Newsmax, a cable news channel premised on the idea that Fox News is for liberals, is making a big play for Trump fans angry about his projected loss.
Making money, regardless of the effect on the country is the motivation here.
Just to continue the point here, it's obvious that Biden and Harris being projected as winners by multiple sources is obviously the biggest news of the moment right now.
But if you read right-wing websites, you get a completely different reality. Here is Daily Wire:
Here is Townhall talking about Trump lawsuits instead of him losing:
And here we have The Federalist spouting irrelevant and unfounded rumors about Philly voting:
Here's Breitbart trying a passive-aggressive social distancing swipe about street celebrations after "media declares election victory"
The Washington Times did the right thing though. Kudos to the editors there:
Here's The Gateway Pundit, a conspiracy blog that is shockingly popular among conservatives. Its coverage is making it seem like Trump is going to win the counting:
Here's InfoWars, a formerly fringe website that has become a conservative powerhouse, denouncing "MSM falsely claims Biden victory"
Here's WorldNetDaily literally proclaiming that Biden has "lost"
Daily Caller emphasizing media angle as others did. Oddly, Biden pic is one of him taking off a surgical mask, a seeming implication that COVID is over now that Trump's done.
Washington Examiner goes for the media angle also but does have an editorial slamming Trump for not being presidential
And just to clarify, these screenshots were from the websites' homepages as of the tweets' timestamps. The pics were not from internal articles.
Joe Biden's first speech since his unofficial victory struck lots of the correct notes. We need unity and healing but it must be done correctly to work. Here's the link to the video and transcript if you missed it: npr.org/sections/live-…
The most important step in healing is to understand that the Trump/GOP coalition is not monolithic. And also, he should understand that the GOP elite does not act in good faith. Their goal is to do nothing.
Mitch McConnell figured out years ago that Americans don't support conservative economic or governmental views.
So instead of trying to pass laws to make that happen, his goal was to stop laws and use courts to push his agenda. I wrote about this in 2018 salon.com/2018/02/07/mit…
As a former conservative activist and journalist, it has been so frustrating to see my former compatriots spreading wild and unchecked claims about "voter fraud." @jacknicas of the NYT took a deep look at claims of "dead" people in Michigan voting. Link in next tweet.
While examining claims made by right-wing activists who are not credible individuals is a thankless task which elite media editors despise, this is vital and important work in this age of fake news. Here's the link: nytimes.com/2020/11/06/tec…
As the co-creator of NewsBusters, the most prominent anti-media website, I was part of a decades-long tradition of complaining about media elites being "unfair" to conservative views. There is still much to that argument, but eventually I saw that I was missing context.
Biden still has the advantage after #Election2020 but it's very clear that pollsters & modelers like Nate Silver badly messed up likely voter models.
I tried pitching publications on this topic but editors love group think and were too afraid. Here's some of what happened:
Firstly, a huge number of mailed ballots are never returned by voters. Estimates put it between 10 to 20 percent. Likely voter models should have removed some of these people, the plurality of whom were Democrats.
The Trump campaign began boasting about this in mid October but not one MSM or liberal outlet ever responded to this boasting. breitbart.com/politics/2020/…
Among Biden voters, controlling the spread of COVID-19 is "very important" to 93% and the top issue. Among Trump voters, 59% said it's "very important." Controlling Covid was the #7 issue for Trump supporters.
Whoops. Forgot the percentage on the last Biden priority:
The vast majority (75%) of Trump voters say their choice was in favor of him instead of in opposition to Joe Biden (22%). Among Biden voters, 54% said they were mostly pro-Biden while 44% said they were mostly anti-Trump. #ExitPolls
This interview Rudy Giuliani did with a conservative Daily Caller reporter about his alleged Hunter Biden story is so shady. Let me count the ways. 1) He says the Mac repair store owner kept "forged copies" of the computer hard drive
2) He gets visibly agitated when the reporter, Christian Datoc, asks him about metadata. "This is pettifogging nonsense" Giuliani replies. He then accuses Datoc of acting like one of those evil libruls:
3) Giuliani then very clearly demonstrates that he does not know that making an imaged copy of a disk would not modify its files. He claims the metadata in NY Post stories is screwy because of image copying, not because the Post generated the images it presented
A little known fact about Scott Atlas, Trump's top COVID adviser, is that besides having no credentials in public health or epidemiology, he works for a creationist think tank.
The group, called the Hoover Institution, is located on the campus of Stanford University. Besides spreading conservative economics, it has been churning out convoluted anti-evolution nonsense for years.
Here's a Hoover page featuring Atlas discussing Obamacare that further downward touts a discussion about the supposed "mathematical challenges" of macroevolutionary theory. hoover.org/publications/d…