Tucker Carlson has hired Jim Treacher.
This is not going to end well.
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beltane
Is Jim Treacher related to the Arthur Treacher of fish & chips fame?
Ed Drone
So? Does Tucker need a source of bat shit, ’cause he’s running out? That hasn’t been noticeable of late, but I guess he knows his supply locker better than we do.
And Medlock? What kind of name is Medlock? It makes sense, in a way, to put ’em all in one place. After all, look at South Carolina (too small for a country, too large for an asylum).
Ed
schrodinger's cat
Who is this Treacher you speak of? I have no idea.
beltane
Dang. He’s not even a real Treacher, only another semi-illiterate wingnut. I bet he couldn’t fry up a basket of fish & chips if his life depended on it.
Punchy
No fucking clue…..
JGabriel
DougJ@Top:
Au contraire, mein petit cabbage-head. I predict a Tucker Carlson produced, HuffPost mimicking but for right-wingers, website will be just as successful as Newsmax, World Nut Daily, Hannidate, and Freeperville!
Combined!
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Dork
OT:
Family values, bitchez.
Ash Can
Based on what I saw when I clicked on that Jim Treacher link, I think it’ll end beautifully. It’ll be the Twit & Moran Show, 24/7, an endless source of snark and comedy gold. Go for it, guys — this oughta be good.
PS — my guess as to why Carlson would want to hire someone like Treacher is that there are so few people anywhere in public media who have the ability to make Carlson look good, and Treacher’s one.
Zifnab
@JGabriel:
/Preps popcorn
/Fills up giant slurpie cup
/Rests heels on coffee table
JGabriel
Ed Drone:
Oh, come now. There’s no need to make fun of the man’s name when there’s so much other material available.
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Dave
My favorite quote from the first link :
Yes, there is a complete and total lack of Obama-related coverage in the news. I mean, you can go whole minutes without hearing something about him…
DJShay
HuffPost is already for right-wingers. Everyday they find a new way to trash the Prez.
Bill Rutherford, Princeton Admissions
Haha, no one bothered to tell him he can blog from a different city than Tucker’s home city. Oh well.
Paul L.
DougJ still bitter about Jim Treacher smacking down the David Letterman apologists?
MikeJ
@Bill Rutherford, Princeton Admissions:
That was what I noticed too. I’d never heard of the guy, so I followed the link to discover that he has been hired by Tucker Carlson and is moving to DC because Tucker doesn’t think the web wires run all the way to where ever it is that guy lives.
Bill Rutherford, Princeton Admissions
SMACKDOWN!
They Live By Night
Could someone explain exactly who this fellow is (other than a douche, which is implied by the TC connection) and why I should care that he just got a new blog?
JGabriel
@DJShay:
To be right wing, it is not enough to trash the Prez. You must also trash any Republicans who are: insufficiently ideological, c.f. Dede Scozzafava; possibly gay, c.f. Lindsey Graham; or anyone who wants to join your club, c.f. Parker Griffiths.
And you must do it until you’re dead or until you win — i.e., until everyone else is dead.
It’s the Purity Dance!
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JGabriel
@Paul L.:
Don’t know, but obviously Paul L. is still bitter about McCain/Palin losing last year’s presidential election.
Guess what, Paul? They lost. They lostie, lostie, lost, lost, lost. They’re losers, Paul. Like the people that voted for them. Like you.
Gosh, gloating is fun.
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burnspbesq
The guy likes and respects Glenn Reynolds.
“The prosecution rests, Your Honor.”
Bill Rutherford, Princeton Admissions
@They Live By Night
Fifth-tier blogger who gained fame by insisting Letterman’s Bristol Palin joke was worse than ten Holocausts. Attempted to bolster his credibility by comparing Michelle Obama’s appearance to Worf’s.
Respects everyone at Hot Air and Instarube.
mk3872
Wait a second. Just how different will a right-wing version of HuffPo slamming Obama & Dems be than a slightly left-leaning HuffPo slamming Obama & Dems??
feebog
So this moran is leaving Hot Air to work for Tucker Carlson? And he has to move to do it? Ok, whatever…
JohnR
“This is not going to end well.”
for whom?
dr. bloor
@MikeJ:
Tucker may be on to something. After all, I would imagine wireless connectivity is a little dodgy underneath rocks.
