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MSNBC's Cenk Uygur wondered Wednesday why Fox News' Tucker Carlson didn't call for Sarah Palin to be executed after she killed a defenseless caribou.

After all, Carlson had proclaimed Tuesday that NFL quarterback Michael Vick should have been given the death penalty for killing dogs.

"Now, I'm a Christian," Carlson announced, while filling in for Fox News' Republican commentator Sean Hannity. "I've made mistakes myself. I believe fervently in second chances but Michael Vick killed dogs and he did it in a heartless and cruel way and I think, personally, he should have been executed for that."

Carlson had become outraged because President Barack Obama praised Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie for giving Vick a second chance.

"[Obama] said, 'So many people who serve time never get a fair second chance,'" Lurie explained, after a phone call with the president. "He said, 'It's never a level playing field for prisoners when they get out of jail.' And he was happy that we did something on such a national stage that showed our faith in giving someone a second chance after such a major downfall."

White House spokesman Bill Burton clarified that Obama "of course condemns the crimes that Michael Vick was convicted of, but, as he's said previously, he does think that individuals who have paid for their crimes should have an opportunity to contribute to society again."

"I like how [Carlson] prefaced it by saying he was Christian," Uygur said, during the "Psycho Talk" segment of Wednesday's The Ed Show broadcast. "Is that what Jesus would have done? I love the way that conservatives twist the Bible. If you listen to them, Jesus was a gun-toting, rich-loving Texan."

"And if you're executing people because they killed defenseless animals you may want to remember this," he said, playing a video clip of Palin shooting a caribou on her TLC reality show, Sarah Palin's Alaska.

"Look, I know there is a difference," Uygur admitted. "But is it really that large? Sarah Palin is folksy for killing a caribou, who was clearly trapped and defenseless, if you watch that show. And Michael Vick should be executed? I don't think so."

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j keesler's picture

when they are alive, feeds them shit and keeps them unhealthy and stressed, and then shreds their bodies, boils, fries, chops, purees whats left, and feeds them to billions. Billions and billions served, right? That's the slogan?

Then there are billions and billions of people no less guilty than Vick.

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

With fries.


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

which I am not, and eschews animal products (or those tested on animals such as shampoos, fragrances, etc.), and lives as sustainably as one can, and doesn't invest in unethical companies (big oil, etc.), unless someone keeps all these limitations, it is hypocritical to judge Michael Vick.

miss_kitty's picture

I eat animal products, but it's all organic and free range, grass fed, non-feedlot products. Mostly local. Never ate at McDonalds...So my intake is limited. I feel completely comfortable and not in the least hypocritical criticizing and judging Michael Vick for his crimes against dogs.

Tom Servo's picture

I think if Vegans could have their way, we'd all eat synthetic chemical laden food.
Odd they have no respect for vegetable life.

I know a vegan who put her dog and cat on vegan diets.

Sorry, but hardcore vegans are nutcases.

Just tonight I had some barbacue, and enjoyed it.

ixnay's picture

I take milking a cow and killing dogs for fun and profit are totally the same thing... then. Really puts in perspective my morning latte.


CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"

Peter G's picture

It is quite one thing to kill other animals for food or clothing or even the thrill of the hunt and another to force animals to torture each other for viscarious pleasure.


Hasa Diga Eebowai

Excelsior's picture

I wonder what all those cows and pigs and chickens raised in dark, stinking, feedlot hell would have to say to that.


There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits

Peter G's picture

Oh look more feed.


Hasa Diga Eebowai

What Vick did was ghastly(the fact that he was punished is meaningless to some), as was Palin killing that poor moose for people to watch her shitty show.

Many sports-talk guys across America race card for a living. They know that their ratings sky rocket when they criticize athletes like Barry Bonds, Vick, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, etc. Black men seen by Fox-likeminded viewers as ungrateful overpaid bad Negroes who don't appreciate what the White man has given them.

j keesler's picture

Obama threw Rev Wright under the bus.
then there was the blowup over Prof. Henry Louis Gates
Van Jones
the New black panthers
ACORN
Shirley Sherrod

now we have calls for Vick's assassination.

ricky's picture

OJ.


"That's fu*#ing retarded."
Big City Mayor

Steve E's picture

a Harvard man.

eroded47095's picture

See the difference?


I'm a lot like Ricky Gervais and the Golden Globes: Why?

to his Greg Marmalard. See the difference?


