MSNBC's Carlson on Obama: "[H]e sounds like a pothead to me"
On the July 6 edition of MSNBC's Tucker, host Tucker Carlson read the following excerpt from a speech delivered by Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) in Fairfield, Iowa, on July 3: "Somehow we have lost the capacity to recognize ourselves in each other. You know, people talk a lot about the federal deficit, but one of the things I always talk about is an empathy deficit." Carlson then asked: "How high is this guy? It's like what is he -- he always talks between bong hits?" Tucker later said: "Well, he sounds like a pothead to me. I mean, look, tell me what you're for. I don't want to hear about the [']empathy['] -- what the hell is that? Do you know what I mean? If I want a therapist, I'll pay for one."
On the July 2 edition of his show, Carlson said that Obama "seems like kind of a wuss," as Media Matters for America noted.
From the July 6 edition of MSNBC's Tucker, which also included Clifford May, president of The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and Newsweek senior White House correspondent Richard Wolffe:
CARLSON: Richard, you were just in Iowa with Barack Obama. Maybe you can explain the following scene: Barack Obama goes to essentially the Maharishi University town -- Fairfield, Iowa, home of John Hagelin, the Natural Law Party [presidential] candidate -- and gives this speech in which he says this -- they love him, and he says: "Somehow we have lost the capacity to recognize ourselves in each other. You know, people talk a lot about the federal deficit, but one of the things I always talk about is an empathy deficit." Now, I always talk about --
MAY: You're dead inside? You have no empathy for people? What's up?
CARLSON: How high is this guy? It's like, what is he -- he always talks between bong hits? I mean, what is that? What does that mean, an "empathy deficit"?
WOLFFE: You're -- so what, the African-American candidate is the exotic guy, who has a Maharishi --
CARLSON: Well, he sounds like a pothead to me. I mean, look, tell me what you're for. I don't want to hear about the "empathy" -- what the hell is that? Do you know what I mean? If I want a therapist, I'll pay for one --
WOLFFE: Let me explain something to you about what Democrats do, because this is his standard stump speech. He didn't come up with this last --
CARLSON: Yeah, I know. I know.
WOLFFE: Just for -- you know, there is something about the common good that they argue about --
CARLSON: Don't have a problem with that.
WOLFFE: -- about seeing each other, helping each other. Whether it's public education or health care, that's the core message of every single one of these characters. They're not all on the [Dennis] Kucinich bus.
CARLSON: And I wonder, why is it Democrats have had problems getting elected president?
WOLFFE: You tell me.
CARLSON: I think you just explained it.
MAY: Tucker, I don't think Americans lack empathy, let me say that. But my favorite part of the story is the Obama supporter who had written on his car, "The time is now," and a Maharishi follower said, "But the time is always now."
WOLFFE: I must say, by the way, very creative reporting. Hat tip to The Politico there. But I was there in that crowd. You could not tell that was a Maharishi crowd. I mean, Fairfield -- it does exist as a real place beyond people doing yogic leaping and people doing transcendental meditation [TM].
CARLSON: First of all, it's yogic flying.
WOLFFE: I'm sorry.
CARLSON: Second, I grew up in Southern California. My cousin was deeply into TM. I can spot them a mile away. They're very sweet people. They're very, very, very nice people.
WOLFFE: They wear Crocs and things.
CARLSON: Yeah, they wear Crocs and things, but they are -- they're potheads, and you're not going to convince me otherwise.
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Whatever. Compassionate conservativism is a theme to rally around but to speak of empathy is preachy?
Carlson needs to go rip some bong hits himself.
Tucker sounds like a d**khead to me.
That sums it up.
This is of course typical of a right winger.Subtleties of the mind like empathy, shame, compassion, sympathy, a sense of humor, and other such higher brain activities are just not something a right winger is capable of or at least none of the ones I have ever heard speak. I used to watch that CNN afternoon show with a person that used logic and then there was carlson or novak. That is when I discovered how insane novak and carlson are. Nothing this bumble but carlson says shocks me any more.
That's insulting to Grateful Dead fans everywhere....
That would be an insult to Dead heads around the world to compare them to Tuckie, but I think JScott instead insulted all the Richard Noggins of the world.
