MSNBC silent so far on Carlson comments

Published: August 30, 2007, 3:41 pm

Tags: amy robach, joe scarborough, monica crowley, tucker carlson, msnbc, msnbc live, scarborough country, tucker, civil human rights, lgbt issues

Following an August 28 segment on MSNBC's Live with Dan Abrams, during which MSNBC host Tucker Carlson admitted to assaulting an individual who "bothered" him in a restroom in Washington, D.C., Abrams, host and MSNBC's general manager, did not mention Carlson's comments on his program the following night, and MSNBC management apparently has not yet made a statement regarding Carlson's comments. Indeed, the cable network has replayed portions of the segment three times, highlighting Carlson's account of having been "bothered" in a restroom, but cropping out the part in which Carlson said, "I went back with someone I knew and grabbed the guy by the -- you know, and grabbed him, and ... [h]it him against the stall with his head." On the August 30 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough also referred to Carlson's claim of having been "bothered" in the men's room, but did not mention that Carlson "went back with someone," even

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