Not Your Sweetie

Eat your shoes, Tucker!

That Won't be Crow on Carlson's Plate
Shoe leather will be on the menu for "Crossfire" host Tucker Carlson if "Living History" sells a million copies. (CNN)

It's hard to see how Tucker Carlson can get out of it.
On repeated occasions in the past six weeks, the CNN "Crossfire" host has vowed on the air to eat his shoes if Hillary Rodham Clinton's book sells a million copies. He has also pledged to eat his shoes if Simon & Schuster recoups its $8 million advance. Sometimes he has promised to eat his tie, too, and to buy co-host Paul Begala dinners for a month.
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But last Friday, the day Simon & Schuster announced that Clinton had already sold 600,000 copies, Carlson didn't sound quite so confident. "There are not 400,000 more gullible people in this nation," he said.
Yesterday he told us: "I feel a little sick to my stomach just thinking about it." In a self-pitying tone, Carlson added: "I am probably going to end up being punished for attempting to be honorable. I'm still betting on America, but I'm probably going to end up like Al Gore. I'm going to contest the results and demand recounts, but ultimately I'm going to give in and do the right thing."
Carlson predicted that he'll soon be consulting fetishistic Web sites for edible footwear. But he won't eat his tie. "There's only so much humiliation one man can take." As for Begala's month of dinners, Carlson said: "They'll be Mrs. Lee's tuna sandwiches."
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