It’s founder, Schmucker Carlson, is one of those lighter than air little conservative wannabes who does damage to the conservative cause by his ineffectual defense of it and his perpetual pandering the liberal establishment.
Hanging around the periphery of big-time punditry, basking in the glow of true greats like Charles Krauthammer and George Will, Tucker is the little boy who just graduated from diapers to training pants and loudly announces to everyone, “I’m a big boy now!” He’s an unserious schoolboy in short pants who is no conservative, and his internet site is digital toilet paper, tabloid trash.
Bachmann’s Headaches
The trashy hit piece on Michele Bachmann is full of direct quotes, so it appears factually true, but the tone of the article is prurient, using titillating phrases such as heavy pill use, stress-induced medical episodes, and mood plunges.
The article is garish sensationalism
Worse, the author is grossly ignorant, confusing headaches with migraines and calling the episodes a nervous condition. He hints that Bachmann is crazy, unstable and hooked on pills, fulfilling every liberal fantasy that Bachmann is a rightwing Stepford Wife in the Valley of the Dolls. It also casts migraines as a mental illness, which it is not, and characterizes her reactions to them as some kind of weakness, also untrue.
Migraines are serious business. They strike like a bolt from the blue and can put the strongest person flat on his back. They can also cause nausea to the point of vomiting. Papa Silverfiddle is a strong manual laborer who worked in a factory, cleared brush and busted broncs, never prone to taking sick time. But a migraine would flatten him. A good friend of mine from childhood is a big strapping volunteer fireman, welder, mechanic and all around good guy, but when a migraine strikes, he’s rendered as helpless as a kitten. If the writer could experience just one migraine episode maybe he would change his ignorant tune.
If they are as strong and as frequent as the story alleges, I think Michele Bachman’s migraines disqualify her from the presidency. We can’t have a president flat on her back incapacitated, especially when such episodes are impossible to predict. This is no shame to her. It is a medical condition she has no control over.
I also think articles such as this also disqualify The Daily Caller as a serious news outlet for conservatives.
ABC News - Bachmann Headaches
