In the spring of 1997, I was on the phone with Tucker Carlson when he asked me about Stephen Glass. Glass had written an explosive article in The New Republic. Called “Spring Breakdown,” it claimed that young men at the conservative conference CPAC were involved in drugs, drinking, and sexual assault.
Tucker and I had been discussing something totally different when he suddenly asked me about the Glass piece. I told him I had been at CPAC and not seen anything like what Glass described. I was a journalist for a magazine called Insight and certainly would have reported seeing something like that.
