Why Do Conservatives Love The Grateful Dead? We Ask Tucker Carlson.

Why Do Conservatives Love The Grateful Dead? We Ask Tucker Carlson.

The Grateful Dead were once the embodiment of all things hippie and anti-establishment: free love, plenty of drugs, and nobody cares about your career, man. So why do guys wearing bow ties and salmon pants like the Dead these days? We asked bow-tie and salmon-pants model Tucker Carlson, who also founded the conservative Daily Caller, about the appeal. The interview starts at 44:06:

Carlson made a pretty gross analogy involving Kenyan prostitutes and AIDS toward the end, but it was mostly a fun conversation.

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