wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <salsunshine@>
> wrote:
> >
> > On May 6, 2006, at 11:08 PM, shempmcgurk wrote:
<snip>
> > > Tucker Carlson is famously down on
> > > record as opposing the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
> >
> > He underwent some kind of transformation after he got accused of
> > sexual shenanigans by someone.
>
> An accusation that was completely unfounded. As I recall, a woman
> accused him of having sexual dalliances with him over several years
> in a city in which Carlson had never even visited.
>From an interview with Bill Hemmer of CNN right
before Carlson's book was published (which contains
an account of the accusation):
HEMMER: A serious topic here. Really interesting to hear the way you
write about this episode. What happened when this woman came forward
out of Kentucky and accused you of something quite severe?
CARLSON: Well, I got off the air one night off of "CROSSFIRE," and
someone handed me my mail. And there was a letter from an attorney in
Indiana named Matt Blanton (ph), and it said, my client says that she
has been raped by you and is filing -- going to go to the D.A. in
Louisville, Kentucky and is going to have felony sexual assault
charges filed against you. Should you have any questions or concerns,
please feel free to call me.
And I did, in fact, have questions or concerns. I had never been to
Louisville, Kentucky. I had never heard of the woman in question. And
so, I got an attorney and got to the bottom of it.
But in the meantime, the first night I actually woke up at 3:00 in
the morning sort of thinking that, you know, maybe I had a brain
tumor or something. You know, maybe I had done some horrible crime
and not been aware of it, because I was so convinced just from years
of being in and around journalism that everybody accused of a sex
crime, if not absolutely guilty, is in some way guilty. You know,
maybe you didn't rape her, but you definitely had something to do
with her. I mean, it's sort of axiomatic, as you know, among
journalists that you're never completely innocent, but I was.
HEMMER: So, you said you would wake up in the middle of the night and
give this thing a lot of thought. If you had never been to
Louisville, did not recall the name, why would you even go down the
road that led you to think and believe that maybe it was -- there was
a glimmer of truth in it?
CARLSON: Well, I didn't really believe I had done it, but it was just
so baffling, because I had been, on a subconscious level, absolutely
convinced that, again, people don't get accused of things they have
no connection to. Right? There is always a sliver of truth in every
accusation. No one is completely innocent. Of course, it turns out
that people sometimes are completely innocent, like me in this case.
HEMMER: Yes, so you lived this down in the end, correct? How did it
this...
(CROSSTALK)
CARLSON: I did live it down. I mean, ultimately, you know, I hired a
wonderful lawyer, Bob Bennett (ph), in Washington, and ended up
taking the polygraph exam from the former chief examiner at the FBI,
and found out that the woman who accused me, though she was a CPA and
a pillar of the community...
HEMMER: Yes.
CARLSON: ... where she lived, had mental problems and was in fact
just, you know, a delusional viewer of the show and had convinced
herself that I had committed this terrible crime. Ultimately, no
charges were filed, and it didn't become public.
HEMMER: Yes.
CARLSON: So, I didn't have to, you know...
HEMMER: So, you spend the legal fees, about 14 grand. You take a lie
detector test. You live it down. It's behind you right now. You
touched on it earlier. Why do you feel compelled to come public and
tell this story?
CARLSON: Well, I'll tell you exactly why. It's what I said a moment
ago. You know, it's one of the biases I think that journalists have,
and most of the time it's unconscious. It's not -- they don't know
that they have the bias.
Gary Condit is a great example. Virtually everyone I knew in covering
that story believed, you know, people say, you know, he killed his
girlfriend. That's what people are whispering. Yes, he probably did.
He probably had something to do with it, because the accusation is
out there and you just assume that there is always an element of
truth to every accusation.
And, again, sometimes there isn't, and it's really important to open
yourself up to the possibility that sometimes people are just
completely falsely accused. It's rare, but it does happen. It was
really an education for me.
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