Conservative political pundit Tucker Carlson is planning to launch a political news competitor to the Huffington Post, reports The Hill today. The site will be called TheDailyCaller.com and will be focused on reporting news about the Obama Administration but will add “facts to the conversation.”
Implying that the Huffington Post’s coverage is biased, Carlson said that The DailyCaller will be dedicated to “telling the truth and be accurate.” The site’s reporters will share in the profits of the news site based on how much traffic reporters get for their stories. According to Carlson the site’s motto is “every seven minutes,” and will be speedier than its competitors, including HuffPo and The Drudge Report.
Carlson, an MSNBC campaign correspondent who is famous for his conservative spin and love for bowties, denies that the site will be a forum to discuss the future of the Republican party. Regardless of the spin, political news sites are aplenty and Carlson’s site will face stiff competition from HuffPo, the Politico and AOL’s new politics site, Politics Daily. Fellow MSNBC reporter Carlos Watson recently launched The Stimulist, which is focused on reporting long-form news for the Obama generation.
This exists already, its called foxnews.com
lol. Very phunny!
foxnation.com lol
Huffington Post bias? PHLEASEEE!!!! This whole crap came about when Sarah Palin could answer Katie Couric’s magazine/newspaper question. So they decided to blame the frickin “liberal” media.
Here’s how I see it:
Fox News reports bias.
And Huffington Post reports Fox News bias.
Social conservatives don’t read… let alone have the internets!
True capitalists are fiscally conservative.
Oh? I didn’t get that memo. Capitalism is neither conservative nor liberal. It doesn’t dictate generosity nor compassion.
Though if you mean “true capitalists” as in “people who only care about money and disregard human/societal suffering”, then “true capitalists” are also fiscally assholes.
“disregard human/societal suffering”
I’d like to audit the liberals’ compassion for human/societal suffering over the last 75 years. You libs certainly have a noble goal that helps you sleep at night (and attack conservatives for not being “compassionate”), but what results have you produced?
How much poverty has been reduced by the War on Poverty? How much has the welfare safety net helped? Let me answer that for you: millions of voters living off the government teet, afraid of losing their handouts, continue to vote Democrat. You have less compassion than we. We actually believe in the individual and their ability to better themselves.
Actually, if you were even remotely concerned with facts, you’d realize that “liberal” welfare & jobs programs have been major successes in areas we’re they’re actually implemented fully. “Liberal” philosophies as they now stand have done more to advance human, civil, an environmental rights than any group. But then I doubt you’re much concerned with those little values. Your cut-throat economics of “free markets” that favor the “individualism” of conglomerates isn’t “compassion.” It doesn’t provide for a stable society and account for gaping disparities that arose from plutocracy and oppression. The fact that the wealthiest have gotten disproportionately wealthier and the poor are getting poorer under your “each to their own” model is damming.
No one philosophy is ideal. Capitalism is a healthy part of a good society just as much as socialism is. My guess is you don’t even want a social health care program to protect all of our fellow human beings — even though it’s pro-business and costs less. You are not compassionate. You only want to think you are.
Keep crying about “liberal handouts” and turning a blind eye to rampant subsidization of corporations that grew like wildfire under Bush. Balanced economic models are not handouts. Progressive taxes are not handouts. Welfare programs are not handouts (you probably haven’t been exposed to actual cases of families that had to fall back on welfare out of sheer need and were eventually able to empower themselves because of it). Social principles are not handouts. It is balance. Balance = empowerment.
To review:
Socialism: neither bad nor good
Capitalism: neither bad nor good:
Achieving sustainability w/ compassion requires a mix of socialism and capitalism that positively looks at the type of society we want to live in… one which either cares only about money or one which also accounts for basic human needs and progress for everyone. But the way you talk, you probably don’t actually give a damn about anyone other than who /you/ have to be around. That’s not compassion.
Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to amuse myself by reading an article about neocons attacking the word “empathy” as being codeword for “activist judges”. What a joke.
You don’t have to disregard human/societal suffering just to keep the government out of it.
That is a flawed equivocation that I am really tired of seeing.
That’s the “True Scotsman” fallacy.
An even more stereotypically phrased version would be “Any TRUE capitalist is fiscally conservative.”