"That's fu*#ing retarded."
Big City Mayor

but only loser fuckups with rich parents like myself should get them. That guy who did something nobody I know would do? He should fry."

Paul's picture

but I'm betting that, on that future day when Tucker Carlson's time on earth finally comes to an end, he's going to discover that Jesus want nothing to do with him. Nothing at all.

Edwin's picture

Firstly, no one should be executed. Taking someone's life does not right a wrong, it's just killing (for vengeance). There is no secondly because firstly stands alone.


far left loon >.<

Paul's picture

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Ape-Man's picture

It certainly puts an end to any 'corrections' assertion.


"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-

Cats r Flyfishn's picture

The reason why President Obama called Jeff Lurie. He called to congratulate Lurie for his support in green energy by installing windmills and solar panels at Lincoln Field. Lurie made the reference to Vick and President Obama responded. It's a sad day when you need to listen to Sports Radio to find out the real facts.

they had very little to work with, and they gave up on trying to spin Obama's having shaved ice with his daughters into a bad thing (and I bet you there was someone somewhere trying to get a GOP talking point out of that).


CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"

and taught them to shoot tourists he could have given FOX something to cover in the slow week between the War on Christmas and Teabagger New Year.


"That's fu*#ing retarded."
Big City Mayor

Alien_Overlord's picture

will Conservatives stay relevant if they don't constantly generate drama out of NOTHING.


Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid

TreadingWater's picture

Shaved ice is proof that Al Gore was lying about global warming!

Ape-Man's picture

Thanks for this bit of real news, Cats!


"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-

Phoenix Justice's picture

Actually, Carlson "I am a rich kid" Tucker points out the main reason why the death penalty (as applied today) is so wrong: It is never applied equally. Wealth, race and location all play a part into whether or not someone is sentenced to be executed.


Election 2012: Be Educated! Be Active! Vote!

www.PhoenixJustice.com

Doremus Jessup's picture

Don't forget her massive campaign and even "rewards" for the aerial hunting of wolves and bears - http://www.defenders.org/programs_and_policy/...

As governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin actively promoted Alaska's aerial hunting program whereby wolves are shot from the air or chased by airplanes to the point of exhaustion before the pilot lands the plane and a gunner shoots the animals point blank. The program also targets bears.

* Palin offered a $150 bounty for wolves to entice hunters to kill more wolves in certain parts of the state, with hunters having to present a wolf's foreleg to collect the bounty.

* She actively opposed a ballot measure campaign seeking to end the aerial hunting of wolves by private hunters and approved a $400,000 state-funded campaign aimed at swaying people's votes on the issue.

*She also introduced legislation to make it easier to kill wolves and bears and which would have also removed the aerial hunting initiative from the ballot and block the ability of citizens to vote on the issue.

*The Board of Game, appointed by the governor, which she appoints, has approved the killing of black bear sows with cubs as part of the program and expanded the aerial control programs.

*The media and state officials are currently looking into reports that state officials implementing one of the aerial wolf killing programs illegally killed five-week old wolf pups just outside their dens.

http://www.eyeonpalin.org/learn_more/index.php

Sarah Palin has actively opposed the listing of the polar bear despite the fact that Alaska's top marine mammal biologists agreed with the federal scientists who believed the bear should be listed. She wrote the Secretary of Interior urging him not to list the bear on the ground it might hurt the state's oil- and gas-dependent economy. After the bear was listed, she filed suit seeking to overturn the listing of polar bears.

Sarah Palin also opposes the listing of the Cook Inlet beluga whales, citing the listing as a threat to oil and gas development, despite their genetic uniqueness and the fact that their numbers have decreased from 1,300 in the 1980s to about 350 today. While governor, she has indicated her intention to file suit to block the listing.

http://www.eyeonpalin.org/learn_more/index.php

debaser71's picture

religion makes you stupid...hey tuck (you flamer) WWJD?

Tom Servo's picture

Hunting for food is understandable, but sports hunters like palin who shoot animals for pleasure do so because they dream about murdering people

skippy's picture

look, far be it from me to defend what carlson said, and folks who know my work know i detest carlson, palin, et. al. for their simplitic view of the world.

but the answer to the question in the headline is easy: dogs are domesticated for companionship, caibou are game animals.

i do not approach the question of whether palin actually ate what she killed; if not, that is egregious.

but your premise might as well include calling for the execution of anyone who eats meat.

i'm just sayin', false equivalencies don't help either side's arguments.

skippy's picture
ps

ps i also think what vick did was reprehensible; and i'm not buying the "timed served" argument; he should be banned from football for life imo.

idiotland's picture

This entire league is pretty much full of douchbags, idiots and psychos which is why I don't follow it anymore.

