Greta Van Susteren, Tucker Carlson Have Wild Fight Over Sarah Palin Story (VIDEO)

Fox News host Greta Van Susteren and Daily Caller editor Tucker Carlson had a scorching, intense, highly acrimonious debate on Monday night about an article Carlson's website had run.

Van Susteren began a feud with Carlson by taking to her blog and writing a scathing post about a Daily Caller article on some very offensive comments made about Sarah Palin by boxer Mike Tyson. The initial article quoted Tyson at length talking about allegations that Palin had a fling with former basketball player Glen Rice, but did not contain any overt denunciation of the comments. Later, Carlson posted an editor's note to the piece, stressing that he found Tyson's quotes "repulsive" -- but not before Van Susteren walloped his judgment on her blog.

She wrote that Carlson was a "pig" with no judgment who was pushing "smut" and violence against women by letting Tyson's quotes run without comment. Carlson defended himself, saying he was trying to let Tyson's words speak for themselves. On Monday, Carlson appeared on Van Susteren's Fox News show, and it was clear that the two were still in deep disagreement.

Carlson said he was confused about Van Susteren's reaction. "Somehow you assumed that we were somehow making this attack on Sarah Palin, which is the opposite in fact of what we were doing," he said. Van Susteren wasn't buying that.

"I think you're lying, Tucker," she said. She accused him of attaching his editor's note because people "started raising holy hell" about the post. "It's not journalism," she said. "It glorifies violence against women."

"Please stop your ad hominem attacks," Carlson said. He repeated that the site was merely doing its reporting job, and compared it to quoting a member of Al Qaeda.

"You're not a first offender with me," Van Susteren said. "I gave you the benefit of the doubt six months ago when you wrote that MILF comment [about Sarah Palin] on your tweet."

Carlson fired back by noting that, during Tyson's most recent appearance on Van Susteren's show, the host had "asked him nothing about his sexual assault." He wondered why Van Susteren was getting so angry about Tyson now. The two then shouted over each other for some time.

"You're a purveyor of the worst smut and violence against women!" Van Susteren told Carlson. "...You tried to hide it with that little editorial note."

The conversation continued until Van Susteren's producer forced her to go to commercial. After the show, Van Susteren took to her blog, saying the conversation "didn't go well." Carlson, on the other hand, tweeted that he had "genuinely enjoyed" the chat.

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Comments

[Petrullo]

11:50 PM on 09/28/2011

Greta - You have changed so much since I met you in the courthouse cafeteria during he OJ Simpson trial. Your interview with Sarah Palin? Why are you working so hard to win favor with Sarah Palin who, from any perspective, is totally incompetent. She's absolutely beautiful and very sexy, which is why she attracts attention. But, please, be truthful. If Palin looked like Bela Abzug, she would never have attracted more than 3 people. I've been to he rallies - all you hear from the audience is guys wanting to take her home, etc.

We need responsible journalism - not FOX or MSNBC ideologies - Americans need reporters to "give us the facts" and, honestly, you should have knocked Palin down to earth with the right questions which would have taken all of 30 seconds.

[champions1]

07:18 PM on 09/22/2011

more like the bloody plague....

[champions1]

07:14 PM on 09/22/2011

JaMES in a wig...hahahahhehheha

[LXO3]

11:16 AM on 09/22/2011

woww..greta does have the hots for sarah ..she's protecting her gufriend!

[BoFo]

02:09 AM on 09/22/2011

Is it just me, or does she look like James Carville in a wig?

[David Kellemen]

07:36 PM on 09/21/2011

Don't care for either one of them. It was fun to watch Van Sustern slap Carlson around.

[jofother]

06:33 PM on 09/21/2011

Palin has Greta in her back pocket - thats what this is really about.

[hoagie76]

12:49 AM on 09/22/2011

more than her back pocket sarah's got greta in a scissors lock, just the way greta likes it :-)

[trucap]

05:18 PM on 09/21/2011

I never liked this Tucker Carlson . As usual he spent 6 minutes attacking Tyson and calling him names while Van Susteren calling him a liar , and never explained what she was accusing him for. What a bunch of unw0rthy char@cters...!

[bigfile4]

04:57 PM on 09/21/2011

Tucker Carlson is a very BRIGHT guy. She had her hands full in that exchange.

[imajoebob]

05:51 PM on 09/21/2011

Tucker's biggest problem is he's not as bright as he THINKS he is. Not nearly, in fact.

[hoagie76]

12:50 AM on 09/22/2011

if tucker's bright then it must be very dark where you are

[lesherb]

04:08 PM on 09/21/2011

I have no idea what Tyson supposedly said but Van Susteren has some strange affinity for Palin. Why?

[OkhamsRazzor]

04:06 PM on 09/21/2011

Are they whining about comedy shows again?!? I know they never keep up with real news, but can they at least try??

Be fun to watch if we were this thin-skinned in the 60's-70s.

[OkhamsRazzor]

04:01 PM on 09/21/2011

...sex on the desk

Would of made this story interesting. (For those who click the boxes on stories that appear above here)

[OkhamsRazzor]

04:39 PM on 09/21/2011

The title I saw was "Greta Van Susteren, Tucker Carlson Have..

I guess I wasn't the only one filling in a blank there.

[OkhamsRazzor]

05:51 PM on 09/21/2011

Oh come on that was funny. I guess I need to work the night crowd. ; /

[A True Amurican]

03:27 PM on 09/21/2011

Ha! Which of these buffoons has the less credibility?

That Van Susterninininin creature lost all integrity and claim to being worthy of respect when she became Murdoch's butt girl.

[TommyMcCarthy]

02:16 PM on 09/21/2011

You know Tucker's in a corner when he says "Somehow" twice in one sentence and adds an "in fact" for good measure.
tm

[pocketnunu]

02:04 PM on 09/21/2011

Tyson's comments should have been aired on Howard Stern, not ESPN. As someone else here said, this is locker room talk and IMHO, it should have stayed there. I'm not a prude, and realistic enough about what some men think and feel about sex and women, and coming from Tyson, was not at all shocked or surprised. What is shocking and surprising is it was regurgitated on a political website where Tyson's comments had no place, except as yet another example of men talking dirty about conservative women, white women, and women in general. Note also the general agreement, sniggering, giggling and outright laughing from the interviewer and others sitting in on the interview.

What did bother me about the article is nowhere in the text did the reporter-blogger, Jeff Poor, insert any statement that said something to the effect, "We report, you decide," or "You heard it here. What do you think?", thereby establishing a neutral tone, but also one which says (but doesn't say outright), Look at this man's comments, see how it debases and demeans not only Sarah Palin, but women in general.

The article by itself simply reported Tyson's words unexpurgated, unbleeped. That some people misunderstood the point of the article means Carlson, the headline editor, and Jeff Poor goofed. But that doesn't excuse Greta's over the top rant.

[champions1]

07:21 PM on 09/22/2011

geesh...really all of that...do you tire easily, white women? REALLY...snicker

[phal4875]

10:18 PM on 09/26/2011

I thought it was "We distort, you comply."

[pocketnunu]

03:18 PM on 09/29/2011

LOL. Even that would have been better than the kind of not making a point at all, just throwing it out there thing by Daily Caller.