8 Tucker Carlson Quotes on Politics

Tucker Carlson quotes on politics

1. Maybe in fact it was better to have Saddam in there. Maybe Saddam, as bad as he was-was not the worst we could get. Maybe chaos was the worst we could get. That's the truth.

2. I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.

4. Grover Norquist is a mean-spirited, humorless, dishonest little creep: an embarrassing anomaly, the leering, drunken uncle everyone else wishes would stay home: [He] is repulsive, granted, but there aren't nearly enough of him to start a purge trial.'

7. It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad.

8. I think [Pat] Buchanan is far too easily and glibly dismissed.

9. The Republican Party of 2005 bears no resemblance to the Republican Party of 1994.

13. 'Carlson occupies the same role for conservatives in the media landscape that Colmes does for liberals. Colmes is a pale-faced, paint-by-numbers loser whose only job is to be a believable liberal for people who live in trailers. Carlson is CNN's idea of a conservative. His right-wing ideas come from his changeable, expensive brains instead of his stomach. In the same way that the helpless, ineffectual Colmes is a reassuring image to hardcore conservatives, Carlson puts a soothing face on conservatism for educated East Coast progressives - because even the biggest neo-Marxist wanker from Brown takes one look at Carlson and sees the one man in America he would feel sure of being able to kick the shit out of in a back alley.'

14. 'He is a patsy and a fraud - the kind of public personality totalitarian regimes used to nurture for years in order to execute for a lack of orthodoxy at some opportune historical moment much later on.'