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applegrove

(118,021 posts)
Sat Nov 28, 2020, 10:53 PM Nov 2020

Rich Trump allies want a new 'Fox News' competitor for only one reason: To bleed conservatives dry

Rich Trump allies want a new 'Fox News' competitor for only one reason: To bleed conservatives dry

Nov 28, 2020 9:30pm Eastern Standard Time 

by Hunter, Daily Kos Staff

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/28/1996023/-Rich-Trump-allies-want-a-new-Fox-News-competitor-for-only-one-reason-To-bleed-conservatives-dry

"SNIP.....

For certain, there is an obsession in the far-right with creating the next Fox News. But it's not about patriotism. It's not even about conservatism. It's about good old-fashioned profit. It's about finding the motherlode of American gullibles, people who will buy anything, and selling it to them.

Bleeding. Them. Dry.

That's why Rich Guy Equity Group has been combing the land looking for entry points into the land of Conservative Conspiracy Television. It's not because the man or like-minded allies are just that devoted to Donald Trump. Donald could be eaten by a Florida gator on the back nine next week and the "movement" would no more tap the brakes than they did when famous Important Conservative Herman Cain died of the pandemic illness he and his band of merry grifters had insisted was little more than a conspiracy against them.

In this new version, conservative media is not about ideology. It can't be—not when the ideology shifts from week to week in accordance with whatever new thing must now be held up as enemy. What Newsmax TV or OANN offers is a news "casino" promising mega-jackpots that never appear to audiences primed to empty their pockets.

The new conservative media is about selling a screaming adrenaline rush so cathartic that you need a special pillow afterward to sleep right. It's an expensive pillow, by God, but it's the only one left not infested with "antifa."

You can't put a price on that.


.....SNIP"

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Rich Trump allies want a new 'Fox News' competitor for only one reason: To bleed conservatives dry (Original Post) applegrove Nov 2020 OP
Ah, the joy of grifting! muntrv Nov 2020 #1
These are some of the people i'm sure interested in getting into media. Some of them applegrove Nov 2020 #2
And you can order that pillow from NameAlreadyTaken Nov 2020 #3
see the article "The Long Con"... keep_left Nov 2020 #4
Fleecing the marks keithbvadu2 Nov 2020 #5
Low hanging fruit leads to easy pickings? czarjak Nov 2020 #6

applegrove

(118,021 posts)
2. These are some of the people i'm sure interested in getting into media. Some of them
Sat Nov 28, 2020, 10:59 PM
Nov 2020

just want to influence the gullible politically because it turned out Murdoch had a bottom . But an outrage adrenalin casino is a good description of Fox News too though it has idealogy whose name it dare not speak.

keep_left

(1,750 posts)
4. see the article "The Long Con"...
Sat Nov 28, 2020, 11:24 PM
Nov 2020

...in The Baffler for further details.

[link:https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-long-con|

The article is written by historian Rick Perlstein, who has written a really excellent (and long) series of books (I think there's four now, it used to be a trilogy) on the right wing since Goldwater. "The Long Con" shows just how massive the grift really is. And this is an article from 2012...now we have even more absurd grifting: ONAN...err...OANN, American Greatness Project, etc.

keithbvadu2

(36,369 posts)
5. Fleecing the marks
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 12:24 AM
Nov 2020

Fleecing the marks

Conservative seniors are a valuable asset and target market,

They already believe and trust the big name conservatives...

AND the seniors have the bucks.

The Glenn Beck show was heavily involved with commercials investing in gold but their primary push was
‘collectible’ gold coins, not gold by weight.

The telephone salespeople would discourage you away from gold sold by weight.

… overpriced ‘collectible’ gold coins that were worth way less than what you would pay for them.

Yes, there is money to be made in gold but it is in selling gold to you, not for you who is buying it.

Especially in tv commercials, mail offers, and gold parties.

Con men love church groups to pitch these schemes/scams to.

They are more apt to be more trusting (gullible).

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