Terrible Tucker

By Baxter

Tucker Carlson says he won't read the four-part (four-part!) series about him in The New York Times. Which means we cats have something in common with Tucker Carlson. (We're not linking to it, either.)

The series must be thousands and thousands and thousands of words, and we can't imagine spending that much time with America's biggest on-air racist. So it's a good thing newsies are circulating "takeaway" lists that pretty much boil down to this: The frozen-fish heir is the country's leading seller of hate, lies and nativism.

"Here is the Tucker Carlson Tonight playbook: Go straight for the third rail, be it race, immigration or another hot-button issue; harvest the inevitable backlash; return the next evening to skewer critics for how they responded. Then, do it all again."

It wouldn't be surprising to learn that Carlson himself pitched the Times on the series as a run-up to 2024. He's already planning to speak at a right-wing event in Iowa this summer. Can't you just picture him taking his show out there for a week, too, to "see what's on Republican voters' minds" and to lay further groundwork?

Meanwhile, the little bigot must be loving the attention. Let's put it a particularly dreadful way: If Tucker Carlson is elected President, we'll have The New York Times to blame. We cats HISS.