Tucker Carlson Reportedly Threatens NRCC Chair Tom Emmer In Flap Over Son Buckley Carlson

[CatWoman]

Fox News host Tucker Carlson made a veiled threat to Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), the National Republican Campaign Committee chair, after accusing Emmer of insulting his son, Buckley Carlson, Axios reported on Sunday.

Some Republicans immediately took sides, with Donald Trump Jr. and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) backing Carlson amid the GOP infighting.

Carlson was reacting to a Daily Beast story on Friday that quoted an unnamed GOP strategist who said potential Emmer rival Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) “dies to be liked by the Establishment. He hires Tucker Carlson’s son, a 24-year-old kid, to be his communications director.”

The elder Carlson apparently took serious umbrage, calling up Emmer and demanding that he “either reveal which staff member took a swipe at Carlson’s son, a Capitol Hill aide ... or the Fox host would assume Emmer himself was to blame for the quote,” Axios wrote.

Emmer denied that his office was involved, but Carlson didn’t buy it and declared he now had a personal beef with the lawmaker, according to Axios.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/tucker-carlson-reportedly-threatens-nrcc-110718081.html

[OLDMDDEM]

1. Carlson

should be investigated for threatening someone. He's been a pain in the ass since his days at CNN.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Oh, I am so sorry, BabyBuckley (wtf?) but if I saw that smug face, it needs to be slapped repeatedly

[rubbersole]

6. Oh, Buckley...

...good thing you were chauffeured to your private school. You wouldn't have survived the constant wedgies on a public school bus. Your daddy needs to protect your cushy ass from the mean ol' world until you're 50.

[GoCubsGo]

21. His daddy also went begging to Hunter Biden for help getting him into Georgetown.

LOL! That's got to be more humiliating than all the wedgies he got in prep school.

[Kid Berwyn]

35. It's like a meritocracy.

But, it’s not.

[CatWoman]

7. is that a punchable face or what?

something's up with his right cheek -- maybe he's already been punched.

[yonder]

14. The Swanson silver spoon extraction didn't take.....too much silver.

[calimary]

15. Definitely looks like a soft target.

[Paladin]

23. Does that face scream "Big-time family money" or what?

I'd like to cut the kid some slack for the shit-hook dad he has...but I just can't.

[geardaddy]

17. Why are his teeth shit-stained? n/t

[rubbersole]

37. Meth. Prep school meth to be exact.

[geardaddy]

38. LOL

That totally makes sense!

[progressoid]

3. Snowflake.

In politics, that's barely an insult.

[Wednesdays]

4. Just sittin' back, enjoying the show.

[Mike Nelson]

5. Ha-ha!

... I have no idea what Buckey thinks, politically... but, if he's thrown his hat into politics, he should get the full Hunter Biden treatment!

[modrepub]

8. In Normal Times

A national political "journalist" who has a son working for one major political party would be considered questionable. But we aren't in "normal" times, are we?!?

And another thing, I wouldn't be taking names to even scores if my 24-year old son was taking flack. He's old enough to handle himself without my help.

[tanyev]

9. Jeez, a guy who had to grow up with the name Tucker named his kid Buckley?

[onenote]

10. Presumably named for William Buckley.

[tanyev]

12. I get that, but they could have used it as a middle name

and given him a first name less likely to get the kid bullied on the playground. Perhaps Buckley went to schools that were so hoity-toity it wasn’t an issue.

[DET]

20. Manly Men

No Butch or Billy Bob in the Carlson family. Oh yeah, one of his daughters is named Hopie.

[Mr.Bill]

30. Dan White Society?

Dan White is the scum that murdered Mayor Mosconi and Harvey Milk in San Francisco.

[DET]

34. Yes, Indeed

Tucker’s homophobia goes way back.

[brush]

11. What happened to Tim Russert's son?

[CatWoman]

39. that's a good question

his NBC job had nepotism written all over it.

I hope Keith Olbermann will discuss that situation on his podcast one day.

[TygrBright]

13. Can we call this "TucknBuckgate?" n/t

[Rob H.]

16. The real insult is that Tucker named an innocent baby "Buckley" nt

[SoBlueInFL]

29. That sort of cruel naming is rather common. r/o

A former friend married a Republican and named their daughter Reagan and a Democratic acquaintance named their son Carter. I don't like naming children after political figures of any affiliation.

[CaptainTruth]

18. After all the crap he's said about Hunter Biden he gets upset over THAT???

Pucker Snarlson is a scumbag.

[beaglelover]

19. WTF with these first names?? Buckley??? Tucker????

[NoMoreRepugs]

22. They couldn't spell NumbNutz or ShitForBrains I guess.

[CurtEastPoint]

31. His daughters are named (seriously) Hopie (not to be confused with Hopi) and Dorothy

[Solly Mack]

24. Buck and Tuck haz a mad.

lol

[James48]

25. "Buckley"

Named after William F?

[DFW]

26. Presumably the reason Sucker never named a daughter «Palin»

She was born too early.

[Laffy Kat]

27. Snowflakes, they're all snowflakes. nt

[Evolve Dammit]

28. I thought it was Buckley Norris or Norris Buckley; Gilligan's Island "The Imposter" episode I

believe (second season??).

[Grins]

32. So why did Banks hire this KID?

Not his first rodeo….

[Hermit-The-Prog]

33. Outrage is how they get their base motivated. It could all be an act.

[Warpy]

36. Oh, ferkrissakes, with a name like Buckley the poor kid had to fight everybody

he want to school with, so any insult given by some politician is going to slide right off.

The only quibble I have is that 24 is not a kid. He might be green as grass and with no practical experience and no qualifications for the job his daddy wanted him to have, but he's no kid and hasn't been for 6 years.

I think Fucker is more pissed off at not being able to have his son ride his coattails into a plum job with a big paycheck than he is at having his son called a kid.

I thought they were being really polite. They didn't even call Carlson pere a Russian propagandist, which is what he is.