Tucker Carlson should go back to the bowtie
By John Amato Thursday Mar 19, 2009 5:15pm
Poor Tucker Carlson, even after he had a makeover it still didn't help his nonsensical arguments. His knickers are in a bunch over Jon Stewart's skewering of CNBC's Jim Cramer. He's mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. That evil Jon Stewart needs to be stopped, I say! So Tucker took his complaints to The Daily Beast.
Before Cramer could defend himself, Stewart moved on to a new charge: Cramer and his colleagues at CNBC had known that the financial sector was in imminent danger of collapse, but had pretended otherwise—a ruse that Stewart described as “disingenuous at best and criminal at worst.”
Cramer was sure ready to pounce on the very mean Stewart until he blindsided him with a clever ruse. But a little later Carlson says this:
No matter. Cramer was almost incoherent by this point, cringing and apologetic. Stewart was becoming furious. “I understand you want to make finance interesting,” he said, “but it’s not a fucking game. And I, I, I—when I watch that, I can’t tell you how angry that makes me.”
Are you telling me that the brillant Jim Cramer was incoherent from a diversionary tactic Jon used to trip him up? Hmmm, maybe it was because Jim had no defense and was guilty as charged.
If you didn’t actually see the show, you wouldn’t know any of this, since there is a virtual ban on critical stories about Jon Stewart in the press. Nobody in memory has received a longer free ride. (CNBC stands in such awe of Stewart, the network hasn’t even tried to defend itself, even against his claim that its programming might be criminal.)
The entire cable news media was silent about the Cramer segment. It was like there was a virtual ban (except for CNN's Reliable Sources where Carlson called Stewart a "partisan Hack." Now that was comedy gold.) on this critical story of CNBC and the business world. Yes, the press is way too easy on him. Damn comedian gets away with telling the truth about the Cross Fire's of the TV world. He needs to get the full Gary Condit treatment. Send him to Gitmo and have Cheney waterboard him.
Before Cramer could defend himself, Stewart moved on to a new charge: Cramer and his colleagues at CNBC had known that the financial sector was in imminent danger of collapse, but had pretended otherwise—a ruse that Stewart described as “disingenuous at best and criminal at worst.”
This was even more farther-fetched. A ratings-hungry TV network had the scoop of the decade but decided to sit on it? Why? In order to curry favor with soon-to-be-disgraced corporate executives? It didn’t make sense.
Sure, Stewart is out of his mind because he put together a montage of outrageous behavior of CNBC talking heads after Rick Santelli of CNBC screamed at President Obama not to help the "losers" who would get assistance to try and save their homes: 'Screw them, it's their fault that the housing crisis had happened anyway, so why should we rich and smart people, the winners of our society, chip in?' Blaming homeowners who couldn't pay their mortgages for the housing crisis. And CNBC happens to represent the Wall Street media to most Americans. They cheered him to the high heavens like a Messiah that had come from the Gods.
CNBC simply didn't practice real journalism during the entire sub-prime mortgage crisis and traded in their journalistic integrity because profits were good and the ideology of most on the shows and reporters was geared towards free market capitalism that should never be regulated. There were a few appearances by guests who tried to warn the Kudlow's of the impending doom, but they were practically laughed off the set on opinion shows which featured the infamous: Decagon.
The Daily Show has about 23 minutes or so and uses usually the last third of the show for interviews. Carlson complains that he gave a puff interview with Obama, but he doesn't mention that John McCain was one of his most frequent guests and most of the time he played very nice with him too. But that doesn't count. He has Bill Kristol on every few months and they make him appear a lot of the time look like a normal person with sound ideas, but that doesn't count. No, Jon Stewart is a partisan hack.
I could go on and on taking his rubbish apart, but since he tells you a behind-the-scenes story about Stewart -- after he ripped Crossfire a new one -- I'll tell you a similar little story about Tucker. I met him in the green room of Bill Maher's Real Time on October 21, 2005. I went with Arianna Huffington during the Valerie Plame scandal and he was one of the guest panelists. We met and talked for about 15 minutes about trivial things. The way you do with people you meet for the first time.
He knew my blog when I told him what I did and he complimented me on it. As he talked about California, I was stunned that he was acting like a nice, normal guy too. A charming man who was not a Republican, but simply an ideologue with principles, and he was very friendly. Then it was time for the show to start and he went onstage and acted like a jerk for the entire show. He came back into the green room and said, "That was fun." I was like, "What did you turn into, dude?" He left stage right.
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tucker is a prime example of what happens
when a toilet either backs up or flushes up.
Wouldn't the latter be a bidet?
he's still upset over that Crossfire thing. I know how it works. When Tucker gets mad that bowtie comes off. It's go time Stewart, defend yourself.
Hell with the bowtie, get him a new, updated Rug for his bald head.
If you stop paying it attention, it will go away.
Ignoring the overwhelming disparity between right and left wing radio didn't make it go away...it got worse.
Ignoring Glenn Beck (because we did for the most part on HLN) didn't make him go away, he got a better gig on Fox.
