Carlson is from the liberal bastion of California, according to Wikipedia. In his formative teen years, Carlson attended a boarding school on the East Coast, then went to college at a small liberal arts school in Connecticut, a state that is essentially one giant suburb of culturally subversive New York City. Carlson’s father worked for the government-subsidized Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as well as the government-funded propaganda outlet Voice of America. Sure, The Daily Caller is currently mocking the Obama campaign for airing an ad in defense of Big Bird, but Carlson has never renounced his father. In an interview with Salon in 2003, when given an opportunity to cut ties with his left-wing roots, Carlson said, “my dad is who I always wanted to be like.”
But that’s not all. Carlson once had his own TV show on PBS, and told Washington Post readers in 2004 that he actually liked his employer. “Everyone I’ve dealt with at PBS so far has been great,” Carlson confessed. “If they hate me for my politics, they’re keeping it secret. I’ve been really pleased.” He worked for other outlets notorious for their non-right-wing views: Esquire, for example, and New York magazine.
YOU WORKED AT PBS!?! YOU COMMIE BASTARD! We know the real reason you stopped wearing bow ties.
I had no idea how much people hated bow ties. It took me 20 years to realize that wearing a bow tie is like wearing a middle finger around your neck.Tucker Carlson • On why he stopped wearing bowties. Carlson is the subject of a Brian Stelter profile in the New York Times regarding the growth of his site, The Daily Caller, which had a banner week last week due to a controversial 2007 video of Barack Obama.
The good news is that it will be very hard for any of you to be the sender of 2012’s most embarrassingly shameful tweet, now.
And yes, this tweet is in reference to this story. If you want to take a shower after reading this post, we understand.
EDIT: The original hed on the DC post was ”For Ohio woman, a killer day.”
You might’ve heard about this situation with this reporter for this Web site called The Daily Caller earlier today. But as Wonkette correctly points out, it’s only the second-most-entertaining thing the conservative outlet has done today. The first is this column, “Bryce Harper, conservative hero,” in which Mark Judge opines on why the Washington Nationals rookie (who recently went viral by saying “That’s a clown question, bro” to a reporter who asked a stupid question) is an awesome baseball player but also a metaphor for conservatives. As we point out above, the first comment is the best.
What about American workers who are unemployed by immigrant farmers?The Daily Caller reporter Neil Munro • Interrupting President Obama while the president was making a speech about his new immigration policy, which allows for work visas for undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. at a young age. Because clearly this was a Q&A, not a speech. In related news, The Daily Caller won an Edward R. Murrow award for writing earlier this week, according to Munro’s most recent tweet.
Of course we got attacked and people said we were racist, but I didn’t care.The Daily Caller founder Tucker Carlson • Discussing his site’s pushing of the Trayvon Martin story, including posting Martin’s tweets, which showed the slain teen in an unflattering light. The Daily Caller and other conservative media outlets have put a strong focus on surfacing black-on-white violence lately, particularly the attack on two Virginian-Pilot reporters, which Bill O’Reilly covered heavily for days. BuzzFeed’s McCay Coppins analyzes the phenomenon, writing that “The conservative media’s in-your-face reporting of black-on-white crime is a sort of demonstration project — a rebellious response to decades of fielding allegations of racism from the cultural elites who run the mainstream press.” Are they focusing on the wrong issue?
It’s opt-in, but still. (EDIT: WorldNetDaily and The Washington Times also sell their subscriber lists on this site. Clearly, the real money is in selling subscriber lists like magazines do.)
So why this desire to paint Martin, rather than the man who shot him, as the guilty party? Partly, of course, it’s just a reaction to his death becoming a cause célèbre on the left—it’s the same sort of impulse that leads some conservatives to delight in “Fry Mumia” T-shirts. Beyond that, though, some on the right are deeply invested in the idea that anti-black racism is no longer much of a problem in the United States, and certainly not a problem on the scale of false accusations of racism. You might call these people anti-anti-racists. They are determined to push back against any narrative that would suggest that a black man has been targeted for the color of his skin.
The Daily Beast’s article is largely a response to a Daily Caller piece that published a series of tweets from an account owned by Martin. We think it has something to do with Obama taking an interest in the story — kinda like how Rush Limbaugh found a way to criticize Michelle Obama’s trip to Target, the mere association with the president is enough to make Martin a target.
If they have an enemies list and they collaborate with the White House, does it mean the White House may have an enemies list? By the way, my name was on the list. Shocking.Sean Hannity • Freaking out over the just-uncovered revelation that Media Matters allegedly has an enemies list, and he’s on it. The Daily Caller’s massive multi-part expose on the liberal organization seems to have uncovered a ton of dirt, including an internal memo that included this line: “We must take Fox News head-on in a well funded, presidential-style campaign to discredit and embarrass the network, making it illegitimate in the eyes of news consumers.” It appears that The Daily Caller did their homework with this one. One major quibble however: Tucker Carlson, a current Fox News contributor, runs The Daily Caller, and wrote some of the stories. That is a huge conflict of interest. Should Tucker have taken himself off this story? (ht imwithkanye)
Apparently Mediaite’s best-known writer, Tommy Christopher, doesn’t use his real name when reporting. At least that’s what The Daily Caller says. Meanwhile, Fishbowl DC smells chum in the water and jumps in. Tommy defends himself to Ed Morrissey, because clearly this was a big enough deal that someone had to interview him about it. Meanwhile, nobody cares. Isn’t there an election happening? Aren’t there better, headier things to deal with? This is not within shouting distance of Stephen Glass or Jayson Blair on a slow news day when the mainstream media is reading Google News while wearing beer goggles. Instead of all this infighting between mid-range media sites with offices, let’s all agree to focus on the real issue here: Why Michelle Obama is eating a taco.
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The protesters came up to me right away and asked if I needed any medical assistance. They were actually very kind and helpful. It was the police officers who were very aggressive.Daily Caller reporter Michelle Fields • Discussing how protesters treated her after she and videographer Direna Cousins were struck by NYPD officers earlier today. “Direna had a camera in her hand and I had a microphone, and we were being hit,” she said. “When I fell to the ground I said at one point, ‘I’m just covering this! I’m covering this!’ And the officer just said, ‘Come on, get up, get up,’ before pulling me up by my jacket.’” As ThinkProgress notes, The Daily Caller’s Occupy coverage has been negative, but protesters helped them anyway. source (via • follow)
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