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Tucker Carlson: Every Wiccan a nerd or a ‘twice-divorced older woman’
Monday, 18 February 2013 17:33
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Tucker Carlson, the founder of The Daily Caller, attacked Wicca on Sunday, mocking the minority religion for allegedly having too many holidays.

Carlson appeared on the Fox News show Fox & Friends Sunday to discuss the University of Missouri’s “Holiday and Recommended Accommodations” guide, which lists eight Wiccan holidays.

“The bad side of Wiccanism is it’s obviously a form of witchcraft,” he said. (Read more…) “But the upside is you get a ton of holidays. Twenty percent of all school holidays, as described by the University of Missouri, are Wiccan holidays. Twenty percent of all.”

Though the Fox & Friends Sunday hosts suggested Wiccans received special treatment, the guide does not recommend any accommodations for Wiccan holidays, unlike many of the other religious holidays listed.

Fox & Friends Sunday host Anna Kooiman complained that Christians were prohibited from saying “Merry Christmas” in the United States.

“But you get 20 holidays now if you’re a Wiccan,” Fox & Friends Sunday host Clayton Morris interrupted. “I guess that’s the one to go with, right? I mean, that’s certainly the one. If you’re going to pick one, go with the one with the most holidays.”

“Except any religion whose most sacred day is Halloween, I just can’t take seriously,” Carlson added. “I mean, call me a bigot. And I’m not, you know, not offering an editorial against Wiccanism.”

Carlson later added that every Wiccan was either a “compulsive Dungeons & Dragons player or is a middle-aged, twice-divorced older woman living in a rural area who works as a midwife.”

Watch video, via Media Matters, below:

 
Tucker Carlson: ‘People despise you when you wear a bow tie’
Sunday, 06 January 2013 13:09
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Conservative Daily Caller founder Tucker Carlson on Sunday suggested that the reason he had been unpopular with liberals for years was because “people despise you when you wear a bow tie.”

“How boring is it to wear a hoodie to work?” Carlson asked during a Fox News segment about how Americans were revolting against the tradition of dressing casually on Fridays. “If you are truly cutting edge you will wear gloves. (Read more…) White gloves.”

One viewer in London noted that “bow tie Thursdays” were becoming popular at his workplace.

Carlson, who wore a bow tie for years while working as a host of CNN’s Crossfire, noted that he could have been “pummeled” for wearing the formal necktie if he had not believed in self defense.

“People despise you when you wear a bow tie,” he explained. “Not in Charleston, not in Newport, Rhode Island. There little strongholds of bow tie-philia. But the rest on the country — especially the Big Apple — not for the bow ties.”

“I mean, if you’re a Nation of Islam guy — in fact, they would come up to me often. They were so nice to me, it was unbelievable. The Nation of the [Louis] Farrakhan guys, they loved the bow tie.”

“Was your behavior better when you were wearing a bow tie?” Fox News co-host Alisyn Camerota wondered.

“Oh, no,” Carlson admitted. “It was much filthier because, look, you’re wearing a bow tie so nobody suspects it.”

Watch this video from the Fox News’ Fox & Friends, broadcast Jan. 6, 2013.

 
 
Tucker Carlson: Crowley’s fact check was like Abraham Lincoln’s assassination
Thursday, 18 October 2012 08:08
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Daily Caller founder Tucker Carlson says that Candy Crowley’s real-time fact check of Mitt Romney during Tuesday night presidential debate was so devastating that it can be compared to John Wilkes Booth’s assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.

During Tuesday night’s second 2012 presidential debate, Crowley’s instant fact check had briefly stunned the GOP hopeful by undermining his claim that President Barack Obama had not initially referred to the recent attacks in Libya as “acts of terror.”

But conservatives — particularly on Fox News — have ignored their candidate’s poor performance at the debate and instead directed their outrage at Crowley. (Read more…)

Fox Business host Lou Dobbs on Wednesday wondered if there was “any way to excuse the commission having used that format and that moderator, Candy Crowley, behaving as she did?”

“I think it’s the single most outrageous thing I’ve seen in 30-odd years of watching presidential debates and I’m a Democrat and will remain one,” Fox News Contributor Doug Schoen, who identifies himself as an “influential Democratic campaign consultant,” told Dobbs.

“Well, you may not,” Dobbs noted. “You could be mustered out, I think.”

“For most of the play, John Wilkes Booth set there politely, but it was the moment when he didn’t that made history,” Carlson explained, referring to Crowley’s fact check of Romney. “And I thought this was the definitive point in this debate.”

“This changed the debate, this is exactly what moderators are not supposed to do,” he added. “This is kind of serious. There’s only three weeks and we want to know what these guys are like and she prevented us from learning.”

Watch this video from Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs Tonight via Media Matters, broadcast Oct. 17, 2012.