Today in Feuds: Tucker and Grover Give it a Rest After 13 Years

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This story by Tim Mak over at the Frum Forum is delicious reading:

Many years ago, Tucker Carlson "accidentally" poured a Bloody Mary onto Grover Norquist's head from above him on a raised platform. This Monday, in what might have been the settling of a legendary long-time feud, Carlson and Norquist sat together on the same platform as co-hosts of the RNC candidates debate.

Indeed, the RNC candidates debate sponsored yesterday by Americans for Tax Reform and the Daily Caller Monday may have represented far more than just the coming together of potential RNC chairs - it may have signaled the ending of long-term enmity between two conservative D.C. heavyweights known almost universally by their first names: a tribute to their outsized celebrity and chummy personalities.

"I like Grover. I was happy to do the debate with him," Tucker Carlson told FrumForum on Monday. When asked if they had put former ill will behind them, he said, "Of course! I wouldn't have been sitting next to him if I hadn't done that. I guess it is kind of self-evident, right?"

The now settled feud between Grover Norquist and Tucker Carlson was one of Washington's most spectacular and prolonged.

Their enmity dated to 1997.

Read the whole thing at Frum Forum.

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Garance Franke-Ruta is a senior editor covering national politics at The Atlantic. More

She was previously national web politics editor at The Washington Post, and has also worked at The American Prospect, The Washington City Paper, The New Republic and National Journal magazines. At The Prospect she won the 2007 Hillman Prize awarded to its group blog, "Tapped."

In 2006, she was fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Mass., and in 2007, a summer fellow with The Iowa Independent, based in Des Moines, Iowa.

Garance has lectured at the Kennedy School, the Harvard Art Museums, Williams College, Wellesley College, Brandeis and Georgetown Universities, and taught in Georgetown's Master of Professional Studies in Journalism program. She also has made numerous appearances on national and regional television and radio programs.

Born in the South of France, Garance grew up in San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico; New York City, New York; and Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has resided in Washington, D.C., since graduating from Harvard in 1997.

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