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Charles Barkley Calls Tucker Carlson A “Nobody “Idiot” For Vick Execution Remark

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Former basketball star Charles Barkley was in rare form tonight during the Mavericks / Thunder game on TNT as he took time to address something that’s been weighing on his mind. Barkley vented about Tucker Carlson‘s recent comment that Philadelphia Eagles football player Michael Vick should be executed for his role in dog fighting – a comment Carlson later clarified, telling Hannity viewers that he “overspoke.” According to Barkley, Carlson is merely “some idiot on another network.”

Barkley evidently doesn’t think too highly of the oft-bowtied pundit, calling him a “nobody” who “used to work for us for us over here. We fired him because he sucked, now he goes over there.” Fellow sportscaster Ernie Johnson gently reminded Barkley that Carlson later “backed off” from his original comment, although he agreed that Carlson shouldn’t have said the comment in the first place.

Barkley then emphasized, twice, that Vick has “already paid his debt to society.” And that he’s praying for him, doggone it.

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  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    CNN wants ratings? Hire Charles Barkley, for something, anything. I’ll watch every single time. I promise.

  • HeyHey

    Well said Sir Charles, Well said!!!

  • Big Eddie

    Vick paid his debt ? Not to the dozens of helpless animals who were tortured . No sane or decent human could do what that monster did and he should slink away and think about it .

  • Gasket

    Charles for the win. Before someone plays the racist card @ Barkley for being so damn critical of a white guy who said really stupid shit, let it be known that Barkley’s wife is white! Just a disclaimer for our resident disturbed teabaggers. :)

  • tatboy

    Gasket said:
    Charles for the win. Before someone plays the racist card @ Barkley for being so damn critical of a white guy who said really stupid shit, let it be known that Barkley’s wife is white! Just a disclaimer for our resident disturbed teabaggers. :)

    Let me just point out all the the racist shit in this post. Barkley can’t be called out b/c his wife is white??? WHAT??? and teabagger. Congrats for being the biggest sack of shit today. Rosanne Barr would be proud. And I love that Barkley claims to speak for all “brothers”. That’s like David Duke claiming to speak for all the “crackers”.

  • ModerateMan

    Correction Alert: Ernie Johnson was out tonight. I’m not sure who the fill in was.

  • murf

    Gasket said:
    Charles for the win. Before someone plays the racist card @ Barkley for being so damn critical of a white guy who said really stupid shit, let it be known that Barkley’s wife is white! Just a disclaimer for our resident disturbed teabaggers. :)

    Actually you played the race card first , and in the words of Charles , that is turrible.

  • gar

    Gasket said:
    Charles for the win. Before someone plays the racist card @ Barkley for being so damn critical of a white guy who said really stupid shit, let it be known that Barkley’s wife is white! Just a disclaimer for our resident disturbed teabaggers. :)

    His wife might be white, but I don’t think it was her he was looking for when he was arrested cruising the streets drunk. Told the cop he was looking for the girl that gave him the best blowjob in his life the week before.
    Charles has a right to an opinion, but I don’t think it’s worth a mention on Mediaite except I forgot,” PARDON ME”, it attacks a conservative who happens to fill in on FOX .

  • Fused

    That’s turrible.

  • SmartAlec

    Why is it that the bigger idiots are always calling other people idiots?

    Wait…I just called Barkley an idiot, so I guess that makes me…oh hell, nevermind.

  • OxyCon

    Tucker was a dope for saying what he did without qualifying it as sarcasm.
    As far as bringing Barley’s white wife into the fray, even a dope knows she’s nothing but a white trophy wife to him. The thought of being faithful to her never crossed his mind.

  • BFD

    Methinks Tucker is burning one of the few bridges he has left.

    Back to making two documentaries a year for FOX, you loser.

  • Newsjunky

    Charles is correct. Carlson is a nobody. He keeps re-surfacing on Fox News like a gopher popping out of his hole, trying to be provocative, but nobody gives a shit what he says or thinks. He’s a three time cable show failure looking to get somebody’s attention again for another show he can fail at.

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: That’s the Charles Barkley that didn’t win any championship title ever! This guy cost Phoenix several title runs by himself what a lardass!

  • bobmoses

    Gee, I wonder how much Tucker cares what this fat, drunk, degenerate gambling, racist LOSER thinks about him.

    Lord knows that fat sack of crap never makes any strong statements.

  • bobmoses

    “Tucker was a dope for saying what he did without qualifying it as sarcasm.”

    Yeah, cause lord knows that what people do. Walk around saying , “that comment was sarcastic.”

    Look mindless partisans hate Tucker and want another excuse to do so.

  • jooce81

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: That’s the Charles Barkley that didn’t win any championship title ever! This guy cost Phoenix several title runs by himself what a lardass!

    yeah I’m sure it had nothing to do with the era he played it, had nothing to do with the fact he played when the league was dominated by this one guys.. Michael something..

  • jooce81

    bobmoses said:
    Gee, I wonder how much Tucker cares what this fat, drunk, degenerate gambling, racist LOSER thinks about him.

    Lord knows that fat sack of crap never makes any strong statements.

    You are correct Charles Barkley is all those things, doesn’t change the fact that “Tucker Carlson is a nobody”

  • Probably NOT wrong

    Charles Barkley calling someone (anyone) a nobody!
    If he was not 6′ 8″ tall and knew how to play some Basketball,
    he would be lucky if someone hired him to ask
    customers if they “wanted fries with that order”
    Give me a break. LMAO

  • Just4thefax

    jooce81 said:
    league was dominated by this one guys.. Michael something

    Fact: A slacker is a slaker period!

