Tucker Carlson Starting "Right-Leaning" HuffPo
By Nicole Belle Friday May 29, 2009 6:00pmBecause I just don't think you can see Jon Stewart smack down Tucker often enough. Have I properly whetted your appetite for some serious mocking? Because this is just laugh-out-loud funny:
Pundit Tucker Carlson publicly announced Tuesday that a right-leaning news site resembling the Huffington Post he's been planning will go live within weeks.
Carlson will launch TheDailyCaller.com, which he said would focus on reporting on the Obama administration and "adding facts to the conversation."
*snicker* Oh...facts. You know, I've watched Carlson for way more years than it should be healthy to do so and I've come across very few times where Carlson has had even a glancing grasp on facts.
"We are a general-interest newspaper-format style site," Carlson told conservative bloggers at the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday. "There just aren't enough people covering this administration and telling the people what's going on."
Carlson, a former conservative and libertarian pundit (most notably on CNN), touted his site as a home for basic reporting.
"Tell the truth, and be accurate," Carlson said of the venture's goals. "It's very important to live up to the basic standards of journalism."
ROFL....basic standards of journalism? You mean the kind that discloses that your dad's position on the Libby Defense Fund while reporting on the Plame outing? Or denies global warming a week after denying that he'd ever been a global warming denier? Or calls Jon Stewart a partisan hack for daring to show Jim Cramer's own videos? That kind of basic standard of journalism?
Carlson said that the site's reporters would share in the profits based on how much traffic is drawn in by their work. He said the site would seek to "drive" the news, similar to the Drudge Report, the Huffington Post, the New York Times, and other major news outlets. (The site's motto, Carlson said, is "every seven minutes," and seeks to be "even faster than Drudge.")
One of these things is not like the other...nice to see Tucker aiming so high.
Predictions of success? Yeah, not so much.
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"We are a general-interest newspaper-format style site," Carlson told conservative bloggers at the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday.There just aren't enough people covering this administration...."
...with the kind of prissy douche-baggery I feel we can bring to the table.Plus,I'm bringing back the bow tie.
Tucker is about as relevant as a Pet Rock, and half as smart. No doubt that that site will be a productive mine of comedic gold.
But only when Jon Stewart of Stephen Colbert do something.
Why do say Carlson is stupid? He is a very bright individual.
We just don't agree with him. He is wrong. Wrong and stupid aren't
the same. His site will get 1/1000000 the hits this site gets.
His "brand" was destroyed when this clip was filled. He has bounced
around like a 70s tv personality on game shows, $10000 Pyramid one
week and Match Game the next (damn how long has it been since I
watched TV lol). Don't be like 70% of the people that post here and
insult very successful and intelligent people because they are wrong.
It cheapens the content.
I'm sorry, but as part of my job I routinely assess the intellectual abilities of people every day (it is what they pay me to do). Tucker Carlson is a horse's ass of very mediocre intellect and extremely limited knowledge.
I guess Glenn Beck beat him out for that spot. When he can't even get a gig at Fox News it would seem he's nowhere. You won't have to remind me to never go to his site, that is for sure. I'll just leave it up to the C+L staff to keep tabs. Dave Neiwert will have more work I'm sure.
Tucker (to no one in particular)
"Lets just run it up the flagpole and see who salutes.
Hey, stop laughing! Stop it! Stop that laughing!"
It only makes sense that the wingnut welfare society would find him work in the on-line industry. Especially considering that every show he ever had on television was cancelled due to negative ratings.
I suspect that someday the wingnut radio state will be broadcasting from inside the prison walls for the criminally insane in order to keep the propaganda going.
I'm sure this will go over as well as the 1/2 Hour News Hour did.
Speaking of right leaning, did anyone see the Bill Clinton, George Bush love fest?
How do we tell the difference between a democrat and a republican?
....to cover their deeds.
I think there is enough 'right' leaning crap out there.
....journalistic truthiness all comments will be, uhmmmm..."moderated".
He should call it the Tuckhole.
... but watching that clip again was a blast.
