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Jon Stewart once described Tucker Carlson as being “as big a dick on your show as you are on any show.” Apparently, he’s been that way forever.

On the August 28th edition of MSNBC Live, Carlson described how he was “bothered” by a man in a restroom. Then Carlson jokingly describes how he reacted: he and a friend went back and smashed the man’s head against the wall.

ABRAMS: Tucker, what did you do, by the way? What did you do when he did that? We got to know.
CARLSON: I went back with someone I knew and grabbed the guy by the — you know, and grabbed him, and — and –
ABRAMS: And did what?
CARLSON: Hit him against the stall with his head, actually!

[laughter]
[source: MediaMatters]

Like a broken, one-trick pony, the nation’s worst president ever, George W. Bush warned, in a speech today, that Iran’s pursuit of “technology that could lead to nuclear weapons threatens to put a region already known for instability and violence under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust.”

Like clockwork, with the Petraeus/Crocker “report” looming and his staff leaving his sinking ship of a presidency, Bush and his cronies are cranking up the fear factor. We’ve seen this all before.

While I believe that the United States must act to prevent nuclear proliferation and assure the safety of our nation and others in the world, we’re done listening to you, Mr. Bush. Every strategy you’ve had in pursuing our safety through action in the Middle East has resulted in exactly the opposite result.

It’s getting rather sad how transparent their propaganda has become. Stability over there requires significant political progress in Iraq, not threats against Iran. If he was really serious, he’d actually be working hard instead of taking time off and letting the Iraqis do the same.

Like Tom DeLay, Bill O’Reilly remains one of America’s foremost hypocrites. Over the last two weeks, Bill O’Reilly led a witchhunt after DailyKos and now he appears to be broadening his efforts to demonize all liberal bloggers.

O’Reilly suggests that what liberal bloggers are doing is blackmailing politicians by banding together and telling politicians that to receive bloggers’ support, a politician must advance a particular point of view on a particular issue.

Bloggers threatening — you know, what people don’t understand is that these Internet bloggers give messages to these candidates: “If you don’t do what we tell you to do, we will trash you and try to interfere with your fundraising.”
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…I think it’s a danger to have blackmailers, which is what these bloggers are, active in the political process. [source: media matters]

Whether it’s paid lobbyists, grassroots organizations, the Religious Right and even individual voters, each and every one of them conditions its support for a politician on how well that person is representing them. This isn’t blackmail, Bill. It IS the democratic process.

Frankly to suggest otherwise frightens me. Perhaps we should let politicians or windbag Fox News pundits tell us the issues that are important and which ones are not. Maybe the government should be in charge?

I can see why he feels the need to lash out at all of us. No one loves a hypocrite more than a blogger and he’s one of the biggest.