Welcome back, Tucker. Really. Posted on 10/03/2007 6:08:11 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Welcome back, Tucker. Really.
When Carlson was away, guest host David Shuster sullied Tucker's name-sake show with the tasteless "gotcha" game he sprung on Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), then compounded matters by leading a liberal love-in.
Tucker's been back in the saddle for a couple days, and this evening took on Wesley Clark and later a representative of Media Matters.
Speaking with Paul Waldman, Senior Fellow and Director of Special Projects of "Media Matters," Carlson displayed the graphic shown here, in which Hillary Clinton stated that she had "helped start" Media Matters. Under close questioning by Carlson, Waldman wound up flatly contradicting Hillary's claim.
View video here.
CARLSON: So Hillary Clinton helped to start, and supports, Media Matters. It's a political organization, then.
Waldman gave a non-response response, discussing the history of how ex-conservative David Brock started the organization.
CARLSON: But what does this mean? What does Hillary Clinton mean that she "helped start" Media Matters?
WALDMAN: Well, I think she's supportive of what we do, and a lot of people have encouraged us.
CARLSON: Did she help start it?
WALDMAN: Uh, uh, no. I think she's been somebody who encouraged it and was supportive like a lot of progressives.
"Uh, uh, no"? Did Media Matters just call Hillary Clinton a liar?
Earlier, Carlson called out former General Wesley Clark [who did have the coolest job title in the western world, "Supreme Allied Commander Europe"] on his bizarre claim that Rush Limbaugh was seeking to "censor" our service people when it is Clark who is seeking to censor Rush.
TUCKER CARLSON: Here's part of what you wrote on the Huffington Post. Here's what you wrote: "Since Rush Limbaugh won't listen to us, we're going directly to Congress, which can prevent him from disrespecting and censoring the voices of our soldiers." Now with all respect, that's almost Orwellian. You're accusing him of censorship, and at the same time attempting to censor him by taking him off the air.
WESLEY CLARK: Well, I think he's crossed the line, Tucker.
As Tucker subsequently said, in so many words: who died and made Wesley Clark keeper of "the line"?
In any case: who's not telling the truth? Hillary when she claimed she "helped start" Media Matters, or the left-wing outfit when it says she didn't?
WALDMAN: Uh, uh, no. I think she’s been somebody who encouraged it and was supportive like a lot of progressives.”
Hillary’s a progressive? Gee, I thought she was a moderate.
We need to reform the laws in this country so that businesses like this Media Matters outfit can only exist as what it is, a business. And pay taxes like all other businesses. Just like Rush Limbaugh does.
By trying to create some distance between media matters and hillary, the media matters spokesman may be revealing how frightened they are by the new media’s counter attack against them.
Rush, Mark Levin, Clear Channel, and Fox are aiming for media matters’s non-profit status. To retain their non-profit status, media matters must not promote a single candidate. But they have been, and her name is hillary.
It may not be much, but by denying hillary, media matters may be caving in a little to the conservative media’s pressure.
Mediamatters is trying to downplay Hillary’s affiliation with them because they probably know it could hurt her in a general election.
I believe a Rush segment is about to air on H&C
Of course Media Matters is trying to cover her rear end.
HC covers her tracks very well.
Here's an excerpt:
"It was started by a guy named David Brock who runs the online organization you're heard a lot about lately, Media Matters for America. Brock is a onetime conservative who wrote a book about his transformation from Clinton-hating muckraking author to conservative-hating crusader and Hillary Clinton confidante. They talk often, according to reports. And she claims to have co-founded Media Matters. In this transformation, he also discovered his true self and came out as a gay man.
Brock became a kneecapper for Hillary Clinton and George Soros. He first took office space in the office of John Podesta, former Clinton chief of staff, who was running the Center for American Progress, a Soros-funded left-wing organization. Brock began attacking conservatives."
“I thought Hillary owns Media Matters.”
I don’t know. All I know is the difference here between “help start” and “encourage” is just about nothing.
I do know more now. I went to their website, it shows an obsession with details of details of perceived slights no one rational would care about...sounds like the Clinton machine...
Liberal tactics dictate that conservative commentators speak as “we say or we’ll make you pay”!! Democratic soldiers cannot be disrespected by the media, but liberal Congressmen can humiliate and denigrate the CINC to their hearts desire with impunity. And they wonder why Congress has all time low confidence votes? The Congress needs housecleaning again!!
thank you for your # 5. It’s just great to have important hot links finger tip close.
“Waldman wound up flatly contradicting Hillary’s claim.”
Uh, no, that did not happen.
CARLSON: Did she help start it?
WALDMAN: Uh, uh, no. I think she’s been somebody who encouraged it and was supportive like a lot of progressives.
I’d say “no” is a flat contradiction, however he might then try to color it.
bump to the Lieness of Chappaqua.
MMs is a 501-3c tax exempt organization under the irs code and they stand to lose that if it is determined they are politically based. That would be a devastating turn for them.
No wonder they are distancing themselves from HC's statement.
Is this correct?
All of this too will soon be cleansed by the gargantuan galactic Clintonian singularity, wherein and whenceward memories are stretched, bent backwards, redacted forwards, and finally reduced to a vague feeling of wrongness which can’t be properly enunciated.
Speaking of phony soldiers...
WESLEY CLARK: Well, I think he's crossed the line, Tucker.
Word fail me...
her pants ought to be on fire...
“I’d say “no” is a flat contradiction, however he might then try to color it.”
The fault is with him, not Hillary.
Fits well with his website. It is obsessed with “gotchas” of the most miniscule matters.
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