So what you're really saying is that Tucker Carlson is the Alan Colmes of the Right.

What really bugs me about The Daily Show is that high school-age kids will watch it and think that they are "informed" and "politically conscious."

Ace, I think your dislike for Carlson colors your impressions of the Pinkerton quote. If that was a slapdown, it was delivered with a limp wrist.

If you'd like to contrast Carlson wtih Pinkerton, ask yourself who's filled with his own importance?

OBTW. Calrson bitch-slapped Stewart on the show ("Be funny, John, be funny!"). And Stewart has prodigious talent, although his show became unwatchable as he and staff became shills for the Dims.

In the world of Liberal pundits being right is secondary to being politically correct. I can remember writing letters to PBS radio about that great blowhard of the Left, Daniel Schorr. I pointed out that his great prognostications for the last three years had all been wrong, and wishing I had the kind of job where I could be wrong so much of the time and it wouldn't matter. Come to think of it, I need to start my own blog.

On Tucker Carlson, I have to agree with something Ron and/or Fez said on their radio show, which is that wearing a bow tie is appropriate for only two occasions: 1. Getting married, and 2. Serving ice cream.

Does Colmes think he's a republican? Or is he supposed to be the retarded sidekick to Hannity?

I like that comment, Tucker Carlson=Alan Colmes. Good analogy.

I saw Tucker with Jon Stewart on the television when Stewart said his infamous "stop it, you're hurting the country" line..... and it was really Jon Stewart that was seriously lacking gravitas as he often is. I don't pay attention to Tucker, there are many more, brilliant and worhty pundits out there, in print and on the tube.

The end of this post touches on something that has been bothering me the last couple of weeks.
Lost in all of the year end wrap-up and 1st Anniversary posting is the fact that Jon Stewart has become both the biggest Democratic shill as well as the most overrated person in Hollywood. Its a shame what passes for literature these days.

I saw Pinkerton's critique of Tucker Carlson and it was delightful because it was an acid-tongued work of art. And everyone there knew it was devastating, and true, so they cringed at it....sort of like someone throwing a phosporous grenade in a cave and all of a sudden there is this screaming Al Qaeda guy tumbling out enveloped in flames.

Horrible, yet righteous.

Carlson is the fresh, empty Repblican face who regularly gets buffalo'd by Democratic hacks...draws rotten ratings...yet seems to advance in Media Stardom..as opposed to Allen Colmes who is also regularly buffalo'd by conservatives, but seems sincere, plays a good foil, and helps the ratings. But who will never be the Next Big Media Star that Carlson was being groomed by PBS and NBC to be before Pinkerton napalmed his ass.

As for Crossfire, remember it started with some thoughful exchanges on 60 minutes with Point/Counterpoint. But Crossfire is pure schlock....no discussion, just hacks shouting past each other...and Jon Stewart showing up and doing an adroit takedown move right in the Crossfire producers homecourt will be remembered as one of the great moments in elevating TV. (And I don't care if Stewart is Democratic or not. He did millions of Americans interested in bona fide discussion of issues a real service.)