Tucker Carlson vs Dan Riehl? No contest

The needs of a web site like mine that would absolutely love to have some­one kick in $60k a year to sup­port me and the radio show are appar­ently highly dif­fer­ent that one that has mil­lions of dol­lars invested at the start.

For exam­ple for such a site like Tucker Carlson’s it is vital to stay rel­e­vant to the MSM so if things were rough and I needed a kick-​start I would know that the eas­i­est way to get MSM atten­tion is to hit a con­ser­v­a­tive and there is no con­ser­v­a­tive the MSM lives to hit more than Sarah Palin.

Thus the Daily Caller decided to go quote Mike Tyson’s vile sex­u­ally charged attack on Palin inspired by Joe McGin­nis’ book.

Alas poor Tucker, he hasn’t appar­ently been pay­ing atten­tion. McGin­nis’ book has so lit­tle cred­i­bil­ity and is so dis­cred­ited even Keith Olber­mann and the NYT are diss­ing it.

That mis­judg­ment is bad enough but the deci­sion to try to go after Dan Riehl, for point­ing out this tac­tic was not so bright:

What is it with these sad lit­tle Belt­way bois? Are they sim­ply misog­y­nis­tic and unable to pass up an oppor­tu­nity to attempt to humil­i­ate a suc­cess­ful woman with more clout and influ­ence than the petu­lant lit­tle bow-​tie boy, Carl­son, has or will ever have? Or is it their inad­e­quacy in the face of an attrac­tive, accom­plished woman like Palin that causes them to lash out so despicably?

Riehl’s base post con­tained, shall we say, more col­or­ful lan­guage. Well Carl­son and com­pany took excep­tion and led to a whole series of fur­ther posts by Riehl demon­strat­ing sev­eral things:

1..Tucker Carl­son and the Daily Caller have much too thin a skin for this business

2..Sarah Palin is a lot tougher than any­one at the Daily Caller

3..The peo­ple at the Caller have no idea of how new media works.

Sim­ple sug­ges­tion if you are a mil­lion dol­lar site try­ing to impress investors you don’t go after indi­vid­ual blog­gers who hurt your feel­ings, par­tic­u­larly not Dan Riehl.

Also if you are going to object to Ladd Ehlinger attack ads, you have no busi­ness pub­lish­ing what they did.

And do you really want to attract the atten­tion of a film direc­tor who is known for mak­ing funny bit­ing videos that skewer his oppo­nents and tend to go viral? I think not.

This is a full You Fool moment!

God help the Caller if Ladd decides to par­ody them.

Update: Oh and #4 Sissy Willis has it all over him too.

Update 2: Stacy McCain dis­cov­ers this can com­ments in calm and mea­sured tones:

HOLY. FREAK­ING. CRAP.

I talked to Dan Riehl about this and hope to have him on the show next week to dis­cuss it fur­ther. I talked to Ladd Ehlinger who remem­bers well the state­ments of the Daily Caller against his over ca-​36 and had these things to say:

“I won­der if the Con­cerned Blue Hairs of Amer­ica will call for Matt Lewis to be black­listed due to his asso­ci­a­tion with the sex­ist and misog­y­nis­tic Tucker Carl­son and Daily Caller?”

“I find it utterly out­ra­geous and shock­ing that Tucker Carl­son despises women.”

“Per­haps if Tucker Carl­son fired fake-​conservative writ­ers like Matt Lewis, he wouldn’t be in the money trou­bles he’s in today.”

None of this of course addresses the radio sta­tion itself that ran the base inter­view and a sta­tion actu­ally broad­cast­ing this kind of stuff, Stacy McCain again:

Does FCC know about this? How about Attack­Watch? Now that I think of it, have we heard from Jill Fil­ipovic, Jes­sica Valenti, Melissa McE­wan or any of the other fem­i­nists? Because if Sarah Palin weren’t a Repub­li­can, I think they’d prob­a­bly be out­raged by this.

The moral of the story? I don’t know who is back­ing the radio sta­tion who allowed this stu­pid­ity, but if I had 3 mil­lion in back­ing and was look­ing for more I think I’d be smart enough not to repeat it.

Update 2: Stacy McCain reports Politico has noticed.