Tucker was too much of a coward to air this but it’s one of the best things ever: the Dutch historian who dunked on the Galtians at Davos doing a number on Tucker Carlson (via leaked cellphone footage).
Watch Fox News host Tucker Carlson call one of his guests a 'tiny brain…moron' during an interview. NowThis has obtained the full segment with historian Rutger Bregman that Fox News is refusing to air. pic.twitter.com/kERYPUaGLY
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) February 20, 2019
eemom
Fucker Tarlson. Have hated that simpering shitsack since his bowtie days.
smintheus
He’s ready for his close up now.
Cermet
These ass licker’s exist solely to please the elite and brain wash the rubes in mostly fly over country; right to choose is a perfect example of how they’ve done this – a mostly non-issue for evangelicals when passed and supported by biblical teachings but now a wedge issue because the bankers and other elite need to confuse the rubes (not that that is all that difficult; there is a reason they are generally poor through multi-generations.)
Another Scott
More good news. 9:0 SCOTUS decision on excessive fines – 8th Amendment applies to the States, also too. Notorious RBG opionion.
Good, good.
Dunno what else it means, but grabbing a $44,000 car for a maximum $10,000 fine is all kinds of unfair. It’s good that the unanimous SCOTUS could see that, also too.
Cheers,
Scott.
trollhattan
@Another Scott:
That is good. Rolling my eyes imagining our county D.A. concern-trolling losing a “valuable tool” in her battles against gangs and cartels.
germy
germy
trollhattan
@germy:
Loved how Colbert on the old show always referenced him as “obvious anagram Reince Priebus.”
Spanky
@germy: Newt Gingrich should aspire to something as high a tenth rate warlock.
JDM
Why, it’s almost as if Tucker can’t take it. Where’s my bad Jack Nicholson impression when I need it?
stinger
I notice Carlson doesn’t deny or try to correct or even redirect the conversation, he just starts cussing. Argumentum ad hominem, luzer.
Spanky
@trollhattan:
Curb Eerie Spin?
Pubic Ere Risen?
Rubric Pee Sine?
Be Precise Ruin?
H/T Wordsmith.org. There’s more. Much more.
narya
@trollhattan: I think that’s actually Charlie Pierce’s name for him.
rikyrah
@Another Scott:
Yeah!!
Roger Moore
@trollhattan:
I always preferred removing the vowels from his name so he became RNC PR BS.
Spanky
@Spanky: Bi Creeps Urine
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
OT: Does anybody know what’s going on with that Smollett story? Apparently, the brothers arrested confessed that it was staged? Is this true?
sdhays
I hope it pains Bill O’ to see someone as mentally constipated as Tucker Carlson “succeed” doing his old show. Tucker shows that ol’ Rupert could shove any dumb-f*ck white guy in a chair and glower and spout hate and racism for however long the show is on the air and it would get similar ratings.
Kdaug
Can’t stop the signal, Mal.
humboldtblue
@Another Scott: @germy:
Came here to highlight that ruling.
bemused
Huh, the Covington kid at Lincoln Memorial who smirked at native american is suing Wapo for $250 million.
jackmac
“Tiny brain …. moron.” That would be Tucker projecting again.
West of the Rockies
Can’t stomach precious little Tucker today. Is there a money quote or a spot where I can fast forward?
Jerzy Russian
I want to marry that dude. Not Fucker Carlson, the other one.
Jerzy Russian
@eemom: You know his childhood nickname must have been “Mother”.
ruemara
2 things:
Hearing that Netanyahu is wanting to ally with the “Kahanists” to build a coalition. (FUCKING YIKES)
Watching a friend of mine bemoan the slow motion coup happening in Venezuela thanks to the US but be Bernie Bro enough to not believe that we’ve been having one here is a thing to behold.
West of the Rockies
@Roger Moore:
That’s fabulous!
Cacti
@Another Scott:
Good news indeed, considering the long trend of states and municipalities using fines for everything as general revenue enhancement.
Aleta
Oliver Willis @owillis
Gin & Tonic
@West of the Rockies: It’s cumulative effect. You have to watch the whole thing – [SPOILER ALERT] you don’t have to look at Tucker’s face.
