What Happened To You, Tucker Carlson?
I’ve expressed before that I think Tucker Carlson is a much better written than TV host. But putting it that way seems like the damning the Formerly Bow-Tied One with the faintest of praise. I’ll rephrase: Tucker Carlson is an excellent magazine writer. I was tooling around the Esquire archives — i.e. browsing their website after my friend sent me link informing me that one could see Mary Louise Parker’s ass cheeks and left breast in her recent photo shoot for the magazine– and I found this excellent piece Carlson wrote in 2003 about Al Sharpton’s trip to Liberia in an attempt to mediate the end of the civil war that drove Charles Taylor out of power. If there were ever a story for a good, well-natured conservative writer to cover, this was it. Anyway, if you have some time to kill, check it out.
Also, if you have even more time and are interested in Carlson’s travels with other fringe political figures, his Ron Paul piece that he wrote during the campaign for The New Republic is also excellent.
