ChiTrib Editor to Tucker Carlson - Backbone Flimsy as Bow Tie

[RamboLiberal]

http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=11068

Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 3:39 PM
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Subject: Response to Tucker

Dear Tucker,

Taping your show that ran on MSNBC last night was a real lesson for me. I now understand why you have so few viewers. Who wants to deal with someone whose backbone is as flimsy as his bow tie.

Your personal and derogatory comment about me after my taped appearance on your show to discuss why the Chicago Tribune decided not to publish cartoons offensive to Muslims was cowardly. When I was in the Army (an experience I'm sure you've not shared), we referred to people like you as "guys who back up to the pay table."

It is one thing to disagree with me about the decisions we make in what we run and don't run in the Chicago Tribune. You even had the gall to say "I respectfully disagree but I appreciate your coming on (to the show) to explain it." That was when I was being taped, or as close as you could come to looking me in the eye.

After the tape ran on your live show later and I (and the hundreds of millions of other Americans who don't watch Tucker) were otherwise occupied, you referred to my newspaper as "cowardly" and to me personally as a "corporate worm." You didn't even have the guts to say that to me on tape.

[MADem]

1. Guys who back up to the pay table, indeed!

What a smackdown!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

3. I'm having trouble deciphering that one.

(My military experience consists of watching MASH for 10 years.)

[Greybnk48]

2. The Editor need not worry

no one watches the show, except perhaps the last minute or so when we flip over to see K.O.

[DinahMoeHum]

4. I would have added a P.S.

"By the way, Tucker, lose that bowtie, OK? It make you look like a candy-ass pansy"

:evilfrown:

[zbdent]

5. A poor excuse for a Barney Frank wannabe

(I swear, it's a GOP code . . . wear a bow-tie to signal that you're a homosexual . . . Brock was encouraged to wear one . . .)

[MADem]

6. Deep in the closet, then--he has FIVE KIDS

Unless he got them from the Scientific Refrigerator, he's a switch-hitter, at best.

[zbdent]

9. Do you know if they look

anything like him?

[MADem]

10. By all accounts, they're his--devote Catholics, those Carlsons

I heard that she is a SAHM, and does not like the public eye much. Her name is Susan, I believe.

A lot of folks accuse Margaret of being his wife, but that is not the case.

[txindy]

7. Oh, my, what a total smackdown! Tuck's tie must be spinning in outrage.

Well done, James O'Shea! :patriot:

[lpbk2713]

8. An excellent judge of character .... or lack thereof.

This guy has Little Lord Tucker nailed down pretty good. He's just as hypocritical as all the other RW media hos.