Tucker Carlson, the editor-in-chief of the conservative news site The Daily Caller, told TPM on Thursday that a “hungover” editor was to blame for a headline on the site’s “Guns and Gear” section that included the phrase “Kill All The Jews.”
The post, originally headlined, “Kill All The Jews And When That Is Done Kill Those That Refused To Defend Them,” was published on Tuesday.
The article, written by Maj. Gen. Jerry R. Curry, a retired US Army veteran and former assistant to the Ford, Carter, Reagan and Bush administrations, argued that Muslim terrorists targeting Jews will soon turn to other groups such as Christians, “just as the Nazis did” during World War II.
“If today the civilized world, led by the United States, doesn’t stand up and speak out for Israel and the world’s Jews, when Islam comes for the Christians, and it will come, there will be no one left to speak for them,” Curry wrote.
Curry’s article has since been given a different headline and a note was added beneath it: “Correction: The original headline on this op-ed was wildly inarticulate and perverted the meaning of the piece. We apologize.”
(The post’s URL still included the phrase “kill-all-the-jews” as of Thursday morning.)
Carlson told TPM that the published headline was spotted by executive editor Vince Coglianese on either Tuesday or Wednesday. Carlson said Coglianese flagged it to him.
“The headline didn’t match the story. It was obviously nothing more than a garbled attempt,” he told TPM by phone. “It was inarticulate, it was idiotic.”
When asked how the original headline ended up on the site, Carlson said one of the site’s editors, whom he declined to name, was likely “hungover.”
“I don’t know. We’ve got over 50 people here. He was hungover or something,” Carlson said.
Carlson said that The Daily Caller got no complaints about the headline, and that it was removed because it was inarticulate.
“I oversaw the correction,” he said. “It violated our first rule in that it wasn’t clear.”
Carlson repeated his suspicion about the editor who oversaw the headline.
“I assume the editor was hungover, but I don’t know,” he said. “I literally have no idea.”
He later told TPM in an email that the original headline was not submitted by Curry.
“That headline was not written by the author of the piece, but by our editor, whom we have executed, ISIS-style, for his misdeed,” he wrote.
A staffer at Media Matters tweeted a screenshot of the original headline on Wednesday:
WTF Daily Caller pic.twitter.com/CxrA4TI6rC
— Timothy Johnson (@timothywjohnson) February 18, 2015
This post has been updated.
Totally off-topic, but can’t contain my joy. Marriage Equality Has Arrived In Texas
Austin Texas, 10:03 am
Two Austin women were legally married Thursday morning after a Travis County judge ordered the county clerk to issue a marriage license.
Sarah Goodfriend and Suzanne Bryant, together almost 31 years, said their vows before Rabbi Kerry Baker while standing in front of the Travis County Clerk’s Office sign on Airport Boulevard.
The couple was denied a license in the same office building eight years ago.
On Wednesday morning, state District Judge David Wahlberg, petitioned by a lawyer for Goodfriend and Bryant, ordered Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir to grant the couple a marriage license.
The ceremony was a mix of personal – with friends and their teenage daughters, Dawn and Ting, standing nearby – and public statement, with photos of their vows in front of the county sign.
“It’s very exciting,” Bryant said before the wedding. “My little one was worried about missing her history class. I said we’ll be making history.”
After the ceremony, the couple went back inside the county office to formally register their marriage.
The RWNJ media clowns have no pride or self-respect. None. If he had just a little of it, Tucker Carlson would disembowel himself in a public square.
Nobody assumes responsibility for their actions in this day and age. Always blaming something else. Can’t anybody stand up and admit their faults and admit wrongdoing?
Especially Conservatives. Haven’t you noticed how the “Party of Responsibility” is very big on “Everyone but me is responsible for this”?
As far as I’m concerned- if you believe it, say it or shut up and go away.
How hungover was Tucker when it came to catching it? I mean, he’s the EDITOR-IN-CHIEF.