There was a time when The Daily Caller was one of my favorite conservative news sites. I soured on them a bit a few years ago when they started filling their pages with click bait of swimsuit models and Instagram “hotties,” but I still believed they were a good near-mainstream counterbalance to the leftist propaganda of legacy media. While I wasn’t paying attention, they apparently turned away from President Trump and his supporters.
To be fair, this may have happened before now. I don’t regularly visit the site and only go there when interesting links come across my social media feeds. But a Tweet by Editor-in-Chief Geoffrey Ingersoll really chapped my khakis as he seemed embarrassed by being associated with “pro-Trump” media.
In response to CNN’s Brian Stelter including The Daily Caller on a list of what he called the “Pro-Trump Media Universe,” Ingersoll Tweeted, “I’m not sure why you included us in this round up, @brianstelter… we have not been boosting the president’s fraud allegations. Actually we’ve been doing the exact opposite. I would ask for a correction, but I’m pretty sure this is intentional dishonesty.”
I’m not sure why you included us in this round up, @brianstelter … we have not been boosting the president’s fraud allegations. Actually we’ve been doing the exact opposite. I would ask for a correction, but I’m pretty sure this is intentional dishonesty. pic.twitter.com/hN3eqEcyaO
— Geoffrey Ingersoll (@GPIngersoll) November 15, 2020
Ingersoll then proceeded in his thread to highlight some of the stories and fact-checks that told a very different narrative than Trump’s attorneys, pro-Trump media, and the President himself have echoed. To The Daily Caller, there was no fraud, at least not enough to have made a difference in the election.
This post led our coverage on the site November 9, @brianstelter, just days after the election. So, again, I’m not sure what methodology you used in your casual slander of our company. https://t.co/hAmCAFmCS4
— Geoffrey Ingersoll (@GPIngersoll) November 15, 2020
You put our company logo up on a segment alleging that we are among those deliberately misinforming Americans about the election, @brianstelter. That is false.
— Geoffrey Ingersoll (@GPIngersoll) November 15, 2020
After helping President Trump win his first election in 2016, Drudge Report shifted from pro-Trump to completely anti-Trump. Fox News, who also played a major role in the President’s election efforts, seemed to shift to an anti-Trump bias just before and during the 2020 elections. There are still show hosts at the channel who are unabashedly pro-Trump, but most, particularly in the news department, have taken on a left-leaning stance.
We are unabashed in our pursuit of the truth, and that truth is currently leading us to investigate the multitudes of fraud allegations made by the Trump campaign. Some in “conservative” media are already running for the hills.
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