JGabriel
mk3872:
It’s all a matter of the Cheney-love. Carlson’s got it, Arianna don’t.
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Zifnab
@JGabriel:
If Obama is so big on law and order, why isn’t Mike Nifong in prison?! I demand accountability! I demand justice!
Save the cheer leaders, save the world.
Corner Stone
@Dork: Two thoughts:
1) Who will get the quail wings in the settlement?
2) How long before the Enquirer unearths Rove’s homosexual partner?
TBogg
Treacher is a less-funny version of Frank at IMAO and by “less funny” I mean, not funny at all and the kind of guy who laughs at his own jokes while everyone else shuffles their feet and looks uncomfortable.
JK
Tucker Carlson is a breathtaking, jaw dropping montrosity and an obnoxious fucking tool.
OT
The Obligatory Terrorist’s Explosive Underwear Photograph
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DougJ
For those not familiar with Treacher, the old name of his blog.
slag
@Dork: The inevitable result of quitting your job in the White House to spend more time with your family.
MikeJ
@JGabriel:
Not only did McCain and Palin lose, they lost by more than Jimmy Carter lost to Reagan. They didn’t just lose, they, their party, and everything they stand for were thoroughly denounced by the American people.
r€nato
@DougJ:
wow thanks for that.
That plus the giant Dennis Miller quote was all I needed to know. Reading too much of these idiots gives me a headache and makes me grumpy about having to share the same species as them.
slag
I wonder if Tucker will be paying this guy in canes.
pcbedamned
Once upon a time, Treach was on his game. He could actually get a point across without having to resort to complete insult. Then came the election and the Repubs lost. He, as well as everyone else at Hot Air, went ‘com*ie crazy’, and can no longer put together a coherent sentence that does not have some sort of put down or snark in it in order to get the almighty +1000 (completely different meaning there than here…). Which is too bad because once upon a time, Hot Air was a place you could actually have an intelligent debate. But now the nuts truly do run the asylum.
(Please do not allow the same thing to happen here…)
JGabriel
@MikeJ:
Gosh, rubbing salt into conservatives’ wounds is fun too!
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Magic Love Hose
Jim Treacher. There’s a name I didn’t think I’d hear again. I think I ran into him back when Jay Pinkerton had a forum, and we’d have contests where we’d put new dialogue in comics via image editing software.
The forum’s long gone so I can’t show off his middling entries (although I still have my terrible ones.) I had no idea he’d move into the political bloglands.
Malron
While listening to the car radio this morning I caught a bit of Hal Sparks guest hosting the Stephanie Miller Show. A woman caller actually tried to defend the manic-progressives’ shameless attempts to draw attention to themselves with a Glenn Close-in-Fatal Attraction analogy. Sparks immediately flattened her with “…in other words, you’re saying if you don’t get enough attention you’ll boil the pet rabbit.” She was not pleased. But oh, the lulz…..
JGabriel
pcbedamned:
Wingers do snark? I think you’re confusing “snark” with “illogical ranting in right-wing code words”.
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Citizen_X
@DJShay:
Well, that could fall under traditional lefty cat-herding, but what disturbs me more as a sign of Arianna turning back to the right is the 37-hour-a-day screaming about the underwear bomber that they’ve been doing.
Faily terrorist failed. Get over it; the rest of the country has.
Comrade Kevin
@TBogg:
I just looked at IMAO for the first, and last, time, and I can’t believe there is something less funny than that.
Bill Rutherford, Princeton Admissions
Exactly. As much as I hate Sully’s “look at me, I take all of my political cues from South Park” bullshit, he’s right that the best thing we can do is point at this idiot and laugh.
Ash Can
@DougJ:
Wow, that’s some serious class there. I was kidding earlier when I cracked that Carlson wanted to hire a sidekick lame enough to make him look good. Looks like that might actually be the case.
