Originally published at: New York Times outs Tucker Carlson as regular anonymous source for media he "hates" | Boing Boing
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Finally, someone snatched off his wig in public!
Well, sort of.
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I think the English language needs a new word. I propose that a tucker be the name for a disposable wipe used to clean up santorum.
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That’s a Marmalard if I ever saw one.
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Not that I want to be the one to make simplistic psychology diagnoses, but something about this strikes me like a desperate need for acceptance-- he gets to act like he’s part of some secret club with the people he claims to hate. “Wink wink, we’re still pals, right?”
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If “jock itch” was a person.
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Crypto-Quisling is the first thing that comes to mind, but that doesn’t have the visceral vomit inducing connotations I associate with this pile of dog poo cos-playing as a (terrible) human.
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More like job security. He hands information to lots of people, he knows too much. It helps explain why the media doesn’t go after him more forcefully for his shenanigans. He’s leagues worse than Glen Beck, yet he’s survived.
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Textbook opportunist.
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“Tucker Carlson is a full of shit media whore!”. Never would have guessed that one in a million years. 
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Sounds Trumpian.
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Hopefully this is the start of his downfall, but I doubt it.
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The people this story talks about, the big-newspaper reporters and such who are chummy and quietly collusive with him, are the people who might accomplish that. But long as they fear him more than they fear everyone else, Tucker is their man.
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Yeah, hoping this is a “that cats out of the bag” moment, but I’m not holding my breath.
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As rage filled as he is, I am sure he has a lot more cats to be let out of the bag.
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he reminds me of Prothero so much
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Meh, Fox would just replace him with some other hypnotizing lie-spreader. The real problem is corporate-funded, unregulated political “news.”
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He’s done better than survive. The scum has thrived.
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I have to wonder why they’re burning him as a source. All of these people not saying what he said but that he said “something” to them, etc…
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Perhaps the ‘outing’ serves as a kind of insurance policy for the NYT: They get themselves out in front of any news leak before Tucker smells a rat and decides to again spread dangerous lies. (All the background discussions and activity from different news sources were bound to come out.) Also, the NYT may have finally grown a set of big hairy ones and decided that enough was enough, and that the outing would “allow” other media the breathing room to finally go after TC.
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