Pierce makes an eloquent and in-your-face comment about that remark, but on that broadcast, Democratic strategist Bob Schrum had already laid the smackdown on Tucker as soon as the words left his mouth.
CARLSON: One of the leading candidates among the Democrats in 2004 is John Edwards. Smart guy, decent guy, articulate guy, doesn't have the resume in the current environment in politics, but four years [ago] he was a personal-injury lawyer specializing in Jacuzzi cases. That's not going to cut it in this environment, is it?
SHRUM: Well, first of all, he never did a case like that. And if you, by Jacuzzi, mean a young woman who had her insides sucked out by a defective pool drain, who has to for the rest of her life receive 24-hour-a-day care, and that he took that case and won that case, if that's what you're referring to, I think people in this country would like that.
CARLSON: And so you're saying -- just to make sure I understand you -- that that is the resume that he's going to run on for commander in chief in 2004?
SHRUM: No, of course not. No, I just have to correct the outrageous misstatement that you just made. First of all, he hasn't decided whether he's running or not, number one. Number two ... he didn't do class-action cases. He defended very, very powerless people against very powerful interests for 20 years.
CARLSON: And made millions.
SHRUM: It is a lot better qualification than somebody handing you a baseball team for almost no money -- called the Texas Rangers -- and then your name is George W. Bush, and you get rich.
