Tucker: I assaulted a man who ‘bothered’ me in a bathroom.
Tucker: I assaulted a man who ‘bothered’ me in a bathroom.
Yesterday on MSNBC, Tucker Carlson said “it’s really common” that men accost one another in mens’ rooms, much like Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) is alleged to have done to a plainclothed cop. Carlson said, “I’ve been bothered in Georgetown Park,” in Washington, D.C., “when I was in high school.” When asked how he responded to being “bothered,” Carlson asserted, “I went back with someone I knew and grabbed the guy by the — you know, and grabbed him, and … hit him against the stall with his head, actually.” Watch it:
UPDATE: Tucker responds:
Let me be clear about an incident I referred to on MSNBC last night: In the mid-1980s, while I was a high school student, a man physically grabbed me in a men’s room in Washington, DC. I yelled, pulled away from him and ran out of the room. Twenty-five minutes later, a friend of mine and I returned to the men’s room. The man was still there, presumably waiting to do to someone else what he had done to me. My friend and I seized the man and held him until a security guard arrived.
Several bloggers have characterized this is a sort of gay bashing. That’s absurd, and an insult to anybody who has fought back against an unsolicited sexual attack. I wasn’t angry with the man because he was gay. I was angry because he assaulted me.
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Oh, the Repubes are reduced to proving their machismo by fabricating wonderous tales of brave assaults on mysterious restroom creeps.
The important question is, did the Restroom Republican that Tucker assault press charges?
-GSD
August 29th, 2007 at 2:29 pmTucker Carlson is sooooo gay.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:29 pm“much like Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) is alleged to have done”
Why is this being reported as “alleged”? He was charged. He plead guilty. No more allegation involved. It’s a done deal. I see other news outlets using this terminology too and it’s rather annoying.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:30 pmas said previously, Tucker is sooooooo gay. not that there is anything wrong with that.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:31 pmDamn another HOMO story 24/7
August 29th, 2007 at 2:31 pmOh, please! I agree with #2….Tucker Carlson is a pansy.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:32 pm” I went back with someone I knew”??? And when he was done fighting on your behalf, didja reward him with a nice frosty bj?
August 29th, 2007 at 2:32 pmJohn is sooo heterosexual..
Nothing wrong with that.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:33 pmThis guy is such a joke. He had to go get help. What a wuss! Now I understand why he gave up the bowtie.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:34 pmWhy did Tucker feel the need to state his machoism at this time? Didn’t Craig shout out that it wasn’t him during the page sex scandal even though nobody accused him?
August 29th, 2007 at 2:34 pmI just wish woman would do this to men then too, so they can partake of this helpful violence. Maybe men would stop inappropriately hitting on woman.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:34 pmWoops. Posting removed my tag
August 29th, 2007 at 2:35 pmSure sounds like Carlson was making this up on the fly…
First he goes back “with someone he knows”
(who, the captain of the football team, or some other schoolyard bully?)
Then beats the guy up, then “the cops come and arrest the guy”
Excuse me, but whomever does the beating usually gets arrested…
What really happened was probably more like someone took his bowtie and flushed it down the toilet, and Tucker went running to tell the teacher.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:35 pmI couldn’t believe this to be true. Tucker is such a little nincompoop that I would never believe he could beat up anyone.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:35 pmThen I re-read it and realized Tucker had to go get one of his gay-bashing friends to help beat this guy up.
What a tough guy.
Arggghhh. lol. *blush* my post was sarcastic and it removed my sarcasm tag (even if you add extra spaces in it)
August 29th, 2007 at 2:36 pmI have sincere doubts about Carlson confronting somone in a bathroom. Course I have sincere doubts that he is “tough” so whatever.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:38 pmOooooooh, you big brute, Tucker! [”I went back with someone I knew…].
Assaulted dude’s pole with your mouth is more like it, Tucker.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:38 pmHe grabbed the guy by the what? What was the body part Tucker grabbed but couldn’t bring himself to say? It’s obvious that Tucker likes rough bathroom sex, preferably with three people or more.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:39 pmgrabbed him by the what?
oh, tucker.. .you man #*%*$
August 29th, 2007 at 2:39 pmBy the way, I’m pretty sure assault is a far worse crime than disorderly conduct relating to sex in a public bathroom. What Tucker claims to have done is a lot like shooting at someone for trespassing on his yard.
Seriously, oh no, some guy came on to you in a bathroom. Decline and move on. Maybe let a security guy know about it so they can handle it. Don’t assault the guy.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:40 pmand to look at him, I’m guessing they didn’t take the tie off before flushing.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:40 pmWhen ex-CNN Anchors ATTACK!
