Posted on 08/09/2006 2:41:27 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
August 9, 2006 - 17:26
Tucker Carlson stopped short of saying that some of his best friends are Jewish. But he did let us know that "I love Israel, I think it's a wonderful place, I support it completely, I support it instinctively."
That was just before he declared that "I think this war helps Hezbollah. I think it's bad for Israel, bad for the United States. I think you can love Israel and believe this war is a disaster."
And it was just after he criticized President Bush for "taking the side of Israel to the extent that he alienates the Arab world completely."
When Carlson asked Bill Press, his guest on this afternoon's Tucker show on MSNBC "why doesn't anybody ever mention that?", the former chairman of the California Dem party gave a response suggesting he might be a proud graduate of the Pat Buchanan 'Amen Corner' School of Foreign Policy:
"There's a very powerful force in Washington, Tucker, that I think has a strong influence on both Republicans and Democrats."
So powerful a force, apparently, that Press was afraid to speak its name!
On a lighter note, in the regular 'Beat the Press' segment, Carlson rightly had fun at the expense of Anderson Cooper of CNN. Cooper, who has been in Israel for some time now covering the war, recently went off on a elegiac jag about his experiences reporting the conflict, and Tucker delighted in displaying excerpts from Anderson's ouevre, including the this morsel:
"You want to feel the heat, the fury, swallow the embers. You watch firefighters put out the flames, it's never enough."
Yikes.
MSNBC - Tucker/NewsBusters W-too-soft-on-Israel ping to Today show list.
Also: don't miss Anderson Cooper's absolutely hilarious attempt at romantic war poetry.
I am more inclined to think that his deductive reasoning process is a disaster.
unbelievable.
"You deserve an award of some sort!"
Indeed. Way to take one for the team! :)
Many thanks. It's really my - twisted - pleasure.
Having the Jews and Israel wiped off the map helps Hezbollah ????
Because that is what Hezbollah said they want to do
Nice to know Tucker is jew hater too
Not sure what this is about
But today, Rush played clips of Cooper talking about how the Hezzies are staging photo ops for the media
I have come to believe that it makes no difference who the reporters are they are all left-wing and anti-Israel and anti-American. They support the terrorist and would like nothing better than for Israel to be destroyed and for the US to be taken over by the anti-American left wing liberal democrats so they can surrender to the terrorist.
Tucker, paraphrased: "I support the troops, but I don't support the war."
Its funny how these pundants are so quick to declare wars lost after a few weeks of fighting. WWII would have been a lost cause to these idiots before the New Year of 1942!
THE Bill " I believe a totally de-bunked hoax about the I.Q.'s of presidents" Press? Wow, he speaks with such intelligence and authority./sarcasm
It's been three weeks now, three weeks and counting. Fighting and dying, shelling and running. So much of it seems so long ago, only the pictures are a reminder you were ever there. War is like that. Each day is the first, the past is dead, forgotten. In war there's only now, only this. A smoke shared by buddies, a few hours rest. The minutes pass, so do the memories. At first the shelling, the rockets, that's what you see, it's what you hear. Incoming, outgoing, sirens and screams. All of it quickly fades, however, it becomes like your pulse, always there, a throb in your ear, a beat you barely notice. From a distance there's a beauty to it, brilliant flames, a flash of light, a brief boom that echoes in the hills. Up close there's nothing beautiful about it. The ground rumbles, your spine shakes. The heat and dirt scald your skin. So much of this war we don't even see, you stare at distant hills that smoke and smolder. The ground is dead. We see tanks move, soldiers come and go, but you don't see the fight up close, and that's where we all want to be. We try to get close, as close as you can, you want to feel the heat, the furry, swallow the embers. We watch firefighters put out the flames, but it's never enough, we want to see more. We followed the action wherever its lead, Beirut, Cyprus, Haifa, Kiryat Shmona, we've camped out in hotel rooms and balconies, street corners and cars, pulling up stakes when the story moves on. Three weeks now, three weeks and counting, sometimes I'm not even sure what I've seen.
It is every bit as bad as Vogon poetry, from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy:
Oh freddled gruntbuggly, Thy micturations are to me As plurdled gabbleblotchits On a lurgid bee. Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon. See if I don't. Gashee morphousite, thou expungiest quoopisk! Fripping lyshus wimbgunts, awhilst moongrovenly kormzibs. Bleem miserable venchit! Bleem forever mestinglish asunder frapt! Gerond withoutitude form into formless bloit, why not then? Moose.
Anderson Cooper may be proof of reincarnation.
He sure sounds like long-departed beat poet.
Does Anderson have Whitney Houston on his iPod?
Oh! Wanna dance with somebody
I wanna feel the heat with somebody
Yeah! Wanna dance with somebody
With somebody who loves me - 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody'
I think unenforced UN sanctions where the Hezbollah who were supposed to be disarmed and out of the south instead have thousands of rockets. IMO, that helps Hezbollah, the UN.
Never trust a man that wears a bow tie.
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