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Seems Breitbart (and Drudge?) Being Paid BIG Bucks for Glowing Trump Coverage
Reaganite Republican ^ | 19 January 2016 | Reaganite Republican

Posted on 01/19/2016 3:07:14 AM PST by Reaganite Republican


How else to explain it... Mark Levin was scratching his aerodynamic dome all last week wondering how these two have evolved into such fervent Trumpster sites,
pumping Trump's disingenuous false narratives and slander against 
Ted Cruz in an increasingly biased way regarding tone and substance.

One way to make sense of it all might be a long-forgotten story that Buzzfeed and Mediaite put out last August where they had former Brietbart staffers going public with accusations that
the site has been paid by the Trump campaign to ensure positive coverage (and suppression of viable rivals like Ted Cruz) from the get-go:


In a bombshell allegation, three Breitbart staffers have told Buzzfeed they believe their website is being paid by Donald Trump to provide positive coverage for his presidential campaign.

Buzzfeed's McKay Coppins reports that many staffers at the conservative website have privately complained about the website's relentlessly positive coverage of Trump. 'One current editor... said he was told by an executive last year that the company had a financial arrangement with Trump,' Coppins writes. 'A second Breitbart staffer said he had heard a similar description of the site's relationship with the billionaire but didn't know the details; and a third source at the company said he knew of several instances when managers had overruled editors at Trump's behest.'

Coppins also interviewed a 'communications operative' who claims to work closely with Breitbart. He claims the operative had conversations with multiple editors and writers confirming the arrangement, and 'one staffer claimed to have seen documentation of the 'pay for play.'


If that doesn't bother Trump supporters, there's really
something wrong with you... really. But for the rest of us, there's little surprise here.


Drudge has been more subtle about it -and nobody's come out and said anything specifically about him that I could find- however there's no doubt the hyper-influential site has been giving
The Donald a tongue bath while posting every dubious cheap shot/negative implication on Cruz that the ruthless Trump campaign could -apparently- shovel them.


Something sure stinks in the way Brietbart and Drudge have lost their neutrality/conservative-street-cred while collaborating with the left, MSM, and Trump-bots to smear a good man
-Ted Cruz- just to ride Trump's Hitler-esque wave of adoration. Maybe that's because along with NYC values, he brought his big, fat wallet.



TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 1stcanadiansenator; 3dollarbilltedcruz; bias; breitbart; drudge; offtherails; paranoid; tdsandpds; trump
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To: Reaganite Republican

Breitbart is in the business of generating traffic and selling clicks so they have a tendency to sensationalize and generate stories in ways that maximize that. They have to keep people wound up to keep them interested and clicking. I think of them as the HuffPo of the right.

They do have some good reporting at times but other times, their headlines can be misleading. I always keep in mind that BB is first and foremost, a business.


21 posted on 01/19/2016 3:44:10 AM PST by Nickname
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To: Reaganite Republican

Now Teddy’s bears are re-posting unsourced fiction form August.

Desperation.


22 posted on 01/19/2016 3:45:00 AM PST by RightGuy
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To: Yosemitest

As an entrepreneur who operates within the law. You don’t like the laws, work to change them.


23 posted on 01/19/2016 3:45:03 AM PST by JayGalt
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To: USS Alaska

Why the personal attacks?


24 posted on 01/19/2016 3:46:37 AM PST by Nickname
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To: cripplecreek

People say trump is free from strings due to his wealth. From what I’ve seen he has tremendous investments overseas. That equates to big strings since he doesn’t want to lose those investments.


25 posted on 01/19/2016 3:48:49 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Reaganite Republican

Prove it.


26 posted on 01/19/2016 3:50:35 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: Reaganite Republican
Here are some worthless cheap shots! ;-)

Either Ted Cruz is a original-intent Constitutionalist and therefore ineligible to be President or he is a living-document Constitutionalist and eligible to be President. It is one or the other, but it can't be both.

Here is Ted Cruz certificate of birth. It says he was born a Canadian, not an American.



The author of the 14th Amendment says Ted Cruz is not a natural-born citizen.



Winners Aren't Losers or for that matter Cruzers!

27 posted on 01/19/2016 3:51:29 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: JayGalt
Donald EMINENT DOMAIN FOR PRIVATE USE" Trump has been a PROVEN SOCIALIST for years, now !
28 posted on 01/19/2016 3:52:23 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Reaganite Republican

Standard tactic...unnamed sources...nothing new.


29 posted on 01/19/2016 3:53:35 AM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: Reaganite Republican

So, The Donald gets some good coverage and everyone’s panties are in a wad??

Did I get that right?


30 posted on 01/19/2016 3:55:17 AM PST by siamesecats (God closes one door, and opens another, to protect us.)
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To: Reaganite Republican

You people have lost your minds. Everyone’s a lefty now but you all. Drudge and Breitbart are traitors to the cause over a damned primary campaign without a vote cast yet. You’re all going to have to check in to the nervous hospital.


31 posted on 01/19/2016 3:56:59 AM PST by major-pelham
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To: SubMareener
It was Settled in 1790 and AGAIN in 1802!

Also Notice the signature blocks at the bottom of this:



1st United States Congress, 21-26 Senators and 59-65 Representatives


So READ THE LATEST FROM the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the government agency that oversees lawful immigration to the United States. And what's YOUR source, some COMMUNIST COLLEGE PROFESSOR ? READ IT AGAIN, KNOT-HEAD !
32 posted on 01/19/2016 3:57:47 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Yosemitest

WOW! Your typeface IS bigger than mine! ;-)


33 posted on 01/19/2016 4:00:20 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: SubMareener
One thing grandpa taught me is
34 posted on 01/19/2016 4:02:45 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Reaganite Republican

You pinged your own vanity, vanity post? A first?


35 posted on 01/19/2016 4:03:03 AM PST by anton
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To: driftdiver
Hogwash.
36 posted on 01/19/2016 4:05:53 AM PST by TimBest
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To: WVKayaker
Agreed. We are in a battle of survival of western civilisation and this is what comes out?
37 posted on 01/19/2016 4:05:53 AM PST by TimBest
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To: Yosemitest

At 1st they are socialists, but when they realize that doesn’t work they become either communists or fascists, lasting until they are killed off by external forces, or commit suicide by imploding on their excesses and brutality.


38 posted on 01/19/2016 4:07:49 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: SubMareener

You could always escalate with flashing text!


39 posted on 01/19/2016 4:07:51 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: Yosemitest

Really cute! Hey, you may be correct: America may be ready for the One World Order plan Heidi Curz worked on at the CFR and Goldman Sacks! What better way to start that with a Canadian President of the United States of America!


40 posted on 01/19/2016 4:08:26 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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