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  • TUCKER CARLSON TO SAVE THE INTERNET: Check it out, a fancy new clicky-clicky! “Pundit Tucker Carlson publicly announced Tuesday that a right-leaning news site resembling the Huffington Post he’s been planning will go live within weeks … ‘Tell the truth, and be accurate,’ Carlson said of the venture’s goals. ‘It’s very important to live up to the basic standards of journalism.’” Doesn’t making something explicitly “right-leaning” or “left-leaning” in and of itself make it impossible to be an important journalistic news site? Anyway Tucker’s thing will be called hcsfjm.com. [The Hill]


6:20 PM on Tue May 26 2009
By Jim Newell
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  1. V572625694 says at 6:24 pm, May 26th, 2009

    For a second I thought it said “Pandit Tucker Carlson” and that he was going to take his jazz-bow over to the Subcontinent and inflict his prissy solecisms on unsuspecting Indians.

    A right-wing HuffPost — brilliant! Why didn’t somebody think of that already….Wait, what?

  2. joezoo says at 6:24 pm, May 26th, 2009

    The Tuckington Post: Your Source for Lukewarm-Conservative Douchebaggery.

  3. SayItWithWookies says at 6:30 pm, May 26th, 2009

    “There just aren’t enough people covering this administration and telling the people what’s going on.”
    Translation: “There are still some facts that can be heard over the right-wing temper tantrum. I intend to fill that gap with my foppish preppy inanity.”

  4. shortsshortsshorts says at 6:31 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Like everything else in Tucker’s life, it will likely fail before it even starts.

  5. 4tehlulz says at 6:33 pm, May 26th, 2009

    It’s nice to see Tucker failing in media other than TV.

  6. Dave J. says at 6:33 pm, May 26th, 2009

    This will go about as well as that right wing version of the Daily Show that FOX ran for about 2 weeks last year.

  7. StripesAndPlaids says at 6:34 pm, May 26th, 2009

    joezoo: Tuckington Post. Brilliant.

  8. nader paul kucinich gravel says at 6:34 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Neocons Tuck & Beck do the AIPAC dance;

    Music by 911 & The Federal Reserve!

  9. Fox n Fiends says at 6:36 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Tuck & Run

  10. LittlePig says at 6:37 pm, May 26th, 2009

    HickJism.com?

  11. Jukesgrrl says at 6:38 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Let’s hope this costs Mummy a ton of Swanson frozen turkeys.

  12. LittlePig says at 6:41 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Tucker wouldn’t know the truth if it bit him on his freshly sodomized ass.

  13. Advocatus_Diaboli says at 6:42 pm, May 26th, 2009

    I vote that his first guest be Jon Stewart.

  14. RoscoePColtraine says at 6:46 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Featuring bloggers who think buttsecks is fine just so long as your the “top.”

  15. kthxbai...also says at 6:49 pm, May 26th, 2009

    hot cum shots for john mccain .com

  16. Vewol Mevemont says at 6:50 pm, May 26th, 2009

    They can’t read, you bowtied retard. That’s why they get all their news-porn and pseudo-political screaming from talk radio and Fox (and Lou Dobbs). They only use the intertubes and print media for porn (Malkin), pedophile support sites (Free Republic), humor written by fat children at a 4th grade reading level (The Corner), and crypto-communist sites that take advantage of their illiteracy to drive traffic (RedState, natch). If they wanted intelligent written commentary… hmmm… no, I can’t think of any logical conclusion to that sentence.

  17. randomsausage says at 6:52 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Since Tucker straddles the great divide between populist right-wing douchebaggery and what’s left of the intellectual conservatism, that should mean his web-site gets around 40 hits a day.

    +1 on the Tuckington Post…..

  18. loquaciousmusic says at 6:54 pm, May 26th, 2009

    I miss Ed Hale. Sniff, sniff.

  19. Hooray For Anything says at 6:54 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Will it be written IN ALL CAPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  20. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 6:56 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Has Rush Limbaugh approved of this?

  21. penalcolony says at 6:57 pm, May 26th, 2009

    So his mother died? Or did he actually manage to talk her out of some of her frozen food inheritance to bankroll this little brainstorm?

  22. ZorinZorin says at 6:58 pm, May 26th, 2009

    SUBSCRIBE TO THE TUCKERTON POST! I DEMAND IT!

  23. edgydrifter says at 6:59 pm, May 26th, 2009

    hje2nv02wdoz.com?? I guess assparade.com was already taken. Still, nice fail, Tuck.

  24. slavojzizek says at 7:02 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Doesn’t making something explicitly “right-leaning” or “left-leaning” in and of itself make it impossible to be an important journalistic news site?

    NO. That’s just something silly you’re taught in American journalism school. It’s partly why American journalism usually sucks. Not being explicit about which way you are leaning often just means taking too seriously whoever is in power.

