Tucker "Drudge" Carlson to launch right-leaning HuffPo alternative

By GottaLaff

The Tee Vee machine is done with him, so he's going for Drudge Lite:

Pundit Tucker Carlson publicly announced Tuesday that a right-leaning news site resembling the Huffington Post he's been planning will go live within weeks.

Carlson will launch TheDailyCaller.com, which he said would focus on reporting on the Obama administration and "adding facts to the conversation."

Facts? So he's planning on a departure from his past punditiocy?

"We are a general-interest newspaper-format style site," Carlson told conservative bloggers at the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday. "There just aren't enough people covering this administration and telling the people what's going on."

... because if there's one thing that's been lacking, it's Obama news. Good journalistic eye, Schmucker.

"Tell the truth, and be accurate," Carlson said of the venture's goals. "It's very important to live up to the basic standards of journalism."

What took you so long?

Carlson said that the site's reporters would share in the profits based on how much traffic is drawn in by their work. He said the site would seek to "drive" the news, similar to the Drudge Report, the Huffington Post, the New York Times, and other major news outlets. (The site's motto, Carlson said, is "every seven minutes," and seeks to be "even faster than Drudge.") [...]

"It will not be a forum for discussing the future of the Republican Party," Carlson explained.

That's because there is no future of the Rushpublic Party... which bodes really well for The Daily Caller.