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Dan Bongino Blames Staff After HUMILIATING HIMSELF on Fox News!!! (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2022 OP
Dan Bongino and the Big Business of Returning Trump to Power--profile..... riversedge Feb 2022 #1

riversedge

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1. Dan Bongino and the Big Business of Returning Trump to Power--profile.....
Tue Feb 8, 2022, 11:02 PM
Feb 2022

I had heard of him--only as a Hate radio host. So I looked him up. What a hateful man!!--and fills the minds of others with HATE!!








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Profiles
January 3 & 10, 2022 Issue
Dan Bongino and the Big Business of Returning Trump to Power
The Secret Service agent turned radio host is furious at liberals—so he’s trying to build a right-wing media infrastructure in time for 2024.





By Evan Osnos
December 27, 2021
Dan Bongino speaks into a microphone and reaches toward the viewer as he sits in front of a U.S. flag.
Bongino’s combative style has made him a star of talk radio, where he occupies the time slot once held by Rush Limbaugh.Illustration by Zohar Lazar

Listen to this story

Dan Bongino, one of America’s most popular conservative commentators, lives in the seaside city of Stuart, Florida, less than an hour from Mar-a-Lago, where his friend Donald Trump bridles against a forced retirement.
Every weekday from noon to three—the coveted time slot once held by the late Rush Limbaugh—“The Dan Bongino Show” goes live across the United States, beginning with an announcer’s voice over the sound of hard-rock guitars: “From the N.Y.P.D. to the Secret Service to behind the microphone, taking the fight to the radical left and the putrid swamp.”

One day this fall, minutes before Bongino went on the air, he learned of an unfolding drama that offered prime material: in New York, a live interview with Vice-President Kamala Harris had been disrupted because two hosts of “The View” tested positive for breakthrough cases of COVID-19. Bongino, who rails against vaccine mandates and calls masks “face diapers,” announced to his audience, “None of those seem to work on ‘The View.’ ” But, he said pointedly, he wasn’t gloating—“unlike insane leftists, who wish death on me and everyone else from COVID, because they’re legitimately crazy satanic demon people.”

Bongino draws an estimated 8.5 million radio listeners a week,
making him the fourth most listened to host in America, ahead of Mark Levin, Glenn Beck, and other big names, according to Talkers magazine, which covers the industry. Though he came to broadcasting only after three unsuccessful runs for Congress, he now commands a Fox News program on Saturday nights, a podcast that has ranked No. 1 on iTunes, and a Web site that repackages stories into some of the most highly trafficked items on social media. In recent months, according to Facebook data, his page has attracted more engagement than those of the Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal combined....................................


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.........................No one in American media has profited more from the Trump era and its aftermath than Bongino. Since 2015, he has gone from hosting a fledgling podcast in his basement to addressing audiences of millions.
Pete Hegseth, a fellow Fox News host who served in the National Guard, told me, “I carried a rifle in the military, and now I get to serve in information warfare.” Bongino, he added, “is one of our generals.” This vision of cultural combat is prominent in Trumpworld. Alex Jones, who named his conspiratorial media brand Infowars, uses the motto “There’s a war on for your mind!”



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