  25. problemwithcaring says at 7:06 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Advocatus_Diaboli: I’m hoping he will have a Daily Show watchdog column similar to HuffPost’s Palin watch. And, of course, that it will provide the thread for it’s inevitable undoing.

  26. chascates says at 7:07 pm, May 26th, 2009

    FoxNation & InfoWars will be tough competition.

  27. Monsieur Grumpe says at 7:13 pm, May 26th, 2009

    He was elected most likely to be caught having sex with domesticated animals by his college classmates. He’s such a disappointment in so many ways.

  28. V572625694 says at 7:14 pm, May 26th, 2009

    slavojzizek: Nice argument you made there, that objective journalism is pretty much vacuous horseshit, but I can’t accept it without an “on the other hand…” rebuttal graf from, uh…Richard Cohen!

  29. Joshua Norton says at 7:16 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Yeah, yeah, yeah. Every time some pompous ass right wing retard starts a blog, they have to announce to anyone stupid enough to listen that it will be the next Kos or Huffington or lefty blog du jour. Kind of like Pajamas et al tried to do. Where are they all today?

    Helloooooo. Is anyone there?

    *Crickets*

  30. randomsausage says at 7:28 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Tucker’s web-site is going to be called hisgism.com?

  31. President Beeblebrox says at 7:31 pm, May 26th, 2009

    If he needs a URL, I heard Lemonparty.org was still available…

    So if this is going to be like HuffPo, will it basically be a website containing a couple of squishy semi-conservative articles larded with links to AP, AFP, and UPI stories that make it seem like TuckPo is doing its own reporting?

  32. sarcasticusername says at 7:54 pm, May 26th, 2009

    “tell the truth & be accurate,” two things tucker carlson has never done in his entire life. no doubt this will be yet another successful wingnut venture.

  33. Neilist says at 8:02 pm, May 26th, 2009

    The words “pundit” and “Tucker Carlson” really do not belong in the same sentence.

    Unlike, say, the phrases “anal rape victim” and “Tucker Carlson.”

    Or “simpering fratboy dweeb” and “Tucker Carlson.”

    Or “fire five shots into his head, it’s still only misdemeanor assault” and “Tucker Carlson.”

  34. DC Hates Me says at 8:03 pm, May 26th, 2009

    “”We are a general-interest newspaper-format style site”, Carlson told conservative bloggers at the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday.”

    Sir Fapsalot said to the knights of the round jerk.

  35. Mad Farmer Manifest says at 8:04 pm, May 26th, 2009

    He will take it down after Jon Stewart ridicules it, just like those fucking bowties.

  36. glamourdammerung says at 8:07 pm, May 26th, 2009

    “Tell the truth, and be accurate”

    I take it that Tucker needs someone else is going to run it?

  37. FormerDCite says at 8:10 pm, May 26th, 2009

    I believe fembottomwithbowtie.org may still be available. Ilovespoogeinmyfratboymouth.org is probably not taken either. Also

  38. If it’s a right-wing Huffington Post, will it feature an ugly, hard-to-navigate interface, and consist of a combination of copied wire service stories and analysis pieces that give basically the same information as on other conservative blogs, only with poorer writing from C-list Hollywood celebrities? Hm, but Big Hollywood already provides all that.

  39. smellyal8r says at 8:20 pm, May 26th, 2009

    FormerDCite: or idiotasswipe.org; iheartjoescarborough.com; ihatemyself.org

  40. imissopus says at 8:24 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Ha, Tucker can’t get his work read even by the intellectual heavyweights at RedState or FoxNation or Pajamas, so he’s got to start his own site?

    Please don’t let comments be moderated, please don’t let comments be moderated…

  41. NYNYNY says at 8:28 pm, May 26th, 2009

    hcsfjm.com-
    hannity&carlsonssuperfinejournalismmanchowder.com

  42. Joehoya says at 8:28 pm, May 26th, 2009

    “He said the site would seek to ‘drive’ the news, similar to the Drudge Report, the Huffington Post, the New York Times, and other major news outlets. ”

    One of these things is not like the other …

  43. Gallowglass says at 8:29 pm, May 26th, 2009

    I read the address as “hogjism.com” and thought it was a very appropriate and honest name,only to be disappointed one second glance.

  44. FormerDCite says at 8:32 pm, May 26th, 2009

    mensroomcruiser.org may be taken. What’s Larry Craig up to? … Three dudes a day.

  45. Country Club Jihadi says at 8:38 pm, May 26th, 2009

    The Daily Caller? As in, “It’s calling from inside the house”?
    Also, perverts, my MacScan always shows The Hill has tracking cookies, so run your programs to erase them if you can.