LeftandLeft's picture

Stupid ignorant baseless comment.

Ape-Man's picture

Fair enough, but the FOX propagandists have been calling for a lot of executions lately.
How do you know for sure Carlson doesn't want to execute Palin too? Maybe he thinks killing innocent wolves and caribou in their wild habitat is wrong.


"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-

sixandseveneights's picture

You and other humans gave them that distinction. I'm sure the caribou wouldn't see it that way.

mannkovsk1's picture

or wreckless view of life on planet earth and the not too distant cosmos? When these people are given power, even to the merest extent of andy warhols "...15 minutes of fame", it goes straight to their unthinking, irresponsible and vanity filled heads. Look at how they flaunt their ugly-american conventional wisdom. What do they think, that: 'freedom is the right to s#*t on everybody within faux noise distance; opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one; screw them before they screw you, and while you're at it, what the hell, screw 'em anyway, america? Where: "have a nice day" is just a segue to accusations of: traitor, pinko, anti-american, bleeding heart liberalism? These people are still echoing the same old (albeit potent) ronald reagan curse of regurgitated pseudo-popular wrong-wing wisdom which has only resulted in the continual discontent/mass insanity that has turned this country into a bedlam of societal, political, economic, spiritual, ecological, disasters all leading to the downfall of one of the greatest countries in world history. Their collective vomit is an ongoing curse, echoing from ronald reagan's grave, may he burn in hell for what his lies have set in motion!


wem

Alien_Overlord's picture
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Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid

Excelsior's picture

You're being vastly disingenuous. Nobody hear is calling for Pinhead Palin's execution. We're pointing out how utterly STUPID Carlson is being for calling for VICK'S execution. See the difference?


There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits

sixandseveneights's picture
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Imagine Sarah Palin's surprise when she finds out in her next life that there is no God only karma when she comes back as a wolf being chased down by a helicopter and then as a cornered caribou in the life after that.

mannkovsk1's picture

aeons in the future to a planetless void, you bitcha!


wem

Excelsior's picture
Nah

According to karma, she'll have to start out as a worm wriggling on a fisherman's hook. It'll take several hundred lifetimes for her to work her way up to anything as noble as a caribou - and she'll still be getting murdered every time.


There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits

Ape-Man's picture

Maybe Carlson is calling for Palin's execution, and that of Huckabee's son too.
I think we can only assume as much until he clarifies his position.


"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-

ricky's picture

insanity. Passed on through tainted squirrel flesh consumed by a parent.


"That's fu*#ing retarded."
Big City Mayor

ricky's picture

I don't think you could convict Palin of anything unless you did a ballistics test on the slug in the caribou. There is no evidence she fired the shot that killed it. And you would need to drug test the critter. He sure moved like he was on drugs.


"That's fu*#ing retarded."
Big City Mayor

sixandseveneights's picture

everything about that harridan is phony and staged including most likely that shot. Truth be told she couldn't shoot an old lawyer in the face at 20 paces.

Blue Lensman's picture

that's how REAL MEN hunt!

pissed off patricia's picture

Carlson and his ilk will try to find something to bitch and moan about whenever this president opens his mouth. If the President had asked the guy at the Eagles to fire Vick because of his past conviction Carlson would have raised hell about that too. His theme in that case would have been this president doesn't believe in giving people a second chance and he's a heartless man.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

sixandseveneights's picture

Absolutely. You got it.

Alien_Overlord's picture

Why the so called news let CLOWNS like Tucker Carlson RUN AMOK ???


Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid

Ape-Man's picture

Because FOX propaganda channel is the furthest thing from news.

[BTW - i know you knew that]


"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-

Alien_Overlord's picture
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It's a circus out there or should I say insane asylum. I wonder what kind of drugs they feed them with - it must be the Fluoride in the water :-)


Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid

Ape-Man's picture

They keep Beck secured in a separate 'temple of doom' until show time, for his own protection, and for the protection of the other FOX propagandists.


"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-

Ape-Man's picture

Incidentally, Glenn Beck edged Bill 0'LIElie out to win this years "Psycho-talker Of The Year" award.


