Tucker Carlson: “Vick should have been executed.”

On a completely different path than my post earlier today: Tucker Carlson, conservative founder of the Daily Caller, says Vick should have been executed.  Carlson is guest hosting for Sean Hannity on Fox News this week.

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Carlson, who is guest-hosting the Fox News program "Hannity" this week, made the remark during a discussion about Obama's call to Eagles' owner Jeffrey Lurie in which the President said he was happy the team gave the troubled quarterback a second chance after he was convicted of running a dog fighting ring.

"I'm a Christian, I've made mistakes myself, I believe fervently in second chances, but Michael Vick killed dogs, and he did [it] in a heartless and cruel way," Carlson said. "And I think personally he should have been executed for that. He wasn't."

"But the idea that the President of the United States would be getting behind someone who murdered dogs [is] kind of beyond the pale," he said.

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Aside from treason or desertion, I don’t think the United States Government uses the death penalty. If they did, all those crack dealers they’ve busted over the years would certainly deserve a noose or a firing squad for killing people.

Vick killed dogs.  He did it cruelly. But he didn’t kill people.

He’s also confessed to his crime, accepted his punishment, done his time and fulfilled all of the terms of his probation.

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UPDATE: Ed Morrissey at Hot Air (I think) agrees with me.  Regardless of where you stand on the appropriateness of Vick’s sentence vis-a-vis the heinous nature of the crime, both he and the Government agreed on a plea bargain and the sentence. Vick fulfilled his end of the bargain and should be free to earn a living.  Morrissey, being one of the “big dogs” on the right blogosphere, also got Carlson to expound upon his incendiary comment:

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I love dogs — we have three — and I think what Vick did was horrifying and shockingly cruel. Executed? I don’t know. I do know that 19 months is a joke. People get more than that for tax evasion. He certainly shouldn’t be back in the NFL with Obama rooting for him. What the president said is disgusting. That’s the story as far as I’m concerned.

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JournoList, and the "Daily Bleeder"

Just after midnight today, The Daily Caller broke another story with the payload equivalent of a tactical nuke, this time exposing the JournoListers' plot to take down Fox News.  Since that story broke, they've also released a quick scan of  JournoListers' posts and tonight's headline focuses on how the group erupted at the news of Barack Obama's election anointment as President of the United States. 

This is, at least for me, the political equivalent of Must See TV.  Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller somehow cajoled the entire JournoList archive from an unnamed member of the now-defunct ListServ.  That cabal of leftist members of the [gag] "mainstream media" is a bunch of self-appointed elites, and I suspect that for a very, very long time, they used a very, very big chunk of bandwidth attempting to impress one another with their contempt for Main Street and the center-right majority of the American people.  Mind you however, that every last one of the leftist elite carries a deep-hearted hatred for Fox News and the talk radio stars that grow in influence despite all of their assaults. 

The Circle Jerk Society that was once the JournoList wrote often, wrote verbosely, and wrote vitriolically about you, me, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, ad infinitum.  And Daily Caller now has every last juicy post.  The site should call itself "Daily Bleeder," at least while it slowly and tortuously releases the gory details.

"OH, !@#$%...  I really wrote that?  And now EVERYBODY knows!!!"



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CALL THEM RACISTS

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The Daily Caller beat Andrew Breitbart to the now-infamous Journolist archive, and Tucker Carlson's first broadside is a blockbuster expose.  Click the image for the story.

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