  46. Blender says at 8:59 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Tucker? I hardly knew ‘er!!!

    (sorry…)

  47. prophet1195 says at 9:02 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Will he be wearing his bow tie and assless chaps when he edits the spun news?

  48. DC Hates Me says at 9:10 pm, May 26th, 2009

    prophet1195: .. and his fleshtone glossy lipstick.

  49. Advocatus_Diaboli says at 9:11 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Tucker Carlson: the P.J. O’Rourke for AOLers.

  50. Hard Core San Franciscan Jizz Models? Talk about domain sniping. Is shorts warblogging for tucker?

  51. Country Club Jihadi says at 9:19 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Advocatus_Diaboli: Tucker has 228 fans on Facebook and 47 who say he is evil.

  52. SnarkNotFark says at 9:23 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Don’t be fooled people! This will just be a front for his online haberdashery, “Tucker? I Hardly Knew Her.”

  53. TimeCubist says at 9:23 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Tucknutz.com

  54. spymoose says at 9:25 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Why that little Tucker!

  55. Hufftucker Bloast. Say it five times fast before you vote.

  56. Servo says at 9:33 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Oh, goody. Yet another place for wingnuts to express their Caps Locked fanaticism. MUSLIM! SOCIALIST! HIDE YER GUNZ!
    Wingnuts on the internet are like Wile E. Coyote with his latest Acme gadget. They never learn, no matter how painful the results.

  57. Servo says at 9:49 pm, May 26th, 2009

    TuckerSakBak.com

  58. desertwind says at 9:51 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Ha ha. I read it as: … Carlson said of the vermin’s goals.

  59. Advocatus_Diaboli says at 9:52 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Country Club Jihadi: At least 150 of those fans can’t comment until after mom goes to bed.

  60. davesnothere says at 9:58 pm, May 26th, 2009

    “For the righteous skinny, go to hogjism.com,” - catchy!

  61. Tommmcatt says at 10:18 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Advocatus_Diaboli:

    Teh FUNNY! You brung it.

  62. hobospacejunkie says at 10:22 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Tell the truth, and be accurate.

    Tell the truth, and don’t lie.

    Tell the truth, and be truthful.

    Tell the truth, and get all the facts right.

    Tell the truth, and don’t mislead.

    Tell the truth, and be a jizz mopper.

  63. the problem child says at 10:44 pm, May 26th, 2009

    hobospacejunkie: Tell the the truth or we waterboard your exposed-by-chaps-ass.

  64. GaySailor says at 10:54 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Tucker’s first article is going to be about how the cheerleaders in Texas, who were responsible for making a feces pizza, were framed because they were Republicans! Other hard hitting investigative reporting will follow:

    http://www.redorbit.com/news/oddities/156576/cheerleaders_disciplined_for_feces_pizza/

  65. GaySailor says at 10:55 pm, May 26th, 2009

    I think EVERY SINGLE one of us should go and register on that site and respond to every article with one word “LIAR”

  66. I hope it has a humor section like HuffPo (that isn’t funny at all, except for the dickpedia part). I’m not sure I’ve encountered any side splittingly funny right-leaning humor before. They usually think its funny to joke about people not like them.

  67. With Craig’s List banning the sexytime annoucements, this is Tucker’s chance to seize the day.

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  69. GaySailor: I’m sure it will be true to form and ban every form of mildly dissenting opinion.

    By the way, Joe the Plumber’s blog has gone into free fall, mostly with posts about “where did everybody go?”. Joe himself hasn’t updated since the tea bagging, somehow ignoring the whole “keep the queers away from my children” and “I’m quitting the GOP” quotes*

    *its still not clear if he has children and had ever bothered to register to vote/be in a party. Kind of like being a plumber, making a bazillion dollars per year, etc etc

  70. GaySailor: LIAR

  71. Mr Blifil says at 12:15 am, May 27th, 2009

    Still another dude who has to launch a website in order to finally figure out he’s gay.

  72. nowickedwitch says at 12:29 am, May 27th, 2009

    “Ha, Tucker can’t get his work read even by the intellectual heavyweights at RedState or FoxNation or Pajamas, so he’s got to start his own site?”

    There are intellectual heavyweights at FOX and PM?

    That gave me a laugh.

    I have nada to say on Tucker.

  73. El Pinche says at 12:29 am, May 27th, 2009

    myshoeshurt.com

  74. SayItWithWookies says at 12:31 am, May 27th, 2009

    GaySailor: I am soooo not reading any article entitled “Cheerleaders Detained for Feces Pizza.” Although the first person to make a movie with that title is probably going to strike it rich.

  75. El Pinche says at 1:01 am, May 27th, 2009

    El Pinche: uhh, that site really does exist, but it has nothing to do with sponge and dice sandwiches.

