Newsmax getting dropped by Directv - GOP Angry

[bilby]

"I know almost nothing about it, therefore nor does anyone, therefore I demand that everyone must conclude that both sides are exactly as bad as each other" - Every right wing propaganda apologist ever.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Conservatives do have a general point.

Mainstream media does not give much air time to conservative issues. Controlling spending. Fiscal responsibility.

Last time I check, none of the Cables News networks spends much time on actual issues. MSNBC is liberal talkers, Fox News are far right talkers, CNN is useless talkers.

The liberal agenda dominates the media for sure.

What is that agenda again? And what do you mean by "media"?

Most consecutive issues are framed as racists.

No.

I used to listen tp both conservative and progressive radio. Buy gold commercials appeared on both. Fr every Rush Limbaugh there was a progressive counterpart.

Not remotely true regarding 1 to 1, maybe 20 to 1. But yes, radio political commentary is just as needless as Cable News political commentary. Why I listen to NPR.

I never watched or listened to Newsmax, but I think there is plenty of craziness on both sides.

Moore-Coulter... I mean literally.

 

[TomC]

Mainstream media does not give much air time to conservative issues. Controlling spending. Fiscal responsibility.

Those may be conservative issues, but they haven't been part of the Republican party's platform for decades.

Once upon a time those were conservative issues. By the Bush II administration that shit was gone.

The Republicans replaced "tax and spend liberalism" with "borrow and spend conservatism". The facts are out there and easily available.

Under Clinton, the federal debt and deficit were shrinking. Under Bush II, both exploded. Under Obama, they started shrinking again. Under Trump they started going up...

I'm conservative in many ways, including fiscal responsibility. That's a part of the reason I can no longer vote for any Republicans.

Tom

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Conservatives do have a general point.

Mainstream media does not give much air time to conservative issues. Controlling spending. Fiscal responsibility.

Political correctness, Illegal immigrants became undocumented immigrants . When Sharpton wnet to work on MSNBC he said he wold never criticize Obama, bias.

The liberal agenda dominates the media for sure.

Most consecutive issues are framed as racists.

I used to listen tp both conservative and progressive radio. Buy gold commercials appeared on both. Fr every Rush Limbaugh there was a progressive counterpart.

One progressive radio figure got suspended because of his repeated calling conservatives Nazis.


I never watched or listened to Newsmax, but I think there is plenty of craziness on both sides.

There is no balance anywhere in the media.

There ain't no progressive talk radio down here in Houston. Except NPR fm it is all right winged garbage. Lush Rimjob often called Joe Biden a communist. Hanity and others label Democrats as Socialists. Not much good conservative ideas to be had from assholes like these. And it is getting lots of people sued by Dominion and Smartmatic and others.

 

[Elixir]

Mainstream media does not give much air time to conservative issues.

There are no "conservative issues". It's all Hunter's Laptop, vengeance-banning Dems from Committees and the like, 24/7.
Why should any serious media outlet pay any attention at all to the current crop of Republican criminals* masquerading as "conservatives"?

*Nearly every one of them is guilty of aiding and abetting an insurrection

 

[Patooka]

Conservatives do have a general point.

Mainstream media does not give much air time to conservative issues. Controlling spending. Fiscal responsibility.

Political correctness, Illegal immigrants became undocumented immigrants . When Sharpton wnet to work on MSNBC he said he wold never criticize Obama, bias.

The liberal agenda dominates the media for sure.

Most consecutive issues are framed as racists.

I used to listen tp both conservative and progressive radio. Buy gold commercials appeared on both. Fr every Rush Limbaugh there was a progressive counterpart.

One progressive radio figure got suspended because of his repeated calling conservatives Nazis.


I never watched or listened to Newsmax, but I think there is plenty of craziness on both sides.

There is no balance anywhere in the media.

This is without a doubt the most amount of Moore-Coulter I've seen crammed into a single post.

 

[Elixir]

This is without a doubt the most amount of Moore-Coulter I've seen crammed into a single post

Yeah, and with a “both sides” bonus.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

So the GOP wants to eliminate the IRS and income tax and have a 30% sales tax on everything. Slash SS. Medicare et al. And on and on with crazed ideas that stand no chance of passing in the Senate or not getting vetoed by Biden. What then is the point of all of this madness? Average Americans will hate all of this. Do these morons think these ideas will be so popular that by offering such garbage they will take the presidency, House and Senate? Has the GOP reached peak Idiocracy?