Ignoring Ann Coulter (which we made a point of doing after the 9/11 widows nastiness) didn't make her go away, she upped her hate rhetoric more.
The ONLY way to make these kinds of disinformation specialists who are contributing SO much to the dumbing down of America is not to ignore them, but to hold them up to scrutiny and mock them.
Ask Carlson what happened to him when Jon Stewart did that on Crossfire.
In a nutshell. (and any other phrase that implies that I agree).
Tucker is still pissed off that Stewart humiliated him so badly on Crossfire that the show didn't survive. As for the Cramer interview, Stewart did not ambush him, he did not set him up, he did not blindside him - none of it. The session was, in fact, very straightforward. Cramer was just in over his head, that's all. He had no defense because his actions (and the actions of CNBC) were and are indefensible.
Fucking twit. Well...fucking twits, actually.
Garafalo has said the same about how Tucker was a much better off air.
Oh yes, Tucker is still very bitter about the Crossfire meltdown.
This is all so fun to watch ... extra butter on the popcorn, please!
Tucker is irrelevant and desperate. The "partisan hack" that contributed to his TV gig's demise is actually gaining both popularity and credibility. Burns his pansy ass. I must say watching the pompous right wing hacks whine in the wake of their collapse is so...just. Sad, but just.
Tucker. Carlson. Is. An. Idiot.
Now, move along...
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... Tucker Carlson had Swanson Foods. With three times Amato's talent he'd have still done nothing without his golden pacifier.
With his resources and half of the talent at C&L he could have helped change the world.
What was his choice? %$#* Tucker Carlson.
While you continue to lick your wounds eons after Stewart messed up your Crossfire gig for you, cognizant folks know that while Stewart may only be a "comedian," he has displayed a knack for investigative journalism (look it up dear), and I dare say he presented the case against CNBC with the precision of a talented prosecuting attorney. Just thank your lucky stars that you're not on the wrong end of his cross-examination.
He is brilliant. You, not so much!
I loved Crossfire when Tucker kept trying to set Stewart up and zing him but Stewart was one step ahead of him everytime. Tucker ended up making both a fool and an ass of himself. Tucker was way out of his league and it showed.
He still is.
That Cramer was right to be flogging stocks that were dropping like stones?
That CNBC would somehow put journalistic integrity over profit motive?
That they would "break a story" rather than artificially inflate market speculation to keep their own investments and stock prices high?
That the same media that did its best to inflate the bubble meanwhile avoiding all serious analysis or investigation of economic conditions, is also taking Jon Stewart's side?
How? By not investigating his claims? Ya think that might be because--unlike the "true" media--he's done his homework and there's nothing to get him on?
why is tucker in the C&L news again? did i miss it?
well, he's sure getting what HE wanted out of it...
I was like, "What did you turn into, dude?" He left stage right.
When Julia Roberts showed up on Letterman the other night, there was something in her demeanor that made me ask myself, "I wonder how many 'stars' when they walk out on stage become completely different people from who they are in real life?"
I bet it happens all the time.
Is this your way of attempting to change the subject?
Someone’s got to defend Cramer from within the ‘industry’. It may as well come from the low hanging fruit.
Hey, "fruit" is a hate word. It offends the butt pirates.
And that's a joke I stole from South Park. So ban the comment if you must, but I'm just a cuddly little bear and very, very gay, so I get to make jokes like this.
Rupert loves
StewieNew Brian.Ok so I'm a white southerner, does that mean I get to make of rednecks?
Carlson's claim that Jon Stewart said that "Cramer and his colleagues at CNBC had known that the financial sector was in imminent danger of collapse, but had pretended otherwise" is simply false.
Stewart said that Cramer "knew what was going on", which means all the risky loans and greed and so on, but not that it would lead to collapse.
No one is accusing CEOs of acting the way they did and knowing that it would destroty their companies and the economy, that seems obvious. They're being accused of engaging in reckless wild west behavior because they were told by the right and all the Randians that it was good, that everyhting would just keep going up, that acting with no regulation was fine, and so on.
What a liar Tucker Carlson is. Either that or he actually didn't understand Stewart's interview with Cramer. Either way, he's useless.
If this is the best Tucker has he sucks. It is a really stupid post (Tuckers on The Daily Beast).
There is no doubt whatsoever that Tucker hates Stewart becasue of the smack down Stewart gave him so many years ago. Grow up Tucker.
Also does Tucker ever take a stand on anything? I mean he always has a disclaimer about every view he offers.
"The entire cable news media was silent about the Cramer segment. "
Although Keith didn't mention it, Rachel did.
but I also could be wrong. I haven't gotten much sleep lately, so the memory's a wee bit fuzzy!
Carlson is a performer. It's all an act. His job is to ACT pissed and inflame the rhetoric, in order to get people to watch him. That's what he's paid to do. He doesn't care what we write here on your blog, as long as the checks keep coming.
But when it comes to Jon Stewart, it's personal for the little pisher and his motive is revenge, not profit.
Right now revenge to sounds good after the last eight years. How about you?
