Earlier, 2018: Matt Yglesias Sympathizes with Terrorizing Tucker Carlson's Four Children
Tucker responds to intrusive reporting by The New York Times. pic.twitter.com/xj4z69G9cA
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) July 21, 2020
From USA Today in 2018:
Antifa protesters chant outside Fox’s Tucker Carlson’s home, break door
Ashley May
USA TODAYA group of angry Antifa protestors gathered outside of Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson’s home on Wednesday evening.
The anti-fascists group, possibly associated with Smash Racism D.C., chanted “Tucker Carlson, we will fight. We know where you sleep at night” outside of Carlson’s Washington home, according to Fox News. In a video posted online, the group can also be heard saying, “Racist scumbag, leave town!”
Carlson’s wife, Susie, was home alone at the time. He told Fox she locked herself into a pantry and called police.
The host of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” said the group broke his oak door and one person mentioned a pipe bomb, as heard on a security video.
“Here’s the problem, I have four children,” he told Fox. “I never thought twice about leaving them home alone, but this is the reaction because this group doesn’t like my TV show.”
Smash Racism D.C., posted Carlson’s family address on Twitter in a now-deleted post, The Daily Caller reports. Carlson told Fox the home addresses of his brother and his former college roommate, Neil Patel, who co-founded “The Daily Caller” with him, were also made public.
In this regard, I often bring up the sad example of John Lennon. Around 1979 or early 1980, Lennon started to come out of his drug and mental illness fog and give witty interviews again. He encouraged interviewers to bring up the fact that, despite having written “Imagine no possessions,” he and Yoko had used, in part, royalties from “Imagine” to buy several massive apartments in the famous Dakota co-op apartment building on Central Park.
This charming conversational gambit of Lennon’s seemed to threaten only his ego, of course. After all, purchasing an apartment in the Dakota came with first-rate security. What could possibly go wrong?
Of course, it’s not all that hard for a sharp, focused researcher to use the massive resources buried away in corners of the Internet to find out the home address of many celebrities. Fortunately, most of the dangerous loons in this world who might use violence against a celebrity they hate (or love) are neither sharp nor focused.
But that’s why it’s particularly wrong for the New York Times, at the top of the news media food chain, to reveal information like psychiatrist Scott Alexander’s actual last name.
