Oops — We inventoried Tucker Carlson’s low point one week too soon

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Oops — We inventoried Tucker Carlson’s low point one week too soon

By Erik Wemple March 26

We bloggers sometimes jump the gun.

Last week brought the news that Daily Caller contract writer Mickey Kaus had quit his gig because the site’s top editor, Tucker Carlson, had killed a story critical of Fox News, where Carlson works as a weekend co-host. “Can’t trash Fox on the site. Sorry. I work there,” Carlson informed Kaus. Did this instance of straight-up censorship, we wondered, rank with other low points during Carlson’s Daily Caller tenure? Was the true nadir when Carlson … As we wrote, there were several competing moments:

A) Presided over a story falsely claiming that the Environmental Protection Agency was seeking to boost its workforce by 230,000 employees to enforce greenhouse gas rules?
B) Dozed on the set of “Fox & Friends Weekend,” of which he is a co-host?
C) Stood by a Daily Caller story alleging that Sen. Robert Menendez had cavorted with prostitutes, even after the story was exposed as a fraud?

As of yesterday afternoon, these items from the more distant past now look like the golden age of Carlson’s Daily Caller. That’s because of the following scenario, reported by BuzzFeed: Carlson’s brother, occasional Daily Caller contributor Buckley Carlson, trashed the spokesperson for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in an e-mail following a spat between that spokesperson — Amy Spitalnick — and Daily Caller staffers over a story on transportation funding. Spitalnick had protested as “appalling” the site’s response to her stern correction request.....

Eugene Meyer, who bought The Washington Post in 1933, stipulated that the newspaper “shall observe the decencies that are obligatory upon a private gentleman.” Surely he didn’t see the likes of Buckley Carlson coming — nor the difficulties faced by the Erik Wemple Blog in rendering re-publishable his misogynistic slop.

ETA: bonus article:

Tucker Carlson’s brother’s sexist, vulgar reply-all wasn’t the worst part

Oh: before I get a response along the lines of "What did you expect? He's from the South," (and there was one of these in a thread in LBN about this situation that got locked) please read this:

Tucker Carlson

Early life

Carlson was born Tucker McNear Carlson in San Francisco, California. He grew up in Carlsbad, a suburb north of San Diego. He is the elder son of Lisa McNear (Lombardi) and Richard Warner Carlson, a former Los Angeles news anchor and U.S. Ambassador to the Seychelles, who was also president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and director of Voice of America. His adoptive mother is Patricia Caroline Swanson (born 1945), former wife of Howard Feldman and an heiress to the Swanson food-conglomerate fortune. He has a brother, Buckley Swanson Peck Carlson. A great-uncle was Sen. J. William Fulbright.

He attended St. George's School, a boarding school in Middletown, Rhode Island. After graduation, he studied History at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut but did not graduate.

At one time, he lived in Alexandria, Virginia, but that's about it. He lives in DC now, the last I heard.

I will continue to eat grits for breakfast. Amazingly, I wear shoes at work. This will strike some as a shocking contradiction, I am sure.

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1. Foster Friess, major backer of Daily Caller, calls for reconciliation in e-mail case

Foster Friess, major backer of Daily Caller, calls for reconciliation in e-mail case

By Erik Wemple March 30 at 10:50 AM

The Daily Caller’s largest shareholder is calling for an effort to reconcile the parties in an e-mail confrontation that spilled into the public realm in ugly fashion last week. Foster Friess, a big-time Republican donor, told the Erik Wemple Blog in an e-mail, “Scrub your story and lets figure out a way we could reconcile them. There is way too much nastiness and negativity in the world without sensationalizing it.”

This story sensationalized itself. As initially reported by BuzzFeed, Amy Spitalnick, a spokeswoman for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, last week requested a correction from the Daily Caller regarding a story on transportation funding. Her stern appeal, however, rankled Daily Caller staffers, one of which termed her e-mail “whiny.” Things got much worse when Buckley Carlson, brother of top Daily Caller editor Tucker Carlson and an occasional contributor to the site, somehow broke into the conversation with an ill-advised “reply all.” As a result, this paragraph, heavily edited here in compliance with Washington Post standards, leaked to the public:

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2. ''What, exactly, is a 'Tucker'?'' -- Gore Vidal to Tucker Carlson

I know what a Buckley is.