I especially like the final, short segment. Jon has already called Tucker a Cheney going in to the commercial break, and when they come back Jon has this priceless half-smile; Tucker can't wait to get out of there, but they still have to finish the final short audience Q&A.
Thanks Tucker, your best work is behind you.
Another wrong-wing site I will never visit.
Ah, yes. The night that Tucker Carlson's balls got handed to him wrapped in a bow tie. I never tire of watching this clip.
Jon Stewart essentially destroyed both Carlson and "Crossfire" that night, Carlson left shortly after and "Crossfire" went off the air.
Why is it that the funny guy was the only one on the panel that made any sense and brought up issues in a coherent manner? Even Paul Begala looked like an ass in comparison.
This clip is classic teevee and I love watching it. The interview put Jon Stewart on the map and destroyed Carlson and Crossfire in one fell swoop.
Awesome!
but tucker took it so incredibly personally as though stewart was attacking HIM.
and its easy for the right to say 'jon gets a pass because hes a comedian'...and its easy because its true. but ive often said that stewart constantly makes fun of the politicians...but saves his genuine attacks for the media, which continues to fail us collossally (sp?)
not one right wing blog is original
how many wingnuts have attempted to copy this blog and its format?
the vast majority of wingnut blogs are not successful, cuz of the aging wingnuts....old people are scared of the internet
i wish the former bow tied one lots of luck....he wont be around for more than 3 months
It's actually rather sad watching Carlson try to find a place in the US media. He may be a hack but he's not a total wingnut. And I suspect that's why he's not getting a gig as a talking head because he is merely nutty as opposed to being totally crazy, which is what you have to be to get booked on a talk show as a "conservative," regardless of the network.
with all the LIBERAL TROLLS who are going to be truth-checking and shouting FOUL! when Tucker's true colors start shining thru? Tucker Carlson is a celebrity fame-seeker who is politically glib... but he has NO honor and no CENTER. He will FLAME OUT.
What a goal. To want to be like Drudge. How proud the fetid slimes of scum under rocks that spawned him must be.
getting him his gigs. His father is Richard W. Carlson. He's a big shot in right wing media.
He was appointed to CPB (Corporation for Public Broadcasting) by Daddy Bush. He had a hand in running Radio Marti that broadcasts to Cuba. He's been on a lot of really shady boards including the Friends of Katherine Harris and Friends of Scooter Libby.
Just saying...helps to know which tree the nut fell from.
Explains a lot, jobs for the kids.
Hopefully the bow tie boy will take all the illierate and moronic trollz and wingnuts with him. They do not belong here or on HP or Think Progress. Tucker is as batsh*t crazy as Joe Scarface.
Yeah, that explains why the seat is usually wet around casa Carlson.
;)
I would rather watch paint dry.
[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpl5bsWmsBQ ]
(02:40)
amended: He should call his site {HIPPOcritPOST]:-P
If it's like Fox News, the "facts" won't supersede the "agenda", which will likely be advocacy journalism for the GOP.
Who on earth needs to get a blow job to get and keep Tucker Carlson OUT of our public discourse arena??
Point me at em...
Great concept Gonzo! I think we should come up with a way to keep all the irrelivant people off our TV and out of the news.
These people (Dick, Newt, Rush, Ann, William, Michele and Glenn) need to shut the f*ck up!!! Why anyone gives them any air time or even listens to them like they are at all coherent is beyond me.
acutaly that's not 100% true, I do understand that these people only get air time because they give the upper 1% security in knowing the middle class will never get even a small slice of their pie. - We really need to stop these people before they murder America.
when is Tuckrer's dad going to get tired of fronting Tucker's failed attempts at business. What's he going to do, wait until the right wing neocon fascist nazi corporitists groups steal another election and make him president like Bush's dad did?
I was starting to think I was the only one here that knew about Tucker's Dad. : )
Right. 95% of the main stream media isn't enough coverage for you.
I can accurately predict - that Carlson's venture is of so little interest to me that I'll never even visit to have a look.