August 29th, 2007 at 2:41 pmTucker went and got backup.
Figures.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:41 pm.
So Tucker admits to gay bashing? Figures…
August 29th, 2007 at 2:42 pmOh, Tucker, you naughty, bad boy. Nasty, naughty, bad boy.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:42 pmTucker Carlson actually proved his manhood with this incident, and his manhood was in serious doubt after his long tenure on the libtard-succumbing CNN and the even more radically leftarded MSNBC (Olbermann, Matthews). Despite his questionable status as a Republican, Carlson still has more machismo and testosterone in his little pinky finger than any liberal girlie-man prowling and lurking on these boards here. Carlson embodied the conservative response to someone attempting to sexually harass you: fight back and make sure that trespasser gets the message and doesn’t dare attempt it again. The progressive/liberal response to being accosted by a homosexual in a bathroom would be to 1) find out what his feelings are and where he’s coming from 2) empathize with the homosexual because he’s a “victim” of white, conservative, Christian society 3) bend over and let the homosexual penetrate him, and 4) bask in the afterglow of being sodomized.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:42 pmTucker doth protest too much. I guess he took his boyfriend back with him to assault the guy.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:44 pmEven in his fantasy world he needed a buddy to help him kick ass.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:46 pmWow, someone’s cranky. So to speak.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:46 pmTucker: So what if I was a 12th Grader and the other guy was a 3rd grader visiting his brother? :-)
August 29th, 2007 at 2:46 pmComment by Hellinabucket
Why did Tucker feel the need to state his machoism at this time? Didn’t Craig shout out that it wasn’t him during the page sex scandal even though nobody accused him?
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A most interesting comment, Hellinabucket. You do have to wonder why Tucker volunteered that info. And on the Dan Abrams show, Tucker quickly stated, like Senator Craig, that he wasn’t gay. In fact, he repeated it several times. Why the need to say that?
August 29th, 2007 at 2:47 pmpoor guy was collecting for the “romney for president” campaign and tucker slugs him?!
August 29th, 2007 at 2:49 pmCarlson fights as well as he dances. Why don’t these guys just admit they are gay and they can go on to live better lives?
August 29th, 2007 at 2:51 pmTucker Carlson actually proved his manhood…
Comment by WhydidblacksvoteNaginbackin? — August 29, 2007 @ 2:42 pm
Tucker Carlson and manhood in one sentence. Nuff said.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:51 pmHAHA, the bow tie guy is TOUGH!
August 29th, 2007 at 2:53 pmHey Whydidblacks!
Let me have your wife or girlfriend for one night and she can tell you what a liberal girlie man I am.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:55 pmBy the way, I’m pretty sure assault is a far worse crime than disorderly conduct relating to sex in a public bathroom. What Tucker claims to have done is a lot like shooting at someone for trespassing on his yard.
Seriously, oh no, some guy came on to you in a bathroom. Decline and move on. Maybe let a security guy know about it so they can handle it. Don’t assault the guy.
Comment by Ben B — August 29, 2007 @ 2:40 pm
You must be one of those “city dwellers” or “flat landers” where I live trespassing on one’s property is not tolerated. Respect is both given and expected. Deviant sexual acts falls under the same category and will be met with the same reaction.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:56 pmIt’s so true. Tucker is so so so so incredibly gay.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:57 pmWe already know that Republicans are violent people.
Their answer to most foreign policy problems usually involves inflicting some form of violence.
Not to mention the death penalty.
Nothing new here.
Keep moving.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:57 pmSo according to Tucker, Craig, as a NOT GAY, should have assaulted his “botherer” ?
August 29th, 2007 at 2:59 pmI got hit-on a few times by gay men when I lived in Chelsea, Manhattan–I’f just thank them for their efforts and tell them to check their own gaydar, they could be seriously hurt.
Yeah, me too, often I go to public rest to beat up guys who come on to me.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:59 pmAs with men who don’t want to have gay soldiers because they worry that someone will ‘come on to them’ I believe I speak for all women when I say, “Welcome to my world.”
August 29th, 2007 at 3:02 pmTucker, your a wimp and full of shit.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:03 pmTucker has just allowed the world to know he’s gay. He should have kept his mouth shut because he might have been able to stay in the closet. Senator Craig married a woman with children to keep his secret. Like Justice Roberts did to be so called clean. This has been going on to keep the political secrets. Religious Right like to see a man/woman married with children.
It’s a good front. Senator Craig hid behind the kids knowing he was into men. Justice Roberts vacationing getting sick returning to vacation site never do we see wife and kids. Their brought out for photo ops only.
