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Matthew Sheffield

16 Nov, 12 tweets, 5 min read

One of the most little-known facts about the conservative media is that there's a lot of crossover w/ media outlets that cater to racists & extremists.

Ben Shapiro provided the best example of this when he bashed "Jews in Hollywood" on a white nationalist podcast

According to Shapiro, "secular Jews" are waging a "war on Christianity"

Shapiro also told his host, racist activist Lana Lokteff, that Jewish media executives were trying to "destroy the foundations of American society" by including more minority characters in films.

washingtonmonthly.com/2019/11/22/the…

Another example of this principle at work has been the Trump White House's repeated granting of coveted event press credentials to an openly anti Semitic Christian broadcaster named Rick Wiles rightwingwatch.org/post/virulent-…

The Daily Caller is perhaps the greatest example of how integrated the allegedly mainstream right is with the racist and anti-Semitic right.

One of its editors was moonlighting for white nationalist Richard Spencer: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

The organizer for the two infamous Unite the Right fascist rallies wrote a number of articles on racist events he personally organized mediamatters.org/blog/2017/08/1…

The Caller also employed a racist former stripper to make viral videos before her views were exposed salon.com/2017/11/10/dai…

The religious right outlet "The Federalist" also has a long and troubling record of publishing racists and bigots. salon.com/2017/12/01/roy…

While mainstream organizations have been wise enough to stop platforming Breitbart after its embrace of racism became widely known, the sad reality is that Shapiro's Daily Wire, the Caller, and the Federalist get tons of free publicity from Facebook and TV debate shows

@EyesOnTheRight

I can't leave off WorldNetDaily in this thread. It's known mostly for pushing the racist "birther" conspiracy theory but it also employed several prominent racists. Here's the story of one whose alias was "Paul Kersey" via @EyesOnTheRight angrywhitemen.org/2020/02/03/hid…

@hannahgais

And another, as reported by @hannahgais splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020…

@Alyssafarah

Most people aren't aware that @Alyssafarah, the Trump White House communications director, is the daughter of WND founder Joseph Farah. Have any WH reporters asked her about all this racism in the family business?

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The next few weeks will be historic in this country. You will remember them.

Plenty of people at Fox News are doing the right thing. But the far right wants Trump to go "full fash" and fulfill their decades-long fantasy.

For a number of years now, right wing donors and media figures have been begging Trump to become a dictator. And not just random nobodies.

RW elites have been coming to the opinion that capitalism must be saved from democracy.

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Matthew Sheffield

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8 Nov

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.

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Matthew Sheffield

@mattsheffield

7 Nov

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:

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Matthew Sheffield

@mattsheffield

7 Nov

@jacknicas

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.

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Matthew Sheffield

@mattsheffield

4 Nov

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/…

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Matthew Sheffield

@mattsheffield

4 Nov

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.

#ExitPolls issue data

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

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