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How Many Conservative "News" Sources are Coopted

Posted on 05/22/2021 3:01:25 PM PDT by Bill of Rights FIRST

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1 posted on 05/22/2021 3:01:26 PM PDT by Bill of Rights FIRST
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To: Bill of Rights FIRST

Even americanthinker.com is coopted by one or more at least somewhat (or more) unfortunately.


2 posted on 05/22/2021 3:03:13 PM PDT by Bill of Rights FIRST (If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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Below are sites supposedly allowing free speech and conservative thought, listed in order by traffic rank, as reported recently by Amazon-owned Alexa.

Alexa USSite
128breitbart.com
185theepochtimes.com
198thegatewaypundit.com
303dailycaller.com
517rumble.com
603newsmax.com
610dailywire.com
680bitchute.com
815gab.com
1245parler.com
1645washingtonexaminer.com
1659redstate.com
1697pjmedia.com
1753townhall.com
1951patriots.win
1955citizenfreepress.com
2368frankspeech.com (new site from MyPillow guy)
2432washingtontimes.com
2668thefederalist.com
2997hotair.com
3451twitchy.com
3521oann.com
4160justthenews.com
4708thelibertydaily.com
5141freerepublic.com
6432thepostmillennial.com
6437americanthinker.com
6776bonginoreport.com
7014newsbusters.org
7064amgreatness.com
7428freebeacon.com
7509powerlineblog.com
8287theconservativetreehouse.com
8636noqreport.com
8757bigleaguepolitics.com
10637legalinsurrection.com
11700revolver.news
13287cnsnews.com
13597lucianne.com
14730frontpagemag.com
16343spectator.org

3 posted on 05/22/2021 3:04:47 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is the last legally elected U.S. President.)
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To: Bill of Rights FIRST

They all wish and strive to be known as ‘conservative’, but they also wish to survive.


4 posted on 05/22/2021 3:06:17 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Bill of Rights FIRST

co-opt verb

\ kō-ˈäpt \
co-opted; co-opting; co-opts
Definition of co-opt
transitive verb

1a: to choose or elect as a member
members co-opted to the committee
b: to appoint as a colleague or assistant
2a: to take into a group (such as a faction, movement, or culture) : ABSORB, ASSIMILATE
The students are co-opted by a system they serve even in their struggle against it.
— A. C. Danto
b: TAKE OVER, APPROPRIATE
a style co-opted by advertisers

Which definition do you mean?


5 posted on 05/22/2021 3:06:35 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Bill of Rights FIRST

See my “Hit and Run” ping list. Pretty much every “Hit and Run” poster has a blog that is completely a cut and past job from other bloggers who are, likely, cut and pasted from other sources.

The “Hit and Run” spammers like to post their cut and paste threads as clickbait (a sentence or two) as if they are original sources and then run off until the next spam opportunity.


6 posted on 05/22/2021 3:06:59 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Bill of Rights FIRST

All News and especially FOX are nothing but simple Left Wing Propaganda now.


7 posted on 05/22/2021 3:07:57 PM PDT by R0CK3T
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To: Bill of Rights FIRST

I do not believe OANN is.

https://usnewson.com/watch/oann-live-stream

https://www.watchnews.pro/oan.html


8 posted on 05/22/2021 3:09:32 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Biology is science. Homemade pronouns are narcissism.)
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To: Bill of Rights FIRST

Doesn’t matter much as they accomplish nothing.


9 posted on 05/22/2021 3:09:56 PM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Bill of Rights FIRST

Welcome to Free Republic. Nope, of course this place isn’t infiltrated.


10 posted on 05/22/2021 3:10:52 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: Larry Lucido
See my “Hit and Run” ping list.

Link?

11 posted on 05/22/2021 3:12:40 PM PDT by FatherofFive (We support Trump. Not the GOP)
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To: FatherofFive

On my home page. Heads up - most of the hit and runs either don’t post any more, or have been zotted. I really need to update it.


12 posted on 05/22/2021 3:17:09 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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Former House Speakers Paul Ryan and John Boehner Conduct Fundraising Rallies for The Shameful 35 House Decepticons

May 21, 2021 | Sundance

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan previously held a fundraising event for Liz Cheney (March 2021).  Former House Speaker John Boehner previously held a fundraising event for Ohio Rep Anthony Gonzalez (March 2021)…. And now Paul Ryan announces he will host a fundraising event for Illinois Representative Adam Kinzinger.

