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Vanity: Breitbart and snowflakism
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Posted on 11/20/2022 12:50:00 PM PST by Jhadur

I've been becoming less and less enchanted with the sniveling cowards that have infiltrated Breitbart News over the last year.


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I've been becoming less and less enchanted with the sniveling cowards that have infiltrated Breitbart News over the last year. On topic comments routinely get, "detected as spam," or left as Pending for 3-4 days...you know, until the discussion is over anyway. When I complain to Breitbart, they blow it off as "Disqus policy". When I grouse to Disqus, they say it's Breitbart.

Mind you, my comments aren't being removed for being offensive. Some clearly are, and I'd understand that. Instead, it seems like they're simply delaying the presence so they can hide behind Section 230—"We're not a publisher, we ultimately allowed the comment."—but we all know darn well that they're soft censoring.

Two questions:

1—Has anyone else had the soft censoring?

2—Is Breitbart going flaccid?

1 posted on 11/20/2022 12:50:00 PM PST by Jhadur
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To: Jhadur

I have been curious about their tone lately. Not conservative, and given the name of the organization, quite odd.


2 posted on 11/20/2022 12:52:13 PM PST by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: Jhadur; rlmorel

Breitbart stopped being remotely conservative when Andrew Breitbart died.


3 posted on 11/20/2022 1:16:53 PM PST by nickcarraway
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I agree it became less conservative, but....lately, my perception was that it was FAR less conservative.


4 posted on 11/20/2022 1:18:41 PM PST by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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I got tired of Brietbart when 90% of their “reports” were about a C level celebrity saying something off color about Trump.


5 posted on 11/20/2022 1:20:30 PM PST by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: Jhadur
Yes. I've noticed it too. Breitbart has become squishy.

6 posted on 11/20/2022 1:23:57 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Jhadur

I dropped Breitbart not long after Drudge. (Long ago…)

Almost like Fox News - faux conservatives.

Prefer Epoch Times by far!


7 posted on 11/20/2022 1:27:07 PM PST by datura (Eventually, the Lord and the Truth will win.)
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To: rlmorel

What articles have they put out that were not conservative? I stopped reading them because they seemed very tabloid so I haven’t seen what you’re talking about.


8 posted on 11/20/2022 1:27:43 PM PST by GulliverSwift
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To: escapefromboston

I don’t know why Breitbart reports on that nonsense. So many entertainers and athletes mistakenly believe I care about their opinions, when in reality I’ve got bigger fish to fry.


9 posted on 11/20/2022 1:27:57 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: nickcarraway

I noticed it stopped being “hardcore” after Bannon left.


10 posted on 11/20/2022 1:36:08 PM PST by DMD13
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Even if a celeb agreed with me I wouldn’t really care what they had to say


11 posted on 11/20/2022 1:37:04 PM PST by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: Jhadur

I noticed Breitbart started going squishy around the 2020 election, specifically, in regard to Alex Marlowe’s show on SiriusXM:

They totally deny anything fishy went on with that election and won’t even investigate it. They admit the cheat-by-mail ‘legal cheating’ stuff, but won’t even entertain the idea of anything beyond that.

They are 100% pro-vax and won’t discuss alternatives to that narrative.

And I don’t even think they covered the arrest of Catherine Engelbrecht at all. And considering Alex had her on the show numerous times, I thought that was pretty weird.

Bottom line, I think they’ve been slowly dragged into the same orbit as Drudge, etc. in an effort to maintain a revenue stream and ‘respectability’.


12 posted on 11/20/2022 1:39:47 PM PST by Toad of Toad Hall (time is short and getting shorter)
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To: Jhadur

Yes, I believe that it is someone moderating at Breitbart, not Disqus as I haven’t encountered the behaviors you describe anywhere except Breitbart.


13 posted on 11/20/2022 1:47:10 PM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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I swear, Breitbart must be on the take as they fill space with news and views from third-rate Hollywood types who are about as welcome as a dose of clap.


14 posted on 11/20/2022 1:53:45 PM PST by Bookshelf
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To: GulliverSwift

I don’t visit the site, but read linked articles from FR, and it is a general type of thing.


15 posted on 11/20/2022 1:53:55 PM PST by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: rlmorel

Yes. Noticed the trend towards the New Normal.


16 posted on 11/20/2022 1:54:20 PM PST by griswold3 (There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs. – Thomas Sowell)
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To: Jhadur

Thank you one and all. Nice to know I’m not the only one feeling this way. The Mrs. often tells me I’ve too much tinfoil…so I asked, and see now I don’t—on this.


17 posted on 11/20/2022 2:13:53 PM PST by Jhadur ("You are not ready for immortality.")
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To: nickcarraway

This.


18 posted on 11/20/2022 2:18:01 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Jhadur

Breitbart was a great site with maroon colors. Then Breitbats moved to orange and black colors. That’s when I noticed a decrease in patriotism. Problem: the bright writers who are special and belong to the group “loved by God the most” are very reluctant to support Christian leaders like Trump. Thus, Breitbart is like Fox, the Hill, etc., and boring.


19 posted on 11/20/2022 2:18:33 PM PST by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: Jhadur

See my long standing tagline.


20 posted on 11/20/2022 2:31:19 PM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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