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Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy – the RINO leadership in 2014
with Mark Zuckerberg
About that meeting between Facebook’s
Mark Zuckerberg and concerned conservatives, via Breitbart Big Journalism:
Facebook CEO
Mark Zuckerberg met with a range of establishment conservatives in Silicon
Valley on Wednesday to discuss the reported suppression of conservative
content.
There were
reportedly 16 attendees at the meeting, which included:
Glenn Beck,
founder of the The Blaze
Barry Bennett,
an adviser to Donald Trump
Jim DeMint,
former GOP Senator from South Carolina [now at Heritage Foundation]
Robert Bluey,
editor in chief of the The Daily Signal
Dana Perino,
host at Fox News
Alex Skatell,
founder of the Independent Journal Review
Mary Katharine
Ham, Hot Air Editor at Large
S.E. Cupp, CNN
political commentator
Jenny Beth
Martin, CEO of the Tea Party Patriots
Brent Bozell,
President of Media Research Center
Zac Moffatt,
part of Mitt Romney’s campaign
Arthur Brooks,
American Entreprise Institute
Representatives
from Breitbart were asked to attend but
declined the invitation, as did American
Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp.
While Breitbart is not entirely free
of bias itself (see here and here), its report today expressed a viewpoint that, if indeed embraced by Breitbart, that most conservatives would share.
We do not want,
nor do we need, Facebook’s corporate “validation.” We understand algorithms.
Our social media team works relentlessly each day using state of the art
analytics to monitor and leverage Facebook traffic. We strive for excellence,
and we do not need Facebook’s condescension.
Here’s what we
and our tens of millions of readers are interested in:
An interview
between Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos and Mark Zuckerberg on the
topic of free speech and Facebook’s suppression of conservative media. Milo
will interview Zuckerberg anytime, anywhere—and we’ll agree to have it
broadcast on your live video platform.
Facebook to
immediately cease its active suppression of conservative media, as extensively
reported by Gizmodo, The Guardian, and myriad other news outlets.
Indeed, Facebook’s Trending News chief, Tom Stocky, is
a maximum political donor to Hillary Clinton. So there’s no need to
“discuss” anything. Facebook did it, Facebook got caught, and it must end.
Bottom line: be
interviewed by Milo and stop screwing conservatives.
Free speech is
not for sale, and neither are we.
But look at some of the names on the
list of “Vichy” conservatives who DID meet with Zuckerberg. I now expect names
like Bozell, Beck, and Perino on the list. But it is more than a bit alarming
to this Tea Party patriot (small case “p” for patriot is deliberate) that
Jenny Beth Martin is on the list. She is not keeping good company these days. And
why is she now listed as the “CEO” of Tea Party Patriots, originally organized
as a grassroots bottom-up loose organization of disparate Tea Party groups
across the country. Cleveland Tea Party does not answer to a CEO. From a philosophical
standpoint, we are closer to the Breitbart position quoted above.
This meeting was all about damage
control. Once again Sundance exposes the charade.
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