Fox News has hired Tucker Carlson to co-host Fox & Friends Weekend, even though the two are on opposite ideological trajectories -- Fox is getting more moderate while Carlson is getting more fringe.
The Washington Post is reporting that the man who reportedly paid women to accuse Senator Robert Menendez of prostitution says he was hired by the conservative political outlet that reported the news. Prompting this unprecedented statement: We must rise in defense of the Daily Caller.
Why did Republicans lose the 2012 elections when so many Republicans really didn't like President Obama?
A federal grand jury has been convened to examine the relationship between the New Jersey senator and a Florida doctor in an episode which may end up doing as much damage to the reputation of the senator as to the conservative website that attacked him.
On Wednesday, Media Matters' Simon Maloy noticed another stunning Tucker Carlson contradiction: the Daily Caller founder once adamantly opposed reporting on senators and prostitutes.
The Daily Caller claims that The Washington Post screwed up its report debunking their report about Senator Bob Menendez and Dominican prostitutes, but their defense isn't much more solid than the original story.
Erick Erickson is all outraged out. The founder of the popular conservative blog RedState, a brand-new Fox News pundit, and the creator of a piece of outrage that inadvertently hobbled Mitt Romney's campaign, the "We Are the 53%" meme, writes today, "We do our cause more harm than good if we get outrageously outraged over every slight and grievance."
It's impossible not to ask where the sympathies of The Daily Caller's founder, Tucker Carlson, really lie given this shocking revelation, reported exclusively at The Atlantic Wire (that is, exclusively because at this moment no one else is reporting it): Tucker Carlson worked with top-level Democrats for years.
Mr. Carlson, we hear you're in the market for some Obama videos. Well, it just so happens we've got a hot, election-shifting video on our hands that you might be interested in.
Jon Stewart was not impressed with Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson "racially charged" video of Barack Obama from 2007 that turned out to be a widely reported speech. In fact, Stewart pointed out last night on The Daily Show that Obama sounded just like a "notorious black liberation theologist": George W. Bush.
If you spent any time looking at Twitter on Tuesday night, your eyeballs are probably bleeding a little bit from the onslaught of hype and sensationalism surrounding a five-year-old video of Barack Obama talking about not much.
Right-leaning politics site The Daily Caller rarely shies away from publishing risqué photographs (see: "Obama's hottest celebrity donors"), but this morning the site's homepage ventured into new territory: Hardcore porn.
There's no way this could ever go wrong: The Daily Caller plans to give away a gun a week until election day.
The Daily Caller's critical look at Media Matters made a splash this morning but not enough to prompt responses from its subjects.
The Players: Meghan McCain, daughter of John McCain, Conservative pundit and savvy blogger who doesn't want a "rock star president"; Newt Gingrich, Republican hopeful, distant third-placer in the Romney inevitability race and definitely not a rock star; Tucker Carlson, Conservative pundit and creator of the Daily Caller news site
Van Susteren calls Carlson a 'pig' and attacks his website after a NSFW Palin story runs
Wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas continues her move into politics
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