Tucker Carlsons' Dad #1 In Libby Defense Fund*Ask MSNBC Why He's Commenting?!?!
I've stewed over this for quite a while. I had heard on and off the Tucker Carlsons' dad Richard Carlson was bff with Scooter Libby, and headed his legal defense fund. SO WHY IS TUCKER COMMENTING ON THE LIBBY CASE WITHOUT AT LEAST A NOTATION TO THAT EFFECT???
CBS News
Libby Gets A Little Help From His Friends
More Than $3M Donated To Legal Fund For Indicted Former Cheney Aide
I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby won't lack powerful friends or financial resources when he goes on trial on Tuesday. A private fund set up to pay the legal bills of the former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney has collected more than $3 million since Libby's indictment 14 months ago.
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One of those friends is Dick Carlson, a former ambassador and Republican stalwart who has headed the Voice of America and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (Carlson’s son is Tucker Carlson, the conservative TV pundit.)
Like many of Libby’s well-heeled friends, Carlson wasted no time in coming to his aid. On the day the indictment was announced in October 2005, Carlson said: “I sent a check by courier to Scooter’s house in McLean with the assumption that he’d need it.”
That check was the impetus for what quickly morphed into The Scooter Libby Legal Defense Trust. A source close to the trust said more than $3 million has been collected to pay Libby's legal bills. The public face of the defense fund is a cadre of Republican heavyweights that include Mary Matalin, Steve Forbes and Jack Kemp.
Back in March, it looks like Arianna took Tucker to the woodshed and dirtied the knees of his jumper. Musta pissed him off....
A nasty little propagandist
I didn't mention my father's support for Scooter Libby because it was irrelevant. Completely and utterly. Libby was my father's personal lawyer long before he joined the Bush administration. They're friends, and that has nothing at all to do with me. I've met Scooter Libby precisely once.
Tucker goes on to characterize Ariannas' column as ....." attempted character assassination by a nasty little propagandist. "
Ariannas' WONDERFULLY SOURCED COHERANT COLUMN HERE....
The Full Disclosure Tucker Carlson Isn't Making
I don't see how this could be anything but revelant. What, MSNBC doesn't have enough commenters that Tucker couldn't just bow out on this one?
Not enough semi-dirty stories for Tucker to cover?
It's called "Conflict Of Interest". He's on right now, making excuses for Libby.
dabrams@msnbc.com
Tucker just called it an "Abuse of Power".
posted by Paddy @ 5:34 PM
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It's time to bring back the fairness doctrine that Reagan abolished in the 80's.
You're a liberal, yet you are all for curbing freedom of speech? What gives?
Andrew, not only am I a liberal, I'm a bleeding heart, patchoulli wearing, tree hugging, crunchy granola liberal!!!
I don't want to curb his freedom of speech, I want him to let his viewers be aware of a possible conflict of interest. He's been spewing "his view" of the Libby trial as "nonsense, stupid, frivelous" etc.
And Daddy has mega $$$ tied up in this trial? Stinks and stinks again.
Sorry Paddy,I was referring to "Undeniable Liberal" propping up that unconstitutional "fairness doctrine."
I didn't even realize that bowtie-clad douchebag was still on TV. You watch him? He's not really regarded as a "voice of the right," he's kinda like Michael Savage's retarded nephew's seat-sharing buddy from the short-bus.
I'm truly surprised to find out that anyone cares what he thinks or says.
Tucker is a little prick. He proves it everytime he opens his prick-ish mouth.
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