{"id":5342,"date":"2017-03-20T23:12:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T06:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5342"},"modified":"2017-03-20T23:12:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T06:12:59","slug":"rewind-journalisms-manly-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5342","title":{"rendered":"Rewind: Journalism&#8217;s Manly Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the last entry in our brief retrospective of journalism&#8217;s clown prince and go-to Donald Trump interviewer and ass kisser, Tucker Carlson. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/politics\/wp\/2017\/03\/17\/trump-doesnt-have-time-to-read-but-if-you-do-heres-what-he-recommends\/?utm_term=.fa53da009e91\" target=\"_blank\">His latest hard hitting question of Donald Trump: &#8220;What do you do at the end of the day? What do you read? What do you watch?&#8221;<\/a> Wow! What gutsy journalism! The funny thing is that Trump answered that he loves to read but doesn&#8217;t read much any more. And the books Trump recommends everybody reads? Why they&#8217;re about Donald Trump, of course.<\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;d like to remind everyone of one of Carlson&#8217;s more stunningly stupid comments way back in 2007. <a href=\"https:\/\/mediamatters.org\/video\/2007\/07\/03\/msnbcs-carlson-on-obama-he-seems-like-kind-of-a\/139233\" target=\"_blank\">On his MSNBC show, Carlson stated that then presidential candidate Barack Obama, &#8220;seemed like kind of a wuss.&#8221;<\/a> This coming from a man who regularly wore a bow tie and dressed like Steve Urkel until about 2006. Yes America; Tucker Carlson is not only journalism&#8217;s clown prince, but he&#8217;s also journalism&#8217;s manly man. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5196\" target=\"_blank\">For a partial list of Obama&#8217;s accomplishment&#8217;s see this post<\/a>. One noteworthy item on the list: <strong><em>he e<em>liminated the world\u2019s #1 terrorist Osama Bin Laden. <\/em><\/em><\/strong>Not bad for a &#8216;wuss&#8217;, eh Carlson.<\/p>\n<p>This photo-toon is from our July 19, 2007 issue.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5344\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5344\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tuckercarlsonmanlyman.jpg\" alt=\"MSNBC talk show host and manly man, Tucker Carlson, recently stated that Barack Obama &quot;seems like kind of a wuss.&quot; This from the man, who until recently dressed like Steve Urkel. \" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tuckercarlsonmanlyman.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tuckercarlsonmanlyman-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MSNBC talk show host and manly man tough guy, Tucker Carlson, recently stated that Barack Obama &#8220;seems like kind of a wuss.&#8221; This from the man, who until recently dressed like Steve Urkel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the last entry in our brief retrospective of journalism&#8217;s clown prince and go-to Donald Trump interviewer and ass kisser, Tucker Carlson. His latest hard hitting question of Donald Trump: &#8220;What do you do at the end of the day? What do you read? What do you watch?&#8221; Wow! What gutsy journalism! The funny thing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5342\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rewind: Journalism&#8217;s Manly Man&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,8,85,3,198],"tags":[1530,22,20,389,27,4,9,1531,199,43,98,596,296,19,47,48,694,1528],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5342"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5346,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5342\/revisions\/5346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}