Tucker Carlson: "I've never seen any evidence that Trent Lott is a racist"

[Human Torch]

Continuing a pattern of dubious defenses, MSNBC's Carlson declared: "I've never seen any evidence that Trent Lott is a racist"

http://mediamatters.org/items/200611170002



On the November 15 edition of MSNBC's Tucker, host Tucker Carlson claimed he had "never seen any evidence that Trent Lott is a racist" and did not mention Lott's history of public statements and actions that have been attacked as racially insensitive and, in several cases, as indicating support for racist entities. Carlson also opined that if one were to consider Lott a "racist," "you could say the same about every man over 60 ... south of the Mason-Dixon Line." Carlson's comments came during a discussion with radio talk-show host Michael Graham about Lott's recent election as Senate minority whip in the 110th Congress.

From the November 15 edition of MSNBC's Tucker:

CARLSON: Well, wait, wait, wait. But back to what you said. Trent Lott -- I mean, I've never seen any evidence that Trent Lott is a racist. And what has Trent Lott done --

GRAHAM: Oh, absolutely. I mean, first of all -- wait, wait, wait.

Trent Lott ran and worked on campaigns in the 1960s for openly avowed racists. Not a surprise in America in the 1960s, particularly.

CARLSON: In when? In when?

GRAHAM: In the 1960s. Now, I agree with you. But this is what Trent Lott never did.

CARLSON: Forty-two years ago. OK.

GRAHAM: He never said, "I was wrong." He never said, "You know what? The attitudes I grew up with were the wrong attitudes," which is why he had no defense when he said of Strom Thurmond that America would have been better off if this unreconstructed segregationist had been president.

CARLSON: Jeez, I don't know. I mean, you could say the same about every man over 60 in -- you know, south of the Mason-Dixon Line.

[SutaUvaca]

1. Is this twerp old enough to wear long pants and be on TV?

n/t

[Stinky The Clown]

2. Carlson is becoming increasingly batshit crazy as he sees his personal future going down at MSNBC

He's fast becoming an irrelevant cartoon of a right wing hack. He can't even hope to be elevated back to hack status anymore. his only tools are that forced laugh and that faux incredulity and confusion when anyone left of Atilla The Hun avers anything as fact or opinion.

He's gone just about as far as he can on his father's name and reputation.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. "every man over 60" fucker?

First of all, I'm just guessing, but I suspect that there are very few southern black men over 60 who were all in favor of segregation. Secondly, there are many southern white men over 60 who were also opposed to segregation, just not enough of them to keep racist assholes like Strom and his buddy Trent from running the show.

[beaconess]

10. Don't you know - The only male view sthat count are those of White men

[tigereye]

4. I have read articles that actually say that Lott did hire

African-American staffers before many other folks did in the 70s. But he's from Mississippi, for heaven's sake. I suspect that he has a lot of conflicting "old-school racial attitudes" to put it politely.

[Virginia Dare]

5. I've never seen any evidence that Tucker Carlson is anything..

but a two bit hack and a right wing water carrier, and the only reason he even has a job in broadcasting is that his mommy and daddy are connected to the Republican Party.

[Old and In the Way]

6. I hate that Bushsmirk.....it's like he knows he's full of shit, but that won't

stop him from asking the really tough questions like, "Is Nancy Pelosi losing power already?" or "Are the Democrats moving to the right?" or "Are the Democrats imploding?" or "Will Howard Dean admit that he has failed his Party?" or "It's obvious that the Democrats hate Bush....but where is their plan to run the country?". He never makes affirmative statements, just rhetorical questions that essentially do the same thing. What an asshole.

[Totally Committed]

7. My theory about Tucker:

He wears that bowtie too tight and it cuts off the blood circulation to his head and his brain has shriveled as a result.

It's my theory and I'm sticking to it!

TC

[sallyseven]

8. I have never seen any evidence that

Tucker has a brain. Has anyone? How is he going to work out on CNBC after MSNBC totaly screws up? I know that Oberman is ok. Scarborough would not be missed and Tweety is reasonably ok.

[radfringe]

9. he's probably right that he has never seen any evidence

kinda hard to see much of anything when you suffer from Cranial-Anal Inversion Syndrome

[RedG1]

11. Carlson's opinions are as valid as his dancing...