It's all over but the shouting
Here's something I was asked to post while Brooke Adams is shuttling between Las Vegas and Washington County.
The arrest of Warren Jeffs captured time on cable news channels this week. But it's not a big cable news story without one thing: People shouting at each other.
The Jeffs story hit that mark Wednesday when Tucker Carlson had Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff on his show.
"I don't feel safer with this guy behind bars," Carlson told Shurtleff, as noted in a transcript of the show. "I would much rather you spend your time capturing, you know, rapists and armed robbers and murderers."
Interesting that Carlson included "rapists," since Jeffs is charged with felony rape counts in two states, for his alleged role in arranging underage marriages. [It is not alleged that Jeffs had physical contact with the girls.]
"Guess what, Tucker?" Shurtleff replied in a raised voice. "You haven't been victimized by this guy. I didn't do this for you. You have no idea the thousands of women and children who have been victimized by this guy who we've charged with first-degree felony rape."
You can read the back and forth shouting between Carlson and Shurtleff that followed. Shurtleff has appeared in public and on talk shows numerous times to discuss Jeffs and the FLDS, and this was the first time I can recall him yelling at someone.
In fairness to Carlson, he's not the first person to wonder why there was such a big manhunt for Jeffs and what Jeffs was doing on the same list as terrorists, mobsters and murderers.
-- Nate Carlisle
The arrest of Warren Jeffs captured time on cable news channels this week. But it's not a big cable news story without one thing: People shouting at each other.
The Jeffs story hit that mark Wednesday when Tucker Carlson had Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff on his show.
"I don't feel safer with this guy behind bars," Carlson told Shurtleff, as noted in a transcript of the show. "I would much rather you spend your time capturing, you know, rapists and armed robbers and murderers."
Interesting that Carlson included "rapists," since Jeffs is charged with felony rape counts in two states, for his alleged role in arranging underage marriages. [It is not alleged that Jeffs had physical contact with the girls.]
"Guess what, Tucker?" Shurtleff replied in a raised voice. "You haven't been victimized by this guy. I didn't do this for you. You have no idea the thousands of women and children who have been victimized by this guy who we've charged with first-degree felony rape."
You can read the back and forth shouting between Carlson and Shurtleff that followed. Shurtleff has appeared in public and on talk shows numerous times to discuss Jeffs and the FLDS, and this was the first time I can recall him yelling at someone.
In fairness to Carlson, he's not the first person to wonder why there was such a big manhunt for Jeffs and what Jeffs was doing on the same list as terrorists, mobsters and murderers.
-- Nate Carlisle
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Boy, Mark's agenda and loss of objectivity is showing!
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