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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.
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posted on
01/19/2016 3:44:10 AM PST
by
Nickname
To: Reaganite Republican
Now Teddy’s bears are re-posting unsourced fiction form August.
Desperation.
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posted on
01/19/2016 3:45:00 AM PST
by
RightGuy
To: Yosemitest
As an entrepreneur who operates within the law. You don’t like the laws, work to change them.
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posted on
01/19/2016 3:45:03 AM PST
by
JayGalt
To: USS Alaska
Why the personal attacks?
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posted on
01/19/2016 3:46:37 AM PST
by
Nickname
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.
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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.)
To: Reaganite Republican
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posted on
01/19/2016 3:50:35 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(Falcon 105)
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!
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posted on
01/19/2016 3:51:29 AM PST
by
SubMareener
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To: JayGalt
Donald
EMINENT DOMAIN FOR PRIVATE USE" Trump has been a PROVEN SOCIALIST for years, now !
If he talks like a SOCIALIST,if he acts like a SOCIALIST if he supports OTHER SOCIALISTS, THEN there's NO DOUBT ABOUT HIM !
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posted on
01/19/2016 3:52:23 AM PST
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Reaganite Republican
Standard tactic...unnamed sources...nothing new.
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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.)
To: Reaganite Republican
So, The Donald gets some good coverage and everyone’s panties are in a wad??
Did I get that right?
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posted on
01/19/2016 3:55:17 AM PST
by
siamesecats
(God closes one door, and opens another, to protect us.)
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.
To: SubMareener
It was Settled in 1790 and AGAIN in 1802!
In 1798, the law on naturalization was changed again.
The Federalists feared that many new immigrants favored their political foes, the Democratic-Republicans.
The Federalists, therefore, wanted to reduce the political influence of immigrants.
To do so, the Federalists, who controlled Congress, passed a lawthat required immigrants to wait fourteen years before becoming naturalized citizens and thereby gaining the right to vote.
The 1798 act also barred naturalization for citizens of countries at war with the United States.
At the time, the United States was engaged in an unofficial, undeclared naval war with France.
The French government thought the United States had taken the side of Britain in the ongoing conflict between Britain and France.
A related law passed in 1798, the Alien Enemy Act, gave the president the power during a time of war to arrest or deport any alien thought to be a danger to the government.
After Jefferson became president (in 1801), the 1798 naturalization law was repealed, or overturned (in 1802).
The basic provisions of the original 1790 law WERE RESTORED except for the period of residency before naturalization.The residency requirement, that is, the amount of time the immigrant had to reside, or live, in the United States, was put back to five years, as it had been in 1795.
The 1802 law remained the basic naturalization act until 1906, with two notable exceptions.In 1855, the wives of American citizens were automatically granted citizenship.
In 1870, people of African descent could become naturalized citizens, in line with constitutional amendments passed after the American Civil War (1861-65)that banned slavery and gave African American men the right to vote.
Other laws were passed to limit the number of people (if any) allowed to enter the United States from different countries,especially Asian countries, but these laws did not affect limits on naturalization.
Within a decade of adopting the Constitution, immigration, and naturalization in particular, had become hot political issues.
They have remained political issues for more than two centuries.
Did you know ...
Naturalization laws relate to the process of immigrants becoming a citizen.
Other laws have provided for losing citizenship -- by getting married!
In 1907, Congress passed a law that said a woman born in the United States (and therefore a citizen) would lose her citizenshipif she married an alien (who was therefore not a citizen).
In 1922, two years after women won the right to vote,this provision was repealed and a woman's citizenship status was separated from her husband's.
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 !
Constitutional Topic: Citizenship
... Citizenship is mentioned in
If you're going to be involved in government in the United States, citizenship is a must.
To be a Senator or Representative, you must be a citizen of the United States.
To be President, not only must you be a citizen, but you must also be natural-born.
Aside from participation in government, citizenship is an honor bestowed upon people by the citizenry of the United States when a non-citizen passes the required tests and submits to an oath.
Natural-born citizen
Who is a natural-born citizen?
Who, in other words, is a citizen at birth, such that that person can be a President someday?
The 14th Amendment defines citizenship this way:"All persons born or naturalized in the United States,and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,
are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
But even this does not get specific enough.
