Tucker Carlson proclaimed himself the “least anti-gay right winger you’ll ever meet” right after telling a little tale about being hit on in a bathroom in Georgetown. He claimed that after the incident he found a friend of his, returned to the bathroom to find the guy who was interested in him and ”hit him against the stall with his head.”
This came up, obviously, during a discussion on Larry Craig where he described the Idaho Senator as being “not in possession of himself” and saying “there’s something wrong with Larry Craig.” “I’m not a shrink,” he goes on to say. Tucker, I’m not a shrink either, but methinks you have some anger issues.
I know whenever I feel slightly effeminate, it helps to reinforce my heterosexual masculinity by kicking some guys ass. Everyone wins! The ladies, me, and the poor smuck (by reinstating that he’s wrong at life).
I thought head smashing means “yes.”
Its all about context recklesley
He issued a statement concerning this:
“Let me be clear about an incident I referred to on MSNBC last night: In the mid-1980s, while I was a high school student, a man physically grabbed me in a men’s room in Washington, DC. I yelled, pulled away from him and ran out of the room. Twenty-five minutes later, a friend of mine and I returned to the men’s room. The man was still there, presumably waiting to do to someone else what he had done to me. My friend and I seized the man and held him until a security guard arrived.
Several bloggers have characterized this is a sort of gay bashing. That’s absurd, and an insult to anybody who has fought back against an unsolicited sexual attack. I wasn’t angry with the man because he was gay. I was angry because he assaulted me.”
I can understand what he’s saying, however I think that it is interesting that this was brought up while talking about Larry Craig who was allegedly soliciting sex without the use of force. To proposition someone in an airport bathroom and to grab someone and try to forcibly have sex with them are two very different things. While he claims that he was acting out of self defense, he can’t blame people for thinking that his comment and actions were innapropriate. Maybe he should have elaborated a little bit, instead of being vague and sounding like an asshole.
Also interesting is how instead of laughing and talking about he slammed someone’s head into a wall, he now claims that he and the unidentified friend merely held the assailant until a security guard arrived.
I’m not defending him, although I did notice when I watched the clip that it seems like I missed a lot of the story.
They asked “what did you do to him” or whatever without any mention of what they were discussing.
This is a more complete transcript of the show:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200708290003
You’re right, it was an incomplete clip.