The GOP group are full of sinners using God’s name to get elected. Now if you don’t know Justice Alito is gay then your blind, he can’t hide it.
I really don’t see the problem but lying and secrets really aren’t necessary the truth works.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:05 pmTucker is like a man who wears wellington boots in a swamp
both get sucked off in the bogs
August 29th, 2007 at 3:05 pmOh, for crying out loud! What a crock fromTucker. Tucker is so desperate for 15 minute of fame in the spotlight to raise his ratings from the dead that he would grab onto the Brokeback Craig news story. Worst lie of a storytelling from the worst dancer.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:07 pmI guess this is my moment to be grateful I’m a woman, because I am provided relatively safe places to go relieve myself.
In my many years of using public restrooms, I have never been propositioned by another woman. I guess lesbians find classier places to meet people. But even if I was “invited” to engage in lewd conduct with another woman, declining that invitation would be less scary to me than being in the same restroom as somebody responding with violence to such an invitation.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:08 pmAs with men who don’t want to have gay soldiers because they worry that someone will ‘come on to them’ I believe I speak for all women when I say, “Welcome to my world.â€
Comment by powkat — August 29, 2007 @ 3:02 pm
Amen, sister.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:09 pmWait, so he grabbed him by the johnson? I guess we have another candidate for Closet Republican Homosexual.
We won’t judge you Tucker, we don’t like you anyways, whether or not you’re gay.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:10 pmI don’t know what airports Tucker frequents, but in 35 years of flying, with several 5 to 6 year stretches of 100K+ miles/year, I’ve never once been ‘bothered’ in an airport men’s room. There must be something so touching and vulnerable about the Tuck that he attracts other men’s attention. I wonder if it was the bow-tie….
August 29th, 2007 at 3:10 pmThere’s no way Tucker is gay. He can’t dance and he spent the entire time on that dance show looking at his partner’s boobs. I’d be more ready to believe that he hasn’t been laid since Clinton was in office.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:10 pm“Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) is alleged to have done”
TP, what’s up with the “alleged”? He plead guilty. This site is starting to look like Faux Noise.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:12 pmThere’s no way Tucker is gay. He can’t dance and he spent the entire time on that dance show looking at his partner’s boobs. I’d be more ready to believe that he hasn’t been laid since Clinton was in office.Comment by Rick — August 29, 2007 @ 3:10 pm
Don’t you remember Jeff Gannon, and Haggard? Sorry, but gay republicans can’t dance… Or think… Or admit that they’re f*c*ed up!
August 29th, 2007 at 3:15 pmHey, the guy insulted tucker’s bow tie. Now them’s fightin words!
August 29th, 2007 at 3:18 pmAs if.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:19 pm“Carlson embodied the conservative response to someone attempting to sexually harass you: fight back and make sure that trespasser gets the message and doesn’t dare attempt it again.”
#26 - You need to read the post before you comment. Tucker ran off and got someone else to fight his battle for him. Oh, wait, never mind. That is the conservative response.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:20 pmRNC=REPUBLICANS IN THE CLOSET AND TUCKER IS ONE OF THEM!
August 29th, 2007 at 3:23 pmTucker is trying to pretend he is hetero? again? Who is he trying to convince now? sounds like someone, much like the “ida ho”, denying something before the charge comes out?
August 29th, 2007 at 3:24 pmThe real reason Tucker assaulted the guy in the restroom is because he said something mean about Barbara Streisand.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:30 pmTucker: I assaulted a man who ‘bothered’ me in a bathroom.
If by “assault” he means he head butted him below the belt and made him hemorrage until puss came out then yeah it was “assault”.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:31 pmwho could blame the guy for hitting on Tucker? He’s cute beyond words.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:32 pmI’m afraid we’re gonna hear a lot of this “It’s really common” meme. Of course it is completely unverifiable and based upon pathetically thin anecdotal evidence, but Republicans love “proof by example”. They also would love to put the ‘fear of being accosted by homosexuals in public restrooms’ into the minds of the American public.
It’s never happened to me, but I don’t hang around Republican congressmen very much.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:35 pmHow rich. Tucker is the biggest flaming queer on tv, if you hadn’t noticed already.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:42 pmAnd that’s where Tucker lost his ‘bow tie’, flushed down the commode.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:42 pmTucker ran from the perv in the restroom to the safety of his friend waiting nearby. Then Tucker convinced his friend that justice must be done! The friend agreed to rush back to the restroom where, to their amazement, the perv was still there. Tucker looked to his friend who looked back with a leer as if to silently say, “I got your back on this one.” Tucker then bolted into action! With a swoop and a twirl, simultaneously removing his bowtie from his collar, he slashed and pounced upon the perv. Tucker wielded his super-slicing bowtie with a samarai’s precision and subdued the perv.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:46 pmTucker, the modest he-man that he is returned his bowtie to his collar, tied a perfect knot and exited the restroom with his anonymous friend and resumed his life as Tucker Carlson, mild-mannered, average American super-hero.