Tucker and creative writing apparently do not mix.... and, seriously... 'yogic flying...?' IT'S CALLED MEDITATION, you ignoramous!! And I'm sorry you dum butt doesn't know what 'empathy' means, or you don't know what it means in the context of the speech, much less those few sentences... but THANK YOU FOR YOUR INSIGHTFUL NAME CALLING that really pinned down what the speech was about- good job, Puckerup- can't wait 'till you take over Snowjob's job....
I wish Obama would sue Carlson for slander.
Obama would lose if he sues Carlson; Obama is a self-proclaimed former drug addict - a pothead and cokehead if I remember his ghostwritten autobiography correctly.See [link to abcnews.go.com] />
Khan, that's old news.
Wow. That's a new one. Are cons really creating another lie now saying that he didn't write his book "Dreams of My Father?"
So, if he was a Republican and "born again" you would not only vote for him but think he talks directly to God, right? Maybe Obama should just become a Republican.
Give me a break, Genghiz. You voted twice for a cokehead, draft dodging, DUI convicted guy who claims his God speaks thru him and tells him to attack. Fell better?
Least we not forget that our current president is an Alcoholic and cocaine user. The first lady was involved in a DUI where a man died!~ Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones! Or do you prefer the comments of Jesus "let he who is without sin cast the first stone".
And your proof that Bush used cocaine comes from...
We both know the answer don't we?
Think Obama would front me a bag?
It is reasonable to infer from Bush's original reaction to being asked and his odd belated reply that Bush has indeed likely used cocaine.
It is a quite reasonable opinion to have. But I wouldn't call it a fact.
Saying you EXPERIMENTED with a couple of drugs as a youthful indiscretion is a FAR CRY from being a drug ADDICT. Just ask Rush Limbaugh.
If Obama won the lawsuit, all he could collect is the worlds largest collection of Bowties. If Obama has done all those drugs the he is qualified to be President. baby bush has set the precedent but, at least Obama is not a halfwit like baby bush.
"about seeing each other, helping each other. Whether it's public education or health care, that's the core message of every single one of these characters. They're not all on the [Dennis] Kucinich bus."
What does that mean? Empathy is the Kucinich bus. The man would implement a department of peace for Pete sake.
tell HARDBALL [hardball@msnbc.com] we want Dave Shuster as the new host. Fire the loud, uninformed, malaria ridden, boring moron known as Chris Matthews. We have had enough of his crap and want someone hosting HARDBALL who gives credibilty to the moniker ... HARDBALL.
Poor Tucker has antipathy
For the concept of some empathy
He is juvenile and crass
With his comments on grass
For this clown, I have no sympathy
Tucker here is openly admitting that empathy is the furthest concept away from conservativism and the GOP. He is literally making fun of compassion which is probably easy for someone who has no compassion.
"He sounds like a pothead to me"...then what does our current President sound like? A drunk, a jerk, an idiot or a moron? Help me Tucker, Help me.
I'll take the pothead sounding guy over our word mangler.
I wasn't even aware that the guy I used to see meditating on TV as a kid founded a University. I guess to a nerd like Tucker, that makes Fairfield, Iowa a pretty scary exotic place.
Thanks Tucker for making the Senator's point for him.
Notice that US tv never even mentions the Drug War anymore. Politicians never mention it. They all vote for it again and again, though. Still going on, rumbling on in the background, filling our prisons to capacity, cheap slave labour for corporations in private prisons. Crime really does pay for some. In prohibitions, only the gangsters win.
And it's just plain cruel to punish an addict. That's a medical problem, so we should be healing, not handing out hard time like mad. Greens and Libertarians will end the Drug War, for very articulate and sensible reasons. Democrats and Republicans will not end it. They're cruel people.
I completely agree. How disgusting is it to know that people are actually benefiting financially from the prison system? (Rhetorical) Money is generously given for bigger prison with more guards, more military tactical equipment and training and more expensive security systems. So that humans can be housed like animal, many for non violent crimes, and then temporarily re turned into society where they will more than likely be readmitted to the system. That is not crime prevention; it is the antithesis of it. If the money is invested in the communities the prisoners come from, in the form of, better schools, local economy, community activities, you erase the incentive many people have to turn to drugs. "More black, more blue and more ammo" - Mos defIs not the answer.
you know, there is such a thing as tough love. however that is a good idea, having medical prisons, and the drug companies could begin work on anti-addiction drugs. although it would be rather costly for us taxpayers, but that never stopped the libs, right?
