Tucker Carlson, Ethical Oaf

The Butterball That Enabled The Meathead : "In 1999, during the 2000 Republican Presidential primary race, Tucker Carlson interviewed Bush, then Governor of Texas, for Talk magazine. Carlson reported that Bush mocked soon-to-be-executed Texas death row inmate Karla Faye Tucker and "cursed like a sailor."

Bush's communications director Karen Hughes publicly disputed this claim. Asked by Salon about the response to his article on Bush, Carlson characterized it as "very, very hostile. The reaction was: You betrayed us. Well, I was never there as a partisan to begin with. Then I heard that (on the campaign bus, Bush communications director) Karen Hughes accused me of lying. And so I called Karen and asked her why she was saying this, and she had this almost Orwellian rap that she laid on me about how things she'd heard — that I watched her hear — she in fact had never heard, and she'd never heard Bush use profanity ever. It was insane. I've obviously been lied to a lot by campaign operatives, but the striking thing about the way she lied was she knew I knew she was lying, and she did it anyway. There is no word in English that captures that. It almost crosses over from bravado into mental illness." - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is surely my favorite anecdote involving Tucker Carlson, though it truly irks me to contribute to any effort to humanize this viper.