Seems Breitbart (and Drudge?) Being Paid BIG Bucks for Glowing Trump Coverage

Reaganite Republican ^ | 19 January 2016 | Reaganite Republican

[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.

[Reaganite Republican]

***PING***

[driftdiver]

A good percentage of people are sheep. They simply follow the crowd and do what they’re told.

[samtheman]

If that doesnt bother Trump supporters, theres really something wrong with you... really.

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If unsupported allegations arent enough to make us recognize the Cruz Divinity, then what good are we?

[WVKayaker]

Sad, really sad! It seems you have been busy! But, Trump will still be our next President!

[FrankR]

Major networks and newspapers everywhere pumping Hillary and Bernie and this bunch is wadded up over two websites.

They never say a lot about the incestual relationship between the current administration and the MSM.

[InterceptPoint]

I miss this guy. Apparently Breitbart does as well.

[N. Theknow]

How else to explain it

Perhaps Trump appeals to them the same way he appeals to thousands of people who stand in long lines to hear him speak.

Contrast his crowds and the demographics thereof against the hundreds who want hear Cruz or the tens who want to hear Jeb.

We've heard this "buying the election" meme many times before when someone's popularity cannot be explained. "I don't know anyone who voted for him" "He's playing Santa and giving away free stuff to buy votes" are just a couple of examples.

Telling people what they want to hear. Explains a lot.

[eartick]

Pay to Play is gooood but PACs are BAD

OK, I think I got it now.

[Tzfat]

Hmm, could that be how Free Republic has devolved into the French Republic?

[Yosemitest]

SOCIALISTS supporting SOCIALIST;

where's the surprise in THAT ?

[Yosemitest]

Definition: Socialism is a political term applied to an economic system in which property is held in common and not individually, and relationships are governed by a political hierarchy.
Common ownership doesn't mean decisions are made collectively, however.
Instead, individuals in positions of authority make decisions in the name of the collective group.
Regardless of the picture painted of socialism by its proponents, it ultimately removes group decision making in favor of the choices of one all-important individual.

Socialism originally involved the replacement of private property with a market exchange, but history has proven this ineffective.
Socialism cannot prevent people from competing for what is scarce.
Socialism as we know it today, most commonly refers to "market socialism,"
which involves individual market exchanges organized by collective planning.

People often confuse "socialism" with the concept of "communism."
While the two ideologies share much in common -- in in fact communism encompasses socialism -- the primary difference between the two is that "socialism" applies to economic systems,
whereas "communism" applies to both economic and political systems.

Another difference between socialism and communism is that communists directly oppose the concept of capitalism, an economic system in which production is controlled by private interests.
Socialists, on the other hand, believe socialism can exist within a capitalist society.

Pronunciation: soeshoolizim

Also Known As: Bolshevism, Fabianism, Leninism, Maoism, Marxism, collective ownership, collectivism, communism, state ownerhsip

Alternate Spellings: none

Common Misspellings: none

Examples: "Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality.
But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."
-- French historian and political theorist Alexis de Tocqueville

"As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents."
-- author George Orwell

So how would YOU define someone who LOVES and USES "EMINENT DOMAIN" to acquire property to build his Hotels ?


Let us remember ...

"You Americans are so gullible.
No, you won’t accept Communism outright.
But we will keep feeding you small doses of socialism
until you finally wake up and realize you already have communism.
We won’t have to fight you;
we’ll so weaken your economy
that you will fall like over ripe fruit into our hands. "


Nikita Kruschev, Former Soviet Premier

[BigEdLB]

New conspiracy theory; first, Truther (9/11 was an inside job), Birther (Obama not born Hawaii, but in Kenya), and now Trumper (Trump buying off media)...

Frankly I believe Obama was born in Hawaii, but Frank Marshall Davis is his real father... So maybe I am not innocent... But my point stands...

[iontheball]

Rumor mongers. Making up excuses when nothing else makes sense to satisfy their twisted reasoning.

[cripplecreek]

A lot of Alinskyite image manipulation going on.

Trump's rabbit hole probably doesn't have an Iowa victory waiting at the bottom

With two weeks to go until the Iowa Caucuses, Trump sent out this plea over the weekend via Facebook: "Everyone needs to get out to their caucus sites on February 1, 2016 & VOTE TRUMP! Never been before? Have questions? Watch this brief video on the entire process and you will be ready to go on Monday, February 1st! Thank you for all of your support! TOGETHER, WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

More than 3,200 people have replied to that message in less than two days. Impressive, right? Not so fast.

After reviewing 1,000 of those messages, Trump's support in Iowa is clear as mud. Only 51 respondents were readily identifiable as residents of Iowa. Among the rest were residents of other countries, people who either enjoyed mocking Trump or were supporters of Cruz or Bernie Sanders, and several folks (yikes) who wondered if their state would be caucusing on the same day as Iowa.

[ObamahatesPACoal]

Its about traffic.

Why would they report on anyone but the most searched candidate every.

[TheStickman]

I believe this story is nonsense.

[Hot Tabasco]

...and yesterday your crap was straight from the mouth of your highly trusted attorney friend who was personally screwed by Trump.

[andrewinhd]

If I wanted an oligarchy I’d move to Ruussia

[USS Alaska]

I'm a Cruzer but you are low life, bottom feeding, scumbag sucker. You print more un-sourced bullshit, innuendo than any other dirt bag blog pimp that darkens FR.

Just stay on your own pitiful blog and imply crap all day long. Loser.