Don't worry about taxes going up to help addicts.
I'm sure you won't even notice when taxes continue to rise for other reasons. You know, baby boomers retiring and living longer
Carlson proves he's an ass at least 3 times a week on national tv.
Schuster did a pretty good job bbqing Dan Burton who was braying on about Clinton pardoning "criminals."
I guess it's news to the Republican Congressman from Indiana that the only people who can be pardoned are "criminals"!!!
Sorry, but I have to go with Tucker "more wussy than Obama" Carlson on this one.
Obama had to give a speech to a TM crowd and when you do that you have to talk like you are on pot.
So, in a way, it was a compliment.
I guess that means Tucky has to be on ecstacy to say all the stupid garbage he does everyday. After all, his viewers are all GOP SLOP.
Loosen up the helmet and you might discover that this was a Town Hall meeting in Fairfield, not a "TM crowd."
"essentially the Maharishi">[link to www.mum.edu] University town" - thanks for the stupid remarks Tucker...
So that makes Boston a "Simmons College town"?
But nuke 'em all anyway, they're probably TM sympathizers, right?
And what exactly are the criteria for determining if someone is "talking like a pot head"?
Tucker had his bowtie untied on tv in front of millions then was publicly humiliated on a dance show in front of millions so apparently he is a guy who is on tv to humiliate as many people from his bully pulpit as possible. How juvenile and boorish. Where is the substance?
>"empathy" -- what the hell is that? Do you know what I mean? If I want a therapist, >I'll pay for one
Clearly, by his own words, the guy doesn't know what empathy is...
Anyone want to take up a collection to send Tucker to a therapist?
Pothead? Tucker must have smoked a forest-full!
He's too dumb and mean. His drug is alcohol, it's blatant.
He sure danced like a drunk.
I guess Tucker can't understand the concept of love one another. It can't be that we should be concerned for each other as decent human beings. He has to be a pothead because the concept is too foreign for Tucker to understand. I think Tucker that you should take a class in human decency 101 and just maybe you can grasp this wonderful idea.
I guess if there is nothing much negative to pounce upon, Tucker et al just make stuff up. When Tucker talks like that- you know, when he seems to have lost touch with reality, he just takes the mantra of conservative mumbojumbo. at times like these, one often wonders if the problem is in the ear to mind path for someone like Tucker. I guess his brain just shorts out and that apparently precludes rational discussion.
Tucker's formula is simple, and it explains Rightwingers perfectly.
Drugs are EVIL. ONLY those partaking of drugs can have empathy for their fellow man, and "talk like potheads." Therefore, EMPATHY is evil.
Savage is fond of saying that Liberalism is a "mental illness." This is part of the Rightwing world view; if you care about anything other than yourself, if you have genuine compassion, if you don't see the sense in endless wars of death and blood started on false pretenses ... you must be on drugs, mentally ill, or both.
This is how Rightwingers define themselves as "NORMAL", by attributing EVIL motives and causes to those things of which the rightwinger is incapable ... compassion, empathy, love, kindness, decency, civility.
In truth, this is the root theme of the Bible: The struggle between those who believe in love and compassion, and those who believe only in force and violence. The classic struggle between good and evil. Rightwingers MUST attempt to redefine terms, to demonize compassion, to criminalize empathy, to crucify those who talk of getting along and helping one another. The alternative is unthinkable ... the rightwing would recognize in themselves everything bad and evil.
And of course, the Rightwing MUST define themselves as "good". So comes the formula: EMPATHY = POTHEAD = EVIL. It's the only way Rightwingers can live with themselves ... through self delusion, and attacking all which they do not understand on a basic human level.
If you ever wondered who supplied the nails at Calvary, it was someone exactly like Carlson, who consoled himself by saying, "I'm doing the right thing, right? Isn't this guy a pothead?"
What is equally amazing to me is how, then, they were able to become the party of the evangelical Christian? If that isn't Orwellian in the extreme? I mean, a party about selfishness and "free" markets making the poor poorer and the rich richer, tax cuts for the wealthy and gutting welfare for women and children in the name of "reform" (yes, I know Clinton signed on to it too). These are the exact opposite of Christian teachings?
one of the funniest things in al franken's "lying liars" book was a cartoon chapter called "supply-side jesus". hilarious.
