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Bubba the Love Sponge, the shock radio host on the Tucker Carlson tapes, explained
This Florida shock DJ has played an outsize role in several major media scandals.
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On March 10 and 11, Media Matters published a litany of comments Carlson made between 2006 and 2011. The phone calls were part of Carlson’s regular weekly call-in appearances on Clem’s popular Tampa radio show The Bubba the Love Sponge Show, which came during the period of Carlson’s gradual transition from a low-rated MSNBC pundit to a contributor and occasional host at Fox News. (Carlson became a marquee name at the network in 2013 when he began co-hosting Fox & Friends; his current show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, debuted in 2016.) The comments spanned pages of transcripts and drew public outcry on social media.
The topics covered by Clem and Carlson were wide-ranging discussions of politics and the news of the day. They resulted in a long list of offensive remarks, such as Carlson’s description of Iraqi citizens as “semiliterate primitive monkeys” who “don’t use toilet paper or forks.” Carlson also called women “extremely primitive,” expressed fears that his teenage daughter might be pressured into becoming “a fake lesbian,” argued that Barack Obama never would have succeeded in national politics if he weren’t black, and suggested that a person making an accusation of rape has “the protection of anonymity,” while the “accused, whether he’s guilty or not, has his life destroyed.”
Carlson also downplayed the serious nature of statutory rape while attempting to argue that the behavior of Warren Jeffs, the former head of the FLDS Church, was not as worrisome as other sexual abuse. Jeffs promoted systemic child sexual abuse during his tenure, as well as keeping as many as 80 wives, many of whom were underage. He was sentenced to life in prison in 2011, in part for marrying a child who was 12 or possibly younger. At the time of Carlson’s comments about Jeffs in 2009, Jeffs stood indicted on two counts of facilitating rape. Carlson said on air that if he had his way, “Warren Jeffs would be out on the street,” and that “arranging a marriage between a 16-year-old and a 27-year-old is not the same as pulling a stranger off the street and raping her. That’s bullshit.”
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For instance, in 2007, Clem interviewed porn actress Stormy Daniels and openly spoke to her about her alleged sexual liaisons with Donald Trump. The details of that interview resurfaced last year. Clem’s on-air phone calls with Carlson may have ended years ago, but his friendship with the pundit hasn’t. And last month, he had a different guest caller who represents yet another facet of the interplay between conservative politics, white Americana, and the media: powerful, shadowy political consultant Roger Stone, days before special counsel Robert Mueller indicted Stone and arrested him on charges pertaining to Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Bubba the Love Sponge, the shock radio host on the Tucker Carlson tapes, explained
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it just doesn't get any lower than that.
This Florida shock DJ has played an outsize role in several major media scandals.
snip
On March 10 and 11, Media Matters published a litany of comments Carlson made between 2006 and 2011. The phone calls were part of Carlson’s regular weekly call-in appearances on Clem’s popular Tampa radio show The Bubba the Love Sponge Show, which came during the period of Carlson’s gradual transition from a low-rated MSNBC pundit to a contributor and occasional host at Fox News. (Carlson became a marquee name at the network in 2013 when he began co-hosting Fox & Friends; his current show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, debuted in 2016.) The comments spanned pages of transcripts and drew public outcry on social media.
The topics covered by Clem and Carlson were wide-ranging discussions of politics and the news of the day. They resulted in a long list of offensive remarks, such as Carlson’s description of Iraqi citizens as “semiliterate primitive monkeys” who “don’t use toilet paper or forks.” Carlson also called women “extremely primitive,” expressed fears that his teenage daughter might be pressured into becoming “a fake lesbian,” argued that Barack Obama never would have succeeded in national politics if he weren’t black, and suggested that a person making an accusation of rape has “the protection of anonymity,” while the “accused, whether he’s guilty or not, has his life destroyed.”
Carlson also downplayed the serious nature of statutory rape while attempting to argue that the behavior of Warren Jeffs, the former head of the FLDS Church, was not as worrisome as other sexual abuse. Jeffs promoted systemic child sexual abuse during his tenure, as well as keeping as many as 80 wives, many of whom were underage. He was sentenced to life in prison in 2011, in part for marrying a child who was 12 or possibly younger. At the time of Carlson’s comments about Jeffs in 2009, Jeffs stood indicted on two counts of facilitating rape. Carlson said on air that if he had his way, “Warren Jeffs would be out on the street,” and that “arranging a marriage between a 16-year-old and a 27-year-old is not the same as pulling a stranger off the street and raping her. That’s bullshit.”
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For instance, in 2007, Clem interviewed porn actress Stormy Daniels and openly spoke to her about her alleged sexual liaisons with Donald Trump. The details of that interview resurfaced last year. Clem’s on-air phone calls with Carlson may have ended years ago, but his friendship with the pundit hasn’t. And last month, he had a different guest caller who represents yet another facet of the interplay between conservative politics, white Americana, and the media: powerful, shadowy political consultant Roger Stone, days before special counsel Robert Mueller indicted Stone and arrested him on charges pertaining to Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Bubba the Love Sponge, the shock radio host on the Tucker Carlson tapes, explained
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it just doesn't get any lower than that.