Frankensteinbeck
@Cermet:
The rise of abortion as a political issue is well documented. Bankers were not involved. Evangelical leaders lost some tax breaks and evangelical believers were forced to put their children in the same schools as black children. The entire movement lost its shit, swore to dismantle the government and public education, and rallied around abortion as an issue they could tout in public that made themselves feel righteous. Racism is bottom-up in this country, and plutocracy merely along for the ride. It helps that a lot of plutocrats are racist as shit themselves. Good ‘ol John Schnatter, who pitched a screaming public fit that he might have to give his employees healthcare and was later caught complaining that he’s not allowed to say n-clang anymore is a perfect example.
rikyrah
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
waiting for all of it to shake out, because it doesn’t make any sense. why would he do it?
mrmoshpotato
@Gin & Tonic: To fully warn our gentle fellow Jackarati there are some shots of Tucker’s dog-who’s-just-been-shown-a-card-trick face, but not many.
rikyrah
@bemused:
1. Discovery, Dear.
2. Someone in the morning thread posed a great question – WHO IS PAYING FOR THIS SUIT?
West of the Rockies
@Gin & Tonic:
Okay, I’ll brave it… Thanks.
rikyrah
@Frankensteinbeck:
Tell that truth for the bleacher seats.
JGabriel
@bemused:
Thereby proving he and/or his parents are just as much the spoiled entitled assholes we all thought they were.
catclub
@Another Scott:
Of course, they have not addressed the ‘we arrested you for X and seized your car, nothing came of the arrest, but we are keeping the car until
you sue us for it in court.” civil forfeiture system. There was no fine at all in that case, but they still keep the car.
rikyrah
@Aleta:
BWA HA AH AH AH AH AH HA
Frankensteinbeck
@rikyrah:
Last I heard the newspeople making that claim hadn’t produced any sources, the police said they didn’t know where they got this idea, and Smollett’s employers said his job was in no danger (which is the supposed reason for staging the attack). That info is at least days old (I’m not good at time), so something may have come out since.
Gravenstone
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Police continue to investigate. But the newest headline I’ve seen indicate that the authorities want to look into Smollet’s finances, which likely isn’t good news for the young man for the direction of the overall investigation.
bemused
@rikyrah:
I missed the morning thread, will have to check out.
Just had a thought that smirking faces are a tell. The smirkers don’t give a rat’s ass about anyone and are sure to be cashing in wherever they can.
catclub
@JGabriel: $250M was the price Bezos paid for WAPO. The interesting contrast with this case versus the case that busted Gawker, is that they could outspend Gawker for lawyers. That is not really the case here.
Gravenstone
@Aleta: Took a moment to get into the flow of the tweets, but my first through on reading “Linc” was – Mod Squad?
trollhattan
@Gravenstone:
“Solid.”
JGabriel
@catclub:
Interesting.
Yarrow
@germy: I don’t think Sarah Kendzior has a leg to stand on when calling other people’s names weird. In any case “Buttigieg” is a hard name to pronounce. He doesn’t pronounce it like it looks to me that it should be pronounced–something like But-uh-guyg–and I’ve even heard it said correctly and still can’t seem to remember it.
Not that any of that matters. I like what he has to say and I’m glad he’s in the race.
catclub
@Roger Moore:
Michael Steele ( the black guy) was Chair of the RNC in 2010 – they had a great year in the mid-term elections, and they fired him. Reince Priebus was Chair of RNC in 2012
and they lost the presidency – again, Reince kept his job.
Mnemosyne
@germy:
You have to admit, RBG gives good troll. ?
smintheus
Another right-wing asshole who has been pleading ignorance with regard to Elliott Abrams’ human rights related crimes has the chutzpah to opine that “Americans’ ignorance of history is a national scandal”. Yes, yes it is.
No, no you can’t asshole.
Yarrow
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: It’s just very odd. We’ll have to wait for more details to come out. It kind of doesn’t make sense–why would he do it? There doesn’t seem to be a good reason. But then people do things we don’t expect sometimes, so who knows. Sometimes there are unknown things going on behind the scenes of someone’s life.
Kent
@bemused:
No, some deep pocketed right wing fever swamp law firms or PR firms are looking to curry favor with Trump by suing the WaPo.
Follow the money.