Actually, Tucker STOMPED HIS FOOT and called them a “big brute”.
Then yelled “Daddy”!!!
August 29th, 2007 at 3:46 pmMay be the guy couldn’t ‘tuck his shirt’…that’s when ‘Tucker’ came handy.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:47 pmI heard Tuck. tell the story.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:47 pmDidn’t believe it for a minute.
.
Poor guy. I guess he didn’t know that Tucker already had a boyfriend.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:48 pm.
huh… hey tucker… that’s a different story than you told
ed schultz earlier today…
i could be mistaken, but tucker left out those details…
he did make it clear that HE, tucker, was not hurt at all…
huh…
August 29th, 2007 at 3:49 pmLets see, he pled guilty, what is there to talk about? No do-overs. those of us (the peons) don’t get do-overs, we get jail time.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:49 pmTucker Swanson McNear Carlson
Ah…..
Yup….
August 29th, 2007 at 3:51 pm“Carlson embodied the conservative response to someone attempting to sexually harass you:”
SUBMISSION!
August 29th, 2007 at 3:54 pmWho knew that behind the bowtie TC has the heart of Chuck Norris!
August 29th, 2007 at 4:03 pmGrabbed his, “you know”? His little bow tie???
August 29th, 2007 at 4:10 pmWay to go proving you’re butch Tucker darling. So many of these conservatives seem so homophobic and/or so deep in the closet that they’d attack a guy within 20 feet of a men’s room for asking what time it was.
Sounds like Tucker stressed. Maybe he should get a massage? I’m sure some of his friends could recommend a pair of strong hands.
AF
August 29th, 2007 at 4:18 pm“Despite his questionable status as a Republican, Carlson still has more machismo and testosterone in his little pinky finger than any liberal girlie-man prowling and lurking on these boards here.”
Yeah, how much do you bench?
August 29th, 2007 at 4:22 pmTuckers Dad must have paid out alot to keep that family secret that his son is gay. Yes it’s old school to get married have kids to cover up the truth. But Tucker went to a male friend so the word would go out that he beat up a gay guy. Now the story sounds nice that a closet gay Tucker committed an assault on a man but was never charged. How much did that cost Daddy to cover up that charge and how much did Daddy have to pay the gay guy his queer son beat up.
August 29th, 2007 at 4:23 pmSomeone should have yelled ” Girl Fight in the men’s room.
Tuck, why is your mouth open like that?
August 29th, 2007 at 4:26 pmI live in San Francisco’s Castro district. I’m always amazed at how many straight men think that gays are constantly coming on to them when they come to this part of town.
Uh, guys, maybe you’re a little overly nervous.
August 29th, 2007 at 4:26 pmTucker, it’s time to check into rehab and find Jesus for your cure. We hear yah. Got the message.
August 29th, 2007 at 4:27 pmIt seems like there would be a record of this “incident”.
August 29th, 2007 at 4:29 pmand then Tucker woke up in puddle of his own urine with his bow tie tied around his testicles.
August 29th, 2007 at 4:29 pmYeah, how much do you bench?
Comment by david — August 29, 2007 @ 4:22 pm
hahahahaaa. Like that has anything to do with masculinity. And, you do know that many gay guys are total gym addicts and lift far more than you (even what you weigh!).
I’m so tired of men trying to either “prove” they are men. It seems many men have a strange misconception that in order to prove their manliness they must show how they are NOT anything like a child or a woman. As if a man wouldn’t be a man if he had feminine or pre-adolescent characteristics. So funny how fragile some male egos/identities are.
August 29th, 2007 at 4:33 pmWhat a tough guy that pencil-neck is! What he has done with that teenage-ish homophobic nonsense is guarantee that if I am EVER in a public restroom and Tucker comes in, I AM going to “bother him” to see if he wants to try and take me on.
And I’m not even gay (not that there’s anything wrong with that), but shit, that crapola will guarantee that I WILL act…flamboyant…just for him.
What a f*cking idiot.
So is his defense the “Gay Panic” defense?
August 29th, 2007 at 4:36 pm“Yeah, how much do you bench?”
Comment by david
$20
August 29th, 2007 at 4:37 pmTucker, that bit is so copyrighted:
HITCHHIKER
Stood by the side of the road
And leveled his thumb
In the calm calculus of reason
Hi. How you doin’? I just got back into town. L.A.
