{"id":305,"date":"2008-10-16T14:10:25","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T21:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickyopaterny.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/16\/tucker-carlson-used-to-wear-bow-ties-and-now-hes-funny\/"},"modified":"2008-10-16T14:10:26","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T21:10:26","slug":"tucker-carlson-used-to-wear-bow-ties-and-now-hes-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/16\/tucker-carlson-used-to-wear-bow-ties-and-now-hes-funny\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Carlson used to wear bow ties and now he&#8217;s funny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I still know him as the guy who Jon Stewart derided on Crossfire for wearing a bow tie, but Tucker Carlson actually displays some great wit in his review of last night&#8217;s debate over at Tina Brown&#8217;s new venture,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2008-10-16\/itrsquos-over-obama-won\/\">The Daily Beast.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the strangest moment of all came when McCain raised Rep. John Lewis\u2019 slur against him. If someone called you a bigot, likened you to George Wallace and the Alabama church bombers, would you describe him, non-ironically, as \u201can American hero\u201d? Yes, Lewis behaved honorably during the civil rights movement. But the sad truth, known to virtually everyone in Washington, is that Lewis is a mediocrity as a congressman, and has been for many years. It would have been nice to hear a little straight talk from McCain on that subject.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, if you think that\u2019s an unfair description of Lewis, tune into to C-SPAN some time and listen to him speak for 20 minutes. Then ask yourself an honest question: Is this man really smarter than Sarah Palin? He\u2019s not.<\/p>\n<p>Not that any of this matters for the purposes of the election. It\u2019s over. Obama won.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still know him as the guy who Jon Stewart derided on Crossfire for wearing a bow tie, but Tucker Carlson actually displays some great wit in his review of last night&#8217;s debate over at Tina Brown&#8217;s new venture,\u00a0The Daily Beast. But the strangest moment of all came when McCain raised Rep. John Lewis\u2019 slur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}