A History Lesson For Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlson, attempting to make a case for the retention of Jim Johnson as an official Obama Veep-Vetter, revealed a perplexing gap in his knowledge of Presidential history. See, Carlson was glad to see Obama put Johnson to use because, "Barack Obama has the thinnest resume of any modern presidential candidate with a shot of actually winning."

It seems odd (puzzling even...this is not the Tucker Carlson we knew!) that Carlson is not aware of the career of Ronald Reagan, who served as the President of the United States from 1981-1989, despite having only eight years of government experience - three fewer than Obama - on his "resume." Similarly, 20th century Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson had a "shot at winning," and did, indeed, win the Presidency, despite having thinner resumes than Obama (Wilson, for example, served a single two-year term as the Governor of New Jersey prior to becoming President).

Of course, for a fitting argument against thin resumes one need only make a visit to the White House, whose current resident has compounded the inadequacies of his thin legislative record with a confounding tendency to accrue competence at a disproportionate rate to his gains in experience. Meanwhile, we have John McCain, whose own quarter-century of experience has somehow failed to inform him of the need to arrest or reverse the current downward trajectory of our national handbasket.

[WATCH.]

CARLSON: I'm the only person in America who feels this way. I want people like Jim Johnson around Barack Obama. Barack Obama has the thinnest resume of any modern Presidential candidate with a shot at actually winning. Very talented. not much experience. You want people who know how the government actually works - who know how Washington works.

Comments

[BeSpoke]

Is Tucker marrying in California now that he's allowed to?

[oafishcad]

Tucker Carlson is a partisan Republican with an agenda. He wants President McCain. He'll take any opportunity to, truthfully or not, smear the Democratic nominee. Why expect anything but a partisan attack?

[imanih]

I never like Tucker Carlson after his coverage of Hurricane Katrina. He still irritates!
He is another person who has gotten away with making statements without doing
thorough research. He is very transparent!

[Startreklivz]

"Tucker Carlson speaks about a topic in the news and is inaccurate, misleading, and uninformed."

How is this a revelation? Isn't it his normal behavior?

[jimstaro]

Tucker, History? Tuckers a part of the history of rove revisionism. They were doing it as they accused others of, done to cover the fact of their using and to focus minds on the accusations!

I've yet to figure out how tucker ended up on my tube, and for so long, as he keeps popping up. Although he is friends with the crowd that brought us Gannon, does the tuck have an obscure website as Jeff!

[TruEngineHearing]

Listen up roadies: take this thing down.

This article has been sitting here since June 11th, and still it doesn't make it's point. It's not fermenting - it's just plain old rotting.

[kvet]

Please!!!....No more Tucker Carlson......Frankly,,,,hes annoying,,,,and everytime he comes on,,,,,I end up switching the channel....seriously!....I just wish the Network would give him the Boot!....and bring in a Fresh New Face....In his Place......."Just Say NO to Tucker Carlson".....better Yet,,,,NEVER!!!!!

[chrisbee]

Tucker Carlson makes me laugh- he is truly a partisan HACK posing himself a libertarian! It's so transparent.
Hey Tucker- go away, Bob Barr needs you!!!

[M1]

Tucker Carlson is not credible. He tries to slip in information he has calculated to do the most damage to Obama. He keeps coming up empty...just not smart enough. He should go ask Rachel Maddow to give him some descent talking points.

[SethBLiNK]

I'd say W's resume is in this same category. He had military experience and business experience, but based on the quality of that experience, was considered a minus rather than a plus on his resume. He served on his father's campaign, but not in his government.

And ten he was Governor of Texas for one term plus one year when he declared.

[Southrnbelle]

Why won't MSNBC give this infant his bottle and put him to bed???????

[kvet]

Tucker is that you?.....screening my remarks?

[lynninny]

Tucker Carlson is a tool. When I want a good laugh, I watch the clip of Jon Stewart on Crossfire, roasting Carlson alive with his superior intellect and wit. Terrible when the host of a show on Comedy Central is vastly superior journalist on any issue than this paid dork on MSNBC (or most "serious" journalists, for that matter).

[adavis08]

Tucker is the most obnoxious person on MSNBC. It's no wonder his show was cancelle, and now it seems Chris Mathews, and Joe Scarborough feel soory for him and ask him to do guest spots on thier shows. He thinks he knows everything and his little snippy attitude in annoying. All he ever does is criticize Obama, calling him elitist. He is obviously biased toward blacks.

[Hare]

Ignorants on the airwaves. What else is new? oh yeah, inexperienced mouths spewing incoherent absurdities.

[sclucie]

No, Tucker is an idiot - one of a large fraternity of MSM journalists who went to private academies, Ivy League schools on the legacy plan, and get their news from sleazy right wing blogs. Then they try to comment on anybody who votes Democratic as elitists. I find almost the whole generation of rich boys paying journalists revolting. Didn't they even study the real ones at those fancy schools?

[xhibi]

Tucker is not an idiot people. Just because you don't like him, can't call him an idiot.

Tucker is however very partisan, more then Buchanan sometimes on air. As in, a media talking head is supposed to make sens of the situation for the people to understand. Whereas, Tucker does the opposite; confuse people with word games so to make the situation less clear, more partisan.

Tucker is as appropriate of a media talking head as Carl Rove is.

By the way, George Bush after he leaves the White House, will go to Faux Noise too, to become a political commentator, and the Faux Noise heads will too call him "our own George" as they call Carl Rove.

[se7enMMBsg]

Xhibi quote: "Tucker is not an idiot people. Just because you don't like him, can't call him an idiot."

. . . yeah, i guess i can see where you're coming from "xhibi", but, see, I don't like Tucker Carlson . . . . . and he's an IDIOT.

~se7en

[gnomic]

Tucker, you are truly a representative of your party! Keep it up!

[champislove]

Everyone knows that Tucker is an idoit. That's why he lost his show. Go to Fox where you belong Tucker