Damn straight it is!
Posted on 02/22/2025 2:40:05 PM PST by Beave Meister
Jim McCarthy is a 57-year-old public-relations boss known for being unusually combative with the press. As the head of the boutique firm CounterPoint Strategies, which has offices in New York and Washington, D.C., he is a spokesperson for big seafood (he helped “the shrimp industry to go hard at the AP just a few weeks ago”) and big vape (“my poor little vaping guys,” as he describes the industry to me, referring to its alleged persecution by the FDA). He speaks in a mannered drawl in keeping with his role as the flack who represented Augusta National Golf Club in its fight to refuse female members, and he has long seen negative media coverage of his clients as part of a conspiracy among the government, activist groups, and journalists. “The collusion and the coziness is as strong as can be,” he says. “And, of course, they all share the same ideological outlook.”
McCarthy is now part of an army of consultants, lawyers, and think-tank apparatchiks swarming over Donald Trump’s Washington to both advance their respective interests and give the administration a helping hand. For McCarthy, Trump’s apparent willingness to weaponize vast troves of government data is a watershed moment. “One of my colleagues likened it to the end of the Soviet Union, when academics had access to the KGB files,” he says. “We want to get in there and dive through it and zero in on the important stuff before that window closes.”
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Stupid headline. It is exactly the opposite of the truth.
Exactly...
Turnabout is fair play, oh liberal POS.
It’s a dubious source.
nothing wrong with the media
that competition wont cure
left has had a monopoly for too long
Not the legacy media.
They’re still buried up the libtards backside.
” ... Damn straight it is! ... “
Thanks for that reminder.
Not a pleasant picture.
Elon gets to post on X whenever he wants which is great - no media filter.
“...Trump’s apparent willingness to weaponize vast troves of government data”
You made me choke.
Not exactly. Some media is just greedy, will say or print whatever to get their paycheck. Whatever way the wind of fortune blows. Plenty of people in this world like that.
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