PART ONE: On March 17, Politico carried the story of why it was that Mickey Kaus quit the Daily Caller.Politico:
The blogger Mickey Kaus has quit his job at The Daily Caller after the conservative site’s editor-in-chief, Tucker Carlson, pulled a critical column about Fox News from the site, Kaus told the On Media blog on Tuesday.”It’s pretty simple,” Kaus said in an interview, “I wrote a piece attacking Fox for not being the opposition on immigration and amnesty — for filling up the airwaves with reports on ISIS and terrorism, and not fulfilling their responsibility of being the opposition on amnesty and immigration…. I posted it at 6:30 in the morning. When I got up, Tucker had taken it down. He said, ‘We can’t trash Fox on the site. I work there.'”Carlson, who co-founded The Daily Caller in 2010, is a conservative contributor to Fox News and the host of its weekend edition of “Fox & Friends.”Kaus says when he told Carlson he needed to be able to write about Fox, Carlson told him it was a hard-and-fast rule, and non-negotiable.”He said it was a rule, and he wouldn’t be able to change that rule. So I told him I quit,” Kaus explained.
First of all, three cheers for Kaus! Principle over all. And let’s send up a fourth cheer for his effectively taking an extremely important story public: the story about the company town that Fox has become for right of center journalism.
PART TWO:
Picking up with Mickey Kaus quitting The Daily Caller after Tucker Carlson took Kaus’s column critiquing Fox off TheDC website because, Kaus says, Carlson told him TheDC can’t trash Fox because he (Carlson) works there…