Then he goes to the ranch and dresses up like Mr. Greenjeans. (Begala)

[trumad]

Coffee spitting time with that line. Check out this interesting exchange between Begala and Carlson. Begala just kills Bowtie boy.

(APPLAUSE)

CARLSON: Well, it's time for another installment of the John Kerry slogan watch, where we track what exactly the Kerry campaign says it stands for. This morning Senator Kerry came out with his 10th -- that's right, his 10th -- campaign slogan in less than a year. It is, take off to a stronger America.

The slogan was announced at the unveiling of Kerry's new campaign plane, a five-cabin 757 with its own stand-up bar. It's not quite as luxurious as Kerry's own private jet, but, still, it's not bad. And just to show that he's not wholly without irony, John Kerry had one of his nine other slogans painted on the side of it. It says, "The Real Deal." Of course it does, because when you fly around in your own five-cabin 757 with a stand-up bar, you are, needless to say, the real deal.

Reporters who travel with Kerry almost never use these slogans, of course. They can't keep track of them either. Instead, they refer to the plane more accurately as "Hair France."

(APPLAUSE)

BEGALA: Well, at least John Kerry is not dressing up in a flight suit and landing on an aircraft carrier.

CARLSON: Oh, give me a break. Give me a break, Paul.

BEGALA: If we want to compare planes here, look at President Bush dressing up like G.I. Joe.

(CROSSTALK)

BEGALA: Then he goes to the ranch and dresses up like Mr. Greenjeans.

CARLSON: I know you hate Bush. I know you hate Bush.

(CROSSTALK)

CARLSON: He's the biggest cross-dresser in America.

(CROSSTALK)

CARLSON: You got him!

(CROSSTALK)

CARLSON: Wait. No, but I thought you were for cross-dressing, Paul. You're a Democrat. You can't criticize cross-dressing. You are a bigot, buddy. You are a gay basher. You just criticized cross- dressing. That's outrageous. Bigotry on our show.

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0405/25/cf.01.html

[Loonman]

1. Ha ha, Tucker!

I bet he got a lot of melvins and swirlies in school.

[Fenris]

2. Where did that cross-dressing line come from, Tuck?

Can we say "latent"?

[nostamj]

6. to be fair...

it WAS Begala who used the 'cross-dresser' line first. it was during the (CROSSTALK) and it's not the first time Begala has used it referring to *'s love of pretty costumes.

that said, Tucker is still an insipid twit and the "Hair France" line was the apex of his political wisdom for that program...

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. Begala was on his game yesterday!

He really pissed off Tucker! Yeah! :bounce: Tucker is the one who brought up cross dressing, not Begala! Tucker, take your meds!

[July]

4. After reading just the post and not the transcript,

I have to say that the Carlson opening about the plane is the lightest piece of fluff I've seen in a long time. What is the point of this show? It's obviously offering neither news nor commentary. This is junior high girls' lunch table talk (I should know, as a former junior high girl). What a great gig! I would love to make the money Carlson makes for spewing asinine catty remarks about people I don't like.

[Ripley]

5. Yeah, good comparison...junior high girl Tucker!

I hate that show and don't watch it anymore. Novak should have been fired a long tim ago.

But I loooove the Mr. Greenjeans comment, except he was smarter than Smirk!

[Tyler Durden]

7. YEEAAAGGGHHHH! Thanks for the image, guys.

Now I have this image of Tucker Carlson dressed up in some cross between a Catholic Girl's School/Japanese middle school uniform, complete with Blazer, Plaid skirt and white knee socks with patent leather "Mary Janes."

YE GODS!

Anybody fee like some "photoshop fun?"

[terrya]

8. Poor Tucker just doesn't get it. This is all about credibility.

When you lie about the WEATHER, you lose all sense of credibility and trust. How many people now trust this President? How many people actually believe anything this man says?