I was out on the desert for awhile.
Riders on the storm
Yeah. In the middle of it.
Riders on the storm
Right . . .
Into this house we’re born
Hey, listen, man, I really got a problem.
Into this world we’re thrown
When I was out on the desert, ya know,
Like a dig without a bone
An actor out on loan
I don’t know how to tell you,
Riders on the storm
but, ah, I killed somebody.
There’s a killer on the road
No . . .
His brain is squirming like a toad
It’s no big deal, ya know,
I don’t think anybody will find out about it, but . . .
Take a long holiday
just, ah . . .
Let your children play
this guy gave me a ride, and ah . . .
If you give this man a ride
started giving me a lot of trouble,
Sweet family will die
and I just couldn’t take it, ya know?
Killer on the road
And I wasted him.
Yeah.
– Jim Morrison
August 29th, 2007 at 4:42 pmWow.
Seriously?
Tucker? Which is more believeable… You got approached for homosexual relations or your tough-guy facade…?
I mean, why would you even SAY that????
August 29th, 2007 at 4:50 pmWhen asked how he responded to being “bothered,†Carlson asserted, “I cried an wet myself, actually.â€
August 29th, 2007 at 4:54 pmBad move by Tucker. He just opened that door for the media and public to form an opinion that Tucker got some sugar in his tank. He should have kept his mouth shut on Twinkletoes Craig’s lovetap indiscretion. Now his colleagues at MSNBC might smell some brokeback in Tucker.
August 29th, 2007 at 4:54 pmwhat does bothered mean? Was he felt up, was he grabbed, was he propositioned, did someone look at him funny, or did he do something he felt ashamed of and to get someone else to beat the crap out the of guy to rid him of his guilt.
When I was in Washington as teenager I went with some friends to a Rated X Video place. (We were from rural Texas) We did not know that the peep shows were really a hook up place for homosexual activity. But the clerk’s “anti-gaydar” went off and when we asked for change he told us “You don’t want to see those shows they’re gay shows” and being homophobic teenagers we left.
I’m just saying why did the guy “bother” Tucker. Did he sense something that we all sense about Tucker now.
August 29th, 2007 at 4:55 pmDuz ennyone wunder whut haid he hit agin the wall wit? He look like une uv them thar pretti boys who ‘re the hitters not the hittys.
August 29th, 2007 at 4:58 pmI expect we should hear of Mr. Carlson’s indictment by the local district attorney in due course. About when Mr. Carlson is giving lessons in “self-defense” to Congressional pages. What an empty boy-man, like the president. Giving up of the bow tie hasn’t made him look older; just lost and homesick.
August 29th, 2007 at 4:59 pmIt is time that Tucker be FIRED….He is an idiot…I think it is time someone investigated the arrest that he CLAIMS happened………
August 29th, 2007 at 5:02 pmHe is a jerk and a gay-basher….If someone does something like he claims happened to him you get the police you don’t bash them and BRAG about it…….FIRE TUCKER CARLSON
Sure you did, Tucker. Sure you did. Grabbed him by the what again? Not with your hand, me thinks. I was told once by someone from the prior generation to me that they used to do that. They called it ‘fag-bashing.’ I do believe that means Tucker is proud of being a ‘fag-basher,’ right up there on the list under lynch mobs hanging blacks. At least now its no secret what a prejudiced punk you are. Not like you couldnt just decline, discount it as flattery, and move on.
I dont think Tucker could fight his way out of a bathroom stall.
August 29th, 2007 at 5:10 pmDamn I must be one unpleasant looking dude. This shit never happens to me. Well there was that one time in Uttica…. Tucker is silly
August 29th, 2007 at 5:13 pmTucker??? Assault someone???
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
That IS funny!
Who was it, Glenn Beck?
August 29th, 2007 at 5:15 pmI really would like to see what this “guy” that Tucker says he “assaulted” looks like. He has got to be weak as hell.
August 29th, 2007 at 5:19 pmAnother troglodyte GOPr that should have his you-know-what shoved his umentionable and told to: “Go sit and face the corner and shut the blank up, Tucker!”
August 29th, 2007 at 5:24 pm3) bend over and let the homosexual penetrate him, and 4) bask in the afterglow of being sodomized.
Comment by WhydidblacksvoteNaginbackin? — August 29, 2007 @ 2:42 pm
You seem well versed in that procedure.
August 29th, 2007 at 5:36 pmWhat? He hit the “head” against the stall after it popped out of his mouth!? Ouch! Slow and gentle, TC, slow and gentle…Atta boy…
August 29th, 2007 at 5:42 pmHe seems a bit overly zealous to make sure no-one mistakes him for being gay.