Midnight Marauder
@JK:
Hey, JK. In case you didn’t see this last night, you and I have a date in the Balloon Juice Thunderdome coming up soon.
wasabi gasp
U-R-L=MORAⁿ
shoutingattherain
@r€nato:
Hell I’m not wild about sharing the same PLANET with these bonerheads.
R. Johnston
Better if the Huffington Post does turn far right. The HP’s outlandish and high profile support for extreme medical quackery is something I’d very much like to see associated with my enemies rather than with my putative allies. Purity tests are generally a bad idea, but kicking people who get their rocks off on watching children die slow and painful deaths–i.e. the HuffPo anti-vax brigade–out of the big tent is a political purity test I can fully support.
Keith G
@Dave:
Yep that quote was worth a spit take:
The only good thing is that Tucker is such a………blithering fool, that comic value may be quite high.
Will
@Dork:
Why is Dana Perino Rove’s spokeswoman? That is really weird…
AngusTheGodOfMeat
We are truly perfecting the art of keeping our eye on the looniest and most idiotic people out there. One of ’em farts, we can track the smell a thousand miles.
gnomedad
@Will:
Now there’s someone who needs to get out more.
SixStringFanatic
@Will:
Who the fuck else would hire her proudly ignorant ass??
mak
Given that Tucker announced the site in May, that it was supposed to launch last summer, that he claimed on November 2 to have raised $3 million (while the URL to the
press release‘story’ below touting the seed money states $1.5 millionhttp://paidcontent.org/article/419-tucker-carlsons-the-daily-caller-raises-1.5-million/, and that he’s just hiring people three weeks before his latest launch date, I’d have to agree with Ash Can that it will end beautifully – if, that is, it ever gets off the ground in the first place, and if, by “end beautifully,” he means it will be an abject failure.
The Republic of Stupidity
@MikeJ:
There are limits to how far you can push data down a string between two tin cans, ya know…
maus
@JGabriel: ” I predict a Tucker Carlson produced, HuffPost mimicking but for right-wingers, website will be just as successful as Newsmax, World Nut Daily, Hannidate, and Freeperville!
Combined!”
Not that HuffPo is great, because it REALLY isn’t, but how’s the Daily Beast doing trafficwise these days?
The Republic of Stupidity
@Midnight Marauder:
Sorry…
***mumbled under breath***
But whoever that was last night… he was an AZZZZZhole…
Bill Rutherford, Princeton Admissions
@maus
In all fairness, the Daily Beast doesn’t quite belong in the same category as as Newsmax, World Nut Daily, Hannidate, and Freep
racrecir
I know Roy Edroso once harbored a secret appreciation for Treacher’s writing abilities (can’t find the cite). I don’t know if his writing was always in the Jack Handy Deep Twitters style, but I’d guess he’s noticed the asymptotically rising slope that must be ascended to become King of the Wingnut Peak as Tim F. noted yesterday.
Zuzu's Petals
Wow, starting at the bottom of the barrel.
Impressive.
PaulB
Paul L isn’t really a conservative; he’s a PUMA. He really went off the rails in the primaries, cherry-picking polling data, etc., insisting that Obama could not possibly win the election and we must, therefore, all vote for Hillary. He chose to take offense at the people here who made a fool out of him (or, more accurately, who pointed out he was making a fool out of himself), so he occasionally stops by to do a drive-by troll.
Said trolling is easily as accurate as his prognostications during the Democratic presidential primary, so all you can do is shake your head, laugh, and move on.
Bill Rutherford, Princeton Admissions
3 hours and Treacher still hasn’t shown up? How long does it take to pack two bookshelves of tentacle rape porn, anyway?
soonergrunt
Several people have already asked who this Jim Treacher character is. Well, who the hell are either of these guys? I mean seriously. Tucker Carlson? Really? He’s still alive? I thought that he had become the subject of the latest pseudo-celebrity death story, like Mikey from the Life Cereal ads that we all heard for years ate himself to death at 600 lbs because of a complex he developed after people wouldn’t leave him alone about “he won’t eat it, he hates everything!”
