Tucker Rides Again

[lame54]

http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/tucker-carlson-starting-right-leaning

From C&L:

Because I just don't think you can see Jon Stewart smack down Tucker often enough.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE

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.

[virgogal]

1. He's lost the bow tie and gained weight.

[underpants]

2. Notice that he didn't mention the obvious- he is ripping off TheDailyBeast name

both are done by socialites who clearly have nothing better to do

[Stinky The Clown]

3. So this means he will be doing his own original reporting, because if he isn't then he's ........

...... reading the same sources of bullshit we read and applying his personal bias to deciding what is or isn't "facts".

[lame54]

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[lame54]

5. /

[alsame]

6. I wonder if his site will

last longer than any of his TV shows.

[LostInAnomie]

7. "....profits based on how much traffic is drawn in by their work."

There is the built in downfall of this venture. I could see this possibly working in a print paper where consumers have to go and pay money to purchase a paper. Online though, the necessity to get as many hits as possile will only lead to ridiculous sensationalism, incredibly poor reporting and source checking, and more than likely libel.

[AllentownJake]

8. Tucker is to cerebal for them

He's the nerdy kid they want to wedgie. He tries to make up logic for the view points.

The crowd that is left don't like that. They just want crazy talk.

[rvablue]

9. DUers can we all agree not to post daily links to this.

It'll be a flamefest on purpose.

Let's let it burn out, without having daily outrage threads.

We already now he's going to have to go to the edges of civility to draw hits.

Please, don't feed the beast!

[immoderate]

10. This will be hard.

He's going to post a lot of bullshit. It will be hard to resist refuting the things that he posts. But I think I agree that letting it die is the best way.

--imm