I also don't visit the local garbage dump. I know exactly what I'd find.
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with the HuffPost posting articles trying to make John Bolton out to be some foreign affairs expert I don't think they need any right wing version of HuffPost.
Given that this is Tucker Carlson and the Republicans, I think the proper terms are "right falling on its face."
Someone is desperately trying to get him out of their basement and move in with doughy Pant Load.
oh, dare to aim high tucker.
it looks like more coffee table journalism is on the way...
god bless america.
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When Arianna runs out of her previous husband's money, she'll marry another rich Republican; then she'll take HuffPo over to the reich wing.
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As funny as the clip was, it's dated, and for the most part, irrelevent. We all know what a supreme ass Carlson is, likewise what an overall disgrace our media journalists are...but kudos to Jon Stewart, nonetheless.
I have nothing but disdian for all things republican.
In the last thirty years that word republican makes me think of a big smelly pile of shit.
They have proven they hate 95% of the American people, and 25% of the people are too stupid to understand that the republican party is all about filling their own pockets with taxpayer money and trying to force the rest of the country to be as selfish and ignorant as they are!
I won't bother with tuckers site. There are to many republican hate sites out there already.
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n2/i_am_qt...
Tucker Carlson invents new web site. Some say that it completely sucks.
In which parallel universe !
'A million little half truths' would be a good subtitle for it too.
Jon Stewart neatly summed up Kerry's 2004 attempt in four little words.
In my opinion, Jon was acting weird; very hesitant and often, smug, disjointed responses. I realize it was from 2004 but he really came across as a bit of an ass.
Is he always like this when he gets away from Comedy Central?
Tucker's just trying to find some way to make money without actually working. Those occasional appearances on right wing tv must not pay well enough. You can bet he won't do any of the actual website maintenance or administration.
I think he should call it 'Wrong-Way Carlson's Republican Love Salon'. Or something equally objective.
'I've Only Got 2 Hands, Help Me Find My Ass'
Drudge is a schmuck - in the Yiddish sense of the word. Using that creature as a standard, even for a conservative blog, is hilarious.
I've said it before, were it not for myths, lies and damned lies, Republicans would have nothing to say.
it will be as successful as Carlson's other media ventures. The Jack Kevorkian of
cable punditry.
After watching Stewart eat his "Truman was a war criminal" statement the other day, I'm afraid these holier-than-thou moments of his look increasingly hypocritical.
Truman was a war criminal.
...but so far (and I have to say the majority of the people posting here, though I'll get to that one in a minute) are blind.
Jon Stewart was *not* smacking down Tucker. He smacked down the *entire show*, including Begalia. Carlson is easy to peg because he reacted the most but *he was not the target*.
I am not a conservative (call it old school NY Republican, though I hate using that term these days since those guys have f*cked it up so bad...in political terms, socially liberal/fiscally conservative) but everyone here so far is entirely drinking the Kool-Aid at this point--and by that I mean that you are seeing only what you want to see without seeing what actually *is*.
Just because Obama won doesn't mean the battle is done, and dedicating the majority of CNL to the ridiculousness of the 'tards at Fox News (because everyone in the world loves a train wreck, it's not just Americans) is putting us at the same point that Stewart was making *for the entire show* that was called Crossfire, but on a much larger level.
How about some of you direct your anger at something constructive for a change? Come up with some ideas that don't involve saying "amen, sister". Figure something out. Take a clear look at what is happening *now*, figure out the strategy (which is not entirely hard at the moment for the GOP, though it is pretty difficult to see where the Obama administration is going (and I love them for it at the moment)) and *then* react--if you really need to.
(You'd be amazed at how often you don't need to react visibly.)
Call me a troll, at this point I don't really give a sh*t. Just think about what I said, and remember that not once did I pull any of the crap that the people this site has been featuring primarily in the past 2 months has.
(Trolling comment may follow: f*ck you guys piss me off. It's like "hey, someone that isn't Bush finally won and now we can gloat; doesn't matter that the battle isn't done *and the signs of that are there for you to see.*)
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