Anybody watching Crossfire? 4:34 pm. ET?

[LittleApple81]

[obnoxiousdrunk]

1. No what's

going on ??

[ClintonTyree]

2. I think there's...............

a DU wide boycott of CNN today. I know I'm not watching, of course I seldom do.

[still_one]

3. I have been boycotting it for the last 3 months

[senseandsensibility]

4. I don't think it's a boycott

It's an e-mail, and phone campaign. Everyone's writing letters to them. I'm writing one every hour. Please participate if you haven't. Thanks@

[senseandsensibility]

5. I don't think it's a boycott

It's an e-mail, and phone campaign. Everyone's writing letters to them. I'm writing one every hour. Please participate if you haven't. Thanks!

[DeepModem Mom]

7. Not a boycott -- a blitz of emails, calls, faxes, etc. Some are watching

after tuning CNN out, in order to refamiliarize themselves with the situation, so they can communicate their grievances.

[VolcanoJen]

6. Tucker's sinking his jaws into John Edwards' throat again.

Blames the current health care crisis on Edwards' chosen profession.

Truly disgusting... although I do find it noteworthy that he seems to have dropped the "Jacuzzi Lawyer" tag, for now.

[DeepModem Mom]

8. Tucker calls him "Jacuzzi lawyer," with no regard for the little girl...

and her parents Edwards represented in a clear case of negligence with a tragic result??? I never heard that one --

[VolcanoJen]

9. Nice round-up of Tucker's shamefull "Jacuzzi" comments here:

If only Tucker had ever read one word about the story of Valerie Lakey. :-(

http://archive.salon.com/politics/war_room/2004/07/27/tucker/

The bow-tied conservative blowhard has repeatedly dismissed Edwards on "Crossfire" as a lawyer who used to "specialize in Jacuzzi cases." It's a reference to the case in which Edwards represented Valerie Lakey, a little girl from North Carolina whose intestines were sucked out when she got stuck to a drain in a wading pool at a recreation facility. A jury awarded the girl $25 million. After Salon chronicled Carlson's comments -- and the overall GOP war on Edwards as a "personal injury trial lawyer" -- the blog world ranted hard. One dailyKos diarist wished this upon Carlson: "I hope you wake up tomorrow and find yourself in hell, with succubus Ann Coulter sucking your insides out through a straw inserted in your a--, while John Ashcroft belts out 'Nearer my God to Thee' from a nearby Karaoke stage."

We saw Carlson in the halls of the Fleet Center this week, and we asked him about the flak he's taking. He said he hadn't heard about it, and he offered a testy defense.

"My contention is not that the girl wasn't grievously injured or deserves compensation, nor is it that he doesn't have the right to make $8 million off her suffering. My only point is that if you're going to make 7 or 8 or 6 or whatever million dollars off her suffering, don't claim it's an altruistic act," Carlson said.

Right, but isn't calling it a "Jacuzzi case" -- without further explanation -- somehow dismissive of what actually happened? "Are you going to lecture me? Are you going to ask me a question or lecture me? My point is not that it's a wine-and-cheese thing, and I'm not against Jacuzzis. That's not my point at all."


We saw Carlson in the halls of the Fleet Center this week, and we asked him about the flak he's taking. He said he hadn't heard about it, and he offered a testy defense.

"My contention is not that the girl wasn't grievously injured or deserves compensation, nor is it that he doesn't have the right to make $8 million off her suffering. My only point is that if you're going to make 7 or 8 or 6 or whatever million dollars off her suffering, don't claim it's an altruistic act," Carlson said.

More...[br />

[DeepModem Mom]

10. This alone may have caused Tucker to reconsider the label --

"I hope you wake up tomorrow and find yourself in hell, with succubus Ann Coulter sucking your insides out through a straw inserted in your a--, while John Ashcroft belts out 'Nearer my God to Thee' from a nearby Karaoke stage."

That dailyKos-er gets it done!