Rachel Maddow blisters Tucker Carlson’s ‘Daily Caller’ for Cuban hooker story

[UCmeNdc]

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow argued on Tuesday that the efforts of Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller to push a story linking Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) to Dominican prostitutes is the latest example of conservative media creating its own echo chamber divorced from actual news gathering.

The key to this issue, she said, “has to do with our own intelligence as a nation, and what the consequences are for all of us of a conservative movement that has now spent a full generation telling people, telling Americans not to trust the actual news and instead invent their own conservative version of it. and they did that. And this is where it got us.”

Days before the November 2012 election, Maddow explained, the Caller ran a story quoting two anonymous women from the Dominican Republic saying they were taken to a resort and paid to have sex with the Florida Democrat and head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

However, she noted, Carlson himself pooh-poohed the idea of covering lawmakers’ alleged encounters with sex workers while hosting his own MSNBC show just seven years ago, comparing prostitution to double parking.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/09/rachel-maddow-blisters-tucker-carlsons-daily-caller-for-cuban-hooker-story/

[davidpdx]

1. He is quite the hypocrite isn't he?

I'm sure when he said that he was referring to a Republican. The media is such full of BS. Take for instance the story about George Clooney and his lovely bride to be where a paper said that her relatives were forbidding the marriage and not supportive of it. It turned out the whole thing was bunk and the paper had to eat their own shoe by a retracting the story and apologizing to Clooney.