Late Sunday, left-leaning watchdog group Media Matters published a lengthy exposé of Tucker Carlson’s years of calling into a shock-jock radio show called “Bubba the Love Sponge” and bro-ing down with the hosts by celebrating their shared animosity towards women.
Researcher Madeline Peltz, in a heroic act of self-sacrifice, clearly listened to hours upon hours of this show and discovered that not only was Carlson game for the contest of “who can be the biggest pig towards women” but was often the clear winner, saying things so repulsive that even the hosts occasionally recoiled, calling his views “twisted” and “demented.”
Carlson minimized child rape, so long as the rapists “married” the victims in legally unbinding ceremonies first, objected to rape shield laws, declared that women “need to be quiet and kind of do what you’re told,” and viciously attacked any woman perceived as independent or uncontrolled by a man as “anti-man” or “anti-penis,” arguing that they needed to be spanked.
View the complete March 11 article by Amanda Marcotte of Salon on the AlterNet website here.