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[ 31 ] March 18, 2013 | Scott Lemieux

Jesus Christ, what a pathetic operation Tucker Carlson is running.

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  1. Jo says:
    March 18, 2013 at 4:54 pm

    So it costs more to pay them to say that they’d had sex than it would have cost to pay them to have sex. Markets are funny things. I wonder how much it would cost to pay them to say that they’d been paid to say that they’d had sex?

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  2. Uncle Ebeneezer says:
    March 18, 2013 at 5:02 pm

    That a newspaper that hosts Glenn Reynolds passed on this story kinda says everything you need to know about the Daily Caller’s high standards.

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  3. c u n d gulag says:
    March 18, 2013 at 5:10 pm

    When he formed this waste of electrons and broadband, Tucker proved that, not only was he willing to “jump-the-shark,” he was willing to butt-feck it, and giving it a reach around, while another diver pleasured him.

    In 15 years, whatever shred of credibility he may have ever had as a writer and journalist, he has pissed away, like a college frat boy, drunk, peeing out all of the green-beer from the ‘All You Can Drink, St. Pattrick’s Day Celebration!!!”

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  4. LosGatosCA says:
    March 18, 2013 at 5:14 pm

    I think his goal is ‘profitable operation’ – if pathetic is what it takes that’s ok with him.

    Faux News and the National Enquirer have proven the ‘pathetic’ business model works.

    BTW, true story. I was at wedding in South Florida that was also attended by the sports editor for the National Enquirer (THAT was exactly my reaction when he told me what he did for a living). He was there with his wife (both early 30′s at the time). Made small talk with the couple and their group but they quickly (?) moved to sexual topics and I left when one woman challenged his wife on her description of their sex life (as she was relating it to the group) and the wife retorted ‘You’re welcome to come over and see for yourself the next time we’re in bed.’

    All I could think was – Living the Brand.

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    • Murc says:
      March 18, 2013 at 5:27 pm

      The Enquirer has a sports section?

      Now I’m sort of curious about what’s in there. A bunch of stories about Derek Jeter having a robot arm?

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    • John F says:
      March 18, 2013 at 5:37 pm

      I think the Enquirer has far higher journalistic standards than Carlson

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      • LosGatosCA says:
        March 18, 2013 at 5:55 pm

        I’m sure they pay better – both staff and sources.

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      • Ian says:
        March 18, 2013 at 7:31 pm

        Celebrity news outlets have high standards because a rag that didn’t would get sued out of existence. I suspect the Enquirer makes errors of fact less frequently than the New York Times.

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        • The Dark Avenger says:
          March 18, 2013 at 7:40 pm

          One of the notable lawsuits that they lost was when they accused Carol Burnett of being drunk in public, despite the fatt that she is a teetotaler because of her family history of alcoholism.

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        • LosGatosCA says:
          March 18, 2013 at 8:27 pm

          Most of the pictures they run, they pay for. And a lot of the pictures they get from the subjects or family members.

          They don’t have to worry about getting sued by the people giving them the story about themselves to keep them in the tabloid news.

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      • Snarki, child of Loki says:
        March 19, 2013 at 8:40 am

        Sadly, the Weekly World News closed down. They *said* that they’d continue with a web edition, but it’s just not the same.

        And the WWN would certainly make a good point of comparison with Daily Caller.

        Could it be that they just hired Tucker and changed their name? Inquiring minds want to know!

        When Tucker runs a series on how NASA rovers on Mars have detected signs of Elvis, we’ll know for sure.

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  5. Warren Terra says:
    March 18, 2013 at 6:05 pm

    Well. This is my surprised typeface.

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  6. DrDick says:
    March 18, 2013 at 6:15 pm

    To use “pathetic” and “Tucker Carlson” together like that is redundant and perhaps gross understatement.

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    • Njorl says:
      March 19, 2013 at 9:20 am

      Future linguists will identify the early 20th century as the time when “tuckered” ceased to mean “tired” and began meaning “publicly humiliated oneself before a tiny audience”.

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  7. Kyle Huckins says:
    March 18, 2013 at 7:53 pm

    You could use that headline five times a day without covering the same story twice.

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  8. Shakezula says:
    March 18, 2013 at 8:51 pm

    But wait! Look what happens when we subject the article to the James O’Qweef Story & History Improvement Technique(TM).

    Take this rather long sentence:

    Police in the Dominican Republic say they have determined that three women who said they had sex with U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez for money were in fact paid to make false claims by an attorney in the Caribbean country.

    Tighten that baby up a bit by cutting:

    …to make false claims by an attorney in the Caribbean country

    And you get:

    Police in the Dominican Republic say they have determined that three women who said they had sex with U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez for money were in fact paid.

    EXCLUSIVE – POLICE CONFIRM MENDEZ PAID FOR SEX!!!

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  9. joe from Lowell says:
    March 18, 2013 at 10:05 pm

    I’m tempted to call the Daily Caller a penny-ante operation, but they got all that money.

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  10. Cody says:
    March 19, 2013 at 7:14 am

    Serious question, as I’m not lawyer – isn’t this libel?

    Surely one can’t print a story accusing someone of an affair while paying the sources to tell you so.

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    • Shakezula says:
      March 19, 2013 at 8:01 am

      Right now what you have is an attorney who for some reason paid some women to say they had sex with Menendez. It looks like several outlets were offered this juicy tip and only The Caller was stupid enough to bite. Seriously, the NYP turned this down. How bad did this story have to smell for that place to say no to so much as “A hooker from the D.R. alleges …” You can get away with a shit load of stuff with the magic A word.

      So that’s where it could get interesting. If the story was so obviously false that the Caller had to have known it printing fibs.

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      • thebewilderness says:
        March 19, 2013 at 1:11 pm

        It will depend on who hired the attorney, I suppose.
        Or perhaps he did it as a favor for a friend of a friend.

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  11. JL says:
    March 19, 2013 at 8:00 am

    I remember one time that the Daily Caller showed integrity even when it went against its politics (a reporter had been beaten by police and rescued by protesters, who were very concerned to make sure she was okay) at a protest, and she insisted that the writeup be accurate about who the aggressors were, and how kind the protesters were toward her, and the article even included video of her being rescued.

    One reason that I remember this clearly is because it’s in such contrast with the rest of the Daily Caller.

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  12. Mike Furlan says:
    March 19, 2013 at 10:07 am

    There are over a million hits on google for the search “Menendez Prostitutes.” At least 27% of those people aware of the issue believe that allegations to be true.

    As they say, mission accomplished.

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  13. Brian P Keane says:
    March 19, 2013 at 4:58 pm

    Obama is Satan?, have to laugh about this one. Satan is a Coward The biggest in the universe. Hey Satan,Kiss My Ass Already

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