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liberal bloggers, policy wonks and
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reporter first profiled in 2009.
The Daily Caller reported last year
that now former Sen. Richard
Lugar (R-Ind.) hadn’t lived in the
state for more than 30 years and,
just last month, that Sen. John
Cornyn (R-Texas) will get a primary challenger.
But such reporting has been
overshadowed by The Daily Caller’s more sensational stories over
the past year, such as one featuring a cache of tweets from Trayvon Martin, the unarmed Florida
teenager shot dead while walking
home from a convenience store.
MSNBC host and former Republican Rep. Joe Scarborough blasted
conservative media at the time for
trolling Martin’s social media history “to find ominous looking pictures” of the dead teenager.
In October, The Daily Caller
published a 2007 video of thenSen. Obama giving a rousing
speech at Hampton University, a
historically black college, in which
he criticized the federal response
to Hurricane Katrina. The Drudge
Report teased the story and Carlson appeared the same night on
Fox News’ Hannity to discuss
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what was promoted as a racially
charged speech finally unearthed.
But while the entire speech was
never published online or aired in
full during the 2008 presidential
campaign, numerous media outlets — including Carlson’s former
MSNBC program — had covered
excerpts of it, which led to ample
mockery of The Daily Caller’s story as old news. Andrew Sullivan
went a step further, calling Carlson a “racist demagogue” for hyping the speech anew.
“No one had seen it before because it had never aired before.
Period,” Carlson told The Huffington Post. “We were attacked by
Sam Feist, the Washington bureau