  76. S.Luggo says at 1:20 am, May 27th, 2009

    Gosh-a-rooty. Will the Tuckboy be able to explain how his bow tie does not interfere with his duty as a fluffer for the Rush? America waits. Mmmm…, not really.

  77. SayItWithWookies says at 1:22 am, May 27th, 2009

    Mr Blifil: What’s the hardest part about starting a right-wing news site?
    Telling your parents you’re gay.

  78. zhubajie says at 1:23 am, May 27th, 2009

    Neilist: Aren’t pundits high caste Hindus who memorize the Vedas, the Sanskrit grammar of Patanjali, etc.? Does TC have any academic credentials?

    Zhu Bajie

  79. hobospacejunkie says at 1:24 am, May 27th, 2009

    El Pinche: My shoes hurt, too, El Pinche. My shoes hurt, too.

    Bob Lamonta didn’t know how good he had it, with the prepared lunch and all.

  80. zhubajie says at 1:25 am, May 27th, 2009

    Will Tucker Carlson eat a seal’s nuts on TV to get some publicity for his site?

    Zhu Bajie

  81. zhubajie says at 1:28 am, May 27th, 2009

    Bruno: What? Rightwingwhores.com? I expect real harlots do appreciate hard currency!

    Zhu Bajie

  82. SayItWithWookies says at 1:34 am, May 27th, 2009

    zhubajie: Wrong group, although many of them do have things in common with the Pandits — they’re often well-born, faith-based and skilled at rote memorization.

  83. El Pinche says at 1:43 am, May 27th, 2009

    hobospacejunkie: :Yeah, Bob was a good kid. RIP

    tuckers_bag_of_dicks.tysonfoods.com ?

    I figured it would be on mommy and daddy’s domain.

  84. Mr Blifil says at 2:01 am, May 27th, 2009

    Let me guess, he will increase awareness of the site by going on cable news network chat shows whose core audience skews over 70 years old.

  85. El Pinche says at 2:13 am, May 27th, 2009
  86. Turd Way says at 2:46 am, May 27th, 2009

    So, the internets need bailed out, too? Well, who’s gonna bail out my internet?

  87. Mad Brahms says at 2:55 am, May 27th, 2009

    El Pinche: Ah, the ever popular Tucker Carlson blotter paper.

    Seriously, we should be stoked about this. New articles by that man may well prove the comedy gift that keeps on giving (like Richard Cohen, only crankier and more bowtie-y)

  88. I can feel the enthusiasm already.

  89. lulzmonger says at 3:43 am, May 27th, 2009

    “Click My Bowtie For HOT Wingnut-on-Wingnut ACTION!”

    Sweet bleeding Jesus - you’d think after so many failures he’d get a clue & just help run Mommy’s business for way better pay & likely a lot less hassle.

    I wonder if someone/s put him up to this folly, or if his leviathan-scale ego just needed a new media to bloviate in? The man’s about as appealing as hookworms & as intelligent as a Rubik’s Cube.

  90. teleken says at 4:20 am, May 27th, 2009

    I think I’m naming my next band Feces Pizza.

  91. lawrenceofthedesert says at 4:32 am, May 27th, 2009

    I’m sure this guy Tucker Carlson whom I’ve never seen is a pox on journalism, but I can’t bring myself to mock him because I keep thinking of his poor mom, Mothertucker Carlson, and the terrible burden she’s been forced to bear.

  92. JDHART says at 8:26 am, May 27th, 2009

    1) Yawn.
    2) I hope it fails.

  93. Canuckledragger says at 8:59 am, May 27th, 2009

    Yeah, but with Tucker so busy running his inert-tube thingie, who will be left to pound out homos in the men’s room?

    Hmmm. Maybe “pound out” wasn’t the expression I was looking for…..

  94. hobospacejunkie says at 9:07 am, May 27th, 2009

    Tuckarl Crapperson
    Crapper Tuckarlson
    The Crapper Tuckarlson Feces & Masturbation Comedy & Variety hour
    A Revolutionary Show from a Reactionary Man
    Crapper Tuckarlson: Auto-Fellatio is No Longer a Myth

  95. Scandinavian Fetus says at 10:44 am, May 27th, 2009

    Three years ago, my wife saw Tucker on TV for about 30 second and has lost any libidinous urge since then.

  96. pogobock says at 1:25 pm, May 27th, 2009

    Conundrum: If Tucker’s bloviating, then he can’t be orally active.

  97. northernbassist says at 1:56 pm, May 27th, 2009

    pogobock: Since he’s usually bloviating out of his ass, conundrum solved.

  98. zenferret says at 9:16 am, May 28th, 2009

    GaySailor: So like is it amusing to anyone else that when I went there I saw a video about how frozen food is unsafe? Poor Tucker…

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