Do You Want Tucker Carlson's Car?

It is yours for the taking, since he has offered perhaps the dumbest bet in TV pundit history (if not the entire history of the universe), on his hopefully soon-to-be-axed MSNBC show:

Here is my guess, and I know that I'm right. I will bet my car, in fact. Bush will come out, this president when he leaves office, will come out in the next decade or so as a strong advocate on behalf of ending global warming. He will be, he will have an environmentally conscious post presidency.

Yes, and monkeys will fly out of my.... But, seriously. Tucker, don't give up your dancing career yet -- it shows more promise than your current one.

Bush has so far had an environmentally unconscious presidency. The only planet on which Bush could become an environmentalist is Htrae (aka the Bizzaro World).

Tucker isn't the only one who is in an alternate universe. In the same discussion, columnist Bob Franken says -- I kid you not:

George W. Bush has come at it as president from the point of view of corporate America, saying that we have to maintain our economy, and we have to figure out some sort of way consistent with that to attack global warming as long as we don't undermine the economy. Al Gore comes at it as, "I've got a slide show here which says that this is priority. We have to do this."

Yes -- Bush is the sensible climate hero, while Gore is the stubborn climate loser. Thank goodness nobody told the Nobel committee this.

Then comes this idiotic response to comments by the only person on the show living in the real world, Politico senior political columnist Roger Simon:

CARLSON: Yeah. Bush will change. I've been saying this for seven years. Nobody believes me.

SIMON: But Al Gore will suggest that's eight years too late.

CARLSON: Yeah, OK, OK. Well, I think -- I mean, I think Gore would have been a disaster as president. We'd have been living in the Dark Ages. I think he's fundamentally hostile to human civilization. And a phony.

SIMON: Would we be fighting a war in Iraq?

CARLSON: We would likely be not, not be fighting a war in Iraq. We'd also be living yurts in the dark, and that would be maybe almost as bad.

[For the record, a yurt is a "portable, felt-covered, wood lattice-framed dwelling structure used by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia."]

Hmm. Living in darkened yurts vs. war in Iraq (plus catastrophic global warming). That's a tough one. How about no war in Iraq, no catastrophic global warming, and a job-creating low-carbon economy? Be great if someone would run on that platform....

Originally posted at Climate Progress.

Comments

[Boris]

I dont want the Tucker car. The signal lights dont work and it always pulls to the right when you hit the brakes.

[babyboomerorig]

Poor Tucker...has no clue about anything that's happening outside that vaccuum he lives in.

[tweeker]

Tucker is an unfulfilled piss ant.

[realitytrumpsbull]

The environment is second to the economy, and
it always will be. Such is the way of the world,
call now and YOU can sponsor one of the
drowning polar bears...

[realpolitic]

Conservatives in media may make any mindless blather at all, while liberals must stick to the facts or their credibility is immediately challenged. Usually the more mindless a conservative is, the more popular, consider Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh.

Anyway, Tucker is dumb and unpopular. Bush's record on the environment is absymal. He plegded to regulate carbon dioxide emissions in his platform for the presidency and reversed himself. It was five years or so into his presidency before he could finally admit that global warming is caused by human activity.

Bush is a caveman. Tucker is as ideological as he. But as the Bush presidency finally, mercifully winds down, the historical revisionism by conservatives begins. Soon Bush will be elevated to another Lincoln.

Finally, why does Tucker constantly wear that silly grin where he tries to show off his dimples? He must be getting fan mail from sixteen year-old girls.

[UltraClassic]

Yurts for all my liberal and leftist democrat friends!

[23000Days]

BE great if someone ran on that platform."

H E L L O....... JOE? You in there? Joseph Romm?
Look under "K" on the democratic ticket!

[breakfast]

Bush's ranch in Texas, the Prairie Chapel is it?, is one of the most advanced, ecologically friendly, self sustaining installations that I have ever heard of, anywhere in the world. The rest of us can just eat cake, I suppose. Can't be casting pearls before any of the swine.

Maybe he will build something similar in Paraguay, or wherever it is he is going to hide out.

[RobertPaul]

Get rid of this embarrassment to the airwaves and replace him with Schuster or Maddow.

Maybe he could get a job with Time Magazine as a fact checker...I hear there's an opening at Joe Kline's desk.

[perdidodog]

Over the years I have pondered the mystery.

What exactly is it that keeps Tucker's abysmally rated show afloat?

Today the answer is clear

Tucker's brain cavity is filled with air.

[Camel54]

Let's see here, we have a likely recession on the way as a result of uncontrolled predatory businesses, healthcare costs have grown 4:1 with wages, home heating subsidies for the poor have been cut, groceries are three times more expensive than they were seven years ago, bankruptcy no longer means you get to keep your house, which you probably don't have any longer anyway because of the aforementioned predatory lenders so you're forced to string some lattices together and throw a thatched roof on top in which to live. That's called a what again?

[fullorage]

Who gives a shit what Bush says or does after he leaves Washington? It's all too little too late.We all just want him gone, except Tucker Carlson who is every bit the loser Bush is. I was listening to Jeff Farias last night on Nova M radio and a listener called in with some Bushism and Jeff relayed the time Bush said he just wants to get back to Crawford and crawl in with the lump beside him in bed. In other words he just wants to get to a place where no one makes any demands of him and he can lallygag around cutting brush and driving around The Prairie Chapel Ranch,that is what he named his ranch in Crawford. Messianic!!Yeah, go, just go, and take all the deadbeat,wife beaters and closeted gay, gay bashers with you. Good riddance to bad trash.

[imusintheevening]

Who gives a shit what this assinine President will think in the future when he has no ability to make policy. It is what one does while in the job that counts. Now go in the corner and eat another TV dinner Tucker.

[racom]

turker, the yurt yurk!

[WIpatriot]

I wouldn't wait for the "decade or so" for Tucker's car. Who'd want a 20-yr old POS?