I found this appalling look inside the mind of Tucker Carlson over at AMERICAblog this morning.
In June of this year, on MSNBC, Carlson said this:
CARLSON: I am objectively pro-France. You know, France blew up the Rainbow Warrior, that Greenpeace ship in Auckland Harbor in the '80s. And I've always respected them...
A man died in that bombing and Carlson calls it "vandalism." By that reasoning the attack on 9/11 was "vandalism." Changing the meaning of words to suit them seems to be a right wing characteric. Bombing can now be called "vandalism" when it suits. POWs can now be called "enemy non-combatants" when it suits.
Greenpeace director John Passacantando called Carlson on his shameful behavior but, running true to form, this right-winger has no shame.
JP: Bombing a ship is terrorism. Killing a man is murder.
TC: You should know about vandalism, you guys engage in it all the time.
JP: We are a peaceful organization that engages in no violence to people or property.
TC: Spraying paint on seals is the same kind of vandalism, blocking entrances with your bodies...
JP: So would you call Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi vandals?
TC: I don't want to make a generalization.
JP: Just answer two questions for me: are you proud of what you said and would you say it again?
TC: I have answered all your questions, unlike you, I am a busy man and have things to do but I know if I hang up you are going to send out a fundraising letter saying that I hung up on you...
JP: Just answer my two questions.
TC: I am not hanging up. I am returning the handset to the cradle....
Here's the link to AMERICAblog.
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/08/tucker-carlson-accused-of-supporting.html
Here's more about the man killed by a bombing that Tucker Carlson openly supports.
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/fire-tucker-carlson
UPDATE: The government of New Zealand regards this incident as the first terrorist attack on New Zealand. Two of the French agents responsible were sentenced to 10 years in prison but only served 1 year.
http://www.terroranalysis.com/story/144038.html
QUESTION: Is dkos running extremely slowly for anyone else today?