Charles M. Blow: Who's Tucker Carlson to demand anyone 'Show Her Papers'?

[kpete]

Fox News host Tucker Carlson briefly went to a Swiss boarding school before reportedly being kicked out. He went on to graduate from Trinity College. In a 1991 yearbook entry, he described himself as being part of the “Dan White Society,” an apparent allusion to the homophobe who killed San Francisco’s mayor, George Moscone, and Supervisor Harvey Milk, California’s first openly gay elected official, in 1978.

After graduation, The Columbia Journalism Review reported, “Carlson applied to the CIA, but his application was denied, so he turned to journalism. ‘You should consider journalism,’ his father told him. ‘They’ll take anybody.’ ”

That same Tucker Carlson last week demanded that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Black woman who is President Joe Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court, prove that she is qualified. He demanded that she show her papers. “It might be time for Joe Biden to let us know what Ketanji Brown Jackson’s LSAT score was," he said on Fox News. "How did she do? … It would seem like Americans in a democracy have a right to know.”

It is outrageous, to be sure. What was Jackson doing in 1991 when Carlson was identifying with the homicidal homophobe? She was studying government at Harvard University while being a student organizer for civil rights causes, and she would graduate magna cum laude the next year. One thing to which successful Black people can attest is that you are sometimes, even often, asked to prove your credentials, to demonstrate that you have earned your way, often by far less credentialed questioners.

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https://news.yahoo.com/whos-tucker-carlson-demand-anyone-120104835.html

[keithbvadu2]

1. Trump's college transcripts?

[ificandream]

2. Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson is nothing more than a circus clown putting on an act.

His past includes hosting gigs on CNN, MSNBC (??) and PBS (????). He has changed his philosophical stripes more than a mother changes a baby's diaper. His current game is to play the bewildered and mentally hurt young white guy. He is a bigger fucking phony than so-called judge Pirro (whose show reflects none of her so-called background in law but is just political posturing) and Hannity (who shifts from one outrage to another). You are correct. He has no business telling anyone to do anything. He has zero credibility outside the sheeple who watch the Fake station. (/rant)

[Ray Bruns]

3. Dear Tucker Carlson. GFY

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

[usonian]

4. In one word

KAVANAUGH

F-ing double standard.

Foul mess that Mother Tucker raised.

So far, none of the billionaires I have asked have decided to buy Faux News.

It would make more money and get more views if it broadcast cartoons and porn, appealing to BOTH sides of their average viewer's brains.

[heckles65]

5. If I had to make a list of things that mean a person will be a good lawyer/judge

I don't know if "he/she got a high LSAT score before law school" would make the top 100.

Number one?: Empathy and a good sense of the human condition. Two: the willingness to work late on very dull stuff. Three: An ability to see your client / party before the bench as human beings, and keep your ego in check.

[malaise]

6. I only have one thing to say on every Fucker thread

Fucker has mommy issues - his mommy deserted the family - it fucked him up completely
Fucker your mommy hated you.
That is all.

[whathehell]

10. Fucker Tucker is an asshole..

but I doubt his mommy "hated" him, though she did leave the family, likely for reasons more related to her marriage than her child.

[malaise]

16. I know but I can be as mean as Fucker

That is all

[whathehell]

18. If you like being like him..

That is all.

[LakeArenal]

20. WTH????

First, no one on DU is like Tucker Carlson.

Secondly what the hell? Whatthehell?

[whathehell]

32. Lol..You rang?

This conversation was between Malaise and I.

[LakeArenal]

33. Nope. Discussion board is open to discussion.

Private messages are for private conversations.

[whathehell]

43. Yep

because I'm done with the discussion. Bye.

[LakeArenal]

47. The snark is strong with this one, Grasshopper.

If you don’t like my comments you can safely put me on ignore. But I think I’ll follow you around for awhile.

[whathehell]

49. I'm sorry if 'Grasshopper', doesn't like your comments, lol

but even though I'm not that poster, I'll be glad to take your advice to him/her..Bye.
.

[Dan]

39. Maybe she did, she probably had an idea how much of an asshole her son would be.

[whathehell]

42. Nah..

not unless she was psychic.

[Carlitos Brigante]

31. I just heard Sam Seder say that Little Lord Fuckleroy and his brother, sued their mother's estate

for oil royalties. How this "man" has made it in spite of all this adversity, is truly "a miracle".