Why is it that right wing media always has to call themselves fair and unbiased….
It just says a whole lot about their audience….
Also why is it that they cry out liberals for raising taxes when it is them that spend most of the money.
Look at the presidents.. all republican presidents have spent like wold champions reagan, bush etc,, then the liberal presidents come in to raise taxes…
I just don’t get it… it’s not the one that raise taxes but the ones who spend it…
Oh and that guy’s page will fall flat… for so many reasons..
[Noobs] Why is it that right wing media always has to call themselves fair and unbiased…
[Amen] yes…yes…yes. Has to be your slogan/badge when you’re completely the opposite.
“Look at the presidents.. all republican presidents have spent like wold champions reagan, bush etc”
Reagan, bush, etc? That’s basically two of the three Republican presidents in office the last 30 years. How does that represent “all” Republican presidents over the last 150?
Additionally, it is true that Bush spent a lot of money unnecessarily (I would submit that Reagan’s Congress were the spenders in the 80s, but never mind). His last budget had a $400b deficit.
Obama’s first budget has a $1.8TRILLION deficit. his budget is TWICE his revenue, and I don’t think universal health care has even been calculated yet.
There’s spending, then there’s spending.
Can someone delete the stupid, pointless, republican-bashing comments, please?
I thought you guys supported the free market? And the free market says that Republican party is a piece of crap.
Us guys? and suddenly I’m a Republican, just like that? Don’t call me out on something that I have nothing to do with. I’m a non-voting moderate libertarian, thank you.
moderate libertarian.
oxymoron.
non-voting? so much to say here but nothing to do with the electoral process. that’s rich. Move to China.
oxymoron?
You can’t tell the difference between these two statements:
“The free market solves all problems”
and
“The free market solves some or most problems”
That would make you what, Mexican?
Hilarious
Oh Tucker…you’re so boring….
RMV
http://www.regretmyvote.com
My favorite Tucker story is when he bragged about slamming some dude’s head against a wall after getting hit on in a men’s room.
ABRAMS: But Tucker, your position has long been on these kinds of stories that their personal lives are not our business. Does this case qualify for that, in your mind, as well?
CARLSON: Let me be clear, Dan. I am not gay. I have never been gay. I overreacted and made a poor decision.
SCARBOROUGH: And you love your — you love your wife, Tucker. Let me just say for the record, I am not gay, either.
CARLSON: Let me — let me put it this way. Whether he’s gay or not actually is not our business, and I do think it’s indefensible that the newspaper in Idaho spent a year interviewing 300 people to answer the question, Is he gay? That’s none of your business. Having sex in a public men’s room is outrageous. It’s also really common. I’ve been bothered in men’s rooms. I think people who do -
SCARBOROUGH: Really?
CARLSON: Yeah, I have. You know what, Let me just say.
SCARBOROUGH: Wait, hold on a second. Dan, hold on a second. I don’t mean to take over, but have you been bothered in public restrooms, Dan? Because I know I haven’t.
CARLSON: I have. I’ve been bothered in Georgetown Park. When I was in high school.
ABRAMS: Really?
CARLSON: Yes.
SCARBOROUGH: Wow.
CARLSON: And let me just say, I think –
SCARBOROUGH: That’s something.
CARLSON: — people should knock that off. I’m not anti-gay in the slightest, but that’s really common, and the gay rights groups ought to disavow that kind of crap because, you know, that actually does bother people who didn’t ask for being bothered. So yeah, I think it’s outrageous that he did that. And also, this specter of him getting up there and blaming other people is so Clintonian. You know, if he just said, “I’m not going to talk about it,” that’d be one thing.
ABRAMS: And — and this notion –
[crosstalk]
CARLSON: But he’s clearly crazy.
ABRAMS: Well, and this notion that he pled guilty, and yet he’s saying, “Oh, you know what? I never should have done that.”
SCARBOROUGH: Well, it’s the newspaper’s fault.
CARLSON: Well it’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous.
ABRAMS: Well it’s the newspaper — it’s everyone’s fault except his own. I mean, I’ve never heard of — I mean, you’re a U.S. senator, and you’re thinking you’re going to make it go away –
SCARBOROUGH: But hold on a second, though, Dan –
ABRAMS: — by pleading guilty after you’re busted in a public bathroom?
