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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,304 posts) Tue May 5, 2020, 02:09 PM May 2020

Group aligned with Don Jr. reportedly buying stake in OAN: 'Trump is really aiming to take down Fox'

The redoubtable Gabriel Sherman has another dispatch from the Phantasmagorical Land of Cray-Cray. It seems Fox News is not nearly obsequious enough for Donald John Trump, so he’s itching to cut them off at the very knees they’ve been shamelessly bending for the past five years.

Trump’s view that Fox is insufficiently loyal has motivated him to look for a more reliable media partner. On April 26, he tweeted: “The people who are watching @FoxNews, in record numbers (thank you President Trump), are angry. They want an alternative now. So do I!”

Trump now is on the verge of having that alternative. According to sources, an investor group aligned with his son Don Jr. and the Dallas-based Hicks family has acquired a major stake in One America News Network, the fledgling conservative cable-news channel that features hosts like Jack Posobiec, a chief promoter of the Pizzagate conspiracy. “[RNC co-chair] Tommy Hicks and Don Jr. have been looking to buy a station for Trump TV,” said one source briefed on the talks. “This is all about building a Fox competitor. Trump is really aiming to take down Fox,” the person briefed on the deal told me.

You see, simply everything is fake news — except for that channel that asks Trump tough, probing questions like whether he thinks the term “Chinese food” is racist. Hey, someone has to speak truth to power. That’s exactly the kind of tenacious, unflinching coverage Donald Trump respects.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/4/1942612/-Group-aligned-with-Don-Jr-reportedly-buying-stake-in-OAN-Trump-is-really-aiming-to-take-down-Fox?detail=emaildkre

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Group aligned with Don Jr. reportedly buying stake in OAN: 'Trump is really aiming to take down Fox' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2020 OP

Setting up his post-presidential gig as "chairman of the board". bullwinkle428 May 2020 #1

A Dictator Newest Reality May 2020 #2

I don't know where the they think they're going COLGATE4 May 2020 #3

He will never get the same kind of attention he gets now. CrispyQ May 2020 #4

Go right ahead! Everything tRump touches... Maeve May 2020 #5

+1 crickets May 2020 #9

This should piss Fox off and without Fox's support, Trump is toast. tecelote May 2020 #6

With Someone Else's Money, Of Course ProfessorGAC May 2020 #7

Without Roger Ailes they will be nothing katmondoo May 2020 #8

Trump wants his own propaganda network...nt Wounded Bear May 2020 #10

They can run nightly "Free Donald Trump" stories. Baked Potato May 2020 #11

He just keeps making more enemies. And that is good for us. Those Fox news Maraya1969 May 2020 #12

Wow Windy City Charlie May 2020 #13

Oh goodie...a propaganda war! Totally Tunsie May 2020 #14

Ya know? That's prolly going to piss off Rupert Murdock and the Saudi Royal family that owns 6% of BComplex May 2020 #15

This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar May 2020 #16

Faux Newz must preemptively strike Trump and destroy him NCjack May 2020 #17

bullwinkle428

(20,631 posts)

1. Setting up his post-presidential gig as "chairman of the board".

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2020, 02:10 PM

May 2020

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)

2. A Dictator

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2020, 02:13 PM

May 2020

A dictator does have to have some form of state run media and so, this is to be expected. If he gets another term, he can make it the mandatory news outlet

One America News Network, huh? That's their first big lie. It would be less than a third, if anything. So far, it makes Fux Noise look moderate. It's just Pravda in drag.

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)

3. I don't know where the they think they're going

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Tue May 5, 2020, 02:13 PM

May 2020

to get an audience from. The outright crazies that go to OANN are already theirs. The rest of Faux viewers are habituated and won't willingly leave their leggy blondes and bomb-throwing "anchors". Sounds like a losing business proposition to me - right up Trump's alley.

CrispyQ

(36,540 posts)

4. He will never get the same kind of attention he gets now.

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Tue May 5, 2020, 02:16 PM

May 2020

Maybe he'll be okay with that, but I think he's gonna jones bad. For all his hating on the "fake news" he loves when they show up and ask him "nasty questions" and he can be a dick to them.

My rwnj relatives listen to OAN. The shit they believe is jaw dropping. I'm embarrassed for them that they are so ignorant and gullible.

Maeve

(42,297 posts)

5. Go right ahead! Everything tRump touches...

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2020, 02:17 PM

May 2020

would serve them right

crickets

(25,987 posts)

9. +1

Reply to Maeve (Reply #5)

Tue May 5, 2020, 02:36 PM

May 2020

tecelote

(5,122 posts)

6. This should piss Fox off and without Fox's support, Trump is toast.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2020, 02:21 PM

May 2020

OAN will be another Trump failed business.

ProfessorGAC

(65,248 posts)

7. With Someone Else's Money, Of Course

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2020, 02:24 PM

May 2020

That said, that pissant outfit had a corporate value of <$250million just 3 months ago.
So, it's not a huge financial deal.

katmondoo

(6,457 posts)

8. Without Roger Ailes they will be nothing

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2020, 02:27 PM

May 2020

Saw the series on "the Loudest Voice" on Netflix, Roger was despicable but a genus at fake news he made Fox News. I hate him but also was impressed with what he got away with.

Wounded Bear

(58,743 posts)

10. Trump wants his own propaganda network...nt

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Tue May 5, 2020, 02:38 PM

May 2020

Baked Potato

(7,733 posts)

11. They can run nightly "Free Donald Trump" stories.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2020, 02:41 PM

May 2020

You know, when he’s in prison... 😬

Maraya1969

(22,507 posts)

12. He just keeps making more enemies. And that is good for us. Those Fox news

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2020, 02:47 PM

May 2020

suck ups are going to be sorry, if they aren't already for their lack of journalistic ethics after Trump is gone and if Fox loses more viewers. I remember Megan Kelly's failed attempts.

Windy City Charlie

(1,178 posts)

13. Wow

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Tue May 5, 2020, 02:52 PM

May 2020

Shows out of touch he is. In reality, there shouldn't be a news network in favor of the president, or anti-president.

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)

14. Oh goodie...a propaganda war!

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Tue May 5, 2020, 02:53 PM

May 2020

So if Faux retaliates by dissing Chump at every opportunity, what happens to the Faux loyalist commentators (Ingraham, Carlson, et al)? Do they "adjust" their tone? or do they hightail it on over to OAN?

Honestly, I think it would be hilarious to see all the Fauxers coming out against their former messiah, and - boy - would that chap Chump's ass.

BComplex

(8,073 posts)

15. Ya know? That's prolly going to piss off Rupert Murdock and the Saudi Royal family that owns 6% of

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Tue May 5, 2020, 02:54 PM

May 2020

Fox (6% outright, and probably more through other names & associations). Be careful for what you wish for, mr. trump. You might get it. You've had a free tv campaign ad the whole time from Fox. They can make you, and they can break you.

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NCjack

(10,279 posts)

17. Faux Newz must preemptively strike Trump and destroy him

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2020, 03:31 PM

May 2020

before he gets OAN going against it.

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