by Ace
In other words: The problem with the GOP is GOP voters.
…GOP voters have forfeited the confidence of the Conservative, Inc. grifter class that misleads, deludes, and perverts it.
We will have to double our work quotas to regain the confidence of David French and his oligarch backers!
By the way, on Wednesday or Thursday, Steven Hayes appeared on his college roommate Bret Baier’s show to gang up, 3-1, with Harold Ford Jr. against Mollie Hemingway in defending FaceBook’s right to ban Trump forever.
Steven Hayes failed to disclose that The Dispatch has a financial relationship with FaceBook.
I do not expect his college roommate Bret Baier to make this disclosure on his behalf.
Today David French also defends FaceBook to the utmost — also “forgetting” to note that The Dispatch has a financial relationship with FaceBook.
This is, of course, very common on the grifter Oligarch Services right. They’re almost all paid, either directly or indirectly through a pass-through money-laundering front group by AEI, by corporations looking to have very specific propaganda messages put out to the grifter’s readers.
I’ve said this before, but if you read these corporate-paid grifter propagandists, realize that you are not the client. You are the product. When Steven Hayes and Jonah Goldberg and Rich Lowry go shaking their cup to get “investors” or donors, they are specifically telling the would-be donors how many people they reach.
This is the same way that TV networks gin up interest in advertising on their shows: They tell advertisers how many homes and eyeballs they’ll be pumped into if they take out ads on their shows.
Steven Hayes, Rich Lowry, Jonah Goldberg, David French all advertise what their “reach” is, to get corporate interests to fund them.
And the corporations, of course, can expect some… favorable interpretations of their actions from these corrupt organizations.
Say, remember when Perdue Phara paid shills at AEI to plant positive stories about the wonderdrug Oxycontin?
And then AEI started producing cash-on-the-barrelhead “independent” opinion pieces like this?
And holding symposia about defending Perdue Phrama from charges of “overly aggressive marketing” of the highly addictive morphine derivative?
By the way: It is not merely alleged that Perdue Pharam paid AEI to plant favorable stories about its addictive morphine derivative Oxycontin.
They pled guilty to federal charges in the case, and paid a fine of $8 billion.
And also agreed to shut down as a company.
But the various members of the Conservative, Inc. grifter class will tell you that they don’t have to do even the most minimal possible action towards transparency and honesty by merely disclosing their financial ties to big corporations that they write about.
They’ll claim they’re so self-evidently honest and incorruptible, it would only serve to confuse readers to mention that they are being paid by the corporations who are literally keeping a roof over their heads and putting food in their mouths.
Now, why does it turn out that The Dispatch (taking money from FaceBook) and National Review (now “sponsored” by FaceBook) always take pro-FaceBook opinions?
Why, it’s sheerest coincidence!, they’ll aver. It just so happens that their Eternal Immutable Principles just happen to always coincide perfectly with the week-to-week messaging requirements of their sponsors, donors, and investors!
And they will continue refusing even the most basic step of transparency and honesty — shit that anyone would call out if anyone else did it — of simply noting their financial relationship with the industries and corporate entities they cover.
They simply refuse to admit they might have a financial conflict of interest when it comes to defending and promoting the corporate interests of the companies paying them cash money for “independent journalism.”
Why? Well to hide the fact that they’re on the take, and also to make them more useful to their corporate donors. Their corporate donors wouldn’t get as much bang for the buck if everytime National Review, The Dispatch, or the Bulwark flacked for them those organizations admitted, “by the way, we’re taking money directly from this company we’re defending.”
So they just remain silent.
And they never get called on it, because they have constructed a protective bubble for themselves in which the only critics they will even consider responding to are those also on the corporate PR grift, and therefore, those who themselves have a monetary interest in keeping this subject off-limits.
Although Heritage is itself part of the grifter pseudoright, they have recently announced that, due to Google’s and FaceBook’s ceaseless war on conservatives, they would no longer accept money (bribes, really) from Big Tech.
National Review refuses to take this step.
The Dispatch refuses to take this step.
The Bulwark refuses to take this step.
So does the Democrat Party. Both parties are minorities, with the vast majority being “centrists” who found a proper voice and competent executive in Donald Trump.
The whole rigged election is about our corrupt system trying to protect itself.
2 liberal Presidents named George have been telling us this for 31 years. French was a Ronny hater, Bush lover 30 years ago. Has not changed his tune!
If you were at Alpha Centauri in ’15 + ’16. the entire Bush Junta said VOTE CLINTON! As did all the folk on “beg to differ”!
They clearly “have a dog in this fight”~! The dog is NOT THE GOP!