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Hey, look at Manson from Carlson’s point of view: A white guy with nothing but his own charisma and a big dream was able to rise to the top of an internationally known organization, get more cute white chicks than he had time for, make himself a permanent place in the history books.

Okay, maybe some of his publicity ideas were a little… in advance of their time. But you never saw Charles Manson whining about “oppression”, didja? He was a guy who saw a problem and took the initiative to solve it, without waiting around for the Nanny State to rescue him!

Of course, Carlson can’t actually remember Charles Manson’s ‘helter skelter’ — or much of anything about that period, or most of the rest of the history he’s lived through, if his words are any indication.

Why do so many white men, not all of them overprivileged halfwits like Tucker, assume they’d have been any happier in an era where they’d only have been competing against each other for the top slots?

I mean, sure, it would’ve cut the number of potential competitors down considerably, but does Tucker Carlson really assume his natural talents have been insufficiently rewarded even as it is?

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  2. 2.

    Mnemosyne

    Tucker Carlson and I were born the same year, and yet I managed to figure out that the late 1960s and early 1970s were a pretty fucked-up time. I am just old enough to remember Patty Hearst being big news, though I was too young to understand why.

  3. 3.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    Before Tucker was born we never locked our doors here in Southern California(the Manson Family being in the area may have also had something to do with that change).

    P.S. At the urging of my stepdaughter, the nurse, Madame and I got our flu shots this evening. I’m beginning to feel like crap.

  7. 7.

    Jager

    A guy I know used to run into Charlie Manson at a local café, usually at breakfast. He said Manson was “one weird son of a bitch who put a lot of syrup on his pancakes.”

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    Ruckus

    @ruemara:
    The awful comes from them being over protected whites who think that the world is trying to kill them because their last manicure wasn’t perfect. This situation of thinking that the world is trying to kill them has caused them to force their heads up their exit orifice at a great velocity which gives them a shitty view of life. And with the exit orifice plugged they just get more and more full of shit. It’s a really bad circle of life choice that they made and we get to pay for it, listening to the struggle they have trying speak in this fashion. They talk, it sound like gas and stinks, but that’s all they know so they keep talking, shitty gas keeps coming out.

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    hitchhiker

    OT fun fact: Lisa Murkowski’s dad was the senator from Alaska when Clarence Thomas was confirmed (he voted yes). She got to the senate in 2002 because by then he’d become governor and he appointed her to fill a seat that had been vacated.

    I think the Murkowski family owes us one. She should vote against Kavanaugh.

  13. 13.

    Ruckus

    @Ruckus:
    BTW there is a technical term for this disease.
    It’s called Mobius Rectus syndrome.
    The symptoms are, well they are obvious.
    Mother Fucker Carlson is the poster child.

  14. 14.

    Ruckus

    but does Tucker Carlson really assume his natural talents have been insufficiently rewarded even as it is?

    He does! Of course he’s the only one out of 6+ billion people on the planet to hold that view. And his Mobius Rectus syndrome keeps him from understanding, well pretty much everything, so figuring that out won’t happen.

  18. 18.

    Mnemosyne

    @ruemara:

    Our cats were pretty good nurses for the first couple of days that I was home. And then, inevitably, they started to get a little annoyed that I was mucking up their routine. ?

  20. 20.

    NotoriousJRT

    does Tucker Carlson really assume his natural talents have been insufficiently rewarded even as it is?

    In a word: Yes.

  21. 21.

    patrick II

    Back then the minimum wage was, adjusted for inflation, much higher than it is today even though the country’s GDP has doubled. Thanks …. no, not Obama!

  23. 23.

    Amir Khalid

    Charles Manson’s ‘helter skelter’

    I always thought it was the Beatles’ Helter Skelter.
    I’m not even American, but I was eight years old when Tucker Carlson was born and I bet I know more than Carlson does about America in the late 1960s. I know, for example, that it was still very much riven by the many political divisions of that decade and still traumatised by the murders of the Kennedys and Dr Martin Luther King. I know it was a time when people of colour were being discriminated against, more so than today. I’ll grant that 1969 was a better year than 2018, or at least less bad. POTUS back then was a crook too, but at least he wasn’t an incompetent crook.

  24. 24.

    Yutsano

    @hitchhiker: The Natives in Alaska are showing her all the receipts right now. They got her that seat. They are letting her know in no uncertain terms who got her back in the Senate. And they will turn against her if she doesn’t listen to them.

  25. 25.

    Ruckus

    @Amir Khalid:
    I’m old enough to have been an adult in both those years, and living in the US. On contemplation I’d say you were correct, and that’s with the Vietnam war going on and me joining the military. The war was the big issue in 69 and was about tearing the country apart, today it’s the country itself being torn apart. Both times by corrupt presidents. Hmmmmm, I wonder if this is going to be a 50 yr repeating issue………

  29. 29.

    smike

    @GideonAB:
    Not sure, but he sure thinks that Beto is one bbq hatin’ sumbitch. Don’t think that line of attack is going to work so well, either.

  31. 31.

