Tucker's email to Hunter
-
A look at the time Tucker Carlson asked Hunter Biden for a favor
Tucker Carlson and his wife were looking to get their son a leg up in his college application to Georgetown University when they turned to a well-connected Washington friend who had an even better-connected father.
“I realize you don’t really know Buckley,” Susie Carlson wrote via email in 2014 to Hunter Biden, a Georgetown graduate and the son of the then-vice president. “Maybe you could meet or speak to him and he could send you a very brief resume with his interests and grades attached.”
Tucker Carlson offered that his son was a good squash player and an excellent fly fisherman. “He loves Washington for all the right reasons, I think,” Carlson added, “and really wants to go to school here.” When Biden agreed to write a letter of recommendation, Susie Carlson added a heap of praise: “Tucker and I have the greatest respect and admiration for you. Always!”
Advertisement
The Carlsons’ past entreaties to Biden may come as a surprise to many present-day viewers of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the highly rated prime-time Fox News show on which the host has repeatedly ridiculed Biden for seeking to profit off his family connections and at times for his history of personal troubles and drug use.
The interactions reveal the extent to which Carlson was willing to turn on a former associate as he thrives in a hyperpartisan media world in which conservatives have made Biden a prime target for attack during his father’s presidency. They also show how Carlson once sought to benefit from the elite political circles in Washington that he now regularly rails against as the “ruling class.”
“When your dad is president, you get superpowers,” Carlson said in October 2021 during a segment about Biden pursuing a new career as an artist. “Maybe Hunter Biden will invent a new vaccine next we will be required to take. Who knows? You never know. The sky is the limit when your dad is in power.”Well, this is more than a little...awkward.
But Carlson refused to discuss the emails, pointing to past claims by former U.S. intelligence officials that the laptop’s emergence in the final weeks of the 2020 presidential campaign had all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation.
Carlson was speaking with apparent irony, as he has frequently mocked those disinformation claims as part of an effort by establishment figures and the tech industry to protect Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign. Social media companies that had been widely criticized for spreading disinformation in the 2016 campaign sought in 2020 to block the spread of early news stories about the laptop.
“I can’t confirm these emails. The emails that you’re referring to were described by our intel community as Russian disinformation,” he said, adding that he doesn’t have access to the account so could not verify the emails. “So why would I? And I read that in The Washington Post.”Yeah, really awkward.
-
I believe this is what Horace refers to as shameless social climbing.
Tucker always was a bit of an odd choice as spokesperson for the common man.
-
I believe this is what Horace refers to as shameless social climbing.
Tucker always was a bit of an odd choice as spokesperson for the common man.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Tucker's email to Hunter:
I believe this is what Horace refers to as shameless social climbing.
Tucker always was a bit of an odd choice as spokesperson for the common man.
When you have Trump doing the same thing, not really.
All you have to do is (1) say you do and (2) say you hate the same people your common man does. Now you have the hero story and you're off saving the world.
-
@Doctor-Phibes said in Tucker's email to Hunter:
I believe this is what Horace refers to as shameless social climbing.
Tucker always was a bit of an odd choice as spokesperson for the common man.
When you have Trump doing the same thing, not really.
All you have to do is (1) say you do and (2) say you hate the same people your common man does. Now you have the hero story and you're off saving the world.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Tucker's email to Hunter:
When you have Trump doing the same thing, not really.
Trump is coarse and vulgar, so people find it easier to forget that he was born into vast wealth. He's like something out of a reality TV show. Which, of course, is exactly what he is.
Tucker sported a bow-tie, and appeared to fashion himself after a character in an Evelyn Waugh novel, or those preppy shits in the movie Animal House. It's even less likely.
-
@Aqua-Letifer said in Tucker's email to Hunter:
When you have Trump doing the same thing, not really.
Trump is coarse and vulgar, so people find it easier to forget that he was born into vast wealth. He's like something out of a reality TV show. Which, of course, is exactly what he is.
Tucker sported a bow-tie, and appeared to fashion himself after a character in an Evelyn Waugh novel, or those preppy shits in the movie Animal House. It's even less likely.
Tucker sported a bow-tie, and appeared to fashion himself after a character in an Evelyn Waugh novel….
An absolutely delicious observation.
