http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/tuckercarlson/ en-us Fri, 6 Jun 2008 04:01:51 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026888/posts One of the major criticisms in the 2008 presidential election cycle has been about the media bias in favor of liberal Democratic Sen. Barack Obama. Former MSNBC show host Tucker Carlson, now the senior campaign correspondent for the network admitted the criticism is valid. Carlson, who has access behind the scenes in the news, compared the media’s affection for the Illinois senator to “the kind of love you have to be a ninth-grade boy to understand.” “If you think about the psychology of this – I think it’s interesting, Carlson said in an interview with Carol Joynt. “In the last... businessandmedia.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026888/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jun 2008 04:01:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013201/posts The last time we encountered a political analogy this sexualized was, I believe, after the initial burst of Fredmania last year, when the left discerned a decidedly gay tinge to conservatives' hero-worship of a big, drawlin', southern hunk such as he. (Presumably, McCain's victory proves in hindsight that we're straight.) Tucker turns the tables here, but is the analogy fair? Go have a look at the new cover of Time magazine. All that's missing is a milkshake with two straws in it and the headline, "You have beautiful eyes." Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013201/posts#comment Thu, 8 May 2008 19:47:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012938/posts "Thrill up my leg"? Forget about it. Chris Matthews's famous description of the excitement he gets from Barack is nothing compared to the tumescent terms in which MSNBC senior campaign correspondent Tucker Carlson has depicted the intensity of the MSM's love affair with Obama. Tucker appeared on today's Morning Joe. TUCKER CARLSON: It's gonna be such a great election; it has been so far. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Especially when you have the media loving one candidate as much as they love Barack Obama. CARLSON: But it's more than love. I mean, it's the kind of love that anyone who's been a... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012938/posts#comment Thu, 8 May 2008 12:04:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007975/posts Were they commenting on the same speech? Rev. Jeremiah Wright goes before the Detroit NAACP, claims that black and white children learn with different parts of their brain, and offers a simpering, unflattering imitation of the way white pastors speak. CNN's Soledad O'Brien gushes that the speech was a "home run" and "really funny." But over at Morning Joe, Wright's words prompted a panel member to call the reverend a "mediocrity" and a "buffoon." View video here. NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007975/posts#comment Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:14:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992769/posts After me, the deluge" (après moi, le déluge) -- popularly attributed to Louis XV Look for Chris Matthews to start calling her "Louie." The Hardball host was as roiled as Robespierre today at Hillary Clinton's threat to take the Dem party down in a convention credentials fight over the seating of the Florida and Michigan delegates. In the course of an interview with Greta Van Susteren of Fox News yesterday, Clinton made clear her intention to take things to a floor fight if necessary, and went so far as to pre-emptively undermine Barack Obama's legitimacy as a candidate if he... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992769/posts#comment Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:40:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1986147/posts We can't let Tucker Carlson's show, which I've enjoyed, pass into history as it did last night without a mention here. MSNBC has said that Tucker will remain at the network as an at-large commentator, and I have a feeling that, liberated from show-host concerns, he might become even more uninhibited in the expression of his quirkily conservative/libertarian views. So let's usher Tucker out by focusing on one of our favorite nemeses, Rosa Brooks, the liberal LA Times columnist who appeared on the show's final episode last night. The unreconstructed Obama apologist offered the lamest excuse yet for his failure... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1986147/posts#comment Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:42:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1985301/posts Even Tucker Carlson, MSNBC's uninhibited house libertarian, was a bit taken aback. But good Dem Bill Press has had the, um, gumption to say what others may have thought about Hillary Clinton: that she has "balls of brass." View video here NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1985301/posts#comment Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:13:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983577/posts Tucker Carlson Out at MSNBC NEW YORK (AP) — The bow tie is out at MNSBC. David Gregory is replacing Tucker Carlson as host of a one-hour show each evening. The news network is making a handful of changes to respond to heavy political interest. Gregory's new show is called "Race for the White House" and will be on each weekday at 6 p.m. starting next Monday. Carlson has been at MSNBC for nearly three years. MSNBC also says that Andrea Mitchell will anchor an hour each afternoon. Keith Olbermann's popular "Countdown" program will rerun every night at 10. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983577/posts#comment Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:25:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983377/posts NEW YORK (AP) - The bow tie is out at MNSBC. David Gregory is replacing Tucker Carlson as host of a one-hour show each evening. The news network is making a handful of changes to respond to heavy political interest. Gregory's new show is called "Race for the White" and will be on each weekday at 6 p.m. starting next Monday. Carlson has been at MSNBC for nearly three years. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983377/posts#comment Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:37:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983025/posts Insiders tell TVNewser Tucker Carlson's 6pmET show Tucker is getting the axe, but Carlson stays on as a political contributor to all MSNBC shows at least through the 2008 election. The official announcement, expected tomorrow, will include details about who will replace Tucker at 6pmET as well as other political programming additions. Sources say the network is going to beef up its schedule with more NBC News talent. In recent days, Jossip, as well as other blogs, ratcheted up the talk that Tucker would be replaced "for a new project." In its 33-month run, Carlson's show has had two names,... TV Newser http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983025/posts#comment Sun, 9 Mar 2008 23:01:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982782/posts The most interesting part of the controversy over Obama advisor Samantha Power's referring to Hillary Clinton as a "monster" -- one might say the only interesting part -- is that immediately after Power said it, she tried to proclaim that it was "off the record." Here was Power's exact quote: She is a monster, too –- that is off the record –- she is stooping to anything. But the reporter who was interviewing her, Britain's Gerri Peev of The Scotsman, printed the comment anyway -- as she should have, because Peev had never agreed that any parts of the interview... Salon http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982782/posts#comment Sun, 9 Mar 2008 11:05:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977430/posts With advisors like this, no wonder John Edwards got blown out of the Dem primary . . . Of all the qualities Hillary might have emphasized to her advantage, can you imagine basing her campaign on her "warmth" and "likability"? Chris Kofinis can. The former communications director of the John Edwards campaign appeared on Tucker Carlson's show this evening. View video. NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977430/posts#comment Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:16:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976792/posts Now that David Shuster has returned from MSNBC exile after the Clinton campaign complained about his comments on Chelsea, will Tucker Carlson's be the next head Camp Hillary hunts? Senior Clinton advisor Kiki McClean comprehensively rapped Carlson's knuckles this evening over comments Tucker made about Clinton campaign spokesman Phil Singer. View video here. NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976792/posts#comment Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:57:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976286/posts Tucker Carlson, on his show tonight, describing the Clinton campaign's press relations . . . TUCKER CARLSON: They're awful to the media: let's be totally blunt. They're awful to the press. They treat the press like enemies. [Clinton Communication Director] Howard Wolfson's always calling around threatening people. Threatening people! News organizations! They do that! People hate you if you do that. I mean, they've earned the enmity of the press, in my view. They have. I mean, it's been hard but they've done it. The affable Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post tried to take the edge off. EUGENE ROBINSON:... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976286/posts#comment Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:42:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971253/posts You vill obey update . . . The domestic policy differences between Hillary and Obama are negligible. But the Clinton camp likes to claim that his national health care plan would leave 15 million people out, whereas hers covers everyone. Let's put aside for the moment the fact that former Clinton cabinet member Robert Reich says the Obama plan would actually wind up covering more people. The key to Hillary's claim that she would cover everyone is that . . . she would punish people who refuse to fall in line. Naturally, Clinton isn't eager to specify just what such... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971253/posts#comment Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:40:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963544/posts David Frum might not be every conservative's cup of tea. But un-fans of John McCain will find plenty to like in Frum's biting analysis of the Republican front-runner. The former Bush speechwriter and author of Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again, was a guest on this evening's Tucker. View video here. NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963544/posts#comment Sat, 2 Feb 2008 00:46:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1953739/posts When one of Tucker Carlson's guests this evening ventured into the racial minefield that our political landscape has become, the show host chose not to join him on the perilous journey . . . . Carlson began a segment by reading the recent statement by Michelle Obama displayed here. View video here. NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1953739/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:00:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943055/posts If whoever plays the Nazi-analogy card first loses, then Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) is a double loser. First, for having played the Bush = Hitler card, second, for lacking the courage to stick by his slander. Moran, a member of Congress' Out-of-Iraq Caucus, was a guest on this evening's Tucker. The eponymous host was hammering him over the fact that despite all their inflamed anti-war rhetoric, the Dems have folded like the proverbial lawn chair, caving to all President Bush's funding requests for Iraq. When Moran could take the taunting no longer, he resorted to the loser's strategy. But watch... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943055/posts#comment Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:56:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931974/posts Their infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad . . . Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected. There are no American infidels in Baghdad . . . There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad. -- Saddam's Information Minister Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf, AKA "Baghdad Bob." Not bad, Bob. But if you want to see how flackery is done at its supremely sycophantic best, you should have tuned into tonight's "Tucker" to catch Lanny Davis's act. View video here. NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931974/posts#comment Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:24:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923078/posts Hillary Clinton is a "moral conservative." Don't believe it? Ask Amy Sullivan. The "Time" editor said so on this evening's "Tucker." Let's just let the dialogue between Tucker Carlson and Sullivan speak for itself. But come back after the transcript to learn some interesting factoids about Ms. Sullivan's background. View video here. NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923078/posts#comment Thu, 8 Nov 2007 23:57:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1913274/posts Hillary Clinton doesn't just want to give us all free healthcare, or fix things in Iraq. No, she's set her sights much, much higher -- nothing short of "repairing the world." At least, so says her avid supporter, Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY). In the wake of Hillary's "National Women's Finance Council Summit," a campaign event in which she explicitly appealed to women to vote for her because of her sex [raising $1.5 million along the way], Lowey was a guest on this evening's "Tucker." Host Carlson was prodding the congresswoman to explain just what it is about a woman president... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1913274/posts#comment Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:17:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1906237/posts Welcome back, Tucker. Really. When Carlson was away, guest host David Shuster sullied Tucker's name-sake show with the tasteless "gotcha" game he sprung on Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), then compounded matters by leading a liberal love-in. Tucker's been back in the saddle for a couple days, and this evening took on Wesley Clark and later a representative of Media Matters. Speaking with Paul Waldman, Senior Fellow and Director of Special Projects of "Media Matters," Carlson displayed the graphic shown here, in which Hillary Clinton stated that she had "helped start" Media Matters. Under close questioning by Carlson, Waldman wound up... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1906237/posts#comment Thu, 4 Oct 2007 01:08:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1905141/posts Don't look for Shuster to be guest hosting "Tucker" again any time soon. -- from my column of September 26th. Oy, was I wrong! I had figured that David Shuster wouldn't be subbing again for Tucker Carlson after embarrassing his show, and MSNBC at large, with the tasteless game of "gotcha" he played on Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), exploiting the death of a soldier for partisan political purposes. But tuning to Tucker today, there was Shuster, the supposed MSNBC "correspondent." Carlson is certainly no partisan Republican, having mentioned more than once that he didn't vote for W in 2004. Tucker... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1905141/posts#comment Tue, 2 Oct 2007 00:46:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1903347/posts On this afternoon's "Tucker," the eponymous host was discussing with Dem strategist Peter Fenn and former Dem congressman Tom Andrews [a grown-up among liberals, IMHO] the unwillingness of the leading GOP presidential contenders to participate in the debate moderated by Tavis Smiley, billed as addressing issues of concern to black Americans. On the one hand, Carlson criticized the Republicans' reticence. On the other, he flashed anger at the way Dems play the race card. He concluded with a particularly tantalizing comment.View video here.TUCKER CARLSON: I do think the Democrats ought to stop calling everybody who disagrees with them racists. I... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1903347/posts#comment Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:30:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1879541/posts <p>Could there possibly be an American who doesn't admire the Reverend Billy Graham? Apparently, yes. Have a look at the cover of this week's 'Time.' Of all the ways the editors might have positioned the logo, they managed to do so in a manner in which the 'M' in 'TIME' is transformed into horns protuding from the good reverend's head.</p> NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1879541/posts#comment Sat, 11 Aug 2007 00:09:10 GMT