Last I heard Tucker Carlson’s body was found having strangled himself with a bowtie and the TV was tuned to Comedy Central. The autopsy put the time of death at approximately the time of the Daily Show broadcast.
The Moar You Know
@PaulB: Ummmm, no. That was myiqis1/2u.
Paul L. is the deranged racist wingtard who has issues about Duke Lacrosse rapists, laboring under the belief that it’s impossible for a rich white kid to rape a black woman.
His website is a wonderland of bad animated .gifs, misspellings, and general idiocy. He will pop in about twice a week to throw a “gotcha” into a random thread, said “gotcha” (just like the pile of poo he left here) usually being composed of such spectacular fail that it makes you feel more sorry for him than anything else.
Marc
I remember when Treacher used to deny that he even was a conservative (usually when caught trolling non-political blogs with his particular brand of wingnut zingers). It’s a strange rat who jumps onto the sinking ship.
gocart mozart
I don’t know how Tucker will be able to work with that asshole. I don’t know how Treacher will be able to work with that asshole, also.
gocart mozart
I have debated Treacher twice online: Sadly No! and his own blog. He uses Calvin ball rules and is a douche. He will get along fine with Tucker Carlson.
gocart mozart
Can two assholes work together without driving everyone crazy? (veiled Odd Couple referenece)
Jim Treacher
Hi, guys!
Regnad Kcin
@mak:
Note that the Challenger did, in fact, get off the ground in the first place.
Marc
@70: Yeah, that’s the wit that’s going to make Tucker Carlson the next Arianna Huffington.
Not sure if that’s worse news for Treacher, Carlson, or Huffington.
Batocchio
Well, they deserve each other.
Maybe he and Richard Cohen can write a joint column – explaining why the latest Letterman/Colbert jokes are offensive and unfunny.
wasabi gasp
Is that the DailyCaller masthead motto?
serge
Oh well…Indianapolis’s gain, and my home town’s loss. Can he whip a bow-tie into the proper form?
ilsita
If the wingnuts had the capacity to think a thing through to the end, they’d realize a couple of things — and would nip these “answer to” ideas in the bud.
First thing is that whenever they want to do something creative, it’s always in reaction to some successful display of liberal creativity — which means that it’s a failure before Go. Second, that because they think that creativity can be reduced to some kind of a formula, and that all they have to do is do it too, they always end up embarrassing themselves.
Didn’t they have an answer to “The Daily Show?” To Pres. Obama? Hillary Clinton. They have their answer to College. Grassroots, Music, Science… and all of it is idiotic.
Mr. Wonderful
Carlson seems oblivious of the fact that what made HuffPo a success wasn’t “covering the news.” It was offering a big platform to anyone who wanted to blog. The news coverage came after the movie stars, comedy writers, journalists, satirists, activists, semi-pro commentators, wise guys, etc., etc. created a viable audience.
He’ll find this out soon enough and have no choice but to solicit blog entries from the mouth-breathing orc nation that still considers itself “conservative.” You think Renew America is brain damaged? Stick around.
Thus will take shape a FUCKING TREASURE TROVE of material for B. Juice, Whiskey Fire, Sadly No!, Tbogg, The Poor Man, Roy, and every other snark-minded site with a functioning dial-up connection. It’s like deciding to open a nudist colony in the main quad at West Point. People will notice. And, uh, respond.
Zuzu's Petals
@Marc:
Hey, it’s that subtle wit that’s gonna bring him the big bucks.
JohnEWilliams
I predict Jim Treacher’s descent upon DC will be a MONUMENT-al (ha ha) event for all concerned! You guys are all just mean.
JohnEWilliams
P.S. I hope Jim (I mean Sean Medlock from Indiana) continues to post people’s e-mails on his blog when they send him something good. You guys should all send in something good!
"Jim Treacher"
Keep sending good stuff! ;)
JohnEWilliams
Well I will Jim I mean Sean, but your replies are so brief and snitty. Maybe you shouldn’t post while you’re busy packing or whichever! :D