Because Evangelical Christians don't give a crap about Christ. They worship AUTHORITARIANISM. They are too weak minded to think for themselves, so they capitulate to authoritarian figures who tell them who, how, what, where, when, and why to worship, and to do it all on FAITH. Just my opinion, but based on a lifetime of observation.
JSCOTT:
You observe well. But just to be clear, the ideology of rightwingerism, the POLITICS of the GOP and their supporters ... IS JUST A SYMPTOM.
Politics is the public face of very personal and deeply ingrained philosophy and world view. Judging others depends upon what kind of people the rightwingers are themselves, how they were raised, what they were told was the nature of human beings living together.
Rightwingers start with the belief that all people are basically BAD people. That they will take advantage of you if you're not careful, that people are basically lazy and immoral and scheming. That the average person will steal you blind and stick a shiv in your ribs without a second thought. All political views and policy of the rightwing is based on these beliefs about human nature.
HOW did the rightwinger come by this belief? WHY do they attribute this dismal outlook on their fellow man? It's called "projection" by the shrinks. The saying goes, "The THEIF believes that EVERYONE steals." The rightwinger believes that everyone is JUST LIKE HIM, and he knows exactly how he behaves and acts, what he would do, what advantages he would take, under what circumstances he would be corrupt, lazy, scheming, and greedy.
The rightwinger thus projects his own characteristics onto all mankind, and that is an image which calls for constant diligence, no compassion, cutting no slack, showing no weakness. Because the weak will be cut up by the strong ... and the rightwinger believes this to be true, because that is what HE does ... he grinds up the weak, picks on the small, screws the unwary, and grabs up everything that isn't nailed down.
So the difficulty of making political argument to advocate more caring, compassionate, and fair treatment for all citizens has an insurmountable roadblock: those we might seek to convince beleive that THEY THEMSELVES are the enemy they need to guard against. It is the horrendously negative SELF-IMAGE of the rightwing that needs to change ... and WILL NOT change, because it is engrained, and it is their very identity.
Luckily, those with this view number only about two in ten, roughly the scant "support" that Bush seems to have bottomed out with.
So, if you believe human beings are basically good, decent, hardworking people ... you must be on drugs. Rightwingers know the TRUTH in their own minds; People are JUST LIKE THEM ... i.e. no damn good.
Rightwingers start with the belief that all people are basically BAD people. That they will take advantage of you if you're not careful, that people are basically lazy and immoral and scheming. That the average person will steal you blind and stick a shiv in your ribs without a second thought. All political views and policy of the rightwing is based on these beliefs about human nature.
HOW did the rightwinger come by this belief? WHY do they attribute this dismal outlook on their fellow man? It's called "projection" by the shrinks. The saying goes, "The THEIF believes that EVERYONE steals."
I wonder if Tex will ever give a moment's thought to what this post reveals about himself. Talk about projection...this is right out of a textbook, and poor Tex isn't bright enough to know it.
It seems pretty accurate to me. Conservatives basically believe that human beings are inherently bad and it may well be projection.
I would suggets to you and Tex that gross generalizations are rarely accurate and serve only to tunnel your own vision.
MAX:
Are YOU bright enough to know the difference between an argument and an assertion? Your ASSERTION is a childish one, like "I'm rubber and you're glue, blah blah blah." It has NO substance, ZERO.
I'd be fascinated to see how you compare the POLICY advocated by the right versus the left, and how that "proves your point" that it is the left who believe people to be inherently BAD. This is what you claim (in way of rebuttal of my post), but alas, there is NOT ONE WORD to back up your claim.
Take any issue, like say Social Security, a program LIBERALS put into place to provide at least subsistence living for elders who otherwise would have NOTHING. The theory is, all people are basically GOOD, and no human being deserves to suffer if they find themselves destitute (often through no fault of their own).
Rightwingers consider Social Security to be SOCIALISM, and they have fought SS for decades. "Let people provide for their OWN retirement. If they FAIL, well it's their own damn fault! They deserve to suffer." is the Rightwing position.
On the poor, it's "Don't tax ME to give to that lazy, undeserving slug who has no job!" Where is the compassion? Where is the empathy?
See, you make an ASSERTION, but ALL THE FACTS point in support of MY theory. So YOUR "rebuttal" falls to the pitiful level of a childish ignorant taunt, made out of frustration and nothing else.
Sad, really, to be a member of that two out of ten, isn't it, MAX?
