Tucker on Receiving End of Bashing After the Host Boasts of Hitting Gay Man
New York Daily News
By Helen Kennedy
MSNBC TV host Tucker Carlson fought back against accusations of gay-bashing yesterday after he crowed on the air about beating a man who “bothered” him in a mall bathroom.
“It infuriates me to be called a gay-basher, since he was the predator, not me,” Carlson said.
Carlson, a conservative pundit known for the trademark bow tie he wore when he co-hosted CNN’s “Crossfire” shoutfest, now hosts “Tucker” on MSNBC.
In an on-air discussion Tuesday about Idaho Sen. Larry Craig’s arrest for making advances in a men’s room, Carlson volunteered he had been “bothered” in a Washington bathroom 20 years ago.
I was on ABC News’ iCaught tonight…
Karl Frisch, a spokesman for Media Matters for America, appeared on ABC News’ iCaught on Tuesday, August 21 at 9/8c. ABC News senior national correspondent Jake Tapper and Frisch discussed the use of online video in holding the media accountable and the effect it had in toppling Don Imus.
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