Posted on 02/28/2016 1:58:10 AM PST by vikingrinn
"We already knew the aspect of Fox News via Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes, Sean Hannity and Bill OReilly meeting with Chuck Schumer, Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio capturing promises to deliver favorable opinion for immigration reform. Outlined HERE We also knew, and wrote about how Fox Executives manipulated program content (including the blacklisting of amnesty critics) to support the collective agenda.
However, we did not know how far the scope of the influence was extended, nor did we know Rush Limbaugh was a direct participant willing to defraud his audience. We also did not know that Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin were lobbied to participate.
How would we know? How would anyone know? They never told their audience.
None of the aforementioned pundits ever disclosed the nature or content of the lobbying, nor their own independent determination whether to go along with the agenda, or remain willfully blind thereby benefitting it in omission.
In hindsight we can only accept their willingness to remain silent, as affirmation of their willful blindness to the overall agenda.
However, now we do know, many things make a lot more sense about how reactionary all the conservative pundits were when candidate Donald Trump announced his immigration platform to include a border wall, deportation and strict enforcement of immigration law. Now we know why most pundits reacted with such disdain.
Their opposition, heck, their knee jerk attacks upon Trump for proposing immigration enforcement, seemed stunning in June/July 2015; but now takes on an entirely new light."
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
Exactly. Why even give the guy a thread.
no matter our overall thoughts of rush, because if there wasn’t some merit to the nyt, tct, etc., story, rush would’ve “killed the messenger” as opposed to express - not once, but at least twice - wonderance at exactly who from the “confidential” meetings did the leaking...
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