The Dunce Cap

At Tucker Carlson's Daily Teacher-Sex Crime Blotter ("Filthy fifth-grade teacher busted for showing porn to six-year-old boy; This summer’s hottest teachers who allegedly got busy with students; Shock claim: 40,000 public school teachers moonlight on sugar-daddy website") & Parade Magazine of Lame Gotchas:

Eliot Spitzer appears with racist anti-Semite

Final paragraph:

“The campaign did not invite him and Eliot did not know who he was. Eliot disagrees with the comments in question and we repudiate his endorsement,” Spitzer spokeswoman and former Obama campaign staffer Lis Smith said in a statement after the campaign of Spitzer’s rival for comptroller, Scott Stringer, criticized the event.

Just a bit of the intellectual freedom rampant at Tucker's pixel-rag.

One could (as an exercise in intellectual freedom, maybe) compare & contrast:

Beyond the obvious, what do a far-right Italian politician, the president of the John Birch Society and former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul have in common?

In early September, the men are all scheduled to speak – along with a lengthy list of archconservative clergy, lawyers and academics – at a conference in Canada sponsored by the Fatima Center, part of the “radical traditionalist Catholic” movement, perhaps the single largest group of hard-core anti-Semites in North America.

Paul, the former Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate, is the keynote speaker of the weeklong conference slated for Sept. 8-13 in Niagara Falls, Ontario.

Ron Paul Appears W/ Tucker Carlson!!

GOTCHA!

TheDC is what we imagine Playboy for Kids would look like; bikini T&A & humor for witty, urbane eight-yr. olds. (When Tucker follows Rupert Murdoch's lead & goes Page 3 of The Sun is anybody's guess, but he's on a steep slope w/ treacherous footing now; the slightest decrease in viewership could send him sliding.)

What, then is different? What sacred cow of liberalism was so effectively mocked &/or insulted that we were compelled to type?

Columnist Matt K. Lewis seeing parallels between the denizens of Tucker's Frat House of Legacies & the "old" Oakland Raiders is what. The Raiders are the sports entertainment corporation best at marketing itself to would-be trouble-making bad-asses, which Matt may think he is. More like a wanna-be would-be, if he could-be; Matt's the kind of guy who is "fond" of things, not someone who'd get a "Born to Raise Hell" tattoo*. "Quite fond" of some things.

Some of Klosterman’s villains are serious (Hitler and O.J.); others are less serious (The Eagles). But my favorite chapter is on the Oakland Raiders. In reading it, I began to see some parallels with another organization I’m quite fond of.

That was the what, this is the why. (You may not be ready for this; fasten your seat belt or hold on to something.)

My favorite part: “The Raiders were not villains because everyone on the team was a reprobate; the Raiders were villains because everyone on the team was intellectually free.” (bold mine).

Maybe this explains why — when it comes to press accounts, at least — we so often wear the black hat?

"Intellectually free" (riotous laughter ours). Yes, look only at giants of the intellect Jim "Sean Medlock" Treacher, Mickey "You know the meme" Kaus or Neil "Hey Boy" Munro to understand why the press is fitting them for a black Stetson: All hat, no cattle.Nothing, & we mean nothing skrees intellectual freedom louder than Carlson's smorgasbord of jagoffs, who vary from conservative through libertarian/libertarian populist (riotous laughter ours again, sorry) Tea Partiers & all the way to the regular Republican jagoffs on the other side of the steam trays, then around again for seconds.

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*Or anything beyond a strenuous objection.