If MSNBC thought having its new talk show host and CNN-refugee Tucker Carlson appear on Don Imus’ popular radioshow/MSNBC simulcast it was an unwise thought. Watch the WHOLE VIDEO HERE from beginning to end. See how Carlson doesn’t know when to back away from a sore point with Imus, then watch Imus explode first with Carlson on the line and then with both barrels after Carlson gets off (he apparently was kicked off). Make sure you watch ALL of it.
Let’s just put it this way: it was not the best…ahem…hype for a new talk show host that we’ve ever seen…
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.