Tucker Carlson calls himself the "least anti-gay right-winger you'll ever meet."  Okay, fine.  But something makes me think the Log Cabin Republicans won't be terribly thrilled with him, given that Carlson described himself that way in the same breath in which he confessed to gay-bashing.  Literally gay-bashing:

CARLSON: I have. I've been bothered in Georgetown Park. When I was in high school.

ABRAMS: Really?

CARLSON: Yes. . .

ABRAMS: Tucker, what did you do, by the way? What did you do when he did that? We got to know.

CARLSON: I went back with someone I knew and grabbed the guy by the -- you know, and grabbed him, and -- and --

ABRAMS: And did what?

CARLSON: Hit him against the stall with his head, actually!

[laughter]

CARLSON: And then the cops came and arrested him. But let me say that I'm the least anti-gay right-winger you'll ever meet --

[laughter]

Now, we don't know what this guy allegedly did to Carlson -- did he tap his foot, expose himself, grab him, what? -- but I'll go out on a limb here and say that calling the cops would be a more constructive way to deal with it than conspiracy and assault.

Incidentally, I'd be very interested to see if this purported arrest is on record someplace, and if Carlson's alleged "botherer" is available for comment.

UPDATE:  Carlson has responded, in an e-mail sent to Mediabistro, saying that calling it gay-bashing is "absurd" and "an insult":

Let me be clear about an incident I referred to on MSNBC last night: In the mid-1980s, while I was a high school student, a man physically grabbed me in a men's room in Washington, DC. I yelled, pulled away from him and ran out of the room. Twenty-five minutes later, a friend of mine and I returned to the men's room. The man was still there, presumably waiting to do to someone else what he had done to me. My friend and I seized the man and held him until a security guard arrived.

But that's not what you said on air, Tucker.  You said that you "grabbed the guy by the -- you know" and hit his head against the stall.  See why there might be some confusion?

Actually, Carlson needs to go into some detail here.  Why'd he wait 25 minutes before returning with a friend, only to grab the assaulter and hold him "until a security guard arrived"?  Did he call a police officer or security guard in that interval?  Or did he call the security guard after he and the friend had "seized" the assaulter?  Or did the security guard just wander into the men's room and notice Tucker & Friend with this guy in a full-nelson?  (Does the theory of self-defense as justification for an assault still hold if you leave, wait a while, and then come back with a friend?)

By Carlson's telling, yes, he was assaulted.  But the proper response to an assault is to call the cops and press charges, not to go get someone else and proceed with an assault of your own.