WASHINGTON DC – Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is set to headline a fundraiser on Monday for Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), an ardent critic of former President Trump and one of 10 House Republicans who voted in January to impeach the former president. (more)

What do Liz Cheney, Anthony Gonzalez and Adam Kinzinger have in common?

If you notice they are all members of the shameful 35 HOUSE DeceptiCons, you are correct.

The issue with Kinzinger should be, essentially, moot.  Illinois is losing one congressional district due to the 2020 census figures and a drop in population.  The Democrats control Illinois and will more than likely re-district the state to get rid of Kinzinger’s (republican) district.  So Paul Ryan fundraising for Kinzinger is more a matter of financial positioning for something else as opposed to retaining his seat in the 2022 election.  In essence, Kinzinger is toast.

Previously I thought Kinzinger was likely to become a CNN contributor (although it could be Fox News), as an interim position before he goes back to DC and begins K-Street lobbying, likely on behalf of some defense contractors.  However, it could also be Fox News, which would align with Ryan’s support (Ryan is a Fox News board member).

For those who have followed national politics for a while these networks and alignments are clear and transparent.  However, if you are new to the understanding you will see more connective tissue if you just keep the 35 members above in mind when you read political stories.   A lot more will come out before the 2022 mid-term election, and we need to continually reference the background to get an understanding.

It doesn’t do any good to replace DeceptiCons without replacing or nullifying DeceptiCon leadership.  I plan to write about this more very soon, but keep in mind when we flipped 67 House seats in the 2010 mid-term election and the response from the DC system to that outcome.  In 2011 Obama and Holder initiated the IRS targeting as a direct result… and the DeceptiCon leadership (Boehner, Ryan, Cantor, McCarthy, McConnell, Thune, Cornyn, Blunt, Barrasso, etc. ) supported it.

The BIG UGLY purge needs to be a purge of DeceptiCons writ large, and a complete purge (or nullification) of the DeceptiCon leadership groups.  It is going to take a lot of education of MAGA voters to help them to see who the DeceptiCons really are.  For an example just look at how many of them support Nikki Haley.

DeceptiCons are by their nature Deceptive Conservatives…. AND they have a lot of conservative media support, A LOT.

It is important for MAGA voters to get deep in the weeds and understand the networks, the alignments, and how those cliques connect to specific interests in conservative media.  Unfortunately, when you do that level of network connection and sunlight YOU become an enemy of the GOP system.

We ain’t called The Last Refuge by accident.

The DeceptiCon Paytriots hate us as much, if not more, than they hate Democrats.


13 posted on 05/22/2021 3:24:22 PM PDT by Bratch
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Good start. EVERYTHING is “coopted” including FR. The pictures aren’t really necessary here. After a while you figure it out and it all works out i hope.


14 posted on 05/22/2021 3:38:03 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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Shaddup, don’t need to be bragging. And drawing too much attention from CINOs


15 posted on 05/22/2021 3:43:05 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis deplorable. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE)
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To: Bill of Rights FIRST

bttt


16 posted on 05/22/2021 3:43:22 PM PDT by A Cyrenian (MO's state motto: Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.)
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To: UnwashedPeasant
I mean, that list contains Luzianne expired tea lol.

Remarkably, Townhall sux, but their acquisition Twitchy does a better job than other sites with deeper staffing (although supposedly Townhall has 10 people CRM-ing Twitchy - I DOUBT IT BULLSHIT)

17 posted on 05/22/2021 3:46:59 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: Bill of Rights FIRST

Nice attempt at establishing street cred. Doesn’t work that way here though. Cred is earned. Welcome noob. Hope your stay is pleasant.


18 posted on 05/22/2021 3:48:04 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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I despise Epoch, they frame everything as if you don't sign up for Epoch's lame ball-scratching, that you won't get the full dope.

OTOH, Breitbart gets it done day-to-day with some egregious lapses noted during the Georgia runoff, not sure the 'person' who ordered that has allowed his Prep H script to expire...

19 posted on 05/22/2021 3:49:50 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: Bill of Rights FIRST

Almost all of the sites listed in this thread place the highest value on America fighting other nation’s wars.

“American” Thinker is one of the worst. Almost unreadable these days.


20 posted on 05/22/2021 3:52:58 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice)
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