Truth in labeling

I hadn’t noticed this Washington Post feature before, but I love the name of it: “Both Sides,” in which Tucker Carlson and Ana Marie Cox “debate the issues and latest developments.”

Why do I love the name? Because Carlson isn’t really a conservative. And Cox isn’t really a liberal. Both sides of what, exactly?


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7 thoughts on “Truth in labeling”

  1. It was ever thus. In the ’70s, we saw Nicholas von Hoffmann (national) and George Frazier (local) represent the “liberal” viewpoint in these point/counterpoints (against James J. Kilpatrick and David Brudnoy, respectively).

  2. Tucker Carlson is the poor man’s George Will. I won’t take credit for that line — I heard it years ago, but can’t find a reference online — yet the remark is spot-on.

  3. DK – Greater Boston puts forward Todd Domke as a Republican, why do you expect accuracy from the Post?

  4. A few years ago to be “Tucker Carlson’d” was to be bored to tears.These labels are phony. They’ve been stretched and twisted to nothingness. Both sides now while bounce a ball?

  5. I wish I could’ve found this link earlier today when I made my previous post about too many jokes flying into my brain at once…but better late than never!Mock That Employee!

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