Posted on 03/15/2020 12:52:37 PM PDT by Mount Athos
While Bernie virtue signals about not having a PAC or taking money from billionaires, a big chunk of his media operation is financed by Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, and the richest man in Hawaii.
Omidyar pledged $250 million to First Look Media. FLM’s signature project is The Intercept.
Its stories about Bernie Sanders are universally gushing, but its stories about the other candidates are undisguised hit pieces, passed off as journalistic investigations that are recirculated by the media. That includes recent stories about Bloomberg’s plagiarized campaign material and prison labor.
Journalists follow a story where it goes. Opposition researchers are out to help a particular campaign win by damaging their opponents.
Pierre Omidyar is also a major donor to Soros’ Open Society Foundation.
At a time when digital media is running out of money, The Intercept is awash in the stuff while being extremely unprofitable. With only $156,857 in revenues, Greenwald was making over half-a-million a year. Nearly $10 million was spent on salaries in one year.
These are not normal numbers in journalism, but they are for influence operations.
Greenwald was recently charged with cybercrimes in Brazil for allegedly coordinating with hackers to undermine an investigation into the corruption by the country’s former left-wing government. The Intercept has made use of stolen emails and messages to target political opponents, including Elliott Broidy, the former RNC finance chair and Trump ally, whose emails were hacked by Qatari agents.
The Qatari connection is not incidental. The Intercept acts as a mouthpiece for the wealthy terror state.
The Intercept's Qatari stories read like straightforward regime propaganda.
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Opposition research against Biden is useless if Sanders won’t use it in a debate. Or in ads.
Marx had his Engels!
Come November, the Limousine LIEberals and their Stuck on Stupid DUmocrats will meet the Trump Train!
Some times I think the biggest mistake we ever made that helped build a socialist country was to lower taxes of the very wealthy. The more we lower it the more left the wealthy become and the more feckless the country club Republicans become. Since they seem to be in charges so many of our institutions and if they want socialism so bad then obviously their taxes are to low!
Communists lie all the time.
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