Tucker Carlson has become a sleazel. According to Huffington Post, he corresponded with Philadelphia Daily News columnist Stu Bykofsky posing as ‘Keith Olbermann. ‘ Fake Olbermann talked smack about his boss MSNBC President Phil Griffin and made all sorts of accusations.
The incendiary emails seemed too good to be true — and they were. They were sent from [email protected]. That’s an address that is not owned by Olbermann, but by Carlson. In July, Carlson announced that he had purchased the domain name KeithOlbermann.com, and told Politico that people could email him at [email protected] — the same address that the emails to Bykofsky came from.
On Tuesday night, Yahoo’s Michael Calderone reached Carlson by phone. Carlson confirmed that he had, in fact, sent the emails posing as Olbermann
There is really no reason for anyone who wants to be taken seriously to do anything this dishonest and childish. Tucker Carlson has totally blown his credibility in my opinion. I hope Olbermann never lets him live it down.
I get that you hope Olbermann never lets Carlson live it down, but nobody listens to Olbermann…..soooo……well……..
@Slow, it doesn’t matter that it was Olbermann. I wouldn’t like it if he did it to Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity. That is just a low life thing to do. But Olbermann can be a bitch, so he will not let Carlson Forget it.
It is good to watch these guys devour each other. But more importantly, the more people talk about it, the more “face time” this jerk gets, which can only encourage him to do more. If peopole would not react, he would dry up like a raisin in the sun. Why is it we are so interested in these wierdos?
It’s never okay to pose as someone else online. When scoundrels send out fake PayPal messages with the intent of garnering information, we call that fraud. There is no reason we shouldn’t call what Carlson did the same thing. (Note: There is a not-so-hidden personal message abiding within my comment.)
Yes, it is fraud, whether the intent is to steal or to misrepresent someone. Could Tucker Sleazel Carlson be charged, at least informally, with identity theft?
@Moon-howler
I would think so. Citizens arrest, anyone? 🙂
I hope he doesn’t expect any respect. Is he still on CNN? Where is that aging Sleazel hanging out these days?
I did makeup on Tucker many many times at CNN. He was courteous in a way but so stuck on himself. He was shocked that a lowly makeup artist was capable of putting a complete sentence together. He was yuppy in the most unflattering way, so into material things, always bragged about his stuff.
I remember him on Dancing with the Stars. He, he, he, he, he, he….
Carlson has always come over as a college kid, for some reason.
Who is Tucker Carlson and what is CNN?
CNN is actually a place to get news that isn’t quite as filtered as MSNBC and the FAux News channel. Imagine that, unfiltered news. What a novel idea. Not totally unfiltered but better than most.
Its women aren’t all blonde, they don’t all wear turquoise. They rarely show cleavage to draw in their…no ….I wont say it.
CNN….CNN….oh yeeeahh…..
I remember them now….unfiltered….not so much. They do hide it better, though. I get my news from the web and usually a day or two before it shows up on the TV or Radio.
Oh, and from Glenn Beck. I have to get my ord…um, talking po….um, news! Yeah, that’s it, news, from Glenn…..He’s so informed, so wise. When he came on the air, the earth started healing, the oceans ceased to rise,…..He was the change I was hoping for….
😉
@Cargo, too many people believe Beck is their fearless leader and if he says it, then it must be right. Beck, like Limbaugh, has a respeonsibility to be accurate, but that doesn’t get followers, does it?
I’m just waiting for someone to sue one of these supposedly lying talk show hosts for slander or fraud. Limbaugh has been on air for over 20 years and not one person has been able to show that Limbaugh engaged in slander or fraud.
Beck’s hyperbole and leaps of logic, his depiction of the narrative, may be offensive and may leave holes for his enemies to jump through, but, as he said, if he’s not accurate in his statements, bring on the lawsuits.
Cargo, I think the public figure component comes in to play. Limbaugh goes after public figures. The burden of proof on slandering or libeling public figures is really extreme. that’s how they get away with it.
Not if what is being reported is untrue. Celebrities sue all the time on that one and win.
So, yes Tucker Carlson has become a sleazel. However, Arianna Huffington has been a sleazel for quite some time now…
“There is really no reason for anyone who wants to be taken seriously to do anything this dishonest and childish. Tucker Carlson has totally blown his credibility in my opinion. I hope Olbermann never lets him live it down.”
