Is Margaret Carlson Tieboy's (Tucker) Mother?

6th Borough

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Sat Oct-23-04 06:19 PM
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Is Margaret Carlson Tieboy's (Tucker) Mother?

She's a regular panel member on CNN's "Capitol Gang".

She seems like a very decent, somewhat progressive woman. What hath spawned from her womb?

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Dudley_DUright

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Sat Oct-23-04 06:19 PM
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1. No relation

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dogtag

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Sat Oct-23-04 06:20 PM
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2. Good grief, no!

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libbygurl

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Sat Oct-23-04 06:21 PM
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3. Yeah, the thought had entered my mind, too. Thank goodness she...

...isn't his kin!

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6th Borough

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Sat Oct-23-04 06:27 PM
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8. THanks...I though I remembered heraing his mother's name was Margaret.

I know his mother has a past connection with PBS, which Mark Shields appears on.

Thank goodness...Maragret Carlson is one of my favorite TV pundits...though I don't think "Capitol Gang" get particularly high ratings, to say the least.

It sure is a hell of a lot better than Crossfire.

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DAGDA56

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Sat Oct-23-04 06:23 PM
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4. Not at all...but I'd love to see her reaction...

...if somebody were to ask!

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democracyindanger

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Sat Oct-23-04 06:23 PM
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5. No relation

Edited on Sat Oct-23-04 06:37 PM by democracyindanger

http://andir.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/19/22055/347

Perhaps Kossacks already knew this, but I didn't know he was a college dropout, father of four kids, and had prominent parents. His mother is reportedly the heiress to the Swanson frozen food fortune, and father Richard W. Carlson was an ambassador, former head of VOA, and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. This might explain why Tucker has his own show on PBS, when by all measure, he's a lightweight compared to journalists who have proven their worth, such as Bill Moyers and Charlie Rose.

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Lydia Leftcoast

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Sat Oct-23-04 06:25 PM
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6. In Minnesota, you can never assume that

any one Carlson is related to any other Carlson. There are pages and pages of them in the Minneapolis phone book.

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Skittles

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Sat Oct-23-04 06:27 PM
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7. I wish she would ditch those stupid glasses

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Lucille

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Sat Oct-23-04 06:29 PM
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9. Don't know about Tucker, but there are rumors that Margaret had an

illicit affair with Elmer Fudd, and Velma is her secret love-child!

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democracyindanger

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Sat Oct-23-04 06:29 PM
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10. Also, before you use "decent" to describe her, I'd read this

From the Daily Howler:

What is the state of the mainstream press corps? In the aftermath of the first Bush-Gore debate, Margaret Carlson painted a stunning portrait of an uncaring, millionaire press corps. Why were pundits stressing minor factual errors by Gore and ignoring massive policy blunders by Bush? Appearing on Imus, Carlson revealed the soul of the corps, and no, we’re not making this up:

CARLSON (10/10/00): Gore’s fabrications may be inconsequential—I mean, they’re about his life. Bush’s fabrications are about our life, and what he’s going to do. Bush’s should matter more but they don’t, because Gore’s we can disprove right here and now…You can actually disprove some of what Bush is saying if you really get in the weeds and get out your calculator or you look at his record in Texas. But it’s really easy, and it’s fun, to disprove Gore.

Those emphases were strictly by Carlson. It’s “fun” to disprove Gore’s errors, she said—and it’s “easier” than trying to work with Bush’s more significant blunders. Carlson took her troubling presentation through one more weird iteration:

CARLSON: I actually happen to know people who need government and so they would care more about the programs, and less about the things we kind of make fun of…But as sport, and as our enterprise, Gore coming up with another whopper is greatly entertaining to us. And we can disprove it in a way we can’t disprove these other things.

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh082302.shtml

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GingerSnaps

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Sat Oct-23-04 06:30 PM
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11. Yes she is

She has talked about it before and so has Tucker.

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Clinton Crusader

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Sat Oct-23-04 06:36 PM
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12. Someone told me that was his wife!

:kick:

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captain_change

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Sat Oct-23-04 07:25 PM
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13. I think his father was a repuke insider

Another example of the party of meritocracy showing its hypocritical nepotism

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