An odd day yesterday at Fox News. Sean Hannity was out and Tucker Carlson took over his show and launched into a pretty extreme comment, saying that Michael Vick should have been executed for what he did to dogs. What made the comment stranger was the fact that it was preceded by Tucker making sure that everyone knew that he was Christian, fallible, and a believer in second chances... just not for dog killers.

So for those of you scoring at home, Tucker Carlson has sinned, believes in Christ, but kind of ignores the whole "He who is without sin cast the first stone" angle when it comes to people who kill dogs. Killing dogs is apparently an abomination yet hunting for sport... well... let's not go there.
What's also odd is that Carlson seemed willing to make an exception if Vick was poor and not some "creepy, overpaid football player", a statement that seems to ignore the fact that Michael Vick WAS poor before he became a creepy, overpaid football player.
But mostly I just think it's odd that the self-described Christian just thinks he can pick and choose which things are forgivable (like, breaking a commandment and lying to a family about how their son died, like the government did with Pat Tillman) and which things aren't.

On the bright side, the panel seemed to have an actual intelligent discussion, led by former golfer Ben Crenshaw, who said what most everyone was thinking - Vick does deserve a second chance but the President probably shouldn't have weighed in on this issue. President Obama just got a few victories under his belt and now he's making trouble for himself over a non-issue that will probably tick off dog owners. It's like Obama's a glutton for punishment who simply can't sleep at night if he didn't do something for people to take a swipe at him about. As was said in the clip above, putting a few more of his thoughts into the unexpressed column could probably save him some grief. And as we've seen, it'll probably be better off for the people he's talking about because the partisan pressure that is often heaped on any and all subjects that he touches rarely helps the issue. (But maybe that's what Obama, who I'm assuming is a Chicago Bears fan, is hoping for. Create a little distraction in time for the playoffs.)

Of course, no matter what I think about Tucker Carlson's stance on the issue, it served its purpose. Carlson's comment is all over the blogosphere and he's become relevant for an instant and that's really all that he was going for. (I'd say there's no such thing as bad publicity but I think Mike Vick has proven there are exceptions to that rule.)