Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer
Tucker Carlson speaking today to Missouri Senate candidate Claire McCaskill about the Michael J. Fox stem cell research ad she is running in her effort to unseat Republican Jim Talent:
…This is not a conversation about Michael J. Fox, his celebrity or his disease. It’s a question about stem cell research and whether its moral or immoral.
So Tucker is a bit uncomfortable with the video because he feels like it makes his views appear immoral. But, since that cannot be the case, it must be McCaskill’s fault for putting him in the awkward position in the first place. How dare she play on his emotions by showing a real person being ravaged by a horrible disease. Really, what does any of it have to do with the stem cell debate?
He ain’t called FUCKER carlson for nothing . . .
rush, at least he ain’t faking an erection . . .
“I look at this ad and say I can’t disagree with Michael J. Fox. Because his illness is so sad it pulls on me emotionally so much that it feels immoral to me to disagree with him. And I think its unfair of you to run this ad for that reason”
If this is blackmail, when are they going to stop parading babies around saying that embryonic stem cell research is tantamount to murdering children?
The other side calls it a moral issue when they frame it as destroying life to save life. This is the same fundamental crowd that doesn’t believe in evolution and thinks any form of contraception is murder. People aren’t drinking that kool-aid, and advocates like Michael J. Fox are showing the human side that suffers for it. They’re just mad that this is an issue they can’t claim the moral highground on, and certainly can’t say the facts are on their side (not that they ever are).
His views ARE morally wrong.
It would seem to me Tucker, rather than point finers elsewhere, you should take a good hard look inward.
Based soley upon your own words, it seems to me you STARTED to look within, but that scared you, so you choose to point fingers instead.
What are you afraid of Tucker?
OOPS! It’s easy to say you want little bacteria-like cells kept in an “angel refridgerator” for years until they are incinerated, but somehow difficult to imagine these soon-to-be-incinerated cells used to cure illness such as Parkinson’s.
HEY! Let’s all pray to Jesus! HAllelujah! Let’s all pray at the altar of Dennis Hastert for a cure for AIDS and Parkinson’s and Alzheimers! That’s LEADERSHIP! (if you are a dumb f—k republican moron, that is)
Or MAYBE Rush Limbaugh knows the cure for AIDS and Parkinson’s disease since afterall, he knows so much about Viagra and painkiller addiction… too bad stem cells don’t offer a cure there or he’d be the first in line
Not to be pedantic, but we all love being ravished.
Ravaged is the word you want, I think.
Hello Folks, I’m Sammy The Stem Cell.
Fuck You Rush, Fuck You you big fat pig fucker. Yeah heh heh. Go to hell you piece of lard ass. I could give a shit if you ucking die of a heart attack you moron. Eat shit you asshole.
Okay Okay.. OT… I know. I Miss Mark. He had this pegged.
OT,…
The kissey,.. kissey Mark Foley ad that would have run if he was not caught measuring young boys privates.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UaauMJiCk-E
I bet Carlson didnt feel as morally blackmailed when Arlen Specter used the same exact ad during his 2004 re-election bid.
But its OK for Foley’s & his press goons to flood the press room full of children during his conference so that no one could really address him about his pedo-obsessions
ABC News Director states there is a definite “left-wing MSM bias and it need to be repaired so that the conservative voters will trust broadcast news sources.
Can they be more Nazi/Fascist in their slant on the news ?
ABC Exec. says MSM Much too LIBERAL,… Video Link
I am not sympathetic to Tucker’s argument either. His “morals” are under assault by a commercial? By the presence of someone who puts a face on an illness? By someone who’s celebrity as a baby-faced star is being devastated by a debilitating disease? Poor Tucker’s morals are being assaulted and co-erced…well what about those of us who have had our morals assaulted for the past 20 years by the likees of Jerry Falwell, Rush Limbaugh,George Will, Brit Hume, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and –dare I say it?–Tucker Carlson?
I think Tucker thinks he is being manipulated by the media when he sees Mr. Fox twitching! God forbid he should experience a media assault on his senses.