[LakeArenal]

34. Uhm.... Cheating, lying, avoiding, lawyers....

Sycophants, deflection, corruption , ego, vanity, Russia, media, fear mongering, talking points, bluster……

[malaise]

36. Monster does not quite describe this dysfunctional scumbag

He has mommy issues - more baggage than a hub airport carousel

[Maraya1969]

7. Someone needs to ask Tuckums for his college transcripts - on air. What's good for the goose.....

[whathehell]

19. Absolutely...Then ask for Trump's transcripts..

Total jackass..

[Paladin]

8. Fuck Tucker Carlson, where he breathes. (nt)

[DFW]

9. Tucker Carlson is about as qualified to judge a Supreme Court Nominee.....

as Donald Trump is qualified to comment on the literary merits of Sumerian cuneiform tablets.

[malaise]

37. Best laugh of the day

[MissMillie]

11. Is THAT what they're calling it these days--"journalism"?

THAT'S what Mr. Carlson does?


BTW--that's a good article. Thank you for that. Would that Mr. Carlson were even as remotely qualified as a journalist as Judge Jackson is as a jurist.

[ificandream]

28. No one, except the Fakes stations sheep, call Carlson a "journalist."

He is not and shouldn't be regarded as anything close to one. He's a trained monkey, as is the rest of the Fakes station's "opinion" slobs.

[AntivaxHunters]

12. Charles Blow! Love that man!

I don't know how many here have watched his show because it's opposite of Maddow but if you'd like a change, he's it!
I have to give the channel BNC News props for doing what they do. A great progressive news channel that's new. It's on Cable and it seems not many know about it.

[Cracklin Charlie]

14. He is fantastic!

[FoxNewsSucks]

15. I've never heard of it. Thanks!

[Skittles]

38. he is great

I've been a fan for some time now.

[XacerbatedDem]

45. Thanks for the info. I've never heard of him, either, but I like him already.

[Xoan]

13. What would happen if people to the left of Putin ...

could find the strength to ignore Tucker Carlson?

[XacerbatedDem]

46. Really! I saw someone call him Tszar*ucker Carlson, but I bet he just lays there.

[LakeArenal]

21. I spent college on the dean's list.

My SATS were great……..


My whole family thinks I am an underachiever.

I was asked for my transcript once in applying for a job that I did not get.

Those scores are meaningless in real life. People who are good at tests doesn’t equate to a life of experience.

[TNNurse]

23. LSATs are not a measure of how you did in law school

or your experience after. Tucker is never accurate about anything.

[Shrike47]

22. My LSAT scores were in the 99% range. I am not qualified to sit on the Supreme Court, however.

What were Clarence Thomas’s LSAT scores, anyway?

[Traildogbob]

24. Wow!

Excellent comparison. Cucker is a whiney ass brat. His squeaky voice is as irritating as trump. If he got in a conversation in a bar with that voice and a bow tie, he would get mocked and punched, not even knowing who he was and the prick he is. I think he is gay, terrified of it and takes it out on the gay community, as if they gave the gay to him. He really does not want to catch black from touching any of them.
He should be at a carnival, a real one not Fox, in a booth that charges $10 a slap or $1 a kiss and see which line is longer. The slap lime would look like a precinct voting line in a black community in Georgia. 👋🏻🖖🏽🖐🖐🤚

[IcyPeas]

25. Carlson applied to the CIA !!!

Carlson applied to the CIA, but his application was denied, so he turned to journalism. ‘You should consider journalism,’ his father told him. ‘They’ll take anybody.’ ”

[Zorro]

26. I was asked to apply to the CIA

Imagine my surprise when out of the blue I found a large manila envelope in the mail asking me to submit an application.

Don't know how they got my name or number, but I guess I had what William Casey was looking for at the time.

It would have been an interesting career path, but there was more $$$ to be made in other directions.

[Dan]

40. Plus, might live longer...

[ck4829]

27. Disclaimer

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

29. Well said

[dlk]

30. When someone is entitled...

[Tanuki]

35. It has been reported in the past that Carlson only got in Trinity after his prep school headmaster,

whose daughter he was dating (and later married), pulled some strings.

[The Wizard]

41. Pox News

is Putin's propaganda outlet in America, and Tucker is their biggest star.

[SeattleVet]

44. Like he demanded the LSAT scores for Gorsuch, Barrett and Kavanaugh?

After all, American's in a Democracy have a right to know.

Oh, wait...

[Mr. Ected]

48. Hate requires no logic or fairness

And that's all they're peddling over there.