I am actually very excited that Tucker Carlson's website, the Daily Caller, is finally launching on Monday! (I will be calling it The Gaily Dollar, of course, but also I will be a devoted reader.) Also, the more independent web operations there are on the Internet, the better. I also think it is very brave to spend $3 million on the first year alone. If I'd spent $3 million on our first year, most of it would have been on like Kiton suits and PIZZA PARTIES FOR EVERYONE. Also to admire, this belief: "When was the last time you saw, on television, a straight explanation of what's in the competing House and Senate health care bills? What's in them? People want to know that!" I would like to think that as well! And of course our favorite quote from Tucker: "I keep reading all of these Nick Denton memos for Gawker, these ferocious memos to writers where it's like ‘get a million pageviews this week or you're fired!' Maybe we'll have to do that! But it's not my personality at all." (via)
Thursday, January 7, 2010
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Needs more bowtie. Tightly bowtied.
But I thought Breitbart's Big Whatever was the lone response to the hegemony of the left in online politics!
So what is Tucker's Awl commenter name?
I hope it's "Gaily Dollar."
Remember on the last day of Tucker's cable show? How he did that sad dance? And it was so pitiful in the way it makes your heart ache to see some one shuffle during a moment of extreme embarrassment. That is the last time I saw Tucks. Not sure if I'm ready to go back.
But this is when he needs you most
Oh man. Tucker! He's totally calling the question on me here!
Daily Caller. $5 for a handy.
I don't really get the Tucker Carlson appeal. I live in Athens, Georgia, where there are at least a dozen bow-tied douchebags with opinions and intellects indistinguishable from Tucker Carlson's within spitting distance at all times.
(Incidentally, that is not meant to be a slight to his intellect. The douchebags in question are fairly bright.)
and cuuuuute
Exaaaccctlllyy. Also, watching T. Carl makes you feel like you're watching some one from the West Wing and I miss that show.
Whaaaaaaaaaat?
Oh, honey...
I mean, we all have our guilty pleasures right?
Will he have a segment on how to beat up menacing gays in the bathroom?
THERE IS THAT of course!
"The Doily Collar"
'Coily Dorall'
You make me google Ke$ha and you make me google Tucker Carlson and now I feel like I have to go get a radio and a television.
Mmmmmm Kiton suits Google.
Well of course I'm wearing one of my Kiton suits, duh. It's 11 on a Thursday!
Flaily Galler
"The Dainty Choler"
Making the details of legislation more understandable to more people = pageviews, pageviews, pageviews!
Everybody's got a website now. It's like you used to be someone if you had a website, and now everyone's just walking around like "Oh hey look at my website, I have one." It's like cellphones. How am I gonna know that you're a fancy businessman with better places to be than talking to me if everyone else has a flip-top cellphone too?
Time is old.
I wonder if people are becoming generally sensitized to the features of more developed websites -- even if they're not conscious of it. Some websites seem more professional or even authoritative -- and that impression (heh) comes at a cost.
Whether the website has a CMS (even if one doesn't know what that means). Whether it is a template of a well known framework (like WordPress) or something customized. Whether there are AJAX features. Whether there is expert slicing. Whether there are features requiring a database on the back end. Whether there are ads and how they are implemented.
It's like how people are sensitized to graphic design and can tell that something seems expensive and important, though they can't say why.
YOU are actually very on to something here that I can't quite put my finger on! Yes!
This is basically the justification for my professional existence. Any dumbfuck can publish a website, but any dumbfuck can instinctively identify dumbfuck-originated websites!
Although IN FAIRNESS there are a lot of designer dumbfucks who are quite savvy with web publishing tools and build horrible slick nothings and get away with it.
Hmmm. I think you're using "everyone" here very loosely to describe a small segment of the population under the age of 30. I just spent a chunk of time meeting people all over the midwest and they were wowed (WOWed) that I had my own website. I also spend a good deal of time in several the public libraries where there is always a line to get help to use the computers. And I mean, help to send and email. And these people are no older than mid-30s.
Miss you, monocles.
I hope Jon Stewart is a commenter on it and berates him Daily.
Ooo! Can we get a 'Daily-Off'?
Weird, the more I type and say 'Daily' the quicker it sounds strange and begins to lose it's meaning.
Much like 'Fork.'
Fork.
"Stop. Hurting. The internet!"
Besides my inherent distrust of anyone named Tucker, he always struck me as a preppie manqué.
I hope he's as big a dick to his readership as to the people who wrote him questions on his WaPo.com feature with Ana Marie Cox. Seems to enjoy getting liberals riled up by saying stupid stuff he doesn't actually believe.
...WAIT I JUST HAD AN IDEA
PALIN/CARLSON IN '12 OMG
Yes, and Dobbs for SCOTUS
you know, whatever, this will probably be good, because Tucker is a better writer/journalist than he is a pundit/human being, and I will read it, BUT STILL: here, Tucker, is a story explaining what is in the Health Care bills, from a Newspaper! http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/14/AR2009081401669.html
You will find lots of similar information, on the internet, which is where your website will be.
OH and if he wants specifics here is a .pdf from Politico(!) that I found on a blog, which is what his website will be! http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/01/11_pages_apart.html
Yay!
Wow. Tucker Carlson looks at a memo from Nick Denton and thinks, "That guy is a heartless asshole." If that doesn't lead to a real Man in the Mirror moment, nothing will.
Help me out here. Wasn't his mother the woman who outed Monica Lewinsky? I don't mean the woman Monica confided in, but the woman who broke the story?
Lucianne & Jonah Goldberg.
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I will cop to liking Carlson's Esquire stuff. He's a good storyteller. His best-known piece is probably this one, wherein he goes to Africa with Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton:
http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ1103-NOV_LIBERIA_rev
I read that in one of my college journalism courses! I admit he is a good storyteller, but I think it's largely because -- as the bow tie suggests -- he is willing to coyly cop to being an insufferable douchebag.
was anyone named tucker ever not atrocious?