Tucker Carlson: Bombing=Vandalism
By As if trying to top his argument that a case litigated by John Edwards in which a five-year old girl was disemboweled by a drain that was known to be faulty should be dismissed as a “jacuzzi case,” smarmy wingnut Tucker Carlson argued that the French government’s bombing of the Rainbow Warrior–which left one innocent person dead and put countless others at risk–was “a bold and good thing to do.” One wonders if he would feel that it was innocent “vandalism” if someone bombed his house.
In a gratifying case of democracy working, however, his walking-punchline show made its 11 PM debut with a pitiful 157,000 viewers on Monday. (For perspective, an O’Reilly rerun at the same time got 1.2 million, a Lou Dobbs rerun 452,000, and something called “Deutsch” on CNBC at 10 201,000. The Daily Show gets about 1.4 million.) But the good news is that when his show gets cancelled he’ll have a job waiting for him at FactCheck; he’s very well-qualified to write stories about how blowing up abortion clincs is a form of nonviolent protest…
…more backstory from Lindsay.