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Conservatives Are Mastering the Media War

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 1/6/2024 12:53:00 AM

The mainstream media has been at war with conservatives for as long as I have been alive, but for most of that time, they have been in such a dominant position that they were able to be relatively subtle about their disgust with the deplorables. Before the proliferation of cable channels and the narrowcasting that developed, the media had to pretend to play it down the middle. Would it play in Peoria? was the standard by which they calibrated their pitch. By the Bush years, that standard was breaking down; by 2016, it was out the window. During the Trump years, the media began to let their freak flag fly,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: SkyKing1222 1/6/2024 1:08:28 AM (No. 1630487)
What is the universal psychological issue that writer’s have about Trump? They can’t say anything good about the man, without qualifying it with some weird snarky observation. For crying out loud, they put his kid’s photo on the cover of Time Magazine with “Traitor “ written underneath. I believe, under these circumstances, Trump has handled himself better than anyone in history could have.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Lawsy0 1/6/2024 2:08:33 AM (No. 1630499)
What a nice birthday present from Hot Air! Hating the media was almost too easy, but if it's only politics how could anyone hate a man who only wanted to have us recall America's greatness? The Lord knows how we all miss our charming Lucianne!
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Reply 3 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 1/6/2024 6:37:28 AM (No. 1630569)
"Conservatives Are Mastering the Media War" So what? The issue isn't that Conservatives are in a debate with media and that is all this is about. Sure it's nice to embarrass the media but, in the end, they don't matter. For the most part, media people are stupid and arrogant. Polls show that no one trusts media anyway. Beating them up means little. Only other media people think winning the media war "in a certain way" matters. The real battle is against entrenched elements in government and non government organizations that are determined to destroy this country. They are attacking Trump BECAUSE he was successful in fighting them and that these subversive groups are terrified of Americans uncovering them and casting them out. Trump has been tested and succeeded. No other Conservative candidate has those credentials and while some of them are promising, none of them have been tested to the level Trump has been. A Conservative president will need to be made of Tungsten, the strongest metal on earth, to do what is necessary. I am not convinced the other Conservatives have what it takes. I am not not worried about a Conservative beating the stupid media. We need a President to take on the structure of our bureaucracy and world elements that hate us.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: homefry 1/6/2024 7:47:56 AM (No. 1630603)
We can only "HOPE." I have said for decades that the media gives the dim-0 party a huge advantage in elections.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Sorosisbehindit 1/6/2024 8:01:38 AM (No. 1630620)
I think back to the years when there was 30 minutes of news each evening on only three channels. Now I don't listen to any of the 24 hour news stations. I catch important interviews like Tuckers with links provided. I read news on Lucianne, Gateway, Great Awakening, and Citizen Free Press. And I look forward to the occasional hilarious Intellectual Frog Legs video.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: VietVet68 1/6/2024 9:16:51 AM (No. 1630691)
This is great in theory but the field of journalism is probably 95% lefties and the schools of journalism turn out more every day. Once in a while one of them sees the light but for the most part they are enemies of the people spinning, selectively omitting and, when necessary, outright lying to the public about conservatives/ism. With what I perceive to be a deficit of critical thinking ability among the public the main stream media still have the edge.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: The Remnants 1/6/2024 9:37:08 AM (No. 1630705)
The Media want people who watch and read their product to be dumb as posts, and their aim in life is to keep them dumb as posts; never to inform. They often lie without blinking an eye (I've seen news clips on other shows.). Unfortunately for them, time marches on and now we have all kinds of alternatives to watch and read. I can remember when my children were little and I could not wait until a particular day when I got my copy of Newsweek in the mail. Now, I never buy a weekly news magazine. Some things change for the better.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Kate318 1/6/2024 10:16:53 AM (No. 1630734)
David, it is “conservatives” like you that enable the non-stop Trump persecution. Yours is a GOPe approach to how to “play the game.” I’ll take the sledgehammer over the apple any day of the week and twice on Sunday. All these mythical voters who can’t take “Trump’s insults” are the bane of the Republican Party, who wastes time and money chasing these pearl clutchers. In case you haven’t noticed, the political landscape has changed and the firmly committed far outnumber the squishy middle-of-the-roaders. Every weapon in our arsenal must be used, apples AND sledgehammers.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Zigrid 1/6/2024 11:17:09 AM (No. 1630802)
Well... thank God for Newsmax...it's the only station WE can trust...and they do a fine job...especially Dershowitz and Victor Hanson...I also like Rick Grennel a lot...he knows what's going on.....
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Reply 10 - Posted by: PrayerWarrior 1/6/2024 12:01:06 PM (No. 1630833)
With "friends" like this who needs enemies...
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Reply 11 - Posted by: NotaBene 1/6/2024 12:21:08 PM (No. 1630855)
I get much of my news from Bannon War Room on Rumble.
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