - Oxford, NY
5/10/06 Cafe Lena - Saratoga Springs, NY
5/11/06 Bodles Opera House - Chester NY
5/12/06 Moore Music House Concert - Rockville, MD
5/13/06 Susquehanna Music & Arts Fest - Darlington, MD
5/16/06 West Side Cafe - Frederick, MD
5/17/06 Milkboy Coffee - Ardmore, PA
5/18/06 Tent PACE - Easthampton, MA
5/19/06 Outpost in Burbs - Montclair, NJ
5/20/06 Common Grounds CF - Hastings on Hudson, NY
5/21/06 Fox Run House Concert - Sudbury, MA**
5/24/06 Club Passim - Cambridge, MA**

**Full band appearance
More details available at http://www.bigego.com/index.php?page=calendar

...then I went to their website and found this gem

In other JBE news......

JBE NEWS
Ridiculous controversy over JBE song "Asshole" on the Situation Room on MSNBC
Wednesday, April 11th, 2006

CARLSON: Welcome back.

Here‘s a story that has a lot of parents in Lester, Alabama, pretty angry. An eighth grade science teacher reportedly showed his students a video clip laced with profanities and aimed squarely at President Bush, his administration, as well as his supporters. Here‘s a sample of the video Steve White of West Limestone High School let his kids watch. Take a look.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (singing): Been bashed and battered and bruised and beaten, been abused and misused, and I‘ve been mistreated. I‘ve been up and down and still I feel you‘re (expletive deleted).

And I‘ve looked at it from your side and I‘ve looked at it from mine. And I know you had a hard time when you were only 9. But that was long ago and now there‘s just no denying you‘re an (expletive deleted).

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CARLSON: We had to beep out the many references to the president as an a-hole. Mr. White, the teacher, still has his job, though, and as far as we know, he‘s still running for a seat in the state house as a Democrat.

Here to explain what he knows about Mr. White‘s actions is Dr. Barry Carroll, the superintendent of Limestone County schools. Dr. Carroll joins us tonight from Athens, Alabama.

Dr. Carroll, thanks for coming on.

DR. BARRY CARROLL, SUPERINTENDENT, LIMESTONE COUNTY SCHOOLS: Thank you, Tucker.

CARLSON: This is so over the top. Why don‘t you just fire this guy?

Why does he still have his job?

CARROLL: Well, Mr. White has been on our system for 10 years and has a clean record for that 10-year period of time that he‘s worked in the Limestone County schools.

Of course, when this incident came to my attention, I shared that information with our board members, made them aware of it. And our administration, of course, was aware of it.

And we did take action against Mr. White. This type of film strip, this type of video in the classroom is certainly not part of the curriculum. It certainly will not be tolerated. It‘s inappropriate for the classroom, and we were very disturbed by it.

CARLSON: Yes, I agree with that. And I would agree with that if it was attacking John Kerry. I don‘t think you ought to be partisan in the classroom if you‘re the teacher. But are you going to fire him? Is he going to be fired?

CARROLL: Well, I can‘t—I‘m not going to address that at this point. That situation with the film strip was addressed. We addressed that with him. And we took action against him. He was not fired, I‘ll tell you that, for that particular incident.

But he was—he was very remorseful for showing that in the classroom, understood that he made a mistake. It certainly was a mistake. It was very inappropriate and will not be tolerated in our school system.

CARLSON: Christy Jackson (ph), whose son is in Mr. White‘s eighth grade class, told a local newspaper that this teacher required her boy to say, quote, “John Kerry rocks” every day in class. It seems to me he should be fired just for that. I mean, I don‘t really understand why this man has his job still.

CARROLL: Well, that particular situation just came to my attention this afternoon. I was not aware of that. You know, when things happen in the classroom, parents need to report that to the administration and allow our administration to take action to investigate it and that‘s what we do.

CARLSON: OK. But now that—that‘s such an abuse of power, though.

He has power over these kids. He‘s their science teacher.

CARROLL: I agree.

CARLSON: He determines their grade. I mean, what do you have to do to get canned?

CARROLL: Well, I think—first of all, you made a very good point. He‘s a science teacher. There‘s no place in the classroom—in the science classroom for this type of film strip. This is not a political science. Even if it were a political science classroom, this is inappropriate.

CARLSON: OK, so...

CARROLL: Whether you like the president or whether you don‘t like the president or whether you agree or disagree.

CARLSON: Absolutely. It has nothing to do—and I promise you if the politics were reversed I‘d be doing the same segment. I swear on that.

CARROLL: Right.

CARLSON: But again, you still haven‘t answered my question. Why haven‘t you fired him and would you be willing to just fire him right now on the air?

CARROLL: There‘s a procedure that you must follow in Alabama. We have featured who are tenured. As I‘ve said, Mr. White has been with our system for 10 years. He is a tenured teacher. There‘s a process that you must go through, to follow in order to take action against teachers.

We followed that and are still in the process because other allegations have—have come to our attention since the original film strip. There‘s been some other allegations made. And we‘re in the process of investigating those.

CARLSON: All right.

CARROLL: And we‘ll take the appropriate action for those allegations.

CARLSON: Dr. Barry Carroll. I want to get tenure. I want a job where I can‘t be fired no matter what I do. I think everybody in America who‘s not a teacher wants tenure. We need tenure.

Dr. Carroll, thanks for joining us.

CARROLL: I understand.

CARLSON: Amen.

CARROLL: Thank you.

CARLSON: I hope you‘ve got tenure.

Still to come, what do Muhammad Ali, Elvis Presley and “American Idol” have in common? We have the answer when we come back.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

MSNBC

To see the ASSHOLE video, go to paineinthearse's Journal

[nickgutierrez]

1. "Asshole", by the way, is a great song.

I've only heard a bit from JBE, but I like what I've heard.

[otohara]

3. Once Again, The Truth Hurts

Bush is an asshole - biggest asshole in my lifetime

[marmar]

2. Tucker Carlson is such a little bird-beeked freak...

How appropriate he should be discussing the song "Asshole." He is one.

[SoCalDem]

7. Just like his Daddy

a mouthpiece for the right wing republicans..:( and his brother works for the Pillsbury Doughboy (Luntz)...)

[babylonsister]

4. Hmmm, Tucker and "Asshole". They go together perfectly! nt

[Old and In the Way]

5. Would Tucker be so outraged if the teacher was insulting Democrats?

Somehow, I doubt it. That said, the teacher might have used a little more discretion in his choice of political music. Maybe the "Dear Mr. President" would have been more appropriate. :-)

[Hubert Flottz]

6. I think he'd be okay with a wad in his panties though!

I'll bet he's a Gannon fan!

[katinmn]

8. Backwash spokesman Tucker Carlson is an embarrassment

and a transparent Bush apologist.

JBE is kind calling Bush an asshole.

[autorank]

9. K&R and damn that's a great DU Journal...adding it to my blog roll

but not my jelly role...

[paineinthearse]

10. .

:rofl:

[Gabi Hayes]

12. hah!

http://images.blogads.com/tljoofsefnpdsbujdvoefshspvoedpn/democraticunderground/3435644/thumb?rev=rev_2

[Gabi Hayes]

11. what about that story he did in Talk Magazine, in which the asshole

he interviewed, swore his ASS off?

wasn't he offended then?

he wrote about Karen Hughes being a pathological liar for insisting Bush never swore, despite his having HEARD it himself

remember that?

he's beyond hypocritical

[Zorra]

13. Tucker Carlson reminds me of every spoiled rotten rich kid I have

ever known.

I recently saw part of his show for the first time.

Dude is a major asshole.