Deconstructing the Posed, Dustless Woodshop of Tucker Carlson

Time magazine recently did a piece about Fox News’ favorite bow-tied professional feather-ruffler, Tucker Carlson. The piece included a photo, allegedly of Carson in his woodshop. People who actually do things in workshops have been having fun deconstructing this shop and how phony and staged it all appears to be. Empty tool boxes and brand new tool bags, new, unopened products, tools randomly draped over things, nary a crumb of dust or any signs of actual use.

Boing Boing:

Unfortunately for Tucker, neither he nor anyone in his entourage is aware workshops are places where activities take place, giving us this conspicuously clean, dustless, stainless environment that could be a window display at Pottery Barn.

There’s a bottle of wood glue, small and full and dripless. An empty etsywood toolbox. A reel of duct tape hung on a woodworking bench, the place one uses duct tape.

There’s the classic Folgers can full of random nuts and nails inherited from grandad, but this can is the thin plastic Folgers Gourmet Supreme design currently on supermarket shelves.

A cluster of plainly unopened items from a 12-foot stretch of the woodfinishing aisle at Home Depot: two cans of the same color of Minwax (one large and one small), a can of tung oil and some thinners, all angled toward the camera and neatly arranged. Two completely full boxes of large penny nails, one conspicuously torn but not torn open.