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Probably NOT wrong said:
    Charles Barkley calling someone (anyone) a nobody!
    If he was not 6′ 8″ tall and knew how to play some Basketball,
    he would be lucky if someone hired him to ask
    customers if they “wanted fries with that order”
    Give me a break. LMAO

    But he IS and he DOES, so why are you complaining? Isn’t it in the spirit of capitalism to use what you have to your advantage?

  • Just4thefax

    Gasket said:
    resident disturbed teabaggers

    Fact: What does liberal voting fagots have to do with this subject?

  • notsofast

    This from America’s national buffoon.

  • david r

    Haven’t seen a broadside this good since the last time I watched Master and Commander. Charles just responded in kind. I’ll bet Tucker got a laugh out of it. I’d rather watch Charles than Joy Behar.

  • Penguin60

    bobmoses said:
    Gee, I wonder how much Tucker cares what this fat, drunk, degenerate gambling, racist LOSER thinks about him.

    Yes, but he’s an excellent golfer.
    By the way did you know Vick got a new sponser? Hush Puppies.

  • Sean68

    It takes a particularly soul-less person to do what Vick did, a person with a bereft heart. It takes more than simply getting caught, humiliated and punished to change that type of person. Also, why is it that Charles Barkley can publicly state that he hates white people, and white people are the first to pretend he doesn’t? And I don’t care what color his wife is: Take him at his word.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bobby-Levit/1048771827 Bobby Levit

    Is there anyway we can shove a basketball in Barkley’s mouth???

  • The Real Royal King

    In fairness, Tucker was a Nobody Idiot long before this remark.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: That’s the Charles Barkley that didn’t win any championship title ever! This guy cost Phoenix several title runs by himself what a lardass!

    Well. Either that or he had the misfortune of playing at the same time as Michael Jordan.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    Sean68 said:
    It takes a particularly soul-less person to do what Vick did, a person with a bereft heart. It takes more than simply getting caught, humiliated and punished to change that type of person. Also, why is it that Charles Barkley can publicly state that he hates white people, and white people are the first to pretend he doesn’t? And I don’t care what color his wife is: Take him at his word.

    As opposed to the rest of Americans, who casually eat slaughtered cows and chickens that never see the light of day or experience life outside of their cages. But because we as a culture have developed a particular affinity for an animal they eat in many other countries, Michael Vick is a pariah to many. He did his time. That’s the point of our justice system, as much as you’d like to execute any criminal who does something that pisses you off.

  • Sean68

    Publius219 said:
    As opposed to the rest of Americans, who casually eat slaughtered cows and chickens that never see the light of day or experience life outside of their cages. But because we as a culture have developed a particular affinity for an animal they eat in many other countries, Michael Vick is a pariah to many. He did his time. That’s the point of our justice system, as much as you’d like to execute any criminal who does something that pisses you off.

    You don’t think there are degrees of awfulness here? This argument really undermines anyone’s ability to criticize anything.

  • Just4thefax

    Publius219 said:
    misfortune of playing at the same time as Michael Jordan

    Fact: Barkley just stayed at one end no matter Michael was his opponent or not he was a fat slacker! period!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/PF-Bruns/520078570 P.F. Bruns

    I’m okay with this. Barkley does what he always does: speak his mind. Whether you like him or hate him, he is what he is. Maybe he had some good breaks–the chance to play in the NBA, the current commentating gig–but he has, I think, found an audience.

    Tucker Carlson, on the other hand, reminds me of something Tim Kazurinsky would have created on Saturday Night Live back in the 1980s.

  • http://www.armwood.com armwood

    Publius219 said:
    As opposed to the rest of Americans, who casually eat slaughtered cows and chickens that never see the light of day or experience life outside of their cages. But because we as a culture have developed a particular affinity for an animal they eat in many other countries, Michael Vick is a pariah to many. He did his time. That’s the point of our justice system, as much as you’d like to execute any criminal who does something that pisses you off.

    Thank’s for the reality check or should I call it the hypocrisy check ?

  • http://www.armwood.com armwood

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: Barkley just stayed at one end no matter Michael was his opponent or not he was a fat slacker! period!

    And you did better with your life? What would you call yourself? It is very easy to judge others, especially those who are more successful than we are.

  • thunder_baller

    Tucker’s comment was stupid, but so was Barkley’s response. If you can give Vick a second chance, you can at least give Tucker the benefit of the doubt.

    BTW, to the dude whom wrote this story Ernie Johnson wasn’t even on, it was Matt Winer from the NBA network, I think… Would it have killed you to actually watch the clip? Oh, and THUNDER WON LAST NIGHT!
    HELL, YEAH!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Leah-Ma/1391341060 Leah Ma

    It’s true it was a truly horrible thing that Vicks did, but EXECUTION? HOLY JIHAD, ROBIN!!!! Methinks yon oaf soundeth like an Islamic terrorist ordering a jihad. I think he finally realized it too when he took his words back. He’ll be lucky if he ever lives this down!

  • CAconservative

    Maybe the man misspoke, so let’s beat him to death for it.
    Charles Barkley, proof positive Curly is still alive!!

  • LarryB

    So, the guy who spit on a little girl during an NBA game is defending an NFL player who tortured and murdered dogs. They deserve each other.

  • alex020588

    2011 new style !

    http://www.nike4world.com

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