The last time I paid any attention to Tucker Carlson he was getting his butt verbally kicked by Jon Stewart on the now defunct Crossfire. Heck, that butt whipping probably contributed greatly to the defuncting of Crossfire in 2005.

Carlson landed at MSNBC later in 2005 and hadn’t done anything there to change my opinion that he was pretty much a hack.  Then Lex pointed to Carlson’s Pimp My Ride piece in The New Republic and I have to say that the guy can write. This is literally the only political piece I’ve enjoyed reading in at least a year.