"often through no fault of their own). "
Often? Really? I would say it's usually their own fault. If you reach 65 and have "nothing" that's probably not bad luck. It's probably bad planning, incompetence, laziness, stupidity, or a combination there of.
Just like when you're rich it's "usually" the result of hard work, discipline, education, planning and calculated risk.
there are always exceptions to both sides but the above is true more often then not.
What were you just saying above about generalizations?
Well put Tex, we really have reached a point where compassion itself can be demonized, an almost explicitly Satanic inversion of normal human sympathies.
Anger and violence are the source of all righteousness in this value system, and sympathy is only an obstacle to the necessary infliction of pain on anyone who would thwart our will.
Also implicit in this derision of the very idea of compassion is that the highest values in human societies are not achieved by patient work, nurturing and voluntary cooperation, but by explosive (but always "defensive") violence directed outward.
Tex, I have noticed too that these cons need to see themselves as good. It's a special type of narcissism. And it's dangeropus.
I think that MSNBC needs to fire Trucker. The man does not get ratings and yet they let him continue to have a show just to show that their up is conservative. I remmeber in 2003 when they fired Donahue who had and still the best rating on MSNBC because the Bush Adminstration did not like Donahue position on the Iraq War. They want their own attack dog(Fox Opinion Network) on OBAMA. The Republican I believe wants to run against Hillary Clinton and not OBAMA. That why every Republican on MSNBC, CNN, Fox Opinion News, all attack OBAMA. I believe the fighting DEMS needs to wake up.... What about giving a Liberal a show? For example, Stepehaine Miller or Ed Schultz.
Jerry
How a ranter like Carlson ever deserved to have his own show is amazing. His opinions often border on the absurd.
Do you ever wonder what Tucker smokes before he goes on HIS show? I have found that it take a pothead to know a pothead. OMG, Tucker, you are really reaching if this is all you can come up with, ad homonym attacks are so lazy. Could you have at least tried? I guess you are just phoning it in now, aye? Pathetic.The clock is finally running out, Tucker my boy. Your fifteen minutes of fame are almost up. If this is what is passing for biting political commentary, then I fear for the future of journalism in the U.S. Please get off this line of commentary before someone suggests that you need to go into rehab for your drug habit.It's time for the conservatives to ask relevant questions if they have something to say about the progressive candidates. While you are at it, ask what Bush is going to do with his last 18 months in office, and if he is shameful enough to pass on a war he started four and a half years ago to the next president. How about the huge deficit and all of the borrowing from China? Or the record number of foreclosures? Or how about the fact that the only people doing better than they were six years ago are the super-rich?Tucker, you have always been such a water-carrier. But even you must know that the GOP has been a disaster these last six years, or longer, if you want to go back to the guy you hate more than life, Clinton. In the dark, when you are all alone, you must shake in your boots. The GOP controlled Congress was one of the most corrupt ever, and the loss of seats in the last election was proof. Their grand experiment has failed, and you are not man enough to point that out. You just keep going after men and women who have not sat in the seat of the president and call them potheads and criminals and worse. No talk about the puppet there now, and his controller, Cheney? Again, pathetic. In the end, you and your father have done all you could to get a guilty man set free, one who was actually convicted by a jury of the very crimes you tried to hang on Clinton. You sir, are a hypocrite. You are either for the rule of law, or you are for special favors for those you deem worthy of judicial restraint, and no one else. It is unthinkable that Paris Hilton has now spent more time in jail than a man who covered up the outing of a covert agent in the name of politics, and then had the stones to lie about it to a federal prosecutor, all the while covering his bosses asses. That took the kind of nerve I usually see in the Mafia, not in politics. So, go on and on if you must about Mark Rich. The truth is, he had a great lawyer at the time, which didn't mind dealing with the Clinton's at all: Scooter Libby. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
I know that speech is 1st amenment;therefore, can't be impeached. My goodness. Tucker Carlson to stop degrading Obama, Clinton and the rest of the democratic candidates. Tucker does not speak of Mr. G.W. Bush or the rest of the republican candidates that way. Words hurt, change opinions, incite as well as inspire;therefore, people like Tucker using the public air ways(yeah it cable and one pays)to do harm, denagrade, change opinions for an ideology must be challenged and the companies they work for must be challenged as well.
