Lawrence O'Donnell made such an ass out of Tucker Carlson tonight

[eleny]

I know - it's easy. But really. LO was just on the show and gave Carlson such a lesson. Carlson was all exasperation, as usual, and couldn't imagine why Rove's attorney would want to leak information told to him by Fitzgerald. LO explained to "grasshopper" that it was to get people like Carlson to talk about it as he was doing tonight.

And that's the way the segment went. LO spent the whole time explaining how D.C. worked to the point where Carlson felt he needed to remind us that he grew up there.

Carlson gets the beanie with twirly award for tonight. And a "pull-snap" of his bow tie for grins.

[mandyky]

1. I watched that segment

Tucker was shameless as usual. Changed the channel right after Mr. O'Donnell was done!

[Broken_Hero]

2. well at least some

one is standing up to this talking heads, and making them think, hopefully making the viewers think too...good work LO...i'm sure you didn't break much of a sweat getting TC all riled up...:)

[eleny]

5. You've got that right

LO appeared to be enjoying every minute. He really can keep his cool.

[FreedomAngel82]

8. The thing I don't get

is how does he still keep having shows??? :shrug:

[joemurphy]

3. LOL Thanks's eleny. The twirly-beanie and pull snap made

night! Still chuckling when I think about it. :-)

Since you're about the only one that appreciates them, I've enclosed
another Lazlo Toth letter. This one's to Andrew Card:

Mr. Andrew Card
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C.,

Re: “The Bleak Mood at the White House”

Dear Mr. Card:

I just got through reading a report by William Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard, which mentioned that due to all this talk about indictments the mood at the White House was “very bleak”. This saddens me. I am a long-time Republican voter and no one likes it when everyone around you is depressed and gloomy. Sometimes, though, things happen and people just sort of stop smiling. It bothers me that usually happy, upbeat guys like you, the President, Karl Rove and Dick Cheney are down in the dumps. That’s why I decided to write this letter.

Whenever I am unhappy or depressed, I usually go to the Slovenian National Home, which is located on the west side of Indianapolis and get involved in polka dancing. Polka is a sure way to lift the spirits and put a smile on people’s faces. So consider this suggestion: Get all of your depressed White House staffers into a circle in one of the ballrooms at the White House. Have them join hands. Then put on a little accordion music. And start to polka! I think you’ll find that once the polkas start everyone will be cheerful and happy again. As my Uncle Bela Toth always says: “You just can’t stay depressed when you polka!”

By the way, my favorite polka song is “Who Stole the Kishka?” It’s a song about someone stealing a big Polish sausage. They play it all the time at the Slovenian National Home. It goes like this:
Someone stole the kishka
Someone stole the kishka
Who stole the kishka,
from the butcher's shop?
Who stole the kishka?
Who stole the kishka?
Who stole the kishka?
Someone call the cops!
Fat and round and firmly packed
It was hanging on the rack
Someone stole the kishka
When I turned my back
Who stole the kishka?
Who stole the kishka?
Who stole the kishka?
Someone bring it back!
See! There’s just something about a good polka! So don’t let all those indictments get you and your staff down. Polka! I polka-ed my way through Watergate and it kept me happy and cheerful. I’ll bet it works for you too!

Anyway, good luck on those indictments! I’ll be pulling for you!

Sincerely,

Lazlo Toth

Voting for Republicans (both indicted and unindicted) since 1952!

(Inspired by Don Novello’s Lazlo Toth Letters)

[eleny]

7. Hi Joe - That's so funny!

First, I like the polka and I know about kishka. So, it made it all the better. You ought to get that blog going. Carrying on the concept when you're good at it is almost a "must". You really capture the innocence.

Enough with the arm twisting for now. I'm going to enjoy the image of accordion music flowing out of the White House.

Btw, have you ever thought of sending your letters to Mike Malloy in email? I'm sure he'd read them on the air. He'd love something like this! :evilgrin:

[Vinnie From Indy]

4. Tucker has a show?

I thought he had been canceled already.

[eleny]

6. I'll start a novena

Even though I'm really rusty at all that prayin' shit.

[Tennessee Gal]

9. Tucker said there should have been no investigation.

National security is so not important, right Tucker?

What a twit!

[gratuitous]

10. If you look up "disingenuous" in the dictionary

You'll see a picture of Tucker "Shoe Boy" Carlson. Hillary should have made him eat a real shoe, instead of magnanimously letting him off the hook with a shoe-shaped cake.

Carlson knows exactly why Rove's attorney was leaking information, and he knows exactly what his role is in the food chain of dissemination. O'Donnell, at least, didn't let him off the hook for his brazen feigned ignorance.

Yet, so far, it's all par for the course. Presstitutes all over the media feign ignorance about their own shameless antics. But Carlson gets his photo next to "disingenuous" because he goes so far as to protest that he knows how DC works by pointing out that he grew up in DC.

Why PBS hired this man is a mystery, if PBS is all it's cracked up to be. If PBS is trying to become yet another Faux News clone, though, it's patently obvious why Tucker Carlson is on its payroll.