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GOP Rep. Byron Donalds Smacks Down CNN Panel after Trump Town Hall Triumph – Video
Freely Informed ^ | May 11, 2023 | FreelyInformed

Posted on 05/11/2023 8:05:50 AM PDT by Federalist Patriot

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To: qaz123; Federalist Patriot

Brigette Gabriel tweet:

https://twitter.com/ACTBrigitte/status/1656474335610060801

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Brigette Gabriel:

https://twitter.com/ACTBrigitte

Her organization:

https://www.actforamerica.org/

“Ms. Gabriel is the Founder and Chairman of ACT for America, the largest national security grassroots organization in the U.S. with over one million members. She is a NYT best-selling author of three books the latest is “RISE” In Defense of Judeo-Christian Values and Freedom.”


21 posted on 05/11/2023 8:46:31 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: Federalist Patriot

Youtube/Google and even CNN are not showing the full video. Or they are making it hard to find behind a ton of “analysis” videos so they can hide what they don’t want you to see.

Watch full debate on GAB TV: https://tv.gab.com/watch?v=645d08f96331385cb3869284


22 posted on 05/11/2023 8:50:34 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: linMcHlp

He’s sharp. And more importantly, his command of the facts makes him quick. No pauses giving them an in nor does he allow them to interrupt.

But for me, the most important thing, he talks like a regular guy. And that’s the thing that draws folks to people like Pres Trump and Donalds.

A nice Cabinet position in the next Trump administration for some experience and then who knows.


23 posted on 05/11/2023 8:57:50 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: Federalist Patriot

Don’t be too hard on CNN; they were way out of their league.


24 posted on 05/11/2023 8:58:49 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: qaz123

“he talks like a regular guy”


25 posted on 05/11/2023 9:02:37 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: Federalist Patriot

Wow, he was great! I would love to see more people like this serving in Congress for us.


26 posted on 05/11/2023 9:21:21 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: Republican in occupied CA

“CNN, Fox, any media outlet you care to mention, only one thing matters- profits; ratings.”

If that were true in today’s world, where the electorate is split about 50/50, you would see balanced reporting on all networks. Instead you see:

1). Fox News fires the host of its most popular show with no backup plan. Ratings crater. Completely predictable. Makes no sense from either a profits or rating perspective.

2). CNN was the #1 news network. Competition came in (Fox and MSNBC). The network’s strategy in response to competition was to move hard left, aligning itself with MSNBC. Adopting a “me too” positioning resulted in CNN moving to third place. Imitators rarely usurp the top brand holding a distinct position in a marketplace. Unless the top brand makes a mistake, it requires innovation, not “me too” imitation to dethrone the top brand.

3). Fox became #1 by carving out a “fair and balanced” positioning, in which conservative and liberal issues were raised and debated during a period when MSNBC and CNN were moving left. Ultimately Fox became the “conservative” network as MSNBC and CNN moved hard left. The “fair and balanced” positioning is no longer. “Fair and balanced” is the market opportunity for CNN (or possibly Fox) to grab. Deliver straight up factual news in when reporting. Clearly differentiate “news” from commentary. Be completely objective in news reporting, covering all sides and providing the facts. Allow the viewer to decide. Then in commentary have real debates between conservatives and leftists which are more than political soundbites. Have commentators who can discuss issues and events with authority present points of view with facts, not emotion. Eliminate the false outrage in reporting and commentary. Challenge power in all forms (corporations, politicians of all stripes, academia, unions, law enforcement, big government, the military). Build a network for thoughtful people who may be on the right or the left. Bring reason back to the public arena.

Russell Brand, Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, Jimmy Dare and others are killing the cable news networks in viewership because they are bringing civilized, factual commentary back to the public arena. Tucker Carlson will do the same and almost certainly have more viewers than he did on Fox News. Cable news has given up on thoughtful viewers who want to dig below the surface of issues and hear reasoned debate on the issues we face today. Streaming is filling the huge void created by the three cable news networks focusing on emotional soundbites.