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

One thing that is interesting is how this corporate stuff is often being re-framed by conservatives as counter to the free speech rights of individuals, i.e. there is actually a left philosophy that airwaves are public and private corporations can only use these with certain stipulations, like to keep diversity of ideas going. From the op article:

"Congress intends to conduct extensive oversight on the extent to which House Democrats and officials in federal offices colluded with private companies to limit, restrict, and circumvent First Amendment rights."

This is similar to how they talk about Big Tech canceling individuals on their platforms and there ought not be rules.

It's interesting to me that the modern QOP is adopting a left philosophy suddenly when it's convenient to make false claims or whatever it everyone just accepts it, like it was always there.

 

[Oleg]

One thing that is interesting is how this corporate stuff is often being re-framed by conservatives as counter to the free speech rights of individuals, i.e. there is actually a left philosophy that airwaves are public and private corporations can only use these with certain stipulations, like to keep diversity of ideas going. From the op article:

"Congress intends to conduct extensive oversight on the extent to which House Democrats and officials in federal offices colluded with private companies to limit, restrict, and circumvent First Amendment rights."

This is similar to how they talk about Big Tech canceling individuals on their platforms and there ought not be rules.

It's interesting to me that the modern QOP is adopting a left philosophy suddenly when it's convenient to make false claims or whatever it everyone just accepts it, like it was always there.

Um, this is a response to the Twitter files. Government agencies and even a Congress member - in particular Adam Schiff - coordinated with Twitter to remove accounts the government or Schiff did not like. Not only is that a violation of the first amendment, it's the very definition of fascism.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

One thing that is interesting is how this corporate stuff is often being re-framed by conservatives as counter to the free speech rights of individuals, i.e. there is actually a left philosophy that airwaves are public and private corporations can only use these with certain stipulations, like to keep diversity of ideas going. From the op article:

"Congress intends to conduct extensive oversight on the extent to which House Democrats and officials in federal offices colluded with private companies to limit, restrict, and circumvent First Amendment rights."

This is similar to how they talk about Big Tech canceling individuals on their platforms and there ought not be rules.

It's interesting to me that the modern QOP is adopting a left philosophy suddenly when it's convenient to make false claims or whatever it everyone just accepts it, like it was always there.

Um, this is a response to the Twitter files. Government agencies and even a Congress member - in particular Adam Schiff - coordinated with Twitter to remove accounts the government or Schiff did not like. Not only is that a violation of the first amendment, it's the very definition of fascism.

Yeah, it isn't remotely that simple. I get so tired of needing to argue against stuff that isn't remotely honest.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Just because Adam Schiff didn't like them? Or was it because of incitements to violence, anti-vax disinformation and other very sound reasons? Inflammatory garbage from the likes of Steve Bannon and other extremists maybe?

 

[Elixir]

One thing that is interesting is how this corporate stuff is often being re-framed by conservatives as counter to the free speech rights of individuals, i.e. there is actually a left philosophy that airwaves are public and private corporations can only use these with certain stipulations, like to keep diversity of ideas going. From the op article:

"Congress intends to conduct extensive oversight on the extent to which House Democrats and officials in federal offices colluded with private companies to limit, restrict, and circumvent First Amendment rights."

This is similar to how they talk about Big Tech canceling individuals on their platforms and there ought not be rules.

It's interesting to me that the modern QOP is adopting a left philosophy suddenly when it's convenient to make false claims or whatever it everyone just accepts it, like it was always there.

Um, this is a response to the Twitter files. Government agencies and even a Congress member - in particular Adam Schiff - coordinated with Twitter to remove accounts the government or Schiff did not like. Not only is that a violation of the first amendment, it's the very definition of fascism.

Yeah, it isn't remotely that simple. I get so tired of needing to argue against stuff that isn't remotely honest.

Funny how readily the Regressives conclude unevidenced coordination between Schiff and Twitter, while simultaneously harboring* doubt about Trump’s well evidenced coordination with the bloody murdering despot now committing genocide in Ukraine.

*pretending to harbor

 

[Patooka]

Um, this is a response to the Twitter files. Government agencies and even a Congress member - in particular Adam Schiff - coordinated with Twitter to remove accounts the government or Schiff did not like. Not only is that a violation of the first amendment, it's the very definition of fascism.

The so called Twitter Files were a gish gallop of innuendo and implication. Not a single fucking fact was revealed in those dumps apart from Twitter actually did take down some dick pics. No wonder you've got a rage boner over them.

 

[Oleg]

One thing that is interesting is how this corporate stuff is often being re-framed by conservatives as counter to the free speech rights of individuals, i.e. there is actually a left philosophy that airwaves are public and private corporations can only use these with certain stipulations, like to keep diversity of ideas going. From the op article:

"Congress intends to conduct extensive oversight on the extent to which House Democrats and officials in federal offices colluded with private companies to limit, restrict, and circumvent First Amendment rights."

