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TomCADem

(17,390 posts)
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 03:23 PM Feb 2021

Daily Beast - OAN Declares War on Newsmax for 'Censoring' MyPillow Guy

There is no actual battle for the Republican party. In the end, they all know that their base of power is predicated mainly white resentment that is funded by billionaires. Billionaires fund the campaigns of racists who in turn sell out constituents with tax cuts for the billionaires.

The real battle is to be the dominant propaganda platform that will be funded by these corporate sponsors. While there is just one Republican party, Fox no long has a monopoly on racism. And the best way to distinguish yourself is go even more crazy and racist.

I predict that the main goal for OAN and Newsmax is to force Newscorp to buy them out so that there is once again one unified propaganda outlet to keep Republicans in line for right wing billionaires.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/oan-declares-war-on-newsmax-for-censoring-mypillow-guy/ar-BB1doEPS?li=BB141NW3

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has found himself in the middle of the latest right-wing media battle for MAGA viewership.

In a cynical attempt to hamstring one of its main competitors, fringe cable channel One America News this week accused fellow pro-Trump outlet Newsmax of “being swept up by leftist censorship” after Newsmax anchor Bob Sellers stormed out of an interview when Lindell wouldn’t stop peddling voter fraud conspiracies.

The pillow mogul, who helped bankroll futile pro-Trump lawsuits to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory, has been the face of a dead-ender movement still holding onto the “Big Lie” that the election was “stolen” from former President Donald Trump. A week after the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection, he even visited Trump at the White House to sell Trump on another round of unproven election conspiracies, only to be sent packing by lawyers.

In a segment that first aired on OAN on Wednesday, host Jenn Pellegrino first noted that Lindell is “one of the latest targets” of “Big Tech oligarchs halting the flow of information to benefit their agendas.” Last month, the pillow salesman was permanently banned from Twitter for repeatedly violating the social-media platform’s policy of spreading election disinformation.
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