Tucker Carlson
Message to Tucker Carlson: You can relax. Your public image as a fratty douchebro is well established; you don't need to keep making the point quite so forcefully.
It's a message Carlson seems to need to hear. As he showed on C-SPAN Thursday morning, he can't stop being an ass when asked about the offensive email his brother accidentally sent to its target. According to Tucker, his brother is the victim in the incident, and it's ridiculous that anyone is even talking about it:
It really affected his job and he had all kinds of problems as a result….For some reason it became, like, this big thing because, I guess, they don’t like my politics or something. I really don’t know, but it was an accident and he apologized for it and I don’t really see why it was a big news story.
To recap, Amy Spitalnick, a spokeswoman for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, asked the Daily Caller for a correction on a story. A Daily Caller editor responded that "If you annoy me with another whiny email before then, I’m muting this thread, thanks." Spitalnick complained to Carlson about that unprofessional, arguably sexist response, and Carlson included his brother Buckley (yes, Tucker and Buckley) on his response. Buckley went on to accidentally CC Spitalnick on his unbelievably misogynistic response. (Sample: "And with such an ironic name, too... Spitalnick? Ironic because you just know she has extreme dick-fright; no chance has this girl ever had a pearl necklace.") Tucker's on-the-record take on this was that "I just talked to my brother about his response, and he assures me he meant it in the nicest way." Not a whole lot of contrition there.
But Buckley's the victim here—it affected the poor guy's job!—and Tucker just can't wrap his weak little mind around why it is that people might be offended at having this kind of email coming out of a site that's trying to present itself as a serious news outlet. You don't have to be a wild-eyed conspiracy theorist to suspect that Tucker may have been CC'ing his brother on such correspondence for a while, and that this is not the first such commentary Buckley has offered up for giggles—just the first that he's accidentally sent to its victim. And Spitalnick, for the record, told Erik Wemple that she has not actually received an apology.