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Maraya1969

(23,568 posts)
3. I don't understand anything. Tucker asked Hunter Biden for a college endorsement?
Mon Oct 24, 2022, 05:52 PM
Oct 2022

I know sometimes I am a dumb as a rock. But please splain this all to me!!!!

Maraya1969

(23,568 posts)
5. I guess the whole idea of Tuckums being friends with Hunter Biden is what is throwing me.
Mon Oct 24, 2022, 06:01 PM
Oct 2022

onenote

(46,228 posts)
11. Maybe an age thing. Sounds like a famous NY Yankee shortstop who was World Series MVP in 1978
Mon Oct 24, 2022, 07:50 PM
Oct 2022

and who hit one of the most famous home runs in the Yankees history.

Or maybe a certain Marvel Universe character (Bucky Barnes).

Volaris

(11,796 posts)
13. Lol nothing so cool as either of those things; the kid is named
Mon Oct 24, 2022, 08:05 PM
Oct 2022

after William F Buckley.

paleotn

(22,738 posts)
14. That is goofy.
Mon Oct 24, 2022, 08:15 PM
Oct 2022

Why not just name all his kids Ayn and number them like George Foreman with George Jr, George III, George IV, etc. Buckley at least had a brain. An Abby Normal brain, but a brain nonetheless.

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Beaverhausen

(24,706 posts)
10. I googled to make sure it's real
Mon Oct 24, 2022, 07:31 PM
Oct 2022

it is

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/05/tucker-carlson-asked-hunter-biden-for-recommendation-letter.html


early and often May 19, 2022

Tucker Carlson Used to Like Hunter Biden’s Nepotism

By Matt Stieb

It was the fall of 2014 and Tucker Carlson needed a favor. Not yet a household name, the Fox News commentator and heir to a frozen-dinner fortune wanted some help getting his son Buckley into Georgetown University, so he and his wife reached out to their neighbor Hunter Biden, the son of then-Vice-President Joe Biden.

more at the link

Liberal_Vet

(11 posts)
15. Carlson step mother was a heiress to the Swanson fortune.
Mon Oct 24, 2022, 08:29 PM
Oct 2022

According to Wikipedia. His father married Patricia Caroline Swanson in 1979. The Swansons sold Swanson Enterprises to Campbell Soup Company in 1955.

Scrivener7

(60,074 posts)
16. Efforts like this are my only regret about not having Twitter or Facebook.
Mon Oct 24, 2022, 08:42 PM
Oct 2022

But at least I can kick the thread!

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