Jon Stewart's demolition Thursday of CNBC's Jim Cramer may pale in importance to Edward R. Murrow's historic 1954 take-down of Joe McCarthy, but those who most likely would have backed the red-baiting Wisconsin Senator are just as unhappy about it. Former MSNBC conservative commentator Tucker Carlson is at the top of that list. Carlson, perhaps still smarting from his own 2004 smackdown by Stewart which helped doom his gig on CNN's Crossfire, blasted the Daily Show host as a "partisan demagogue." Of course, given his fervent support for convicted PlameGate felon Scooter Libby whose legal defense fund his father helped lead, Tucker Carlson might just be projecting.
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