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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWell this explains Tucker Carlson:
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Go to Wikipedia and look at his entry under Early life and Education. Each sentence carries real weight and if you read it carefully, as though you were reading a mystery novel for clues (clews), you would see why this miscreant creep grew up to become a terrifyingly nauseating, repulsive, snot-nosed, condescending, stupidly-angry, physically repulsive, faux-articulate, pseudo-intellectual, sexually repressed, Giant asshole of the first order.
Did I mention that hes not my favorite guy??
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carlson
madaboutharry
(40,152 posts)If Tucker Carlson wasn't such a major league asshole one could almost feel a bit sorry for him.
He has some serious unresolved abandonment issues. Not a whole lot of loving in that family.
LastDemocratInSC
(3,625 posts)catbyte
(34,170 posts)with an atomic wedgie. I'll bet he was an insufferable little creep.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Probably in the Southern Hemisphere too.
brewens
(13,397 posts)CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Of course, the cast is all around my age, so it makes sense.
brewens
(13,397 posts)CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Deuxcents
(15,780 posts)For just about everyone I know. Hes a grown man with resources to get some help. Ive tried to watch him but after 15-20 seconds, I feel like Im being poisoned. I dont feel one ounce of anything for this empty hearted man.
LuvNewcastle
(16,820 posts)Cant imagine why.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,085 posts):/
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)It works for James Bond, but made Tucker look too much like Les Nessman of WKRP.
MissMillie
(38,454 posts)He is a small man.
tinrobot
(10,848 posts)From Wikipedia:
Carlson's mother was artist Lisa McNear (née Lombardi). He also has a brother, Buckley Peck Carlson (later, Buckley Swanson Peck Carlson), who is nearly two years younger.[19]
In 1976, Carlson's parents divorced after the nine-year marriage reportedly "turned sour."[19][20] Carlson's father was granted custody of Tucker and his brother. Carlson's mother left the family when he was six, wanting to pursue a "bohemian" lifestyle.[16][21][22]
Dick Carlson was said to be an active father who had a specific outlook in raising his sons:
I want them to be self-disciplined to the degree that I think is necessary to find satisfaction ... you measure a person on how far they go, on how far they've sprung. My parents, the Carlsons, they instilled a modesty in me that, at times, gets in my way ... I know it's immodest of me to say it, but it's difficult sometimes when you want to beat your own drum and say what you really think.
In 1979, Carlson's father married divorcée Patricia Caroline Swanson, an heiress to Swanson Enterprises. Swanson is the daughter of Gilbert Carl Swanson and the niece of Senator J. William Fulbright.[16][23]
When Carlson was in first grade, his father moved Tucker and his brother to La Jolla, California, and raised them there.[24][25] In La Jolla, Carlson attended La Jolla Country Day School and grew up in a home overlooking the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club.[26] His father owned property in Nevada, Vermont, and islands in Maine and Nova Scotia.[26][15]
Carlson was briefly enrolled at Collège du Léman, a boarding school in Switzerland, but says he was "kicked out".[27] He attained his secondary education at St. George's School, a boarding school in Middletown, Rhode Island. He then went to Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where he graduated in 1991 with a BA in history.[16] After college, Carlson tried to join the Central Intelligence Agency, but his application was denied, after which he decided to pursue a career in journalism with the encouragement of his father.[28][16]
If you have to read additional material to understand what the heck you're talking about, please excerpt it in your post.
But yeah, Tucker had a weird and privileged childhood.
rgbecker
(4,806 posts)Thanks tinrobot, for the help with the excerpt.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Is a valid excuse for being an asshole.
Was it the life of privilege? The top notch educational opportunities?
What am I missing?
LizBeth
(9,946 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,820 posts)in school. He could certainly be a character in one of his books. If I knew him, I think I'd be writing a tell-all. I hope somebody out there needs the money or wants to be famous.
PCIntern
(25,347 posts)For inexcusably not providing the link
nolabear
(41,915 posts)He attended 50 concerts? Have you learned nothing, lad?