Yes, I want a little of that, too. But I was talking about little tucker's motive here. He wants revenge for Jon's part in getting the awful Crossfire cancelled.
It depends what show he goes on as to what Tucker you get. On any show where he has to be the republican rep, he spouts GOP talking points like an RNC interoffice e-mail. If he's on a panel with a real nut job like Laura Ingraham or Jonah Goldberg, he plays the more moderate panelist. If you listen to him on Bubba the Love Sponge, he sounds like a rational sane person unless the topic turns to Clinton. He bashes him no matter what. I'm a big Daily Show fan, but i've always wondered why Stewart goes after guys like Cramer, and Crossfire so vigilantly for not reporting the truth, and is so nice to guys like O'Reilly and Kristol who lie at a much higher percentage.
He says slacker weed smoker
You really looked like a clown wearing that bow tie Tucker!
I had a professor that wore a red bow tie and a plaid blazer he was so long winded….
zzzzzzzzz
Speaking for myself, I don’t like phony people.
Look at all the phony people... Thinking that life has passed them by………
hey, that sounds like a song! hee
Uh, he's definitely not a self-hating gay dude. No way. Not at all, what with his bravura posturing and reminiscences of gay bashing and bow tie and
He's so completely fabulous its visible from space.
For all you youngsters who don't "get it",
knickers is the word for short pants;
worn by children in the old days.
The reason Tucker hates Stewart is because he killed Tucker's best gig at the time, Crossfire.
After this episode, Crossfire folded up its tent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11TaDDUVcGQ
I agree with your headline. It fits his cartoon character image.
Who owns The Daily Beast?
Tired Tucker and Media Meghan MecCain use it so it must be on the right but I
haven't been able to find out about the ownership.
Tina Brown in the proprietor of the Daily Beast.
Appreciate the information.
Carlson doesn't give a shit about Jon Stewart
He doesn't give a shit about Cramer.
He doesn't give a shit about anything except his career.
He noticed that Jon Stewart was getting headlines, so Carlson attacked him in an effort to butt in and perhaps revive his sagging career.
He seems to achieved the desired result.
He is once again a topic of conversation.
Hopefully, he will shortly resume his place in oblivion.
All very good insights about numb-nuts Tucker.
But I think he has a bad burr under his saddle from that experience he had with Jon Stewart a year or two ago, about Sunday morning gasbags like Tucker.
Carlson reminds me of the young republican spoiled rich kids in high school...ya beat their ass ONE time, and they hold a grudge FOREVER!
In P.E. During wrestling, There was this scrawny kid who could never win a match. He really thought he was something. Until wrestling. He walked around with a chip on his shoulder for years after that. And I was the other scrawny kid who he had to face. He was taller than me. But it didn't matter. So, he hated me from then on. All four years.
Tucker suffered the demise all reichwingnut extremists should suffer. He is the most idiotic ideologue, who is young and inexperienced, and born with the idea he was entitled to more than others and they should eat crap. I hope he has to find a real job.
"Then it was time for the show to start and he went onstage and acted like a jerk for the entire show. He came back into the green room and said, "That was fun." I was like, "What did you turn into, dude?"
Carlson is a jerk. He's proved that point over and over again. The bowtie was simply a sleight of hand distraction to move the viewer's eye away from the fact that Carlson has nothing of substance to offer.
You can dress a fetid pile of crap in an armani suit
you can sit a fetid pile of crap in a farrari
you can put a fetid pile of crap in a nice shiney present
you can wrap a rolex around a fetid pile of crap
but at the end of the day.....its still a fetid pile of crap
with his appearance on crossfire. tucker's only hope to revive his career is engage the very person who took it.
fuck tucker carlson.
Tucker Carlsen is a classic case of arrested development. His bow tie and hair cut are childish. His demeanor is that of a petulant child.
I read an interview with him years ago and he stated the reason he was a conservative was he " was sick and tired of liberal professors trying to force their liberal views on him in college.
So the foundation of his philosophy is childish defiance.
Hey Tucker, they were trying to make you think for yourself and no longer parrot the views of your upbringing.
His pathetic petulance is sad, that he is given stage is just wrong.
really irrelevant IMHO...has he not been exposed as a hack by Stewart?
I mean...who listens to anything that he says?
He would lose me with the phrase "more farther-fetched".
If your fetch goes way, way farther than the others guy's fetch, then you are farther fetched.
Old Tucker should go back under the rock....
...because he'll always be an asshole. Guys who wear bow ties are either extremely bright, or want everyone to think that they are. Carlson's not too bright.
IF anyone believes that Tucker Carlson is anymore than Sean Hannity with a different tie (some days) they need to use more Q-Tips OR clean their teevee screen...
He has proven over and over again that his phony outrage is nothing more than a rehash of the daily words to live by he used to get from chimpy's press machine (fox). He is a silver-spooned, self-important jerk that has nothing better to do with his time than spout off at the mouth....
Stewart is right. The US and International Press needs to work harder at investigating the financial markets and less time playing footsie with bigwigs. It was true about Enron.. it's true today. Do your friggin jobs!
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