Dancing with the Shills

A while back, I noted that bow-tied irritant Tucker Carlson’s latest hard-hitting journalism assignment was on the prominent ABC newsmagazine known as Dancing with the Stars. Somehow, that post got lost when I reinstalled WordPress. If you really want your Tucker fix, though, the NY Times ran a piece this weekend. And unlike my meagre blog entry, the Times piece even featured pictures of Mister “The-T-is-pronounced-more-like-an-F” himself gettin’ his swerve on in some very, very pretty shoes.

Through the piece, Carlson’s instructor, a Russian dancer whose naked ambition for fame rivals Carlson’s, seems frustrated with him. He’s very impatient and unfocused, by the sounds of it.

It’s quite a funny article. Carlson must just be happy that he’ll finally have an audience again. When this season’s over, he can return to his rightful home in the cultural dumpster of failed curiosities who became famous, briefly, for being louder and more aggressively ignorant that those around him. And then had to dance on TV.
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