Daily Caller Congratulates Itself For Totally Owning CNN’s Oliver Darcy: ‘I’d Like to Report a Murder’
In a piece published yesterday, CNN’s Oliver Darcy took aim at pro-Trump conservative media outlets for essentially ignoring the Stormy Daniels story this week. The Daily Caller was one of the sites Darcy claimed to be underplaying the reports — as he wrote that the DC only had one Stormy-related post on its homepage and it was “buried under a slew of other stories.”
Later in the day, Daily Caller media reporter Joe Simonson responded with a piece of his own that purported to show Darcy was full of it. The post, titled “CNN’s Oliver Darcy Tried Calling Out The Daily Caller — It Didn’t Go So Well,” included the following as its lede:
Oliver Darcy, the conservative wunderkind turned Jeff Zucker lapdog, has decided in the last year or so that his chief mission in life is to hold conservative-friendly media organizations accountable. Problem is, he’s not very good at it —
The site was so proud of that line that it highlighted it in a screenshot and tweeted it out this morning along with a laughing emoji.
?@oliverdarcy https://t.co/YCH6k0a2JA pic.twitter.com/mecaiOoUYp
— The Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) March 9, 2018
But they didn’t stop there. A short time later, the site quote-tweeted itself to let everyone know how badly Darcy had been owned by them.
Hello…911…I'd like to report a murder https://t.co/sbWVn84qVQ
— The Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) March 9, 2018
Yep, that’s right. The Daily Caller patted itself on the back for its sick burn on Darcy.
Meanwhile, Darcy’s colleague Andrew Kaczynski had this to say about the tweets:
Daily Caller's tweet congratulating their own tweet about @oliverdarcy has 3 RTs. The original tweet has 20, 6 of which write for the Daily Caller.https://t.co/YQNbT1qzs9
— andrew kaczynski? (@KFILE) March 9, 2018
update here folks, Daily Caller's tweet now has additional RT courtesy of another Daily Caller reporter.
— andrew kaczynski? (@KFILE) March 9, 2018
That prompted The DC’s Twitter account to respond in kind:
Don't you have some HHS janitor's Facebook to crawl through? https://t.co/CjA2JjkwXQ
— The Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) March 9, 2018
Other folks on Twitter reacted, mostly to shake their heads at the conservative site using its official Twitter account to claim victory over Darcy.
it's weird and obviously personal.
— Jeff B. (@EsotericCD) March 9, 2018
lmao this is so sad
— Calvin (@calvinstowell) March 9, 2018
it’s not even a decent burn
— Chris Jackson (@ChrisCJackson) March 9, 2018
Does Ben shapiros dad run this account
— KT NELSON (@KrangTNelson) March 9, 2018
Hello…911…I'm about to die of secondhand embarrassment over how bad this tweet is.
— Scott Rising (@rising) March 9, 2018
wow, great own there guys
— Jon Green (@_Jon_Green) March 9, 2018
In the end, however, Darcy may have had the last laugh:
tfw you're trying to read the latest daily caller hit piece on you but the site's ads keep crashing your browser
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) March 9, 2018
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