    Aleta

    Heather Digby Parton, Salon

    “[Brett Kavanaugh] is not just a conservative jurist. He’s not John Roberts. He’s not even Neil Gorsuch. He’s a Republican operative who is posing as a judge” — Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii,
    …
    Kavanaugh joined a notoriously dissipated and drunken fraternity at Yale and belonged to an equally licentious secret society that even today remains one of the few all-male groups on campus. None of that is evidence that Kavanaugh assaulted anyone, to be sure. But it does call into question the Boy Scout image his sponsors so assiduously created during his confirmation hearings.
    …
    When it comes to unfairness and character assassination, he’s an expert. Here is just one example to illustrate the depth of his character deficiencies. Back in the 1990s, conservative activists went to DefCon One when Bill Clinton came into office. A whole group of young conservative lawyers joined the cause, Kavanaugh among them. His first big job for the movement was as Ken Starr’s point man on the Vince Foster case.

    Indeed, it was Kavanaugh who pushed for the investigation even though Foster’s death had been amply covered by congressional committees, the local police, the FBI and the first special counsel Robert Fisk, all of whom had concluded found that the former deputy White House counsel had committed suicide. But Kavanaugh was deep in the right-wing fever swamp and argued to Starr that they could unscrupulously use the fact that there were unfounded conspiracy theories surrounding Foster’s death to reopen the case, despite the grieving family’s desperate pleas for the government to stop the “outrageous innuendo and speculation for political ends.”

    Kavanaugh was apparently particularly interested in Rush Limbaugh’s odious suggestion to his legions of listeners that Foster had been murdered in an apartment secretly owned by Hillary Clinton. He spent three years and $2 million attempting to dig up dirt on the dead man, at one point demanding that Foster’s teenage daughter give the authorities specimens of her hair — an apparent attempt to prove or imply that a hair found on Foster’s jacket had belonged to Hillary Clinton.

    Kavanaugh asked everyone involved about this nonexistent affair between Clinton and Foster — even, eventually, Clinton herself. It later became clear that Kavanaugh knew all along that Foster had committed suicide, and that he had used the power and resources of the independent counsel’s office to lend credibility to vulgar sexual rumors about the first lady, in the process needlessly torturing the family of a dead man.

    Let’s just say there is more than one way to assault someone. In this case, which is proven, he assaulted two women: Hillary Clinton and Vince Foster’s widow, Elizabeth.
    …
    As Sen. Brian Schatz said in the quote above, Brett Kavanaugh is not just another conservative jurist. He is a professional political operative with a past full of dirty tricks and character assassination. If there is any decency left in the Republican Party this latest revelation will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.

  32. 32.

    sdhays

    It always amazes me how these guys (Tucker, Bill O) look like they’ve been constipated for the last week and take pride in the inability of their digestive tract to function properly, and that doesn’t seem to disqualify them from television. How are they appealing? How can anyone stand looking at their combination of smugness and constipation for an entire hour?

  33. 33.

    NotMax

    Who took over Carlson’s slot on MSNBC when they canned his butt?

    Rachel Maddow.

    The one thing we have to thank him for.

  34. 34.

    Aleta

    Charles M. Blow @CharlesMBlow

    Stop infantalizing white men and pathologizing black ones.

    Kavanaugh, accused of attempted rape, was 17: Trump defending his “very special” guy.

    All of the Central Park Five, accused of rape, we’re YOUNGER than 17: Trump said he hated them and called for their execution.

  35. 35.

    sm*t cl*de

    @Ruckus:

    It’s called Mobius Rectus syndrome.

    There is an actual Mobius Syndrome (congenital cranial nerve dysfunction). I hope you feel guilty now.

  36. 36.

    Karen S.

    I think not having to compete with anyone else except other white men for jobs is a huge reason that mediocre white men like Tucker Carlson imagine that they’d be so much happier back in the day than in the present. They could more easily convince themselves that they’d got their jobs through their own merits instead of acknowledging the truth—that they’d gotten their jobs because they were someone’s son, grandson, nephew, family friend. Plus, they could lord it over their wives and children because that’s what men do. They could drink and drive without some nanny state telling them they had to buckle their seatbelts, if their cars had seatbelts at all. They could sexually harass/assault women pretty much at will. They could go about their business without seeing many if any black people, for instance, except the ones who worked as janitors, cooks and in other low-paying jobs. If you’re a mediocre white man like Tucker Carlson, those would have been halcyon days, indeed.

  37. 37.

    Frank McCormick

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I’ve heard the “we never used to lock our doors” statement most of my adult life. Most people could probably leave their doors unlocked at night today as well and be just as safe. What has changed the is perception and NOT the reality.

  40. 40.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Karen S.:

    He is the elder son of Richard Warner Carlson, a former Los Angeles news anchor and U.S. ambassador to the Seychelles who was also president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and director of Voice of America. Carlson’s mother is Lisa McNear Lombardi, who left the family when Carlson was 6 years old. His stepmother is Patricia Caroline Swanson, an heiress to the Swanson frozen-food fortune;

    Poor widduw underpwiviledged white boy. No advantages at all growing up…

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