Tucker Carlson is very, very confused
by digby
Remember when Tucker Carlson’s idiot brother sent this disgusting email the other day?
Whiny little self-righteous bitch. “Appalling?” And with such an ironic name, too… Spitalnick? Ironic because you just know she has extreme dick-fright; no chance has this girl ever had a pearl necklace. Spoogeneck? I don’t think so. More like LabiaFace.
Yeah. It’s hard to forget. Here’s an update:
Given a chance to distance himself from such woman-hatred, Tucker Carlson declined, telling BuzzFeed of his brother’s language: “I just talked to my brother about his response, and he assures me he meant it in the nicest way.”
In his chat with C-SPAN’s John McArdle, Tucker Carlson summed things up this way: “So she, recognizing a publicity opportunity, sent it to all these websites that printed it and all of a sudden I was somehow a misogynist because my brother wrote some mean e-mail to this chick accidentally. Or something. No one was ever asked to explain why this was a significant story.”
Carlson is an especially proficient purveyor of a very special kind of right wing provocation. He’s a quintessential Mean Girl, king of the smug, sanctimonious defense with a wink and a nod to creeps like his brother. Eddie Haskell meets Cruella deVille.
He pretends here to be very confused as to why simply making harmless workplace jokes about women using terms like “sploogeface” should be a cause for controversy:
Tucker Carlson says that the episode has affected Buckley Carlson. “It really affected his job and he had all kinds of problems as a result….For some reason it became, like, this big thing because, I guess, they don’t like my politics or something. I really don’t know, but it was an accident and he apologized for it and I don’t really see why it was a big news story.”
The woman who is the subject of that hideous email says he’s never apologized.
The reason it’s a significant story, of course, is that Carlson’s brother wrote a bogus story for Carlson’s magazine and the magazine refused to correct it. Carlson’s brother called the person who was asking for the retraction names in an email and sent it to her. When it was publicly revealed, Carlson defended him with a puerile wisecrack thus proving that this magazine not only hires puerile idiots it is being run by an overgrown 12 year old boy who has serious issues with women. (This is not surprising to anyone who has followed Carlson’s career over the years.)
One can only imagine what it must be like for women who work there if they have the nerve to get uppity. One can also only imagine how much liability Carlson’s magazine must be facing if any of those women decide they’ve had enough.
Update: ROTFLMAO
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