This is similar to how they talk about Big Tech canceling individuals on their platforms and there ought not be rules.

It's interesting to me that the modern QOP is adopting a left philosophy suddenly when it's convenient to make false claims or whatever it everyone just accepts it, like it was always there.

Um, this is a response to the Twitter files. Government agencies and even a Congress member - in particular Adam Schiff - coordinated with Twitter to remove accounts the government or Schiff did not like. Not only is that a violation of the first amendment, it's the very definition of fascism.

Yeah, it isn't remotely that simple. I get so tired of needing to argue against stuff that isn't remotely honest.

You need to expand beyond MSNBC, Jimmy.

US Rep. Adam Schiff repeatedly asked Twitter to remove critical tweets: Twitter Files

Schiff continuously hounded Twitter to remove posts criticizing Biden, Democratic staff - Anadolu Agency

www.aa.com.tr

 

[Patooka]

You need to expand beyond MSNBC, Jimmy.

Did you read the article you posted? The accusation that Schiff tried to censor Twitter came from Taibbi himself. He didn't provide any proof, any corroborating testimony, he just implied it. Didn't even provide details on what was censored. You know, like any responsible journalist does.

There were nine dumps of the weak sauce bullshit and by the end of it, even RVonse wasn't reporting on it anymore.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

That email seems totally legit. I mean, whenever I'm emailing people who are contacts somewhere I call them contacts to their faces. Then I sign just my first name. This reminds me of the other day when I was contacting IBM for a business deal.

Yo IBM homies,

Are we still making the dealio for a cool $1M?


Fred
Random Hedge Fund

Also, if you look at the leadership of FBI San Francisco, you can see there is no one named Fred:

Leadership​

Special Agent in Charge
Robert K. Tripp
Deputy Special Agent in Charge
Timothy Stone
Assistant Special Agents in Charge

• Jonathan Blair
• Elvis Chan
• Dan Costin
• Jeff Fields
• Agustin Lopez
• Paul Zambelli

...which only goes to show, he HAS TO BE a part of the Deep State. So Deep, his name appears nowhere. And obviously an individual with so much power deserves extrapolations into conspiracies like "The FBI AT A FEDERAL LEVEL IS COLLUDING WITH DEMONRATS!!!11!"

And what the heck were these poor innocent conservatives doing anyway? I just checked out joahnathan1wade and his account is still suspended, even under Elon Musk who brought FREEDOM AND JUSTICE back to Big Tech. So, how could it be that joahnathan1wade is still suspended????

Maybe the spelling Nazis came after him for spelling his name wrong?

Finally, are these people even conservatives? fromMA is a Democrat and others are unknown.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Conservatives do have a general point.

Mainstream media does not give much air time to conservative issues. Controlling spending. Fiscal responsibility.

No--those are no longer conservative issues. Conservatives talk about fiscal responsibility and controlling spending but that's just a cover for tax cuts for the rich. They do not practice fiscal responsibility, why should the press talk about what doesn't happen?

Most consecutive issues are framed as racists.

They tend to be these days.

I used to listen tp both conservative and progressive radio. Buy gold commercials appeared on both. Fr every Rush Limbaugh there was a progressive counterpart.

One progressive radio figure got suspended because of his repeated calling conservatives Nazis.


I never watched or listened to Newsmax, but I think there is plenty of craziness on both sides.

There is no balance anywhere in the media.

Progressive radio simply didn't have the audience. Radio is mostly for drive time and for those working in jobs that don't require much thought so they can actually listen to the radio. Drive time radio has often been replaced with podcasts/audio books.

You can tell a lot about something by looking at the ads. Buy gold ads aren't aimed at the educated!

 

[ZiprHead]

The GOP’s nightmare is over: Newsmax and DirecTV strike a deal

The GOP's long national nightmare has come to an end: A conservative cable network will once again be included a prominent content provider's lineup.

www.msnbc.com

The long national nightmare for the Republican Party has come to an unexpected end: A conservative cable network will once again be included in the lineup of a prominent content provider. CNBC reported:

DirecTV said Wednesday it reached a deal with Newsmax Media to once again carry the right wing network in its satellite-TV and streaming packages. DirecTV had not carried Newsmax on its services since late January, when carriage negotiations broke down between the two companies. Newsmax had earlier alleged at the core of the dispute was “political discrimination,” with some politicians getting involved along the way, while DirecTV said it came down to economic differences.

At this point, it’s not altogether clear how the two companies resolved their differences — the terms of the deal weren’t disclosed — but the relevant players are saying nice things about one another.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Newsmax should probably be called an _ultra_ conservative network.