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More questions about the Daily Caller’s role in publicizing prostitution allegations against Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) have arisen after it was revealed that two newspapers declined to report the story after expressing concerns about the accusers’ credibility.

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In an interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, Daily Caller Editor-in-Chief Tucker Carlson defended his website’s claim that Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) paid women for sex in the Dominican Republic, but he dodged the question of whether the women interviewed by the Daily Caller might have been paid by political operatives to tell their story, as evidence from ABC News and  The Washington Post  now suggest. Responding to O’Reilly’s inquiry about whether the allegations were fabricated, Carlson stopped short of declaring that the women the Daily Caller interviewed were not paid to tell their story

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In the wake of the Daily Caller’s widely derided effort last week to claim the emergence of a video capturing a speech Barack Obama gave in 2007 would jolt this year’s presidential campaign, editor Tucker Carlson lashed out at journalists who ignored his dubious endeavor , denouncing them as “contemptible.” After suffering what Salon’s Joan Walsh described as an “ethnic nervous breakdown” on Fox News last week as he breathlessly portrayed Obama as a race hustler in the 2007 video (“This guy is whipping up race hatred and fear. Period.”), a “fuming” Carlson told the Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz that the media’s disinterest in the old Obama clip was “disgusting.” And on Fox, Carlson railed against the “throne sniffers” in the press, the “defenders of Obama,” who (wisely) dismissed the Daily Caller /Drudge Report/Fox-hyped video as old news. And not even interesting old news at that

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Did you know that American doctors are so incensed over Obamacare’s big-government communist socialism that more than eight in ten are going to quit doctoring? It’s true, according to a terribly conducted survey conducted by a shady right-wing group, reported credulously by the Daily Caller, and hyped by Matt Drudge and Fox News . “Eighty-three percent of American physicians have considered leaving their practices over President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, according to a survey released by the Doctor Patient Medical Association,” reported the Daily Caller yesterday.

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The Daily Caller’s  headline : “Holder blames Americans for gun-running” The Daily Caller’s lede: Attorney General Eric Holder scolded The Daily Caller’s reporting on the Fast and Furious gun-running scandal shortly after government officials and reporters heard him admonish Americans for funding gun-runners. What Holder actually said, as reported by the Daily Caller: Holder appeared Tuesday at a White House event to showcase a new media campaign that is intended to stigmatize the selling and buying of knock-off videos and counterfeit fashion products. Holder recorded one critical radio ad, which is titled “You can help.” The clip was played to the audience in the White House auditorium. “This is Attorney General Eric Holder. We are working hard to protect our communities by reducing gang violence and organized crime and there is an important and simple way that you can help. Some street gangs and organized crime groups are selling counterfeit products, such as fake watches, DVDs and purses, as an easy way to make money. And they use that money to fund other crimes, like trafficking in drugs and guns.” “When you buy knock-offs on the street or online, although it may not be obvious, you could be supporting gangs, putting money in their pockets and helping them to engage in other illegal activities that put our communities at risk,” said Holder in the radio ad. So an alternate, accurate headline would have been: “Holder asks Americans to help prevent gun-running.” But that doesn’t make the attorney general look bad. And it doesn’t conform to the Daily Caller’s editorial policy of manufacturing controversies over Eric Holder and Fast and Furious.

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Despite the best efforts of the right-wing media, Barack Obama’s connections — real and imagined — to Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers weren’t quite enough to poison the electorate against Obama in 2008. In fact, even with brief mainstream media flare-ups and Sean Hannity’s twice-daily Ayers-Wright harangues, not many people seemed to care at all when it came time to vote. Now that we’re on the precipice of 2012, Ayers and Wright are being dragged out onto the stage again, presumably in the hope that the guilt-by-association campaign that failed in 2008 will, three years later, finally catch on and bring Obama down. And this might even be understandable were there new information to report on Obama, Ayers, and Wright. But there isn’t. So the old storylines are getting a hasty spit-shine for the new election season. “Exclusive,” announces The Daily Caller this morning, as they report on “video obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller” that “shows Illinois Senator Barack Obama, then campaigning for Democrats before the 2006 midterm elections, praising Reverend Jeremiah Wright and telling an audience that he ‘stole’ the title of his book ‘The Audacity of Hope’ from Wright’s sermon of the same name, which he ‘loved.’ Obama also referred to Wright as ‘my pastor.’ ” The video does indeed show Obama saying all those things, but the Daily Caller actually got scooped on this one. By Obama himself.

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