Mnemosyne
@rikyrah:
I’m almost getting a Tawana Brawley or Tonya Harding vibe from the story. Like, there’s something or someone in his life that is SO TERRIFYING that coming up with this fake story seemed like a good idea compared to having to deal with the bad thing or person.
IIRC, Brawley made up her story because she was afraid of what her abusive parent (or parents?) would do if they found out she had a boyfriend. So what is Smollett afraid of that made this seem like the lesser evil?
bemused
@Kent:
Republican go-to game plan, squirreling funds and favors.
Ladyraxterinok
@Frankensteinbeck: Fred Clark in his blog slacktivist at patheos has many posts about how the Right and the GOP made abortion ‘the’ issue for Evanglicals. He has one post showing how the prez of the SBC wrote a positive view of Roe v Wade in the 70s but then at the end of the 70s abortion became the defining mark of a ‘really, truly Evangelical christian.’
The Right and GOP had lost the ability to use desegregation of schools as a means to call out reliable voters in the South and decided to use abortion as a defining issue.
Brachiator
So ,Tucker asks, “how does it work?” the active collusion of Fox anchors with plutocrats. The historian should have simply said, “Why don’t you tell us? Explain to the audience how you agree with me that the rich should be taxed more, but never say it on your program?”
Mnemosyne
@Yarrow:
FWIW, I’m pretty sure that Kendzior’s point is that there are plenty of ridiculous names on the Republican side, so it’s hypocritical of them to make fun of Pete’s name.
satby
@Yarrow: But-edge-edge.
But around these parts he’s just “Mayor Pete”
tobie
@JGabriel:
My impression was that the Covington High Kid’s parents are proving that they’re party hacks. Like rikyrah, I wonder who is footing the bill for their lawyers.
In happy news, David Cicilline of Rhode Island has introduced an Assault Weapons Ban in the House. Yea for sanity!
Yutsano
@ruemara: JFC Tzipi Livni is useless.
Villago Delenda Est
@Another Scott: The Rolling Stones were right.
Brachiator
@Mnemosyne:
Maybe he was afraid of Tawana Brawley’s parents.
I haven’t much followed this case, and don’t intend to pay it much attention. If it turns out he made the thing up, I don’t care about his motives.
ETA: As late as 2007, the Brawley’s still maintained that the attack happened.
eemom
@Yutsano:
What do you want her to do? She’s in the minority.
SFAW
I just saw some FANTASTIC news over at Josh’s place!!!!!
Susan Collins said she’ll consider “supporting” a resolution/bill disapproving of Fuckhead’s “Worstest National Emergency Since 4EVAH!!!!” declaration,
.
.
if it’s a “clean” resolution.
As Shakespeare, or perhaps Chaucer, or maybe someone else said/wrote: FOAD, Suzie, you lying piece of RWMF shit
ETA: No, I don’t know what “clean” means here. Nor do I care.
Yarrow
@Mnemosyne: I’m sure that is her point but it’s not like her last name is Smith or something. And she went past just saying Republicans have weird names to making fun of their names. I dunno. I’m not a fan of hers so I’m probably not the right person to ask.
@satby: I’ve heard it and then I look at the letters in his name and they don’t add up to that pronunciation in my head. So I forget for the next time. Perhaps I’ll hear it enough that I can remember. He seems great and I’m excited someone young is in the race.
Ladyraxterinok
@rikyrah: The people who hired the lawyers and the PR firm with ties to people at CNN (I believe that’s the firm’s background)
I believe his family and many families in the school and diocese are v wealthy. Great need to protect reputation of kid (to go to ‘good’ college), family, school, diocese.
Maybe from groups, people wanting to destroy reputation of WaPo and free press in general
Ie, sue to to show media has a ‘liberal, anti-Christian bias. Part of movement to destroy trust in US press–and this any chance public will believe media exposes of Trump’s corruption and treason.
Why sue WaPo especially?? Isn’t there a major govt official who wants to take down its owner??
AnotherBruce
Looks like Tucker did the same thing Schilling did with Bruce K, dissolve into an apoplectic rage when he gets called out for his bullshit. It’s childish and embarrassing.
Gin & Tonic
@tobie: Cicilline is popping up on TV a bit. too. these days, which is good. I take vicarious pride in my almost-Congressman. Like I’ve seen somewhere, his ascendance in the Democratic leadership means that any half-Italian half-Jewish openly gay son of a Mob lawyer can make it big.
rikyrah
@Ladyraxterinok:
Here’s the thing…Bezos has more money than God. They can’t outspend him.
