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18 de Noviembre, 2007

Tucker on BizarroTube

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IN BIZARRO WORLD, Tucker Carlsen doesn't radiate a mosquito-like vibe, a gnattish nattyness, and...is honest. Yeah. And has good fashion sense.

While we may never find the wormhole to that exciting version of Bizarro Tucker, I felt close today, when he asked "Did Kucinich Rock the Debate?" (Despite his retention of the "WhinyBug" aura). Of course, then Tucker had to go and imply that Dennis Kucinich smoked pot (it's not true, Mister Kucinich only rolls it up for the weekly saucermeet, and the Eloi messenger takes it all from there), and you know...I felt really bad for Tucker. Here, he had been coming across as thoughtful and you could tell it was unsettling his guests who had been all ready to throw tomatos at someone, and instead were being asked to sniff the elfin roses. (The stammering in the room was unprecedented.) But Tucker almost seemed to be be sounding "fair" until he smeared his way out of the conversation, realized he was sounding a little too normal, and began trying to shoot holes into the Kucinich balloon by telling us why Dennis was not, in actuality, a valid choice. It sort of made you weep inside for Tucker. A fair man. Stuck inside a horsefly's karma. No matter how many times you see it, it always breaks the heart.

And I have to give big propz to the guest/commentator on the right who says "Not be be self-loathing," and then goes on to blame herself and Tucker and her friend and the mainstream media for furthering the very dynamic that leads to false frontrunners. I thought I was dreaming or something. I think Tucker almost squirmed visibly at such brazen self-examination, at such intimations that he was, in part, responsible for harming the nation's interests. I bet he was having flashbacks.

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Comentarios (11)


Rafael dijo:

GRVTR

Yeah, I think he should go back to the bow tie, hes brain mutated to use less oxygen than the rest of us and now its drunk on the overflow.


RC dijo:

GRVTR

He is no longer using the bow tie? Oh My God. His entire raison d'etre has vanished! No wonder he is flailing about seeking some political nourishment from any source, even the impish Kucinich. Give him back the tie! How else will he keep his vast and explosive desires under control! How else will he find the discipline to quiet his truth seeking co-commentators? And it must be a red bow tie, any other would not be sufficiently emblematic of the inner turmoil. Put that thing on, wardrobe department! Cinch it up, tight. There now, Tucker is ready for a new start. Roll the tape.


nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez Author Profile Page dijo:

GRVTR

okay the 'red for inner turmoil' line was funny.

you know, as much as he was mocked for the bowtie (it would be funny if i turned out to be one of those people), i could understand and respect having your own weird style. no matter what anyone called it. and i'm not trying to say i really ever loved tucker c. but i lost a little of my secret respect for him when he put the straight tie on. i was like...'ah...but that was a necessary counterbalance to you.' it was a good thing. it was a laugh at himself. and now he's trying to look serious. our little tucker is all grown up.

but you know what i'm finding interesting? first Tucker demonized obama by attributing his empathy as one that was derived from marijuana. now tucker demonizes kucinich because of...i'm not sure, his ears? i forget what he said was his problem with him. his height? but anyway, to demonize kucinich, he brings up his previous issue again, marijuana (which comes out of left field here), and this hints at obsession. so the question is, how much ganja does tucker
huff a week? because we know how good the Right wing pundits seem to be at projecting!


RC dijo:

GRVTR

I am really lost in the TV world since I never watch it. And I mean never, as in, I did see the Trade Towers fall on live TV and in the last 30 odd years, I guess that is it other than bank lines. I had seen photos of Tucker in his tie and it was his only emblematic feature. His face is hard to recall. He is, I have read, a devoted father of four, {I think I read that} and for me, that is something I would respect. But I would have to question the type of role model he is presenting to his children if they ever see his show, admittedly a show I have only read about, never seen, have no desire to see.
I study TV and media in general {films, ads, radio talkyak}, ONLY to try and get a drift on what the hell the US population is currently having their brains rinsed in. I only read the press on paper and on line and I do read blogs a great deal because the blogs also study this issue continually. Perhaps blogs are even an anti-media. I do know Tucker lost one show because of Stewart and he has some other one now. I guess he lost the tie somehow also. Jon, was that you?
I spent ten years when I was very very young working in media, mostly theatre and film documentary, and have no interest in being its patsy. Yes, most of it is propaganda, Virginia.


nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez Author Profile Page dijo:

GRVTR

if only i could give you the gift of video, RC. i would truly be a healer, then.


RC dijo:

GRVTR

I hope he does smoke pot, hiding from his wife and kids, naked, behind a bush in the garden, with the red bowtie on. It's like a William Carlos Williams poem.

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15537

So much depends upon Tucker developing some empathy! Smoke that reefer Tucker, baby!

If you ever go on his show, Nez, sniff that bowtie and check it for "telltale" aromas!


nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez Author Profile Page dijo:

GRVTR

holy shit that cracked me UP


nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez Author Profile Page dijo:

GRVTR

nvermind you dont need video, clearly.


RC dijo:

GRVTR

Yeah, I have a lifetime of images spinning up there under my wig from years of writing, shooting, cutting and also repeatedly viewing the Pantheon of the Greats.
I can summon a visual for any occasion. I burned all that stuff in before 1975. Did you go back to Dollar Bill and see the Tito Kayak videos? Scroll down to near last comment there. I have seen all the stills. I know him personally {Vieques was one of his major arenas} but not very well.


M dijo:

GRVTR

RC, that was a beautiful scene; I howled.


gppdbye kitty dijo:

GRVTR

I saw Fucker on Bill mahr a few weeks back. he was on auto-pilot, just spitting out the same inane bleating that we have heard over and over.

One thing the ReichWing does know, If you repeat anything long enough, people will take it as a truth