From this article, new CEO of CNN Jonathan Klein has this to say:
snicker, snicker
I have been at the same job for nearly a decade, so personal experience I have non - but is this not the quintessential nice way to say, …he was an asshole, our ratings were plummeting and he wore that stupid bowtie every damn day!..
The article even mentions Jon Stewart’s on-air tussle with Carlson last year where Stewart made fun of primetime shout-fests, and of course Tucker’s bowtie.
I never liked the little snike, the former staff writer for the Arkansas Democratic Gazette and graduate of my home state’s Trinity College never appealed to me. For some reason he always went up my rear sideways…
I know there was a CS thread on this, but I just wanted to be slightly more … verbal… here.
Dreamer. The market for right-wing spokesthings should have been over-saturated a long, long time ago, but it still seems to be a dandy career move. I can name 10 or so without even much thinking about it, maybe twenty if I put in the time.
Nope, the reliably right wing talking head is still very employable. Songbird always eats.
This might be a surprise coming from me but I kind of like Tucker Carlson. I think he has a better sense of humor than most political pundits and is occasionally capable about saying something that isn’t along carefully scripted partisan lines.
He wrote a book about working in cable news that’s one of the best any of these talking heads has produced. Rather than just publishing the usual political swill, Carlson wrote an amusing and revealing account simply of what it’s lke to BE a talking head on a political talk show. He talked about the business, about the personalities etc. The book is filled with odd anecdotes and is relatively free of gratuitous political invective.
There’s a lot worse out there than Carlson. He’s capable of turning it off once in a while. He doesn’t take himself or his politics so deadly seriously and that’s something that there should be more of on both sides.
He’ll probably end up on Fox.
I’m not looking forward to the righteously indignant outcry over this. You know, “Clinton News Network fires sensible conservative with excellent fashion sense, because he was a threat to their socialist ideals…” stuff like that.
Interestingly, my father-in-law has Politicians, Partisans and Parasites: My Adventures in Cable News and has been asking me to read it. He even tried to re-gift it to me at Christmas, I declined citing a wont for future good relations between he and I. My FIL, is a swamp-yankee and as concervative as you get, he’d mimic the bowtie thing if my MIL would allow it. Heh…I’ll probably pick the book up and check it out one of these days, even if it would only be to entice some lively conversation in the future…
You should read it. It’s good. It’s not the partisan screed you were probably expecting. It’s mostly just about the business and stories about the people’s he’s run into. There’s an anecdote about Jerry Falwell that’s fascinating. He mostly leaves the liberal-bashing out of it. It’s not that kind of book.
It’s bowties. Its the mark of a man without the nerve to be really non-conformist, but makes some inoffensive fashion statement that he timidly hopes makes him eccentric and individualistic. When all it does is mark him as a dork. What says “dork!” louder than a bowtie?
It would be really interesting if true, but I doubt it. It would mean that the environment cannot support any more right wing talking heads, and Darwinism will come into play, the struggle for survival.
“Tonight! Steel Cage Death Match, Ann Coulter and Tucker Carlson.”
Five to one, Coulter. Even money she rips out his liver and eats it.
Actually, like all loud-mouth bullies, I suspect Ann Coulter would crumple like a paper suit if someone actually managed to plant a good right hook on her.
Molly Ivins vs. Ann Coulter? No contest – Molly will have Ann crying like a whupped bee-yach inside of two minutes…
No way. Ann may seem like a loud mouthed bully on the outside, but I’ve a feeling that on the inside she’s pure psychotic. I’m sure she goes for all the soft spots when she fights. She’d probably bite his nose off.
Tucker Carlson wears a bow tie and gets schooled by comedians.
Still, the news of the firing makes me smile. I also am anticipating the Daily Show tonight.
