Morning Exit: Winkler to Leave The Daily Caller
The Daily Caller‘s Jeff Winkler, who began with the publication from its inception a year and a half ago, is leaving. An Arkansas native, Editor-in-Chief Tucker Carlson and Publisher Neil Patel phoned him one day to recruit him for the job.
In a farewell note to colleagues Thursday, Winkler reminisced.
“I like telling the story, so I’ll tell it again. I was in Arkansas splitting firewood when Tucker called, completely out-of-the-blue. Shortly afterwards, I was yanking a squirrel from the dogs’ clutches when Neil rang, grilled me heavily, then said ‘you can smoke crack for all we care, we just want people who work hard.’
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