SCARBOROUGH: Hold on a second. You have Bill Clinton, who actually went out and did the same exact thing. He showed defiance. He said, “I did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.” And he continued that line not only for months in the press, but then he went before a grand jury and said the same thing. And it — you know what? Here’s the thing. It worked for Bill Clinton. His wife went on TV and she blamed, remember, the vast right-wing conspiracy that’s been trying to take down her husband.
I don’t dredge this up to knock the Clintons. That is history, and it’s a — ugh — it is a nasty part of our history, and I’m glad it’s behind us. I just bring it up to say, you know what? Deny, deny, deny seems to work.
[crosstalk]
CARLSON: But it’s also — but it’s evidence, in Larry Craig’s case — I mean, you know, you just watch the press conference, and you see a man who’s not in possession of himself. I mean, there’s something — you know, I’m not a shrink, but there’s clearly something wrong with Larry Craig. He appeared to believe it. This is a guy who’s been accused repeatedly over the years of soliciting sex from men in bathrooms. So the chances that he’s arrested for the same thing accidentally –
ABRAMS: Right, right, right.
CARLSON: What, he’s the unluckiest man and he’s Job?
SCARBOROUGH: Hey, Tucker?
CARLSON: You know what I mean? It’s insane!
SCARBOROUGH: Was he the guy in Georgetown, Tucker?
CARLSON: No, actually. I got that — my point is — let me just say –
ABRAMS: Tucker, what did you do, by the way? What did you do when he did that? We got to know.
CARLSON: I went back with someone I knew and grabbed the guy by the — you know, and grabbed him, and — and –
ABRAMS: And did what?
CARLSON: Hit him against the stall with his head, actually!
[laughter]
CARLSON: And then the cops came and arrested him. But let me say that I’m the least anti-gay right-winger you’ll ever meet –
[laughter]
CARLSON: — but I do think doing this in men’s rooms appears to be common. It’s totally wrong, and they should knock it off. I mean that. I think it’s — I can’t bring my son to the men’s room at the park where he plays soccer because of all these creepy guys hanging around in there. I actually think it’s a problem. I’m sorry.
Thats reason enough right there not to care what he has to say on any subject.
Do you actually expect me to read all that?
Cliffs please.
Yes, what a burden it is to read.
Yes, condense it to 140 characters for Andre G.
Yeah, I can see how creepy guys who hang out in mens’ rooms would have a problem with Tucker’s behavior.
Regarding that shipment of FAIL…
Oh, what the Tuck, this is two easy.
And then his bow tie started to spin and he
Flew….
Away….
Epic Fail in 6 months.
I can’t wait to be invited to this new site.
Jon Stewart putting Carlson to shame:
http://www.yout...h?v=aFQFB5YpDZE
“Epic Fail in 6 months.” (some goofus above) Wrong. Failures are more common to the Left. a la Air America
This is actually true. The right-wing sites rely on their corporate sugar daddies for Wingnut Welfare, whereas the “left-wing” (actually mainstream) sites generally take their chances on the open market.
Like we don’t get enough right wing viewpoints on TV and radio. Geez. Republicans are sooo last century anyway.
Fighting bias with bias. How original.
A conservative site with no bias just like no spin zones and the fair and balance Fox news offers. Either Tucker is so stupid he does not know how bias works or his audience is too dumb to know any difference. After all its the same audience that watches the above and thinks its real.
Gee another Left viewpoint in competition with yet another Left viewpoint…
He gets abused every time I see him on a non-Fox network channel.
This will not end well for him.
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Thanks!
He’s not implying anything. They’re biased. Effectively, they openly admit it, and consider it not only acceptable, but honorable, because “they’re right.”
God help any “news” site that perpetuates the skewing of facts, ridiculous straw men, and nonstop verbal abuse that defines that site and its users. And that includes Carlson, if he screws this up.
totally different audience.
Get busy Tucker – we need a little more Libertarian wisdom out there to combat the loons in both parties.
Sheeple that bash Fox News don’t watch Fox News.