During that speech a Daily Caller douchebag interrupted the President, which should have completely embarrassed the "news organization" he was representing.
But of course it was the Daily Caller so they were not embarrassed, they were just glad somebody was talking about them, and actually knew they existed.
So the Editor-in-Chief, Tucker Carlson, defended his employee in the following manner:
“I don’t remember Diane Sawyer scolding her colleague Sam Donaldson for heckling President Reagan. And she shouldn’t have. A reporter’s job is to ask questions and get answers. Our job is to find out what the federal government is up to. Politicians often don’t want to tell us. A good reporter gets the story. We’re proud of Neil Munro.”
Okay hang on a second I have to fight back the bile bubbling up in the back of my throat. Here let me clear it a little, "Fucknozzle!" There I feel better now.
Well as you cannot help but imagine, THIS did not sit too well with Sam Donaldson, a much admired and well espected reporter, who NEVER interrupted Ronald Reagan when he was covering the White House.
Here is his response, courtesy of the Huffington Post:
"I like Tucker (let all flowers bloom) but I really resent his trying to tie his reporter’s actions to mine," Donaldson wrote in an email to The Huffington Post. "He knows better."
"Never once did I interrupt a president in any way while he was making a formal statement, a speech, honoring awardees or in any other way holding the floor. Yes, almost always when he was finished in the Rose Garden or in the Briefing Room or at a photo opportunity with other world leaders I tried to question him (only rarely was it a shout on the rope line, more often a more normal tone of voice) and other reporters of course did the same thing along with me. What this man did yesterday is something new, to me wrong and unusual. I think it is probably the result of the growing incivility of the times, the competition among reporters and news organizations to be noticed not only for the work product but for the theatrics of the gathering…and there is one more factor, let’s face it: Many on the political right believe this president ought not to be there – they oppose him not for his polices and political view but for who he is, an African American! These people and perhaps even certain news organizations (certainly the right wing talkers like Limbaugh) encourage disrespect for this president. That is both regrettable and adds, in this case, to the general dislike of the press on the part of the general public."
"For Tucker Carlson to say that he would if he can give this man a raise for this rude attempt to interrupt the president is reflective of what I’ve said above and, to me, lowers my opinion of Tucker."
If I may paraphrase Mr. Donaldson's thoughts here, what he is essentially saying is, "Go fuck yourself you arrogant bow-tied, journalistic impaired racist asshole!"
I'm pretty sure that is what he meant.
As you can probably tell I am still steaming over what happened on Friday, and Carlson's pathetic attempt to rationalize it just pisses me off even further.
So I decided to look for something to make me feel better. And I found it.
(P.S. the link above will take you to a YouTube video of Jon Stewart's appearance on Tucker's old show, Crossfire, after which they essentially pulled the program off the air. Good times!)
