,1,Newly-revealed court documents have given us a clear picture of how the right wing propaganda network called One America News (OAN) came to be. Apparently AT&T was looking for more conservative programming for DirecTV, so they spent millions of dollars getting OAN off the ground to compete with, what the telecom company claimed, multiple left-wing outlets. This is just more proof that conservative propaganda is a big business, and Farron Cousins explains why that is so dangerous.
Link - https://www.rawstory.com/one-america-news-network/
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Recently released court documents have basically come to explain how the one American news network, which is the right wing propaganda network that is less credible than even Newsmax, how they came to be. Now, if you're like me, you've always wondered, like, how do all of these little, you know, right-wing outlets, these right-wing personalities, they just pop up all the time. You know, I've been doing this for over 17 years. Now. We have seen them come and go constantly, but there is always a steady flow keeping these channels out there. And we've now learned through these court documents that at and T was the one who gave them money to essentially launch the one America news network. 90% of that network's funding today comes from their deals with direct TV to be distributed on that satellite network. That for the record is still hemorrhaging users, but they're the ones paying the money to keep the one America propaganda network in business.
And they're the ones who put the money up and back in 2013 gave millions of dollars for this thing to get started. And here's what the court documents tell us a T and T approached, excuse me, one America. And they said, listen, here on direct TV, which at and T owns, uh, we've got seven, seven liberal networks. Let just one right wing outlet, which is Fox news. And we need more right network. So here's money. Put your stuff together. We're going to carry you on DirecTV. And then of course those carrier contracts going to help keep you operating over the years. And according to the accountant at one America news network in these court documents, the accountant says without that direct TV contract, the network would have $0, nothing, none at and T via direct TV, which they own is keeping that propaganda network alive and also want to call BS on another thing in these court documents at and T says you had seven, seven liberal networks.
What are they? MSNBC free speech TV, which I don't even know that I'd really count MSNBC. That cause that's still a corporate it's network. Free speech. TV is not free. Speech TV is wonderful by the way, but that's that's to, you said you had seven. Hm where's the disconnect? What are these other five? Are you trying to claim CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, and what PBS? Maybe. No, that's not how that works. Those are absolutely not left leaning networks. Not to mention you said you only had one that was Fox news. Now you also had Fox business and you have pretty much half of CNN. This is despicable. A T and T is propping up pure right wing BS, propaganda every day, every day. And the network admitted in these court documents without this corporate funding, they'd be dead. They'd be dead. One American news would not exist without these at T and T contracts. So just want everybody to know if you still have DirecTV, those monthly fees you're paying every month. Part of that, whether you watch it or not is going to prop up right wing propaganda.
,1,The group that leaked the nude video of Madison Cawthorn and helped derail his primary campaign says that they aren't done yet, and their next target is going to be Lauren Boebert. The group claims that they have received some damaging information about Boebert that will be released soon, so get the popcorn ready because this could get really interesting. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.
Link - https://www.businessinsider.com/lauren-boebert-pnext-on-madison-cawthorn-foes-hit-list-2022-5
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Well folks, the group that helped take down Madison Cawthorn in the state of North Carolina, effectively turning him into a lame duck Congressman for the rest of this year, a group called American muckrakers political action committee. Well, they came out the end of this week and they said, you know what? We've got a new target coming up next and it's going to be Colorado representative Lauren Bobert. And in fact, um, David Wheeler, who's the co-founder of this group said this, I think we're gonna engage in that race pretty quickly. He said, he's received quote, interesting information about the Republican fire brand, whose primary against go P state Senator Don quorum is on June 28th. The information is quote, certainly not as salacious as some of the Callthorne stuff. It deals instead with financial matters, he said declining to disclose more details. And is it, and isn't this one of the things we have been talking about here forever, the finances, right?
Cause we know at one point the campaign was paying a dude that was based on his home address, living in shooters bar and grill, but paying him through the campaign. And he was then paying rent to them through all of that. The, the weird shell companies that they were using, Lauren bobber and her husband to pay for things through this, through here, through here to go back over this way. Totally weird stuff. Not even alleging by the way that it's illegal. I'm just saying it's weird. So if American muckraker, if this group that has plenty of Republicans on its advisory board, you know, they're the ones who, by the way, leaked that nude video of Madison coauthor. And if they're able to get their hands on that kind of stuff, just imagine what kind of financial info they have on Lauren Bobert. And like they said, they're gonna engage pretty quickly.
I mean, after all, they've only got about, you know, five weeks or so until that primary, which is about how much time they spent taking down Madison Callthorne. And by God, it worked again for a Republican group. They, they seem to do some pretty quick work and it's pretty effective, a lot more than the Lincoln project ever could have hoped to be. And for the record, David Wheeler, you know, the co-founder of it is in fact the Democrat, but most of the advisory folks are in fact Republicans on this group. That's why I call it a Republican group, but there's a lot to go after Lauren Bobert for, I mean, heck just the things I talked about with the finances, the weird shady stuff, right? The, the billing of the mileage that would've been enough mileage to drive one and a half times around the circumference of the earth during her campaign, she got reimbursed a, a $22,000. So if you do the math, that's the mileage one and a half times around the earth. Uh, don't actually think she drove that far, but you know, whatever there's other investigations
Actually ongoing into some cam campaign finance discrepancies that bobber has. So maybe that's what they've got information on, but let's not also completely discount the past, right? The husband in the bowling alley exposing himself to underage girls and you know, the domestic disputes that resulted in violence, the police had to be called between Lauren and her, then boyfriend now, husband, after the bowling alley incident. There's a lot in this woman's history to go after here. All of which, by the way is fair game. You know, you, you've got some creepy stuff that has happened, you know, personal financial. And I think it's time that the voters of Colorado start actually paying attention to these kinds of things. And that is exactly what this American muckrakers pack is hoping to do within the next five weeks.