We already know this. She's the innocent looking flak who casually compares pro-choice marchers to terrorists and insists that we should ask some serious questions about John Kerry's (undeniably heroic) military service while protecting her friend George from having to discuss his service at all. She's a bitch and I hate her.
Last year, conservative talk show host and prominent bowtie wearer Tucker Carlson had this to say about her in an interview with Salon.
CARLSON: Well, it's always disconcerting when something you write is received in a way you don't expect. I have no problem hurting someone's feelings -- obviously, I work on "Crossfire" -- but when you don't expect to, it's disconcerting. As I put in the book, the day before I filed the piece my wife asked, "Aren't people going to think you're sucking up?" And that was my concern, that people would think it's a suck-up piece.
SALON: And the response from team Bush?
CARLSON: It was very, very hostile. The reaction was: You betrayed us. Well, I was never there as a partisan to begin with.
Then I heard that [on the campaign bus, Bush communications director] Karen Hughes accused me of lying. And so I called Karen and asked her why she was saying this, and she had this almost Orwellian rap that she laid on me about how things she'd heard -- that I watched her hear -- she in fact had never heard, and she'd never heard Bush use profanity ever. It was insane.
I've obviously been lied to a lot by campaign operatives, but the striking thing about the way she lied was she knew I knew she was lying, and she did it anyway. There is no word in English that captures that. It almost crosses over from bravado into mental illness.
What galls me so much about people like Hughes is that their horrible remarks are never challenged to their faces. Sure, the blogoworld goes nuts and there are stories in some newspapers, but at the time of the offense, the interviewers never say, "Wait a minute. Are you suggesting that pro-choice marchers are ideologically aligned with terrorists?"
Dear News Media,
Do your job. How hard would that be?
Thanks,
Anthony
