Warren Jeffs
AKA Warren Steed Jeffs
Posted on 08/29/2006 2:34:34 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
I think we now know Tucker Carlson's strategy for winning 'Dancing With the Stars': multiple partners.
That's perhaps the only way to explain Carlson's odd defense of Warren Steed Jeffs, the polygamist leader arrested today. On his MSNBC show of this afternoon, Tucker was outraged that Jeffs had been placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list:
"His crime was wanting to enter into life-long arrangements with women, or facilitating that between a man and . . . was this guy trying to undermine America, destroy our way of life or murder our citizens? No! What the hell was he doing on the Top Ten list?"
Carlson wouldn't back down even when guests A.B. Stoddard of 'The Hill' newspaper and Republican Frank Donatelli pointed out that Jeffs has been accused of sexual assault on a minor and other crimes.
Tucker tried to recruit a liberal guest to his team. He implored Dem strategist Steve McMahon: "Steve you're a liberal, you worked for Howard Dean. Tell me you'll defend the alternate life-style that is plural marriage, come on."
Even McMahon wasn't buying, and had this trenchant rejoinder: "Pedophilia, Tucker, is not an alternate lifestyle that's recognized anywhere as a legitimate one."
Tucker wouldn't yield: "It's not pedophilia, the women were 16."
McMahon: "Some of them were as young as 13. It's pedophilia anyway you cut it."
Concluded Carlson: "It's a hard-nosed group here today!"
Calling Jeffs a criminal is 'hard-nosed'? I've enjoyed 'Big Love' too, Tucker, but come on!
MSNBC-Tucker Carlson plural-marriage ping to Today show list.
Carlson is a joke. Does anyone have his home phone number? :)
Something has happened to Tucker's mind. I'm not kidding.
Too many years with "The Most Trusted Name In News", that's what happened to Carlson's mind.
"Tucker tried to recruit a liberal guest to his team. He implored Dem strategist Steve McMahon: "Steve you're a liberal, you worked for Howard Dean. Tell me you'll defend the alternate life-style that is plural marriage, come on.""
First the gay lifestyle choice is normalized then all of a sudden what is wrong with pedophilia. Its all for the children dontcha know?
This was predicted. Score another one for the tinfoil hat crowd.
Desperate for ratings, that's what has happened to Tucker's mind.
Heh, I don't think it's going to work.
Let some 40 year old guy stoop his lil daughter and see how he likes it then
Men who wear bow ties are a bit odd. I'm not kidding.
Warren Jeffs
AKA Warren Steed Jeffs
Is there a link to this?
Tucker Carlson
AKA Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson
Tucker desperate for ratings ping!
No - NewsBusters site has been down, but I'm posting there now, if you go over in a little while.
Carson should read " Under The Banner Of Heaven :A Story Of A Violent Faith " by Jon Krakauer, the author best known for " Into Thin Air, A Personal Account Of The Mt Everest Disaster."
There is a fringe sect of the LDS church that believes in polygamy and lives in a small area at border of northern AZ, southern Utah.
They are known as FLDS - Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints.
They are the LDS version of Jim Jones and The Branch Davidians.
The Mormon church disavows this sect.
The sect is ruled by one man-at the time of the writing of the book, a 90 something nutcase known as Rulon Jeffs ( 75 wives, 65 children.)
Since polygamy is illegal-they game the system by only legally marrying the first and then cohabiting with the rest.
The multiple wives and kids are all on welfare and the sect rakes in millions of our tax dollars each year.
Plus, the US govt has built them schools, roads, etc. Quite a nice scam they have going.
They expel many of the young boys -a lot of them wind up homeless on the streets of large southwestern cities .Forbidden to ever contact their families.
Women and children are treated like prisoners.
Can't believe that Tucker would be so foolish as to defend this cult of pedophilia.
I second your recommendation of that book. Jeffs is evil, simply evil. I, for one, am glad he's been caught.
Rulon was the father of Warren, the one just arrested.
Tucker Carlson,another no talent talking head !!!
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