THEY CAN’T GO FOR THAT
Pand olitical commentator minimedia empire isn’t just about blowing smoke. It also wants to cater to those who inhale. But that’s looking like a pipe dream. Dailyvaper.com, a website launched by Carlson’s popular Dailycaller.com website to extol the virtues of vaping, is one of the best-kept secrets on the Internet. It’s hard to imagine that was the plan. When the site became active is unclear, but the domain was created in 2014 and the company’s privacy policy was posted onto the site in May 2016. Yet the Twitter handle @TheDaily-Vaper started tweeting in April, and still has fewer than 400 followers. Compare that to Carlson’s Dailycaller.com, which has 321,000 Twitter followers. Dailyvaper.com’s editor tells us it has not done a “hard launch” yet, but didn’t say when that was going to happen. We’re also told that Carlson (photo inset), who quit smoking a long time ago and has never vaped, is not involved in managing the site’s dayto-day operations. That’s probably a good thing.
On Nov. 28, when Carlson announced on Fox News that he was stepping down as Dailycaller.com’s editor-in-chief, he admitted that he isn’t very good at that sort of thing.
“It was really hard,” Carlson said of that decision. “Not because I’m a great manager, I’m a terrible manager. But I loved it and I loved the guys.”
That said, The Daily Caller reportedly attracts 10 million unique visitors every month, so he must have been doing something right.
As one might expect, Dailyvaper.com dabbles in politics. It started off the week with a story headlined “NYC Democrats Ban Vaping in Bars and Offices,” which cites a Daily News article about Gov. plan to legally lump electronic cigarettes in with conventional smokes, which are banned from bars, restaurants and offices by the New York’s Clean Indoor Air Act. There’s good news for Hall & Oates fans who like the band’s old stuff — that’s all you’re getting. Guitarist told Bang Showbiz, “I think you can expect new music from Daryl and I, but just not necessarily together.” He reasons that he and his partner (photo, right with Oates) already have more hits than they can play in one night. They’re performing some of those hits at London’s O2 stadium on Saturday.