Posted on 04/15/2016 7:41:03 PM PDT by usafa92
(Reality Check 753) Reality Check has already shown how Neutral Conservative News Websites Breitbart and The Daily Wire are actually fronts for the Ted Cruz Campaign. In our article The $25 Million Dollar Trump Take Down we clearly show that the owners of those sites donated over $25 Million Dollars to the Cruz Campaign and then use their websites to promote him. But is Talk Radio also on the take? Reality Check dug into Cruz FEC Filings and discovered the Cruz PACs paid a Talk Radio Insider over $8 Million Dollars, and the endorsements of Glenn Beck, Mark Levin and others quickly came in.
The FCC regulates the nations TV and Radio Stations because the signals they use are owned by the public. This is why you cannot use certain words on the radio, stations must have licenses, keep a public records file and make it available, etc.
One FCC rule is 47 U.S. Code § 317 or the Payola Rule. Simply put, Radio/TV Stations and their employees are not allowed to take money to put content in their programming, mention items, talk about candidates, etc. unless that sponsorship is disclosed.
In other words, if a Talk Show host like Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Hugh Hewitt or others was paid money by a campaign to talk glowingly, defend or endorse a candidate, and not disclose that they were paid on-air to the audience, or the radio stations they are broadcast on, theyd be in violation of the law. The station could lose its license and the host could be jailed and fined.
Politico published an article in December called, Talk Radio Rallies Around Ted Cruz highlighting Glenn Beck, Mark Levin and Erick Erickson, amongst others as hosts defending Cruz and bashing Donald Trump (to Cruzs benefit).
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Breitbart? They’ve been all pro-Trump all the time.
There’s not a smoking gun here per se, but the trail of money follows the usual suspects.
That can be played a number of ways:
http://thefederalist.com/2015/07/28/how-close-was-donald-trump-to-the-mob/
Hey nate, I keep hearing the Cruz folks repeat that line, “there is no evidence whatsoever here”.
Just like the good old days with the Clinton dynasty.
It’s Breitbart that’s reckless and restless. Beck is one sick mother also. Beck needs to go back to Kolob and get another white salamander. Get the guy some kneepads.
Koleb in the Book of Abraham, Kobol in Battlestar Gallactica
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well, Beck impresses me as having some very good sounding aspects... but his crying and his incessent propagandizing for his choice of candidate (not commenting on the candidates, only Beck please)
Beck has made his show unlistenable. When he’s not there, his side-kicks run a fairly decent radio program
Ummm, that would be Michael "Savage " Weiner. He supports Trump, along with Democrats Willie Brown and Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown.
Not if you’ve listened to Breitbart Radio on SiriusXM.
Levin or some other radio personality must be guilty of something even though there is no evidence whatsoever showing any guilt because Bill Clinton in another century was guilty of something else.
Cruz won Colorado by design.
In 2016 no one voted
Cruz 34 delegates
COLORADO is for CHEATERS!
In 2012, 66,000 Republicans voted.
Rick Santorum beat Mitt Romney with over 6% of the vote.
Rick got only 6 delegates.
Romney took 28 delegates
Colorados good at cheatin
Most the folks too high to notice.
Populism is the turf of demagogues.
Many you're ethically challenged nate. I didn't say he was guilty in this latest Cruz incident/story/report. I never declared that regarding this story.
Here is what I said below nate.
"Hey nate, I keep hearing the Cruz folks repeat that line, there is no evidence whatsoever here. Just like the good old days with the Clinton dynasty".
In fact nate, here is what I stated in #4 below.
"This may or may not be true, I have no idea, but I never did like Levin or Beck...and a few others....No surprises here".
And you speak of sleaze?
"This may or may not be true, I have no idea, but I never did like Levin or Beck...and a few others....No surprises here".
No surprise here? What surprise could the reader possibly infer except the guilt of Levin or Beck or others?
When dragnet 2 doesn't like you You are declared guilty with double speak which concedes in one breath that it "may not be true" but in the next breath "no surprises here," meaning there can be no surprise because the charges must be true.
BS. Rush is doing nothing like what Beck and Levin are doing.
and Salem Radio/ Salem Media is in the middle of all of this.
This is my surprised face.
“The Trump sleaze oozes onward down another path.”
You just earned a badge of honor in my book :) Nothing like getting the old Colonel fired up.
Admonishments to “follow the money” leads in Levin’s case to a nine year “lifetime” contract and puts the lie to any suggestion that he is getting payola.
WELL, WELL, WELL....
The reader can infer anything they want. I have no control over you or what anyone think. No? But I certainly did not declare anyone "guilty" as you clearly stated. You can read right nate?
Btw, there are clear patterns with Cruz of previously unknown information revealed and other incidents. Of course you'll want me to replay this election for you. You can do that yourself nate. And by the way, I'm not intimidated or impressed by your civil war getup or your wordy speech like comments. Just so we understand each other.
Looks like Roger Stone is at it again.
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