‘Daily Caller’ or ‘Yester-Daily Caller?’

Tucker Carlson’s ‘Daily Caller,’ the newly-launched conservative answer to The Huffington Post, promised lightning-fast updates with their “every seven minutes” motto. Judging by the current Daily Caller headline, they may need to check their dial-up connection or something, because their lead story is literally yesterday’s news: a report by Jon Ward, about Charlie Rangel’s refusal to step down, that was filed last night.

Here’s the headline:

Launched 7 months late, Daily Caller is already undergoing a redesign that makes it look like a bicentennial edition of HuffPo. It’s likely that a glitch in that redesign is causing the nostalgic look of the front page.

Update: Since writing this post, The Daily Caller has updated its front page to reflect Rangel’s announcement that he’s temporarily stepping down.

Update 2: Daily Caller’s Jon Ward informs me that the site was updated with a completely new redesign the previous night but there were server issues that caused old stories to show up on some people’s .

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