Tucker Carlson's recent comments about a 1985 attack by French militants on a Greenpeace ship which left one crew member dead have gotten him in a bit of trouble with Greenpeace, though being on cable may protect him from the FCC, which has no power over cable and satellite programs (The Situation with Tucker Carlson airs on MSNBC). Carlson used the tragedy to demonstrate his "objectively pro-France" stance. I have not seen the episode, or heard Carlson's comment in context. If anyone else heard it, feel free to ring in.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
8-12-2005 @ 11:12AM
sam said...
tragedy? The "Rainbow Warrior" was a terrorist vessel. It was used to ram peaceful fishing ships, because apprarently greenpeace doesn't like it when people have food to eat or oil to use. Not if it comes from their sacred whales, even legally. During the time of the bombing, they were using to boat to drop people on an island where the french were doing nuclear testing. Killing that one person could have saved all of them. But they don't care. They would have preferred to die as martyrs, they would be going to their level 5 vegan heaven anyway.
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8-12-2005 @ 12:27PM
Dave Caolo said...
Didn't John Stewart already definitively demonstrate what a useless tool this guy is? Why is he even getting press anymore?
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8-12-2005 @ 7:33PM
Eliot Phillips said...
Transcript links:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/08/11.html#a4408
Greenpeace wrote the FCC for some reason:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/stories/2005/08/11/greenpeaceFilesFccComplaintAgainstTuckerCarlson.html
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8-12-2005 @ 7:39PM
Chris said...
It wasn't French militants, it was France. As in the country. An official action of the french military approved by the government.
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8-12-2005 @ 7:41PM
Sugar said...
Since, sam has given such a detailed and knowledgeable recount of this event...this is probably not needed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpeace
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4658065.stm
http://www.asiapac.org.fj/PJR/issues/back95/95rainbow.html
I guess because I don't watch network/cable news...I don't settle for misinformed sound bites and incendiary statements that have no basis or supporting facts and information.
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8-13-2005 @ 1:25PM
sensitive_man said...
Thank you Sugar!
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