It's ba-a-ack! Hillary's 'vast right-wing conspiracy'Now campaign claiming conservative media don't have 'right to exist'
2 PsOS
Hillary
Clinton lashed out at the new phenomena of Internet-driven, alternative
media in 1998 when the Drudge Report introduced the world to Monica
Lewinsky.
She
blamed a “vast right-wing conspiracy” for the scandal before evidence
emerged that led to her husband’s impeachment and his infamous
explanation, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”
It’s
a grudge she’s apparently never been able to leave behind, as her
campaign’s fundraising email blast this week demonstrates.
In
the dispatch, Christina Reynolds, wrote: “We’ve had a conservative
media in this country for a while. I don’t always like what they have to
say, but I respect their role and their right to exist.”
However, that “right to exist” apparently doesn’t include all conservative media.
“Breitbart
is something different,” Reynolds wrote. “They make Fox News look like a
Democratic Party pamphlet. They’re a different breed altogether – not
just conservative but radical, bigoted, anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic
conspiracy peddlers who never have been and never should be anywhere
near the levers of power in this country.”
The
email came immediately after GOP nominee Donald Trump named Steve
Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News and a former investment
banker, to the post of chief executive of his campaign.
The Daily Caller reported Reynolds confirmed that one of the goals of Clinton’s campaign is to “ensure Breitbart is destroyed.”
A
pioneer of Internet news in the 1990s, WND cofounder and CEO Joseph
Farah recalled that Hillary Clinton has been at odds with the new media
since the beginning.
“Hillary
Clinton has a long history of intimidation against the alternative
media – which simply means those in the press she can’t control,” Farah
said.
“I
have a lot of experience with this going back more than 20 years,” he
explained. “I was targeted by her as one of the founding fathers of the
alternative media going back more than two decades. I was a victim of a
politically motivated IRS audit back then. And I was the journalist who
exposed the broad pattern of the Clinton administration’s use of the IRS
as its political attack dog.”
Farah
said that what Hillary Clinton is doing now “is just what the Clintons
have always done – smear, attack, intimidate, bully, shakedown, punish –
without any regard for the First Amendment and their constitutional
limitations on power.’
“God forbid the American people give the Clintons another chance after what that wrought on liberty in the 1990s,” he said.
NBC News described the attack on Breitbart as “Clinton’s ‘Right-Wing Conspiracy’ Comes Full Circle With Trump Shake Up.”
The
network said the Clintons “have long maintained that a ‘vast right-wing
conspiracy’ is out to get them” and believe “conservative media
outlets, and the donors and political operatives behind them, are
responsible for creating what Bill Clinton called a ‘cartoon’ version of
his wife: A corrupt, venal, bloodstained – and now sickly – strawman
that bares (sic) little resemblance to reality.”
Hillary
Clinton trotted out the “conspiracy” claims again only a few months
ago, telling a New Hampshire audience it was alive and well although,
“At this point it’s probably not correct to say it’s a conspiracy
because it’s out in the open,” NBC reported.
Breitbart opened the throttle on
the issue when the Clinton campaign comments appeared, noting that
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook had referred to the site as a
“so-called news site.”
He even, according to Breitbart, quoted thediscredited Southern Poverty Law Center’s blast at Breitbart in his diatribe.
The
Clinton campaign’s Reynolds’ said of Breitbart: “It goes without saying
that we have to beat these people. But I want to beat them so
decisively that their kind never rises again.”
The campaign also claimed Breitbart was a “fringe website.”
In a statement, Breitbart News CEO Larry Solov and Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow responded.
“Today,
the Hillary Clinton campaign has decided to name-call and character
assassinate Breitbart News Network and its 31+ million monthly readers,”
they wrote. “They say that we are ‘anti-Semitic,’ though our company
was founded by Jews, is largely staffed by Jews, and has an entire
section (Breitbart Jerusalem) dedicated to reporting on and defending
the Jewish state of Israel.
“They
call us ‘racist,’ even though her husband’s law enforcement policies
led to mass incarceration of blacks. And they call us ‘conspiracy
theorists,’ even though Clinton herself was the original ‘birther!’ Yet,
according to her team, it’s Breitbart News that is ‘divisive.’
“Fending
off charges of hatred and bigotry is nothing new for those who oppose
the political and media establishment, but Hillary Clinton is cheapening
the meaning of these once-powerful words – and she believes the
American people are too stupid to see what she is doing. No wonder only
11% find her honest and trustworthy.”
WND reported only two years ago on
the release of the dossiers the Clinton White House kept on its media
enemies, including “The Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce,”
originally some 331 pages.
It was reduced to only 28 pages in the sanitized and heavily redacted version posted by the presidential library.
“The
Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce refers to the mode of
communication employed by the right wing to convey their fringe stories
into legitimate subjects of coverage by the mainstream media,” explained
the report. “This is how the stream works: Well-funded right wing think
tanks and individuals underwrite conservative newsletters and
newspapers such as the Western Journalism Center, the American Spectator
and the Pittsburgh Tribune Review. Next, the stories are reprinted on
the Internet where they are bounced into the mainstream media through
one of two ways: 1) the story will be picked up by the British tabloids
and covered as a major story, from which the American right-of-center
mainstream media, (i.e. the Wall Street Journal, Washington Times and
New York Post) will then pick the story up; or 2) The story will be
bounced directly from the Internet to the right-of-center mainstream
American media. After the mainstream right-of-center media covers the
story, congressional committees will look into the story. After Congress
looks into the story, the story now has the legitimacy to be covered by
the remainder of the American mainstream press as a ‘real’ story.”
The
records reveal how the Clinton administration tried to prevent
so-called “mainstream media” from picking up such stories. That effort
came in several parts:
“It’s quite an amazing story,” said Farah at the time the document was released.
In
the 1990s, Farah ran the Western Journalism Center, which was audited
after the White House sent the IRS a letter from a constituent calling
for an investigation.
“It
may all have a familiar ring to the tea-party groups of the 21st
century. Clinton got away with it, so it was bound to happen again – and
it most assuredly has,” Farah said.
The
Clinton document stated: “The Internet has become one of the major and
most dynamic modes of communication. The Internet can link people,
groups and organizations together instantly. Moreover, it allows an
extraordinary amount of unregulated data and information to be located
in one area and available to all. The right wing has seized upon the
Internet as a means of communicating its ideas to people. Moreover,
evidence exists that Republican staffers surf the Internet, interacting
with extremists in order to exchange ideas and information.”
Four
of the 28 pages in the redacted report focused on Farah, his history
running daily newspapers, his religious views and his investigations
into official corruption.
Farah noted the concern expressed in the report about “unregulated data.”
“That’s
Hillary, right there,” he said of the report. “I wouldn’t be surprised
if she wrote that section herself. A few years later she deplored the
fact that the Internet lacks ‘any kind of editing function or
gatekeeping function.'”
Laura J Alcorn
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Sunday, August 21, 2016
TO HILLARY 'A RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY' EXISTS WHEN TRUTH IS BEING TOLD!
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