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PCIntern

(25,347 posts)
Thu Dec 17, 2020, 11:00 AM Dec 2020

Well this explains Tucker Carlson:

Last edited Thu Dec 17, 2020, 01:24 PM - Edit history (1)

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 he’s not my favorite guy??

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carlson

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Well this explains Tucker Carlson: (Original Post) PCIntern Dec 2020 OP
That actually made me a little sad. madaboutharry Dec 2020 #1
But plenty of free Swanson frozen TV dinners. LastDemocratInSC Dec 2020 #19
I imagine he spent an inordinate amount of time in high school stuffed inside his locker catbyte Dec 2020 #2
He's also intimate with a toilet's "spin cycle". CaptYossarian Dec 2020 #4
Wasn't that called a "swirly" on Seinfeld? n/t brewens Dec 2020 #5
It was also called that in my school. CaptYossarian Dec 2020 #9
I still feel bad that we didn't at least give them some shampoo. :) n/t brewens Dec 2020 #11
Just to see if they'd go back in to rinse. CaptYossarian Dec 2020 #14
Life is not a bowl of cherries Deuxcents Dec 2020 #3
Turned down by the CIA LuvNewcastle Dec 2020 #6
Lack of any I. Tommy_Carcetti Dec 2020 #7
It was probably the bow tie back then. CaptYossarian Dec 2020 #10
I can describe him in 5 words MissMillie Dec 2020 #8
The required reading to understand this post tinrobot Dec 2020 #12
Or at least a link. rgbecker Dec 2020 #13
Yeah, I'm confused on which part of his life Progressive Jones Dec 2020 #15
Ya/ I didn't read any sad or anything else that would be enlightening. LizBeth Dec 2020 #16
You know, after re-reading that, I wonder if Bret Easton Ellis knew him LuvNewcastle Dec 2020 #17
My humble apologies PCIntern Dec 2020 #18
Wait--Carlson's a Deadhead? nolabear Dec 2020 #20

madaboutharry

(40,152 posts)
1. That actually made me a little sad.
Thu Dec 17, 2020, 11:07 AM
Dec 2020

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.

catbyte

(34,170 posts)
2. I imagine he spent an inordinate amount of time in high school stuffed inside his locker
Thu Dec 17, 2020, 11:09 AM
Dec 2020

with an atomic wedgie. I'll bet he was an insufferable little creep.

Deuxcents

(15,780 posts)
3. Life is not a bowl of cherries
Thu Dec 17, 2020, 11:15 AM
Dec 2020

For just about everyone I know. He’s a grown man with resources to get some help. I’ve tried to watch him but after 15-20 seconds, I feel like I’m being poisoned. I don’t feel one ounce of anything for this empty hearted man.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
10. It was probably the bow tie back then.
Thu Dec 17, 2020, 11:47 AM
Dec 2020

It works for James Bond, but made Tucker look too much like Les Nessman of WKRP.

tinrobot

(10,848 posts)
12. The required reading to understand this post
Thu Dec 17, 2020, 11:53 AM
Dec 2020

From Wikipedia:

Carlson was born in San Francisco, California. His great-great grandfather Cesar Lombardi immigrated to New York from Switzerland in 1860.[14] He is the elder son of Richard Warner Carlson, a former "gonzo reporter"[15] who became the director of the Voice of America, president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the U.S. ambassador to the Seychelles.[16] Carlson's paternal grandparents were Richard Boynton and Dorothy Anderson, teenagers who placed his father in an orphanage where he was adopted when he was two years old by the Carlsons. Richard Carlson's adoptive father was a wool broker.[17][15][18]

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.

Progressive Jones

(6,011 posts)
15. Yeah, I'm confused on which part of his life
Thu Dec 17, 2020, 12:12 PM
Dec 2020

Is a valid excuse for being an asshole.

Was it the life of privilege? The top notch educational opportunities?

What am I missing?

LuvNewcastle

(16,820 posts)
17. You know, after re-reading that, I wonder if Bret Easton Ellis knew him
Thu Dec 17, 2020, 12:49 PM
Dec 2020

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.

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