As usual, the Constitution provides the framework for the law, but it is the law that fills in the gaps.
The Constitution authorizes the Congress to do create clarifying legislation inalso allows the Congress to create law regarding naturalization,
Currently, Title 8 of the U.S. Code fills in the gaps left by the Constitution.
Section 1401 defines the following as people who are "citizens of the United States at birth:"
- Anyone born inside the United States *
* There is an exception in the law - - the person must be "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States.
This would exempt the child of a diplomat, for example, from this provision.
- Any Indian or Eskimo born in the United States, provided being a citizen of the U.S. does not impair the person's status as a citizen of the tribe
- Any one born outside the United States, both of whose parents are citizens of the U.S., as long as one parent has lived in the U.S.
- Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year and the other parent is a U.S. national
- Any one born in a U.S. possession, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year
- Any one found in the U.S. under the age of five, whose parentage cannot be determined, as long as proof of non-citizenship is not provided by age 21
- Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time)
- A final, historical condition:
a person born before 5/24/1934 of an alien father and a U.S. citizen mother who has lived in the U.S.
Anyone falling into these categories is considered natural-born, and is eligible to run for President or Vice President.
These provisions allow the children of military families to be considered natural-born, for example.
Separate sections handle territories that the United States has acquired over time, such asEach of these sections confer citizenship on persons living in these territories as of a certain date,
and usually confer natural-born status on persons born in those territories after that date.For example, for Puerto Rico, all persons born in Puerto Rico between April 11, 1899, and January 12, 1941, are automatically conferred citizenship as of the date the law was signed by the President (June 27, 1952).
Additionally, all persons born in Puerto Rico on or after January 13, 1941, are natural-born citizens of the United States.Note that because of when the law was passed, for some, the natural-born status was retroactive.
The law contains one other section of historical note, concerning the Panama Canal Zone and the nation of Panama.
In 8 USC 1403, the law states thatanyone born in the Canal Zone or in Panama itself, on or after February 26, 1904, to a mother and/or father who is a United States citizen,
was "declared" to be a United States citizen.Note that the terms "natural-born" or "citizen at birth" are missing from this section.
In 2008, when Arizona Senator John McCain ran for president on the Republican ticket, some theorized thatbecause McCain was born in the Canal Zone,
he was not actually qualified to be president.
However, it should be noted that section 1403 was written to apply to a small group of people to whom section 1401 did not apply.
McCain is a natural-born citizen under 8 USC 1401(c):"a person born outside of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents both of whom are citizens of the United States
and one of whom has had a residence in the United States or one of its outlying possessions, prior to the birth of such person."
Not everyone agrees that this section includes McCain - - but absent a court ruling either way, we must presume citizenship.
U.S. Nationals
A "national" is a person who is considered under the legal protection of a country, while not necessarily a citizen.
National status is generally conferred on persons who lived in places acquired by the U.S. before the date of acquisition.
A person can be a national-at-birth under a similar set of rules for a natural-born citizen.
U.S. nationals must go through the same processes as an immigrant to become a full citizen.
U.S. nationals who become citizens are not considered natural-born.
(Continued
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posted on
01/19/2016 3:57:47 AM PST
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Yosemitest
WOW! Your typeface IS bigger than mine! ;-)
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posted on
01/19/2016 4:00:20 AM PST
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SubMareener
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To: SubMareener
One thing grandpa taught me is
To teach a Jack@$$, FIRST you got to get its ATTENTION !
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posted on
01/19/2016 4:02:45 AM PST
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Reaganite Republican
You pinged your own vanity, vanity post? A first?
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posted on
01/19/2016 4:03:03 AM PST
by
anton
To: driftdiver
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posted on
01/19/2016 4:05:53 AM PST
by
TimBest
To: WVKayaker
Agreed. We are in a battle of survival of western civilisation and this is what comes out?
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posted on
01/19/2016 4:05:53 AM PST
by
TimBest
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.
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posted on
01/19/2016 4:07:49 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: SubMareener
You could always escalate with flashing text!
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posted on
01/19/2016 4:07:51 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(Falcon 105)
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!
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01/19/2016 4:08:26 AM PST
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SubMareener
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