More Tucker

Here's the video (via Terrance) of Tucker Carlson's claim to have assaulted a guy who hit on him in a bathroom, about which Mustang Bobby posted below. Check out how hilarious Joe Scarborough and Dan Abrams think it is when he says he bashed the guy (toward the end of the video):



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Now, as Mustang Bobby notes, his story changed once it was pointed out he essentially admitted being a gay-basher, and he now claims to have been "[fighting] back against an unsolicited sexual attack." (As opposed to a solicited sexual attack?!) But that's certainly not what he conveys in the video (nor that he and his friend merely "seized the man and held him until a security guard arrived").

As I noted in the comments of MB's post, either the man was hitting on him, or the man was trying to sexually assault him. The two are not easily confused, not when you're dealing with a total stranger who approaches you out of nowhere.

If the man was just hitting on him, then Carlson's attack on him was a straight-up case of gay-bashing.

If the man was trying to sexually assault him, then Carlson's bringing it up when discussing a case of a gay man who clearly wasn't trying to sexually assault someone is inappropriate and deeply irresponsible—and is a smear against gay men just as surely as if he'd erroneously brought up pedophilia.

Either way, it's completely unacceptable.