October 19, 2005
jk gets insulted
I have been enjoying Tucker Carlson's "The Situation" on MSNBC. I find much to disagree with Mr. Carlson about but the show has a nice pace and style.
He claims that he responds to every question on his blog so I wrote this:
Q: I enjoy your show quite a bit - thanks! I also appreciate your principled, conservative disagreement to the war in Iraq. I disagree but appreciate your view. Yet I was very disappointed that the significant success of the recent elections did not warrant a mention on your show. You had time for the cancelled prom in the Hamptons, but a major strategic success of our nation in the war on terror did not even make it as far as the Cutting Room Floor. Disappointing.
-- John Kranz
True to form, he did answer:
A: I think you were in the kitchen getting another beer when we did our segment on the Iraqi constitutional referendum last night. We devoted a sizable amount of time to it, early in the show, and we did it despite the certainty (later proved true by overnight ratings) that a lot of viewers would change the channel the minute we started talking about elections in Iraq. The referendum struck me as a big deal, and we treated it that way. You are right that I didn't characterize the voting as a major strategic success for America. I honestly hope it was. It's just not clear yet.
That is so funny! I thought that I had seen the whole show. I was NOT getting another beer, I may have been helping some homeless people or been lost in a volume of Thucydides, I don't know...
It's a pretty good show if you haven't seen it, I'd check it out.
Media and Blogging Posted by jk at October 19, 2005 7:29 PM
Maybe you SHOULD have been getting another beer.
What a putz that guy is. People who wear bow ties shouldn't insult other people who aren't physically present to give them a whuppin'. It's cowardly.
Posted by: Attila at October 22, 2005 8:17 PMJK, why didn't you tell "the bowed one" (and if my name were "Tucker" I'd be inclined to dress that way too) that you don't have to go to the kitchen for beer? You're kegerator is right there next to your La-Z-Boy!
"Beer is proof that God loves us." (Well, NED loves us anyway.)
Posted by: johngalt at October 24, 2005 2:27 PMI don't know if you've seen the show but it runs live at 11pm Eastern, and his voice mail segment DOES feature a lot of folks who appear to have over-imbibed. So it's a running theme and I took it good-naturedly.
To be fair, I was sheepish when I learned that he had done a segment on the election, that I had missed it, and that I had accused wrongly. Folks deserve better treatment around here unless they're commies or hippies or weirdoes or somethin'
Posted by: jk at October 24, 2005 3:30 PMFair enough. Consider my gratuitous pansy-bashing herewith retracted. (Anyone with the patience to share a soundstage with James Carville or Paul Begala deserves a medal in my book.) But I still stand by my defense of the virtues of beer! ;)
Posted by: johngalt at October 24, 2005 3:51 PMBeer makes men feel strong and women look beautiful, what's not to like? Ok, it makes men stupid too, how many of your best college stories start with "We were drinking on night...." As for Tucker Carlson I say anyone under the age of 40 who wears a bow tie is a pretentious nitwit. While I agree that I would not want to be in the same room with Carville or Begala (somehow balanced annoyance doesn't do it for me) if he wants my respect let see him invite Jon Stewart back.
Posted by: Silence Dogood at October 25, 2005 2:58 PMHarumph! Now you're bad-mouthing beer?! You've crossed the line from polite disagreement into hate-speech now, buddy boy. Your criticism is like saying cars are bad because, when driven 100 miles an hour into a brick wall, the occupants invariably die.
Really think beer "makes men stupid?" http://www.beer-lover.com/
Posted by: johngalt at October 26, 2005 2:50 AM | What do you think? [6]Go tell it to Dave Berry, Ben Franklin and Plato, smart guy!