The rght always claim media bais. Most of the time, it goes unchallenged;therefore, they keep on repeating the slogan. CNN does not have a Tucker, O'rieley, Cavuto, Hanity, Scaboughoro, Glen Beck, Gibson, etc types on the left. CBS, NBC and ABC none of these net works devote a whole program bashing individuals that are to the left or right.
Talk radio is 90% right dominated to 9% left. Speech can not be slilenced. I agree 100%! I have lived in this country since 1973. I was 10 then. It seems to me that we have gone back 40 years. Division is at a fever pitch. I do not have the resarch to show it, however, I do believe that since the fairness doctrine went away, the public air wave has stooped to be used for the good of the people----i.e.---to inform. Calling Obama "pot head" or "a wuss" how does that inform any one?
Opinions are great but no one has an exclusivity to FACTS!
PEACE!
Mary Francis, MN.
He does sound like a stoned pot head.
These are not real solutions. The are meaningless things you would hear from a Hippy sitting on an old couch.
Obama's main drugs are power and money. And he's proven he will vote to kill to get it. But he's just a symptom of the larger disease, a two party monopoly on power with a huge military machine to play with. A system that's become the planets top breeding ground of sociopathic conmen. Of the entire Senate and Congress, perhaps only 10 out of all of them actually give a damn about the country. The hundreds of others.... just leaving a big bloody smear thru history.
Really, change your moniker to dramaKING.
Change that to QUEEN, Julia, and you'd be closer to the mark with respect to the emoting of the red thing.
This is real life, this is our situation. It's drama because none of it's funny enough to be comedy. Our government is running torture chambers. Nothing funny about that at all.
Torture chambers are not funny. But you going on about how everyone is a murderer is pathetic. Get a grip and stop being so theatrical. Your credibility suffers when you make outrageous claims.
Seeing yourself in others is the essence of the Golden rule, you know, do unto others. But then again Jesus was a long haired hippy who was very fond of modest comforts like old couches.
Beyond the tiny portion of Obama's speech, which Carlson perverted, do you know what solutions Obama has outlined?
Empathy is the moral foundation of Progressive politics, the central tenet of shared sacrifice and shared reward. So laugh if you like, that won't change the fact that conservatism was given 26 years to prove its merit yet conservatism has failed to benefit anyone but the wealthy elites.
Hey, don't bad mouth old couches - they are for some of us what back seats were for others (and with fewer neck cramps).
Another sad rightwingnut without even the capacity to understand the concept of empathy. No it isnt a solution GUMP, it isnt meant to be its meant to be the ROAD taken to the solution. In the movie Judgement at Nuremberg the American judge said that evil was the total lack of empathy. The right now seems to want to attack the very concept of empathy. Its sad.
Cmon copious. We're somewhat aligned but calling candidates "potheads" just lowers the discourse. I don't think Obama has any good ideas nor do I think he's remotely qualified to be vice president but let's call the correct people potheads.
Me.
C'mon people give lil' Tucker a break. He is commenting on an intelligent observation without the benefit of any intelligence of his own!
in the landscape of political elections most palavering about "empathy" and other emotional aspects of the human psyche is usually disregarded as preaching because this ploy is used so often by politicians.
tucker is correct in pointing out that obama should speak more of what issues he stands behind, for there seems to be a lack thereof.
Tucker... Quick!, find a toilet, and stuff your head in it.
What a broken-down piece of filth this man is.
Carlson: And I wonder, why is it Democrats have had problems getting elected president?
Wolfe: You tell me.
Well Tucker, maybe Democrats have trouble getting elected president because right-wing snots like yourself control most of the microphones in this country.
Here ya go Carlson, maybe this will help you understand:
empathynoun
What's really discouraging is that these idiots are critical of someone using an abstraction like "empathy." How much of those moron/talking heads making?
I got a rather rude letter to MSNBC about them. Keith Olberman would get a few more points from me--though he has nearly all I'm able to give to the "mainstream" media--if he'd criticize one of "his own," complete buffoons like Carlson.
So first he's a wuss, now he's a pothead. Honestly, this p**** gets paid for this kind of commentary. This is sad. Tucker, please go away and leave political discourse for grownups, will you?
takes one to know one...
PS: no surprise a consternative wouldn't know the meaning of "empathy"
Obama sounds like a pothead? This is clearly in insult to potheads like myself.
Seriously, Obama sounds just fine to me.
How do you spell "Tucker Carlson?"
P-U-N-K.