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Media Matters Founder David Brock Vows to Create a ‘Breitbart of the Left’
mediaite.com ^ | 12/6/16 | Alex Griswold

Posted on 12/07/2016 4:49:43 PM PST by ColdOne

Clinton ally and liberal Super PAC operator David Brock told reporters Tuesday that he plans to create a new outlet designed to serve as a counterpoint to alt-right website Breitbart.

Brock purchased liberal website BlueNationReview in 2015, rebranding it in 2016 as “ShareBlue.” ShareBlue, he said Tuesday, would be the “Breitbart of the left…” so long as the financial contributions kept pouring.

Brock also confirmed earlier reports that he plan to shift the focus of Media Matters for America away from Fox News and more towards attacking the alt-right and fake news. “A lot of

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Air America.....how did that work out for ya?
1 posted on 12/07/2016 4:49:43 PM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

Let’s see if Kellogg’s advertises there.


2 posted on 12/07/2016 4:50:59 PM PST by Artemis Webb (Ted Kennedy burns in hell.)
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To: ColdOne

That was the first thing I thought of as well. And they double down on what the USA rejected, once more.


3 posted on 12/07/2016 4:51:27 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: ColdOne

Hey Brock, you idiot!

We already have tons of that. It’s called “the media”.


4 posted on 12/07/2016 4:51:32 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: ColdOne

I thought they already had one: it is called the entire MSM (CNN, NYT, WashPost, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, etc...)


5 posted on 12/07/2016 4:51:41 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: ColdOne

Sounds like a Fake News press release.


6 posted on 12/07/2016 4:51:43 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: ColdOne

Bit redundant, pal, we call it the MSM.


7 posted on 12/07/2016 4:51:51 PM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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To: ColdOne
so long as the financial contributions kept pouring.

They don't usually admit the true motivation so quickly.

8 posted on 12/07/2016 4:52:05 PM PST by lafroste (Look at my profile page. Thanks.)
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To: ColdOne

air america went tits up. PMSNBC is going tits up. this will go tits up as well.


9 posted on 12/07/2016 4:52:15 PM PST by JohnBrowdie
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To: ColdOne

Oh, no! Somebody save my baby! /s


10 posted on 12/07/2016 4:52:39 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: ColdOne

I guess ABCNBCCBSCNNMSNBC and all of the nations major newspapers just aren’t enough cheerleaders and liars for the left to “get their message out”

Not to mention Pravda USA sites like Huffpo, Slate, and The Nation.


11 posted on 12/07/2016 4:53:29 PM PST by digger48
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To: ColdOne

Probably will just be a money laundering operation of some sort


12 posted on 12/07/2016 4:54:08 PM PST by uncitizen (Boycotts Work! #DumpKelloggs)
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To: ColdOne

There are already about 50 of them that already exist today. I guess there will be 51 now?


13 posted on 12/07/2016 4:55:13 PM PST by bigtoona (Make America Great Again! America First!)
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To: ColdOne

um.. it’s called MSNBC


14 posted on 12/07/2016 4:55:35 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: ColdOne

It’s called CNN


15 posted on 12/07/2016 4:56:50 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: ColdOne

Knock yourself out...


16 posted on 12/07/2016 4:57:01 PM PST by Gulf War One
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“...A counterpoint to alt-right website Breitbart.”

Fail. Breitbart has Jewish writers and Christian commenters. Anything lacking both religious influences is doomed to fail.


17 posted on 12/07/2016 4:57:26 PM PST by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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To: ColdOne

You already have SEVERAL you nitwit


18 posted on 12/07/2016 4:58:06 PM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: ColdOne

Breibart of the Left?

Just link stories from the MSM.

There you go!


19 posted on 12/07/2016 4:58:07 PM PST by Jayster
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20 posted on 12/07/2016 4:59:12 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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