Carlson, who has said he assaulted man who "bothered" him in restroom, discusses "violence based on sexual orientation"
August 31, 2009 9:48 am ET
From the August 31 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:


The other right-wing media mogul you should worry about
Palin's book and Obama's bow: a media week to forget
Media Matters: The Palin chronicles|
|
||
![]() |
||
Discrimination against gays is deviant behavior.
(I know most of you think he shouldn't/can't speak on the issue, but do you reasonably think so because of the alleged incident in high school?)
libel: a false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person
I suppose posting counts as writing, so libel is the more appropriate. And since Easy falsely and maliciously alleges that I advocate violence against gays, that's what he's doing.
You are an anonymous "poster". Neither apply, doofus. Change your panties now.
You're aware that the person who alleged this was Tucker Carlson, yes?
I very much appreciate your commitment to absolute freedom, even to the extent of violence. Naturally, you must have no problem with gay people beating up heterosexuals for looking at them the wrong way.
And if someone of the opposite sex was in the wrong room soliciting sex, wouldn't that person be subject to arrest?
Tucker has made it known that he prefers we continue to discriminate against non-heterosexuals.
From what orifice did you pull that little nugget? Beating up someone in high school who sexually assaulted you in a bathroom doesn't constitute gay bashing.
If women attacked men who were hitting on them, when they didn't want it, good lord, there would be millions of assaults per day.
Tucker is anti gay because he beat someone down just because he was gay.
Nobody said anything about him not speaking on this issue, it's just interesting to see his violent reaction to a gay person.
Did he say that?
He beat the guy because he came on to him.
So in that 30 minute timeframe, he could have, called the police and reported it, or told someone else who was an authority figure what happened, but instead, he went back, 30 minutes later, and assaulted this guy.
I'm not wrong at all. He beat someone up, many minutes after the fact, which makes it worse.
Going back to attack someone, with backup, 30 minutes after they ask if you want to do something is borderline sociopathic. Saying it is only borderline is being nice. He had so many different ways to handle the situation yet he choose to attack him. He made the decision it was not in anger.
No excuses for Tucker. This could have been handled by this supposedly intelligent Tucker guy in a far different manner by Tucker decide he was gay. Thus the beating took place.
Plain and simple
This warning coming from two guys wearing pretty jaunty yellow ties.
This read weird...I think it's missing something. Maybe "Carlson, who has said he assaulted A man who...
All the controversy is coming from people who want to impose their values on others. Conservatives spend too much time and effort in worrying about other people’s life. Allowing people to live their life how they deem fit is not imposing beliefs on anyone else. It is just allowing people to have the choice to do so if they want to. If they spend the time teaching their children we live in a diverse country which is founded with the basic rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The government spending time in education educating students the fundamental of our society is not political propaganda. It is also not impeding on the freedom and rights other people either. It is actually just doing a function of the government. Part of what government should do is informing the citizens of what is its society identity. The government is responsible of ensuring civics is taught. How can someone who the rights and the duties which come with citizenship if they are not taught it.
As long as the right can lay claim of being the party of morals we will always have to spend time defending people rights. As long as they keep the authoritarians in charge and think freedom is only allowing what they think is morally right should be allowed they will be able to direct the political conversations in this countries. Once they lose this then people will actually be able to spend time looking into the real issues.
People like Carson love these issues for they get the talk away from what is important. They know they can use these hot topic issue to gain support for the agenda which they want to push forward in this country.
Like Glenn Beck before him, ol' Tuck proves that the dumbing down of our media continues to this day...
And um dexteritas0071418, Where did MMfA say in their commentary that Tucker is not allowed to speak about this particular issue?? It sounds to me like MMfA is simply pointing out another right-wing hacks hypocrisy as it pertains to the given issue.
Maybe if Tuck were to have had full disclosure, to put context in, might have done the trick? I admit that is was several years ago, the incident from high school, but he could have used his 'bully pulpit' to show his own regret and plead that it is wrong to react as he did then? That violence against those that are 'different' is wrong...
I have many gay friends, none of which would ever hang around a public restroom to solicit. I agree with Tucker that this person, if he was hanging around the bathroom (and still there 30 minutes later when Tucker returned with his posse) is, in fact, engaging in unwanted solicitation. Men deserve to be able to take a pee without being hit upon by some creepy guy in the bathroom. That is not gay-bashing. Self respecting gay men would never engage in that kind of behavior. If this guy was hangin outside the girl's bathroom doing the same thing to the women, he'd get an @sskicking even sooner.
I just can't give Tucker credit for being manly. If the police were coming to investigate, he and his pals should have stayed out of it. If he's guilty of something, it is criminal assault and vigilantism. He can't claim self-defense if he escaped 30 minutes ago and returned with help. The police should have grabbed him and his friends, too. BTW, the charge against the first guy would likely be solicitation and distrubing the peace, both misdemeanors. Tucker's charges would be felony assault and battery.
Really, how does anyone trust this character?
(Did I just sound like a Republican?), If so, shoot me.