More From American Leftist

I again recommend the 'American Leftist' web-site (just click the above heading to get to it) for the quality of wicked humour in its political writing. You don't need to know the complete dramatis personae in what follows to find it amusing:- "What, if Anything, Is the Purpose of Karen Hughes? As far as conservative TV pundits go, I rightly-or-wrongly throw Tucker Carlson into the not-as-bad-as-some-of-them bin because of several endearing statements he's made in the past. One is describing Grover Norquist as a 'mean-spirited, humorless, dishonest little creep' who's like 'the leering, drunken uncle everyone else wishes would stay home'. Another is the following query to a Salon interviewer, 'I don't know who would want to watch that shit. Do you?', the shit in question being The O'Reilly Factor. But amusing slams aside, Carlson's most interesting piece and major claim on not-completely-evil-ness is his Talk Magazine interview with then-Governor George W. Bush in which he (a) describes Bush mocking the final pleas of a woman he has condemned to death and (b) describes Bush swearing like a sailor. Not very surprisingly (b) caused more of a stir than (a) among Bush's evangelical base. "