August 29th, 2007 at 5:45 pmTucker made that whole scene up. I imagine Tucker being the pretty boy he is gets bothered in mens rooms all the time, and was too afraid to admit it, so when he said it happened to him, and the other guy asked when, he just made up that story.
Watch. It’ll come out.
August 29th, 2007 at 5:47 pmCarlson I bet you did “knock his head” against the stall.
August 29th, 2007 at 5:49 pmIm tired of everybody on the repub side saying I don’t dislike gays but then they vote to not ban hate crime laws.This is what he gets,and just for the record craig I hate to be the the to tell you but you gay”not like theres nothing wrong with that”.
Tucker is getting deeper in this lie. The more he talks the more he sounds and acts like he’s hiding something. It’s ok we know he’s gay and his Daddy protected his secret as most do. The marriage was a front like most did in the past. Justice Roberts got married and adopted kids as a front and cover. Look Alito is out right gay with no problem. Yes he pushes his wife and kids to make people believe other wise. This trick has been the history of how man or woman use family values to cover up their reality. Many have done it before and many will do it in the future. When the US will treat all people as equal this will continue.
August 29th, 2007 at 5:50 pmI took Tucker 25 minutes to find the biggest guy in his school who would actually talk to him, or it took him 25 minutes to raise enough money to bribe someone from his school to go into the restroom and punch someone out. IF, of course, it ever happened.
What interests me most is Tucker’s assertion that “it’s really common” to be accosted in the men’s room. I may not be as cute as Tucker, but I can safely say that in 58 years of visiting men’s rooms, I’ve never been accosted. If he stayed out of the men’s rooms in gay bars, it might happen less often.
August 29th, 2007 at 5:52 pmI totally believe him. It is always the sexually anxious that lash out in violence when their masculinity is questioned. And they always do it by enlisting a mob to help them.
That is all right, Tucker. A few years of counseling and you will be able to forgive yourself. You might even be able to start wearing bowties again.
August 29th, 2007 at 5:59 pmHere’s the “High School” Tucky attended.
http://www.stgeorges.edu/Default.asp?bhcp=1
August 29th, 2007 at 6:08 pmSounds like tucker was a minor, was getting molested, and fought back.
August 29th, 2007 at 6:08 pmbut it wasn’t a man, man. it was ann coulter!
August 29th, 2007 at 6:12 pmMy friend’s gaydar pings into the the red with this Tucker phuck.
CLUE: You can’t comb your hair like that without sending out “signals,” if you know what I mean.
August 29th, 2007 at 6:16 pmThis never happened. I saw this on TV last night when Tucker said it. I never watch Tucker, but they were busy bashing Craig, so I left it on for a few minutes. When Tucker said that, I could see the story assembling in his head as he said it.
I don’t believe him. Not the way he presented it. “I slammed his head into the wall”.
Sure you did Tucker. Just before you cried out “harder”.
:o
August 29th, 2007 at 6:21 pmYou really can’t blame the guy for thinking Tucker was gay. I mean doesn’t everybody think Tucker is gay, even if he is married?
August 29th, 2007 at 6:21 pmTucker Carlson…..you’re a liar! I thought you grabbed him and roughed him up as you claimed. Now you say you just held him down until security arrived. Get your lie straight please!
August 29th, 2007 at 6:26 pmI told you he was making it up Trizz. You see it too. He fabricated that story in his head as he was saying it. You can see it. Watch the video again. He was clearly growing uncomfortable as the discussion progressed.
He made that up.
August 29th, 2007 at 6:29 pmPerhaps we need a Republican Registry so that decent folks can check to see where the wingnuts are who may live close to them and can check on their kids when they go to the restroom, or walk to school, or play in the yard.
August 29th, 2007 at 6:29 pmThat has been my assumption. I begin to believe that my assumption was wrong in its foundation…perhaps I should just assume all GOPers are gay until it is clear that it is otherwise…not that there’s anything wrong with that.
It is certainly a safe bet to assume that any that howl the loudest and most vociferously against “the gay” is, de facto, gay. THAT is an assumption I will never lose.
August 29th, 2007 at 6:34 pmthis guy must have lead a very tormented life. not being true to his identity and sexuality. the denial must be excruciating.
now he has no friends look at the republicans running from him and the gay people rightfully despise his hypocrisy.
It must really hurt.
August 29th, 2007 at 6:42 pmI applaud Think Progress for adding the update from Tucker Carlson. It’s a fair, and dare I say balanced, view of this.
