The War on Conservative Media


Liberals enjoy a near monopoly in the television media.  They control the cable news networks of MSNBC and CNN as well as the three major news networks (ABC, CBS and NBC).  Fox News is the one cable news channel that still gives conservatives a voice.  It’s no wonder liberals are so hell-bent on shutting it down. 

 

The liberals claimed a huge victory earlier this year after they forced the ouster of Bill O’Reilly from Fox News.  O’Reilly had hosted his enormously popular TV program “The O’Reilly Factor” for more than two decades.  Left wing activists successfully convinced some of his advertisers to jump ship after a New York Times article reported of his multi-million dollar settlements with women who accused him of sexual harassment or verbal abuse.  The network decided to pull the plug while O’Reilly was on vacation; renaming the show “The Factor” and removing all references to O’Reilly. The last episode of “The Factor”, hosted by Greg Gutfeld, aired on April 21. The “smear merchants” had finally taken out the king of cable news.    

 

After they successfully had “The Factor” taken off the air, the left-wing smear merchants quickly moved onto their next target: Sean Hannity, who has worked at the network since its 1996 founding.  As an unapologetic supporter of President Trump, Sean Hannity truly makes the far left’s blood boil.  Soon enough, Hannity was faced with sexual assault allegations; which he quickly denied.  The far-left website Media Matters quickly compiled a list of Hannity’s advertisers, some of whom stopped advertising for his show as a result of the pressure. After outcry from some of Hannity’s fans, USAA decided to resume running advertisements during Hannity’s show.

 

 

In the wake of the first set of allegations, Hannity invited Melanie Morgan and Brian Maloney of the Media Equality Project on his show. You can check out their website here.   The Media Equality Project aims to fight back against the attempts of the left to silence conservative media and while giving the left a taste of its own medicine by going after the sponsors of left-wing cable TV news shows that promote left-wing propaganda and conspiracy theories.  The right has finally decided to start using the tactics of the left against them, and they can’t stand it.  The founders of the Media Equality Project have promised to shut down their operation as soon as the left stops trying to silence conservative voices.  Considering the relentlessness of the left, the folks at the Media Equality Project will have their hands full for quite some time.   

 

Two months after their first attempts failed, liberals have resumed their efforts to take out Hannity.  They now argue that he must be silenced because he has promoted the theory that slain DNC staffer Seth Rich was taken out by Democratic operatives because of his connections to Wikileaks.  Hannity has not reported on the story since May. A lawsuit filed by former Fox News Contributor Rod Wheeler alleges that he was used to legitimate the theory that Rich was killed in retaliation for providing DNC e-mails to Wikileaks.  The Democratic Coalition, the group behind the latest attempts to force the cancellation of “Hannity” has created their own website, firehannity.org.  They openly admit that they want Hannity to face the same fate as O’Reilly.    

 

The left does not care if the allegations used to ruin the reputations of those they despise turn out to be false.  To the left, the ends always justify the means.  Remember what happened when Harry Reid, former leader of the Senate Democrats, was confronted for misleading the American public by saying that 2012 Republican Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney did not pay his taxes.  Reid responded by saying “Romney didn’t win, did he?”  Reid sees himself as a national hero for preventing a Romney presidency.       

 

The efforts to silence conservative media go beyond Fox News.  Popular political commentator Lauren Southern had her Patreon account shut down because she was “raising funds in order to take part in activities that are likely to cause the loss of life.”  The “enlightened ones” in Silicon Valley were apparently unhappy with her support for the “Defend Europe” mission, which aims to expose the collaboration of nongovernmental organizations and human smugglers in bringing illegal immigrants to Europe.    The entrepreneurial and humorous Ms. Southern responded by creating her own website called Patreon Sucks; which allows her loyal followers to financially support her the same way they used to on Patreon.  Liberals apparently fail to realize that the people that they work so hard to take down have enough supporters that they are able to survive financially without the backing of a major corporation.

 

While he no longer works at Fox News Channel, Bill O’Reilly still provides pay-per-view commentary on his website, billoreilly.com.  Sorry liberals, Mr. O’Reilly shows no signs of sailing off into the sunset anytime soon.  Liberals can keep going after Fox News personalities all they want, but in Fox News’s absence, a new network will take its place.  New networks like One America News Network and Newsmax are beginning to pop up in more and more media markets.  The rise of the internet has allowed for the creation of online media platforms such as The Rebel and The Blaze.  Liberals will not be able to silence conservative media without playing a lengthy game of whack-a-mole.                          

 

Unlike liberals, who demand the axing of everyone they don’t like, I simply choose not to watch the left-wing TV shows that I feel spread dishonest propaganda like wildfire.  Liberals’ actions fly in the face of their rhetoric, which promotes “tolerance”, “inclusion”, and “open-mindedness.” Apparently, those virtues need not be applied towards conservatives.

 

The smear merchants show no signs of slowing down their efforts to sabotage conservative media figures.  With Soros and friends pumping in millions of dollars to help them, why should they?  After years of letting liberals walk all over them, conservatives are finally willing to stand up for their First Amendment rights, as demonstrated by their participation in the “Battle of Berkeley.” Liberals have won many battles in their war on conservative media, but the war isn’t over yet.          

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