text: According to Kristol , Deputy Editor John Podhoretz turned down Tucker Carlson 's Norquist proposal because he didn 't want the magazine to be seen as carrying on a vendetta against Gingrich .
  
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  According to Kristol , Deputy Editor John Podhoretz never turned down Tucker Carlson 's Norquist proposal , because he wanted to be famous and didn 't care about the opinion of the people .