By this same logic has the Huffington Post blown it’s credibility?
Hmmmm, comments #17 and #18 still in moderation… any reason? No profanity, no bashing of the current administration, no etc… just plain old unbiased reporting.
Cargo, I seem to recall a recent case in which a celeb accused an anonymous blogger of libel and slander. The celeb got a judge to force the surfacing of the true identity of that blogger so the celeb could sue.
You lie, apparently you think I have nothing better to do than sit on the blog and check the moderation queue.
@Wolverine
You have to prove that the celeb has been injured in some way. I am not saying that it can’t be done, I am only saying it is more difficult with a public figure.
Which celebrity was it?
Moon — It was Vogue model Liskula Cohen suing a poster on the Shanks in NYC blog. A $3 million dollar suit for defamation. I believe the use of the “w” word was part of the cause. The blogger is countersuing Google for not protecting her identity.
I see my comments are still in moderation over 24 hours later. I thought that this site was “A Place for Civil Debate: not your typical ideologue blog”… I’ve stuck to the rules you sent me 100% yet you still censor what I have to say.
To me it looks as if anything that casts a negative light on the Huffington post simply isn’t allowed here, is that a new rule that I didn’t know about?
Easy solution… take me out of moderation. Been here in purgatory for I don’t know how long now. I have stuck to your list of rules you sent to me for quite some time now and still in moderation for some reason.
Went back and checked out exactly why this site was started and I must tell you. You may want to update that as well, what stands out most is this:
“We are a group of Prince William & Manassas citizens who attempted to participate in the discussion but who were repeatedly denied the opportunity to participate.”
Okaaaaaay, hmmmmmm…. I am a PWC citizen attempting to participate in the discussions but I am repeatedly denied the opportunity to participate. Sooooo how is this site different than Greg’s?
History
AntiBVBL.net was formed late February 2008, as a counter blog to bvbl.net(Black Velvet Bruce Li), which is run by the current President of both Help Save Manassas and Save the Old Dominion organizations. We are a group of Prince William & Manassas citizens who attempted to participate in the discussion but who were repeatedly denied the opportunity to participate.
We categorically reject the tactics used by Greg Letiecq and his organizations in attempting to influence local, state or national immigration related policies.
On April 4, 2008, our blogsite receives an exciting endorsement from RaisingKaine.com entitled, ‘ Having a Popular Blog in 5 Easy Steps — FAST! ‘ http://www.raisingkaine.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=13675
More information-
Southern Poverty Law Center(SPLC) declares Greg Letiecq a Nativist.
Federation for American Immigration Reform which helped craft the original resolution has recently been declared a HATE GROUP by SPLC.
Current History
On Friday, February 26, 2010, around noon, http://www.moonhowlings.net was born and here we are. We kept the archives from antibvbl.net and dragged them on over here. So we continue, yet we begin anew. Our focus will be on local, state, and national topics that have people talking.
We are both centrists. Occassionally we lean left, occassionally we lean right. Sometimes we don’t lean the same direction. That’s when things get interesting.
Contact Information
We can be reached at [email protected].
And no one owes you anything, Hello. Elena and I owe you nothing and Greg owes you nothing. We don’t have to let anyone on the blog.
Quit complaining and try to get along. That is the root of the problem. You have been incredibly rude to me in the past and that is the main reason why you are in moderation. You have made contentious remarks that do not advance the idea of courteous discourse.
“We are a group of Prince William & Manassas citizens who attempted to participate in the discussion but who were repeatedly denied the opportunity to participate.”
So am I…
I know you owe me nothing, which is why I ask you to either take me out of moderation which I have been in for several months now or simply change your “Guidelines” and “Our History” pages because they are drastically inaccurate.
I have not been rude to you or Elena in several months nor have I broken any of the rules you set up for me and me only and sent to me. I have not broken any of the stated guidelines for this site, I’ve just simply been subjected to the same thing you supposedly started this site for.
What I get in return… nothing but rudeness directly from you and censored on subject matter, directly dealing with the particular post I’m commenting on.
You are rude to Elena and me almost every time you address us.
Stop being contentious. Try to get along as part of the blog community. Try to get it.