{"id":824,"date":"2008-03-09T13:09:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T21:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=824"},"modified":"2013-06-05T08:30:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T15:30:29","slug":"tucker-carlsons-ethics-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=824","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Carlson’s Ethics Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the thoroughly overblown controversy surrounding Barack Obama’s foreign policy adviser, Samantha Power, there is no shortage of hysterical lunacy.<\/p>\n

Power, in a momentary lapse of judgment<\/a> referred to Hillary Clinton as a “monster.”<\/em> Clinton’s campaign then proceeded to act like one, calling for Power to be fired. It seems like an oddly inapt sanction for the first truly viable female presidential candidate to banish from the political theater another women who is a Pulitzer prize winning author, historian, lawyer and foreign policy expert. Clinton continues off the deep end by saying…<\/p>\n

“I think that it is important to look at what she and his other advisers say behind closed doors…”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Presumably this means that Clinton will shortly release the transcripts of her private meetings and those of her advisers. Obama, for his part, should never have accepted Power’s resignation. It would be shameful to lose the talents of this brilliant woman over a trivial campaign dust-up. <\/p>\n

But the supreme idiocy is, as usual, reserved for the media. On Friday, Tucker Carlson interviewed Gerri Peev, the reporter who published the fateful Power story. In the course of the discussion, Carlson inexplicably asserts that reporters have some obligation to grant all requests to take a subjects comments off the record. He then disparages the whole of British media by stating that their standards are “dramatically lower”<\/em> than those in the U.S. Here’s the clip (and the full interview<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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\"Tucker<\/a>Hearing Tucker Carlson elucidate on journalistic ethics is like having Dick Cheney tutor you on honesty and open government. It was, however, nice to hear Peev put Tucker in his place. To cap it off, after Carlson insults Peev for doing her job, he has the gall to chastise her, saying…<\/p>\n

“People don’t talk to you when you go out of your way to hurt them…”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You mean like when you declare that they, and all of their nation’s journalists, have low standards? I can’t think of many examples of American journalism’s standards that sink as low as Tucker. Seriously, when is this low-life, ratings loser going to be canceled?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the thoroughly overblown controversy surrounding Barack Obama’s foreign policy adviser, Samantha Power, there is no shortage of hysterical lunacy. Power, in a momentary lapse of judgment referred to Hillary Clinton as a “monster.” Clinton’s campaign then proceeded to act like one, calling for Power to be fired. It seems like an oddly inapt sanction […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1,16],"tags":[249,31,248,25],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-wankery","tag-gerri-peev","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-samantha-power","tag-tucker-carlson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-di","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54751,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=54751","url_meta":{"origin":824,"position":0},"title":"Tucker Carlson Exposes His Perverse Obsession with Hillary Clinton and Women’s Sexuality","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/16\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The list of things that Fox News gasbag Tucker Carlson hates is long and disturbingly sociopathic. 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