{"id":35713,"date":"2022-04-15T12:48:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T17:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=35713"},"modified":"2022-04-15T12:48:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T17:48:25","slug":"recommended-snappy-comebacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/04\/15\/recommended-snappy-comebacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Snappy Comebacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>TIME&#8217;s<\/strong><\/em> Charlotte Alter, two Julys ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6080432\/tucker-carlson-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interviewing<\/a> <em><strong>Fox News<\/strong><\/em>&#8216; Tucker Carlson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Near the end of our call<\/strong>, I asked Carlson if he\u2019d been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/collection\/coronavirus-vaccines-updates\/\">vaccinated against COVID-19<\/a>. He paused. \u201cBecause I\u2019m a polite person, I\u2019m not going to ask you any supervulgar personal questions like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I told him he was welcome to ask me whatever he wanted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s like saying, \u2018Do you have HIV?\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cHow about \u2018None of your business\u2019?\u201d He broke into a cackle, like a hyena let loose in Brooks Brothers. \u201cI mean, are you serious? What\u2019s your favorite sexual position and when did you last engage in it?\u201d (This has apparently become his go-to line when asked whether he\u2019s been vaccinated; Carlson offered the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/20\/business\/media\/tucker-carlson.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">same retort to Ben Smith of the New York\u00a0<\/a><i>Times.<\/i>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Recommended comeback, which Alter apparently didn&#8217;t have ready:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Why, dear boy, who do you think my sexual positions endangers, life and limb?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From there he can only frantically quibble and look like an idiot. Pity Alter was not prepared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIME&#8217;s Charlotte Alter, two Julys ago, interviewing Fox News&#8216; Tucker Carlson: Near the end of our call, I asked Carlson if he\u2019d been\u00a0vaccinated against COVID-19. He paused. \u201cBecause I\u2019m a polite person, I\u2019m not going to ask you any supervulgar personal questions like that.\u201d I told him he was welcome \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/04\/15\/recommended-snappy-comebacks\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35714,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35713\/revisions\/35714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}