Poor,poor Tucker. The shame…the humiliation! I grieve——
(not).
Speaking of Rick Santorum,.. here is his newest political ad. Nice ad if it was true,.. but in reality this this not applicable to the behavior or conduct of Rick – to work in unison with a political opponent,.. to get the job done. Santorum flexible,.. a fence mender,.. a bi-partisan ,… HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA – what a joke !
Newest political a R. Santorum – Video Link
Santorum,..
Mr. low-density polypropylene,..
Video link to a campaign ad were Santorum tries to project sincerity.
What would graphic pictures of some of the 625,000 dead or myriads of maimed as a result of the criminal Iraq invasion and occupation do to Tucker Carlson’s delicate psyche? I shudder.
“It’s not about hundreds of thousands of dead people. It’s not about hundreds of thousands of maimed people. It’s about the war on TERRORISM! It’s about Isama bin-Laden. It’s about….Don’t confuse me with concrete reality. Don’t make me think!!”
Oops…Osama. Hey, the “I” is right next to the “O”.
I tried to watch Tucker Carlson but had to switch the video off, I just felt so morally blackmailed. Sure, I understand Tucker has a terrible disease, but I just feel so uncomfortable watching someone who pulls on my emotions and seems to be so trivial, embittered, talentless, and so representative of the morally hollow and brainless GOP that a smack in his mean, tightly puckered, little mouth can be the only human response to the meaningless racket he makes with it. It just makes me uncomfortable, if you know what I mean.
How does this guy Tucker Carlson look at himself in the Mirror every morning, and who are the people who listen to him?
I can hear him right now:
I think Tucker Carlson has a disease too…called “a nasty little tweeb with degenerative brain tissue”…
Awwwwwww. Is widdle Tucker upset by all the scary campaign ads with the sick celebrities?
I’m getting tired of these crybaby conservatives, aren’t you? “Waaaaaah! I don’t wanna pay taxes!” “Waaaaaaah! You’re bein’ mean to Bush!” “Waaaaaaaah! Make the scary TV ad go away, Mommy!”
This is just a standard Republican process. Whenever ANY famous person stands up for anything they don’t like, They’re all expected to stop whatever they’re doing and throw mud until it stops.
The fact that it happens to be someone with a very real and personal concern makes them uncomfortable, but they are still expected to react. Too, too bad Tucker!
I’d personally sign up to have Parkinson’s Disease if I could look as great as Michael J. Fox does!
Good for the Dixie Chicks!
They will probably never appear on television again after bringing up the fact that media consolidation has turned Americans into people who are not informed on the most important issues of the day, (like war and stuff), on “Hardball”.
Chris Matthews was required to try to embarrass them, but it didn’t work. Some people risk there careers to get the truth out.
CHRIS!
* Cheers * Cheers * Cheers * For the Dixie Chicks!
Media Consolidation & bush are the scourge of America.
L.B. what side of his mouth was chris mathhews talking out of ? ? ?
“…It pulls on me emotionally so much…”
Feeling a little tug there, Tucker? It’s called a CONSCIENCE. It’s what regular people frequently use to guide their words and actions in this topsy-turvy world we live in. Generally, kids begin to develop this ability around the time they begin school, so you’re a little late to the game, Tucker, but keep working on it. Even a person as handicapped as yourself…
Tucker, you live in a sorry bubble. I think the entire Parkinson’s population should pay you a little visit just after they finish with Rush.
JUDGE OF JUDGES #23
He was talking out of the same side he talked out of when he prodded Howard Dean to admit that if he got elected president, he was going to do something about media control. Howard told the truth and the next minute everybody was hearing the Dean Scream and watching pundits, (learned persons), heads explode.
The crazy thing is that I keep watching Matthews, thinking that one day he’s going to turn on these idiot, fake conservatives.
Long live the Dixie Chicks and their wonderful music! I was waiting anxiously for their latest album, hoping they wouldn’t back down, and was delighted to see that they even wrote a song about not backing down!
I think semcells will help people
I think stemcells will help people