{"id":12707,"date":"2007-08-29T16:10:34","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T20:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/12707.html"},"modified":"2007-08-29T16:10:34","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T20:10:34","slug":"tough-guy-tucker-boasts-of-bathroom-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/tough-guy-tucker-boasts-of-bathroom-brawl\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough guy Tucker boasts of bathroom brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"

This<\/a> has been making the rounds today, and it’s just too odd to ignore.<\/p>\n

On the August 28 edition of MSBNC Live, hosted by MSNBC general manager Dan Abrams, Tucker Carlson, host of MSNBC’s Tucker, asserted, “Having sex in a public men’s room is outrageous. It’s also really common. I’ve been bothered in men’s rooms.” Carlson continued, “I’ve been bothered in Georgetown Park,” in Washington, D.C., “when I was in high school.” When Abrams asked how Carlson responded to being “bothered,” Carlson asserted, “I went back with someone I knew and grabbed the guy by the — you know, and grabbed him, and … hit him against the stall with his head, actually.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You’ll have to watch the clip<\/a> to appreciate the full exchange — Carlson’s MSNBC colleagues seemed to think the anecdote was hilarious<\/i> — but the whole thing is bizarre. On the one hand, Carlson says, “I’m not anti-gay in the slightest” and “I’m the least anti-gay right-winger you’ll ever meet.” On the other hand, Carlson seems to be bragging about helping to beat up a gay guy who allegedly hit on him in a bathroom.<\/p>\n

Steve Clemons<\/a>, Brad Plumer<\/a>, and Atrios<\/a>, among others, have interesting takes on the subject.<\/p>\n

I’d just add one more question to the mix: how is it possible that Tucker Carlson keeps ended up in racy and dangerous bathrooms?
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\nConsider these quotes from the MSNBC exchange:<\/p>\n

* “Having sex in a public men’s room is outrageous. It’s also really common.”<\/p>\n

* “I’m not anti-gay in the slightest, but that’s really common, and the gay rights groups ought to disavow that kind of crap because, you know, that actually does bother people who didn’t ask for being bothered.”<\/p>\n

* “I do think doing this in men’s rooms appears to be common. It’s totally wrong, and they should knock it off.”<\/p>\n

* “I can’t bring my son to the men’s room at the park where he plays soccer because of all these creepy guys hanging around in there. I actually think it’s a problem.”<\/p>\n

Now, I lived in DC for quite a while, and I’d never heard of this phenomenon. To hear Tucker Carlson tell, the greater Washington area is suffering from an epidemic of public bathroom sex, so much so that it’s now “really common.”<\/p>\n

Is Carlson just remarkably unlucky, or is he wildly exaggerating?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This has been making the rounds today, and it’s just too odd to ignore. On the August 28 edition of MSBNC Live, hosted by MSNBC general manager Dan Abrams, Tucker Carlson, host of MSNBC’s Tucker, asserted, “Having sex in a public men’s room is outrageous. It’s also really common. I’ve been bothered in men’s rooms.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}