Why doesn’t CNN see the opportunity? Why is Fox content to lose its number one show to streaming? If viewers and profits were what matter, all three major news networks would be changing their formats and personalities to appeal to the much bigger streaming audience. One explanation is the three news networks are essentially propaganda outlets for the corporatist state and that mission is more important than profits. In the late 20th century, and early 21st century, we have transitioned from a free market economy with many competitors, to a system of large managed markets controlled by a few mega corporations and government operating in tandem.

Go on the “Chronicling America”, the Library of Congress website on which you can access digitalized newspapers from every state going back to the founding of the republic. Read the news and commentary in small town newspapers in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century. You will find the depth and quality of both reporting and editorial far exceeds anything available in the mainstream media. As a result, the electorate of that period was much more literate and informed than voters today. There are still millions of Americans seeking facts and applying reason to the issues of our day. Fox News is abandoning them while MSNBC and CNN do not speak to them. Tucker Carlson did and will continue to do so with an even greater audience than he had at Fox. The entrepreneurial spirit, that has powered innovation in the American economy since the nation’s founding can be found in the internet streaming market, not print media and not cable TV. Certainly not a CNN, MSNBC or Fox.

Link to Chronicling America: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov


27 posted on 05/11/2023 9:24:47 AM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it)
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To: hecticskeptic

IT is interesting how much is going on right now. IMHO corporate cable ‘news’ media is a dinosaur, experiencing the last death throes of an irrelevant medium.

That said, this was an opportunity CNN had handed to them on a plate - Fox News losing viewers while PDJT gives them an opportunity to regain some relevance.

And they blew it.

It was astonishingly bad for them. They just look childish....but that’s who they are. They couldn’t do anything outside of what they are.

Also a genius move by PDJT, either they became more balanced and objective, which helps him, or they continue with the tired craziness and make themselves even more irrelevant, which helps him.

I have to hand it to him, many thought this would be a mistake.


28 posted on 05/11/2023 9:43:53 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Soul of the South

Sigh... sadly, you are indeed right.
I think this was CNN yielding to the inevitable exactly because of the hit they have taken and to pick a bit at Fox’s stupidity (as Ray Kroc said, ‘when your competition is downing, hand ‘em a fire hose’


29 posted on 05/11/2023 9:44:41 AM PDT by Republican in occupied CA (There was enough government in 1789)
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To: Federalist Patriot

That was outstanding!


30 posted on 05/11/2023 9:45:39 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: Federalist Patriot

bump for later.


31 posted on 05/11/2023 10:11:54 AM PDT by voicereason (When a bartender can join Congress and become a millionaire...there’s a problem.)
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To: Federalist Patriot
He is a very impressive person, someone Trump should consider as a Vice-Presidential running mate.

Hear, hear.

Can you imagine Donaldson debating kamaltoes , flat on her back, offering her flabby ass to the moderator.

She would be able to see the moon, with her own eyes, while he kicked the living hell out of her on the debate stage.

32 posted on 05/11/2023 10:48:17 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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To: Republican in occupied CA
CNN, Fox, any media outlet you care to mention, only one thing matters- profits; ratings.

I use to think that and it would make sense but I now believe that to most big corporations their news media divisions are just vanity projects.

Its a way for the corporations to spin the narratives that they want. This is useful when it comes to pending legislation that can effect their other divisions. Its also helpful to get the people most helpful to the company elected.

Its more effective than direct campaign contributions which have limits. The fact that the news division looses money every quarter is just the cost of doing business. Its just a write off loss to the corporation against their other profits. That's why the can operate at a loss indefinitely.

33 posted on 05/11/2023 11:09:57 AM PDT by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: ratzoe

you should see him with that POS Gary Gensler, Chairman of the SEC, in a hearing a couple weeks ago. Priceless.

Gensler is a slithering serpent out to destroy Trump’s company and Byron pinned him down pretty good.


34 posted on 05/11/2023 11:40:33 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: Federalist Patriot

i’ll bet they don’t let him on cnn again.
thanks for posting this


35 posted on 05/11/2023 3:45:34 PM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan
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