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O’Keefe Uncovers Breitbart Election Conspiracy
Evidently uncovering illegal Clinton Campaign electioneering isn’t the only thing Project Veritas new series of videos has uncovered:
A liberal activist and organizer coordinated with reporters from the conservative news site Breitbart during the primaries to cover his disruptions of events for candidates such as Sen. Marco Rubio.
Aaron Black, an associate with Democracy Partners and a former Occupy Wall Street organizer, worked with the pro-Trump site Breitbart, tipping it off about his stunts, exchanging raw video and coordinating coverage, according to a source with direct knowledge of the situation.
Black has resurfaced recently as one of the people featured in undercover video from the Project Veritas group. In the video, he claims to work for the Democratic National Committee. Though he does not appear on their payroll, his bio at Democracy Partners credits him with “working closely with the Democratic National Committee” during the 2012 election cycle. Black in the video says he helped organize protests in Chicago that led to Trump’s cancellation of a rally there in March.
So as we all wait breathlessly for the next expose on Podesta’s emails revealing a liberal media conspiracy, let us not forget that the fine folks over at Breitbart “News” engage in the same underhanded hypocrisy that the rest of the media does.
Published in General
I could be wrong, but I’m going to assume that they all had VERY small rankings prior to Trump, and have thus benefited by using the NeverTrump train to get eyeballs that used to be elsewhere. National Review, on the other hand, was THE premier site for right wingers as a whole, and with the Trump/NeverTrump split, was logically hurt when that movement split in two and the Trump side that used to read NR went elsewhere. Same is happening to Ricochet, in all probability. As Jonah Goldberg put it, in the last few decades America went through the Great Sort, where we lined up as either red or Blue. And now the Right is going through its own Great Sort. Trump was the catalyst, but he really wasn’t the cause. This split has been a long time coming. I’m wondering if Vdare and AmConMag and Takis numbers have increased in the same period as readers left sites like NR and the Weekly Standard.
It really is amazing how much self sabotage we engaged in this year. I find it hard to dismiss it all as “a phenomenon,” so this story doesn’t really surprise me.
You would be wrong – TheFederalist and Heat Street are both top 2,000 US and top 10,000 world in terms of traffic per Alexa.com, the Free Beacon is 2,121 US and 13,329 world.
That seems low, but keep in mind Ricochet.com is 33,698 US and 122,262 world.
Vdare has gained traffic and is 15,883 US/77,305 World; Taki’s Mag is steady (it’s dipped in the last three months) around 14,500 US/40,540 World and American Conservative has gained seen steady growth but has also dipped around July – they’re 7,395 US/27,412 World.
Interestingly that jives with my own view of their respectability.
OK, but were they that high BEFORE Trump? How MUCH have they grown since Trump?
NR and Project Veritas are pretty tight with each other; NR doesn’t just use PV information, it helps fundraise for them and provides them with connections. I was saying that NR wouldn’t work with progressive thugs against candidates they opposed.
One of the chief financial backers for Breitbart is Robert Mercer, who was also one of the chief Cruz backers. Breitbart chose Trump over Cruz, but remained fond of Cruz, providing many fluff pieces and very few critical pieces that were not directly involving Trump.
That sounds like a rule to live by — to make comparisons and decide which is worse. I wish more people could do this.
James thanks for the inside info.
I suppose it’s great fun for you because it’s not your country. (I gather from previous comments by you and others that you are a foreign national. If not, then I fail to see how this banana republic corruption could be “great fun”.)
This is my country and I agree with Titus.
Not only is Titus a foreigner, at this very moment he’s touring this great nation of ours spreading his subversive and degenerate ideas in person! I’m not sure the republic will survive. Obviously our only hope is for a Trump administration to crack down on visas.
As long as he leaves mastercards alone.
They already employ an extreme vetting process.
I always wonder about extreme vetting, it sounds like an animal medicine reality show
These two vets will attempt to fill a cavity in the alligators mouth while in the mudpit….only one walks away…
If you had to live with Romanian like political corruption at all levels of government you would also think American politics are fun.
I thought we past Romanian levels at the end of Obamas first term.
Yeah it can get a lot worse than most Americans can believe. And it just grinds on and on seemingly everyone forever corrupt with no hope of improvement. I am not saying that America is not worse off than it was. The more government control of the economy the more corruption there is and we have growing government control with plenty of arbitrary enforcement. Still even now we are not as bad off as much of Eastern Europe and not even close to the levels of gross corruption that plagues Eurasia. I mean I only spent one full day in Kazakhstan dealing with the government there and Wow was it terrible.
Yes, but in Kazakstan people expect the corruption. And the corruption has some rules.
Here, the progressives seem to have no rules and the population still thinks the FBI is straight and the DOJ is straight and so forth. When you get your IRS audit and they tell you you were picked because the US Attorney you made look bad by your testimony is in the same women’s club as the IRS supervisor, you know it stinks. When they let you know and sit back ad grin knowing you cannot touch them it infuriates you.
Where is @DavidDeeble when you need him. Surely there is a joke here.
Has this happened to you? If not, do you believe that this sort of experience of personal, one to one, taunting from a federal political appointee is widespread enough that those impacted by it constitute a meaningful demographic?
Yes it has happened to me. I have no idea how widespread it is. I know it happening once is enough to keep Hillary out of office.
Did you write about it on the site?
Are you kidding? Hillary might win. If she does, I go into East Germany survival mode and join the Democrat party and make nice regular contributions.
Where I grew up, for a regular fee , one could purchase ‘protection’. Nothing will be any different.
All of that changed rather dramatically in late 2015, just in time to give credence to Trump’s repulsive Birther attacks; Brietbart will forever be dead to me.
Redstate is dead to me, too.