The Sen. Larry Craig scandal is bringing out the worst in some of television's pundits with Tucker Carlson sinking the lowest. On MSNBC last night, Carlson was chatting with Dan Abrams and Joe Scarborough and Abrams wanted to know why Carlson had once indicated a person's sexual orientation wasn't really anyone else's business.
Carlson felt compelled to say: “Let me be clear, Dan. I’m not gay. I’ve never been gay. Over-reacted and made a poor decision…” (laughter)
Abrams, also laughing, responded: “And let me just say for the record, I’m not gay either.”

Let me say this to both these raging heterosexuals: not being gay does not make you superior to me or any other gay person I know.

Then came the really wierd stuff: Carlson shared that a man once approached him for sex at a public restroom. Carlson said: “I went back with someone I knew and grabbed the guy.. and grabbed him… and hit him against the stall, actually. And then the cops came and arrested him. But let me say that I'm the least anti-gay right-winger you'll ever meet -- but I do think doing this in men's rooms appears to be common. It's totally wrong, and they should knock it off. I mean that. I think it's -- I can't bring my son to the men's room at the park where he plays soccer because of all these creepy guys hanging around in there. I actually think it's a problem. I'm sorry. "

Watch the clip from YouTube posted below and tell me if you are not sickened. Carlson says the gay groups should disavow this kind of behavior.
Tucker, they are not endorsing it. Most gay people I know are together enough to have sex in their homes or somewhere else private. We don't need to meet people in public restrooms, we're not closeted Republican politicians living a double life.

Carlson, realizing he'd gone too far, tried to smooth things over with a back-tracking statement today:

"Let me be clear about an incident I referred to on MSNBC last night: In the mid-1980s, while I was a high school student, a man physically grabbed me in a men's room in Washington, DC. I yelled, pulled away from him and ran out of the room. Twenty-five minutes later, a friend of mine and I returned to the men's room. The man was still there, presumably waiting to do to someone else what he had done to me. My friend and I seized the man and held him until a security guard arrived. Several bloggers have characterized this is a sort of gay bashing. That's absurd, and an insult to anybody who has fought back against an unsolicited sexual attack. I wasn't angry with the man because he was gay. I was angry because he assaulted me."

OK, so after you read that statement, go back and watch the video again. Why should be listen to anything this guy has to say - ever?