Tucker on the offense

8/29/07 2:01PM EST

Via Sam Boyd. I'm not sure what the group would think of the years of bow-tie footage, but I think Tucker Carlson deserves to be an honorary member of Late Night Shots.

Watch him admit that he beat up a guy who hit on him in a Georgetown bathroom.

Then recall his last public explosion--the one in which he threatened a video store clerk, suggesting to the young man kindly, "If you keep this shit up, I will fucking destroy you," and I think we can make a strong case that Tucker Carlson is kind of a violent jerk.

In the previous incident, Tucker told the Post, "I don't like to call the police or call his boss. . . . I'm a libertarian. I'm not into that." Which is admirable, I suppose, but holds only for heterosexuals who don't hit on him. Flirtatious gay people, by contrast, get slammed into bathroom stalls and then marched off to jail.

Comments

I'm amazed that Tucker admitted that he was coward enough to leave the room, get a friend and come back and conduct an assault. That isn't self-defense, that is premeditated criminal assault and battery, a felony. He should have been arrested along with the perp. This was clearly a hate crime by Tucker as well, which should have added to his jail sentence.

Notice he doesn't say what behavior 'bothered' him. Was it a wink, a stare, a verbal proposition, a touch on a non-sexual part of his body, or something actually sexual? Did he call the cops too, or was that coincidental?

As for Abrams laughing at his statement, it says lots about the 'values' of the managing editor of MSNBC. Tucker wasn't questioned as to what constituted being 'bothered'. They just accepted that the Tucker sexual assault on the perp was deserved, without explanation.

Also notice that Tucker/Friend grabbed the perp's sexual parts. That also is sexual assault.

This is one sick sick sick society.

Posted by: JimPortlandOR on August 29, 2007 02:29 PM