"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-

Alien_Overlord's picture

Intimidating "verbal rapist" Yeti - B'illdo


Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid

Radically Moderate ad infinitum's picture

Whenever I am discussing something with a wingnut, inevitably, they are going to whip out the ol' "well I'm a christian and therefore", I know the conversation is about to get real weird, real fast.


'Talk to the hand'

WOW finaly somebody to say it out loud on a M$M !!! Fuck the Wall street vultures and fuck their Butlers the GOP.

You go Cenk ...


Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid

ron's picture

reading about Tucker this week.

gump's picture

Tucker is a true Christian. Their Bible teaches that if a wife is not obedient to the husband she should be stoned to death. Christians should slam the heads of their enemy's children upon the rocks. Calling for someone's death is true Christianity.


is intended to be a factual statement

Crustyolcarpenter's picture

Tucker Carlson is demonstrably NOT a Christian....just listen to his hate.
And to the quitta from Wassilla, a reindeer IS a caribou deer, take it from somebody from the country of snowMOBILES. Sarah YOU SHOT PRANCER Bamby's MOM, you stupid douche, and who taught you how to handle and hold a rifle.....some ex vice-president?


The first casualty of republicanism is the truth.
Party politics are not only undemocratic, they are antidemocratic.

in the not too distant past, (and still occuring in some parts of the world ) people used to bet on cock fights, dog fights, crockodile fights, to name a few) and though I personally do not condone this kind of inhumane activity, it is not, nonetheless, unprecedented. In short, the guy has paid so let it be.


wem

idiotland's picture

This is the conservative mind set, if you can call it one. If they do it it's cool. If someone else does it they're commie fascist liberal traitors.

Alien_Overlord's picture

Muslim


Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid

mudshark's picture

The topic or subject matter doesn't mean a damn thing to him. He's doing what Limpbaugh and Beckerhead do.
It all sensationalism. Nothing more. See who can make the most outrageous remark, and get the most publicity from it. I'm sure his blog got more hits recently. Not from me. F!@k Him!
I will say this about Vick, He should have been banned from the NFL. I don't want to hear about getting second chances. When people make the kind of money they make in the NFL, if they f!@k up like he did,banned for life. His second chance can be at doing something else.
I also think that Rothlesberger should be suspended until the outcome of his trial. When that many women file complaints of a sexual nature, somethings not right. He shouldn't be allowed to play and collect checks until his trial is over. Any kind of serious offense in the NFL should be dealt with swiftly and decisively.
Imo, Rothlesberger is a scum bag. If found guilty, and I do believe he is, he should banned from the NFL for life.period. Most of these jocks are pampered almost their whole lives. They are supposed to be setting examples for the youth. Great examples. Minor offenses? Ok. Major offenses? Zero tolerance.


What is your conceptual, continuity?

Alien_Overlord's picture
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It all sensationalism. Nothing more. See who can make the most outrageous remark, and get the most publicity from it.

It's all documented in Outfoxed


Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid

Limp-Dick Blimpaugh's picture

Lets just get rid of Tucker FK'R with the really bad hair rug and bad breath.

sassafra's picture

sorry cenk, i loves ya but you blew this analogy fairly badly. although i detest palin it's for her mongering of fear, misinformation, and luddite politics, not her hunting of elk. i've hunted since i was a young girl to supplement our food supply on the farm i grew up on in vermont. i don't trophy hunt, nor practice catch and release as i feel molesting wildlife for reasons other than consumption is abhorrent. from what i can discern palin eats the big game she hunts. her wolf hunting is another matter.
equating vick's gladiatorial combat of animals with hunting is absurd and unappreciated.

spicegal's picture

need of some attention, which is what happens in response to outrageous statements. Has anyone challenged Vick directly yet. I find any form of animal abuse abhorrent, but execution?!?! Frankly, the older I've gotten the more I find capital punishment unacceptable.

West Coast's picture

is a dead animal. Palin could eat anything she wants. In 2000+ America we eat animals cause we choose too. For those growing up on the farm or whatever nonsense you want to cry about. My cousin has had a farm in Virginia for 20 years and won't eat any meat, so now we don't at my home. We favor dogs over other animals because we see them as friends, so Vick will always be a villain. You really want to hunt animals. ....pick up a knife go barefoot and put on your loin cloth then go get em Sarah!

Executed!!!!!?


I don't make jokes - I just watch the government and report the facts. WILL ROGERS.

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