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.
Did you ever notice how libs admire the bad guys? It's a mental thing for sure.
Sounds like he's re-incarnated from Geraldo.
Steve Marlberg has a column today "Hezbollah Propaganda Marches On"
"There I was watching the talk shows and suddenly I thought I must have fallen asleep and started dreaming.
It happened last night on Paula Zahn's show on CNN. Hard evidence in the form of a first-hand account from the "CNN wonder boy" himself, Anderson Cooper, that Hezbollah was using ambulances to stage events for the media.
The discussion had been about the recent revelations of doctored pictures by a Reuters photographer. Joining Zahn was Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post, and host of CNN's "Reliable Sources," and Chris Johns, editor in chief of National Geographic magazine.
Enter Anderson Cooper live from Israel...."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/8/9/151851.shtml
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