Tucker Carlson: Obama campaign's targeting of young voters has "a Khmer Rouge quality to it"

[RamboLiberal]

On the October 10 edition of MSNBC's Tucker, while discussing the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and its targeting of young voters in Iowa, host Tucker Carlson told guests -- nationally syndicated radio host Bill Press and TownHall.com contributing writer Matt Lewis -- "Young people like Obama anyway. ... Politicizing children -- there's a Khmer Rouge quality to it. I think it's scary," adding: "If a right-wing candidate came and targeted my kids, I'd be mad about it. I don't want my kids near political candidates. ... They're creepy."

The Khmer Rouge, headed by Pol Pot, was a brutal and repressive regime that ruled Cambodia in the mid- to late 1970s, leading "to the deaths of nearly a quarter of Cambodia's seven million people."

According to a Wall Street Journal report, a "quirk in Iowa election law" allows 17-year-old Iowa residents to caucus in January because they will be eligible to vote in the November 2008 presidential elections.

During the segment, Press stated: "This is, I think, one of the best things that Barack Obama has done. It's very smart. They're 17 today, they're going to be 18 next year. Volunteer this year, vote next year." Press continued: "In Iowa, they're allowed to participate in the caucus ... in January, even though they're not old enough to vote because they will vote in November. So, this is a whole new pool of new voters. And if anybody can appeal to them, get them excited and get them involved in politics and in his campaign, it's Barack Obama." Carlson responded: "I think you're right. I just disagree with it." Press then added, "I think it's a brilliant strategy." Later, Press asserted: "The fact that they've got a driver's license; they can go in the military, they're almost old enough to vote -- they can get involved in a political campaign." Carlson replied: "Ugh! Creepy as hell."

http://mediamatters.org/items/200710110003?f=h_latest

Yeah like the RW doesn't recruit young locksteppers.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. You mean he doesn't wear the bow tie to be cool and hip?

[dkofos]

2. Yeah, he's that fucking stupid!!

[niyad]

3. WHY is this sick bastard given air time?

[RamboLiberal]

4. Exactly - his stupid show is in the ratings dumper

MSNBC must've been stupid and signed him to a multi-year contract and don't want to blow the cash.

[Disturbed]

5. He used that comparison as slime.

He is scum.

[blondeatlast]

6. Blondeatlast: "Tucker Carlson's pretty, pretty hair has a Gentleman's Quarterly air about it."

Circa 1978, that is...

[JackintheGreen]

7. Tucker is counting on nobody who matters

knowing who the Khmer Rouge was. So he can make asinine comparisons. As for "targeting" youth, I campaigned for Paul Simon when I was 14. By choice. Talk about being blinded by a bow-tie. Yikes! His decaying body would still make a better president than Bush.

[frazzled]

8. This is one of those statements ...

like the Hillary "nutcracker" business, that should be condemned by everyone here, whether you support Obama or not.

Comparing him to the Khmer Rouge is even worse than comparing him to bin Laden. Plus, it smacks of the kind of "exoticism" (read: racism) that equates the 'other' with all sorts of potentially dangerous and lethal (read: dark) things.

Sick. Sexism and racism ... we just can't get away from them.

[murielm99]

9. Stop listening to that asshat! n/t

[Johonny]

10. I don't want my kids near political candidates

That would explain Tuckers terrible ratings with the young.

[Bitwit1234]

11. I guess he thinks they are so stupid to vote on American Idol

he could talk them into anything. The young people in this country today are easily led.

[Rhythm and Blue]

12. Telling eligible voters to caucus is indeed similar to a genocide.

I stand with Tucker on this one.
:patriot:

[zbdent]

13. "If a right-wing candidate came and targeted my kids,"

and what does this idjit have to say about the Frost family?

[originalpckelly]

14. And the Bush Youth aren't weirder? I mean what normal 16/17 year old is a connie?

:shrug:

[DemGa]

15. Bowtie boy is projecting that Republikan "creepiness"

Gosh these guys are easy to figure out!