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ViacomCBS is Meddling in the Presidential Election
American Thinker.com ^ | August 9, 2020 | Roger Aronoff

Posted on 08/09/2020 6:21:00 AM PDT by Kaslin

While mainstream media organizations continue to worry about foreign meddling in our last election and the next one, we should take a look at how they themselves are meddling.

Without letting any of the media off the hook, the ViacomCBS behemoth deserves special consideration. The threat from its meddling in the upcoming presidential election is a case study of a multi-headed media organization's direct practice of attempting to defeat one candidate and help boost and cover for the other. Anything Russia did in the last election, or any of the last 20 elections, pales in comparison.

These days, the company is known as ViacomCBS. Its corporate structure and ownership have morphed through the years, starting nearly 100 years ago with the formation of CBS. Viacom came along in 1970 as the syndication division of CBS. It soon split off as a separate company and then later merged with CBS in 1995, and in 2006, Viacom and CBS split up. CBS Corp. and Viacom Inc. merged again one year ago this week, forming a $28-billion company.

In this current iteration, ViacomCBS includes CBS, CBS News, Showtime, Comedy Central, Paramount Pictures, BET, CMT, MTV, Nickelodeon, The Movie Channel, and the Smithsonian Channel, to name just a few of its assets — and one more: the book publisher Simon & Schuster. So, what's the problem? This company is making its purpose the defeat of President Donald Trump this November, and it is ruthless and relentless in that pursuit.

In some ways, it's nothing new. Back in 2004, CBS News attempted to defeat George W. Bush's run for re-election against John Kerry. It had a second 60 Minutes program at the time, hosted by Dan Rather, and it manufactured a story full of lies, fake documents,

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020election; 2020electionbias; cbs; dnctalkingpoints; election; howtostealanelection; ratherbiased; seebsnews; tampering; viacom; viacommie

1 posted on 08/09/2020 6:21:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Of course they are! That whole Russian meddling was simply RAT projection.


2 posted on 08/09/2020 6:22:20 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?")
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To: Kaslin

bkmk


3 posted on 08/09/2020 6:38:50 AM PDT by sauropod (I will not comply.)
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To: Kaslin

The rich people that run big companies think they are immune from federal wealth taxation.

They are not.

It is easy to charge Mississippi rich people a higher rate of wealth taxation on April 14th and then allow them to claim the excess as an income tax credit on April 15th.


4 posted on 08/09/2020 6:40:00 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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“This company is making its purpose the defeat of President Donald Trump this November, and it is ruthless and relentless in that pursuit.”

That can be said of all the Lame Street Media.


5 posted on 08/09/2020 6:40:44 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (Biden's)
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Well, hey, you could go back to the 1960 election and how CBS manipulated the Nixon-Kennedy debates in order to influence that one.


6 posted on 08/09/2020 6:48:26 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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Who owns & controls Viacom?


7 posted on 08/09/2020 7:08:24 AM PDT by glasseye ("A policeman's job is only easy in a police state." Orson Welles)
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To: Kaslin
Back in 2004, CBS News attempted to defeat George W. Bush's run for re-election against John Kerry. It had a second 60 Minutes program at the time, hosted by Dan Rather, and it manufactured a story full of lies, fake documents, and dishonestly edited interviews to make it appear as though Bush had used political influence to get in the Texas Air National Guard and avoid going to Vietnam. A disgraced Dan Rather ended up having to give up his position as anchor of the CBS Evening News and leaving the network, along with his producers.

And that started here. In addition, it was learned later taht CBS ran this story by the Kerry campaign and got their thumbs up to run this false smear.

8 posted on 08/09/2020 7:13:14 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Kaslin

So ViaComCBS is Hydra!


9 posted on 08/09/2020 9:13:32 AM PDT by Boomer (Leftists/Leftism ruins everything it touches.)
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Bottomless in-kind contributions to democrats for decades, without so much as a hint that anyone is looking sideways at that. That applies to big tech too. Trump is a wild card and hence a threat though. But if they can push Biden over the finish line they are home free with their own puppet in the white house. So why not go all in?

And so they have.

10 posted on 08/09/2020 9:41:30 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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As it stands,the election will not be decided that night as designed. The media and DNC scum have a plan to not make the same mistake again failing to steal the election. Swiss cheese brain Biden will NEVER concede and the media will totally mind fvck the sh*t for brains simpletons.


11 posted on 08/09/2020 9:47:54 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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Again?

They never learned their lesson after promoting FORGED memos as an October Surprise in their attempt to steal the 2004 election


12 posted on 08/09/2020 5:19:05 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Boomer

No the FBI and CIA are, Commie Brenan and Commie Comey (both of them voted Communist Party) are evidence.


13 posted on 08/09/2020 5:22:09 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: a fool in paradise

Maybe they all are. We have been intensely infiltrated. (Deep State)


14 posted on 08/09/2020 6:50:09 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftists/Leftism ruins everything it touches.)
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