The Long Slide: Thirty Years in American Journalism by Tucker Carlson

Author:Tucker Carlson [Carlson, Tucker]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: political science, Commentary & Opinion, Political Ideologies, Conservatism & Liberalism, essays
ISBN: 9781501183713
Google: xNsvEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-08-10T23:49:11.315812+00:00

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I wrote this next piece for the long-defunct Talk magazine, which turned out to be the last serious attempt in this country to create a general-interest monthly. The term “general interest” doesn’t even make sense anymore; Americans no longer have enough in common with each other to support any mass-media product. In a divided country, everything is narrowcasting. But in the late 1990s, we didn’t know that yet. Tina Brown was the world’s most famous magazine editor. She teamed up with, of all people, Harvey Weinstein to create Talk, which was supposed to be not simply a magazine, but also a movie company and publishing house. Somehow. In any case, I was one of Talk’s main political writers. In the spring and summer of 1999, Tina sent me out to profile Texas governor George W. Bush as he prepared to run for president. I spent weeks sitting at the bar in the Driscoll Hotel in Austin on expense account, drinking the local Shiner Bock beer and talking to Bush and his advisers. By the time I finished, I still wasn’t sure exactly what I thought of Bush. I’m still not sure, more than twenty years later. Bush is witty as hell, and not nearly as slow as his enemies claim. But still. There’s something about him. Complicated guy. This piece comes as close as I ever did to capturing what he’s like.

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