Roger Moore
@Brachiator:
One of the problems with telling a lie is that it can take on a life of its own, so that it’s almost impossible to retract once you’ve put it out there.
ruemara
@Yarrow: I think you misread her comment.
Mnemosyne
@Brachiator:
From Wikipedia about the Brawley case:
It sounds like that family is fucked up in about 15 different directions. I didn’t even include the allegations that her stepfather may have sexually abused her as well.
To me, it sounds likely that 15-year-old Brawley acted out in an extreme way in response to an even more extreme but very well-founded fear of her parents’ physical abuse. People do irrational things when they’re afraid. YMMV.
pacem appellant
@trollhattan: Dropped “reincepriebus” into an online anagram solver, and lo, it was solved, “pruriencies be”.
tobie
@Gin & Tonic: Thanks for the abbreviated Cicilline bio. That gave me a chuckle!
Mnemosyne
@Roger Moore:
Just from the Wikipedia article, it sounds like it’s possible that Brawley’s terrible parents enjoyed the publicity and public martyrdom, so they decided to keep up the pretense to benefit themselves.
Shana
@rikyrah: I suspect his parents are paying for that little brewing fiasco.
Brachiator
@Mnemosyne:
Possible. This would mean that adults and officials really failed her.
Makes all this even less applicable to Jessie Smallette.
smintheus
@Gin & Tonic: I’ve heard rumors that Cicilline inherited some of his father’s mob-affiliated clients as a young lawyer. True?
Keith P.
@pacem appellant: wasn’t there some joke about undoing creation or something if you say”Reince Priebus” backwards? Colbert maybe.
joel hanes
@trollhattan:
obvious anagram Reince Priebus
Other people styled that as “obvious OCR scanning error”
joel hanes
@Frankensteinbeck:
The rise of abortion as a political issue is well documented.
Deliberately done by Paul Weyrich (GOP ratfucker) and Jerry Falwell (lying theocratic conman) when they co-founded “The Moral Majority”. Falwell sold his church to the GOP for political influence; Weyrich sold his party to the theocrats in return for their votes. Neither really gave a crap about abortion except as a wedge issue to produce political power.
What’s funny is that this is a modern recap of the way the issue evolved in Roman Catholicism.
For over a thousand years, “ensoulment” was held to occur at “quickening”, when the mother first felt the fetus move in the womb, which usually occurs sometime around the end of the first trimester.
But the Papacy has always been an office with temporal (political) power, and in 1869, under Pius IX, a political bargain was made, and doctrine was abruptly changed to ensoulment at conception. (This was also the papacy that saw the initial assertion of papal infallibility, and the dogma of the immaculate conception.)
humboldtblue
@catclub: California addressed that issue in 2016 with Senate Bill 443 which requires a conviction before any assets can be permanently held. Any cash seized under the amount of $40,000 and all real property are covered in the bill.
Meaning, they can’t just take your stuff and keep it as was the case previously because the local authorities would site Federal asset forfeiture law instead of state.
Sab
If Nick Sandman wasn’t any kind of a public figure when his parents put him on a bus to participate in a big rally on tv in the nation’s capital, it seems to me that he sure as hell will be if this case goes forward at all.
After that, won’t we all be able to say almost anything about him with impunity?
Ithink
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
Yessir and pretty much! They’re planning on arresting him sometime later tonight at the earliest (the Chicago police) and the FBI has gotten involved now according to ABC Workd News Tonight. It ain’t looking good for him, to say the least!
Ithink
WTF gives a s*** what that useless cancerous polyp of broadcast journalism Tucker Carlson thinks about ANYTHING…
P.S. fellow progressives…I’ve heard and read that Rutger Bregman’s “Utopia for Realists” is absolutely brilliant. He was nothing short of a barn burner @ Davos this year from every video I saw of him speak, contrary to the above assertions. I encourage us all to buy & read it!
RobNYNY
@Yarrow:
It’s a common Maltese name.
Less common than Calleia/Calleja, judging by people who sing at the Met and act at MGM.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0130407/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Calleja
Msb
Thanks for posting this. I knew it would get out.
Signed, Rutger Bregman Fan