August 29th, 2007 at 6:45 pmSomewhat in defense of poor Tucker, when I was a teenager/high schooler the attitude then WAS of the kind expressed by Tucker, and that includes MY then attitude and “thinking”. Now this is where the defense of Tucker comes to an abrupt end. I would never EVER think to bring up my teenager idiocy and immaturity in a strange sort of defense, nor as a means of lashing out, at gays today. I have grown way past that ridiculousness.
I guess people like Carl never did grow past that shit.
August 29th, 2007 at 6:52 pmCarlson: “In the mid-1980s, while I was a high school student, a man physically grabbed me in a men’s room in Washington, DC.”
Anyone we know? Who might still be in Washington, DC?
August 29th, 2007 at 7:01 pmJust curious, Tucker…
Here’s Tucker and his “friend.”
Link
August 29th, 2007 at 7:01 pmSounds like Tucker was a minor, was getting molested, and fought back.
No one here thinks it’s ok for a man to fondle kids in public bathroom right?
August 29th, 2007 at 8:04 pmCarlson: “I can’t bring my son to the men’s room at the park where he plays soccer because of all these creepy guys hanging around in there.”
These would be your fellow “soccer dads” I presume?
August 29th, 2007 at 9:02 pmyou know tucker has taken a hard one up the ass. you don’t start wearing a bowtie for no reason at all. the bowtie was a message to all gays “my ass is open, pile on”.
August 29th, 2007 at 9:14 pmit’s amazing how much cock repubs suck
August 29th, 2007 at 9:18 pmI love it that Tucker is wearing more makeup in that video than most drag queens use. What could be more queer than a bow tie? (A national “news”-caster has the same trademark as Pee Wee Herman - you can’t make this stuff up!)
August 29th, 2007 at 9:40 pmTucker, you lie as bad as Gonzo. You left the bathroom, came back with a friend, bashed the man’s head against the wall and held him until a security guard could be called.
Why didn’t you leave the bathroom and call the security guard?
You’re a gay basher, a closet case and a liar. Worst of all, you’re a Republican.
August 29th, 2007 at 9:45 pmIf you are attacking Tucker for his comments, then I think it’s a little silly. Tucker’s position is understandable. Stop hating for the sake of hate. Focus on the real problem, and stop grouping people together. Believe it or not, not ALL Republicans are gay bashers.
I normally enjoy ThinkProgress, but I disagree with the decision to make this a blog entry. Tucker is correct in this instance.
~Sean
August 29th, 2007 at 10:49 pmNo one here thinks it’s ok for a man to fondle kids in public bathroom right?
August 29th, 2007 at 11:07 pmI find it interesting that Tucker claims that he in NOT a homophobe, and yet after being assaulted in a public restroom by a man older than him he gets away and does not go to find the nearest policeman, he does not go to his parents, or any other authority figure nor is he just relieved he escaped…no, no, no…HE GOES BACK!…with the intention of taking the law into his own hands to ASSAULT the man with violence!!!
Two wrongs DO NOT make a right.
August 29th, 2007 at 11:49 pmHey fu(k you Bow-bravado man.
The Left needs to embrace Craig, and show that a travesty of justice has been promulgated by overzealous police, who have entrapped him. DO NOT LET THIS STORY GO. The GOP wants him out to keep the scandals low (almost impossible to do, but with Rupert the windbag they are trying to buy every media outlet alive) but we need to crank up the volume over what happened in the bathroom. We also need to let him (Craig), and other “in the closet†GOPers know that we got their back. I hear the sound of squeaking closet doors all over Redstate USA.
And remember, this gay GOP thing has been going on for years.
http://www.thelawparty.org/FranklinCoverup/franklin.htm
Comment by Bodhittsatva — August 29, 2007 @ 11:54 pm
August 29th, 2007 at 11:57 pmWas supposed to be bowtie Bravado man.
August 29th, 2007 at 11:58 pmgays can’t keep their hands off of kids
August 30th, 2007 at 12:32 amNot buying it, Tucker. It’s the gaydar thing…you’ve got gay.
And Scarhead just had to bring up Clinton.
This is exactly the issue the ‘cons want us to focus on, while the Middle East comes to a boil.
August 30th, 2007 at 2:56 ambeing a person who frequently goes to the gayest city on earth I can attest for their being some pretty odd behavior in their some times. makes it hard to pee.
August 30th, 2007 at 4:16 amLet’s not forget, Little Tucker Carlson also laughed, repeatedly, at a little girl whose family dared to sue company over a a swimming-pool pump that almost killed her.
http://64.233.169.104/ search?q=cache:Flh4H6M9yR4J:www.dailykos.com/ story/ 2004/ 7/ 15/ 182137/ 909+%22tucker+carlson%22+%2B+%22valerie+lakey%22+%2B+jacuzzi&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us&ie=UTF-8
August 30th, 2007 at 5:54 amGood for Tucker. People only feel comfortable assaulting others when there is no threat of a violent response. If this were a supposed case where a woman was assaulted by a man in a restroom and kicked him in the nuts in response, we’d all be cheering her. Sometimes a good ass whooping does solve a few minor problems.
August 30th, 2007 at 6:37 amSorry, but I don’t get it… Are we saying that it’s alright for gay men to proposition straight men in a restroom, and then physically touch them? If a woman was accosted by a man wanting sex from her, and he physically touched her, this board would cheer for her if she slapped him unconscious, but a man is supposed to take such physical advances with what …. a smile and thank you? I’m frankly appauled by the idea that those who populate this board, with whom I mostly ideologically agree, would support and promote this kind of behavior. Anonymous bathroom sex is nothing for the gay community to be proud of, folks. It’s crude, and in a case like Carlson’s, it constitutes blatant sexual harassment.
August 30th, 2007 at 7:50 amSe llama “damage control.”
August 30th, 2007 at 9:09 amrelax, tuck!
August 30th, 2007 at 10:10 amthe guy was just a recruiter for Young Republicans
To #139
For me, at least, it’s not endorsing the behavior that happened in the bathroom that is in question here. NO PERSON should assault another person either sexually or violently. It is the response that is in question. As I stated before it is odd that he (as a 12th grader) would not tell a person of authority, so that his attacker could be punished under our system of laws, but grab a friend (guess he could not rustle up a good mob) and GO BACK with the intention to take the law into their own hands and beat this guy. It is scary that the right both condone vigilante behavior and are against gun control…Welcome to the Wild, Wild, West.
August 30th, 2007 at 11:14 amGoing back to assault someone, 25 minutes later? Hmm.
August 30th, 2007 at 12:11 pmto # 142,
First off, it isn’t clear exactly what age we’re discussing here. You can say 12th grade, but “high school†in most states can constitute anyone in 9th through 12th grade, so while you can theorize that we’re discussing a legal-adult-aged high school senior, we could also just as easily be discussing a 14 year old boy. Does it make a difference if we’re talking about an 18 year old man as opposed to a 14 year old boy? Is it more acceptable to accost one versus the other?
Second, in the update above it is explicitly stated that they went back and held the man until authorities arrived. This is appropriate behavior no matter how overly macho it is characterized in the retelling.
Finally, we live in a civil society only as long as people respect the mutual civility we extend to one another. Once that compact is broken, all bets are off. Our laws exist only to remedy wrongs that have already occurred, so while you can believe that the legal system offers protection from vigilante justice, it doesn’t. All it offers you is a possible recourse after the fact.
Realizing that someone can still punch you in the face when you do something inappropriate to them is a much stronger social deterrent then any threat of legal recourse and if that fear of retaliation reminds people to act civil towards one another, it’s a good thing for everyone.
August 30th, 2007 at 12:11 pmGive it up, Tucker. Nobody has EVER considered the possibility that you might be straight. And all this macho posturing only reinforces it. Repeat after Larry Craig, “I am not gay.”
August 30th, 2007 at 12:43 pmWho is that Tough Tucker “went back with” to beat the man up? Tucker should produce this “person” so the event can be investigated and corroborated. Perhaps the victim will come forward.
August 30th, 2007 at 12:54 pmTucker Carlson is full of bull IMO. I have been on the Earth 55 years and have never been sexually approached in any public bathroom. Hell, men hardly even talk in bathrooms. During high school the men’s bathrooms were where boys fought and settled grievances, mostly over girls and not a place to get sex.
Tucker Carlson is so full of it, it stinks. What he finds ‘common’ in men’s room is more likely in his own creepy mind than reality. Most likely gay bathroom sex is confined to [re]publican closeted bisexuals, e.g. the [re]publican Senator from Idaho (Tucker Carlson?) et. al.
August 30th, 2007 at 1:27 pmI haven’t travelled a whole lot, I admit, but I’ve been around some and I’ve never run into a public bathroom rapant with men trying to solicite sex from me (or anybody else for that matter). Why does this all just sound like some kind of projection thing that only repressed log cabin republicans run into, because, well, they are gay (or bi) and don’t want to admit it?
August 30th, 2007 at 1:45 pmIt’s sad to see how many people can’t figure out that Tucker was victimized because they disagree with him politicaly.
August 30th, 2007 at 5:29 pm