{"id":9222,"date":"2013-03-01T14:22:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T22:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9222"},"modified":"2014-10-05T11:14:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T18:14:33","slug":"right-wingers-think-obama-donor-is-buying-up-gun-related-media-to-shut-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9222","title":{"rendered":"Right-Wingers Think Obama Donor Is Buying Up Gun-Related Media To Shut It Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

FERCHRISSAKES!!!<\/strong> I just can’t take it anymore.<\/p>\n

There have been a plethora of utterly insane notions floated by cretins on the right that make no rational sense whatsoever. They range from non-existent “death panels,”<\/em> to FEMA concentration camps, to Kenyan-born presidents, and those are the least deranged among them. Recently the Tea-publicans were aghast at a ridiculous claim<\/a> that the Department of Homeland Security was stockpiling munitions in preparation to wipe out large swaths of the American population. Seriously, they really believe that.<\/p>\n

But now they are venturing further afield into territory that is unexplored by even the most severely hallucinatory meth freaks. An article published on Fox Nation cries “Obama Donor Buying Up and ‘Destroying’ America’s Top Pro-gun Media Outlets.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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The article is a re-posting from the Daily Caller web site which is run by Fox News contributor Tucker Carlson. It was written by Patrick Howley, someone they identify as an “Investigative Reporter,”<\/em> despite his history as a violent right-wing activist who admitted to infiltrating OccupyDC<\/a> for the purpose of undermining it. Howley asserts in his opening paragraph that…<\/p>\n

“Employees of Obama donor Leo Hindery Jr.\u2019s media conglomerate Intermedia Partners, which now owns most of the top gun-culture media outlets in the country, believe that Hindery plans to gut and destroy all of them.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What a perfectly devious plot. Hindery is an investor with more than thirty years in the media business. He has been a significant figure in sports programming, cable television, telecommunications, and other properties that have made him one of America’s wealthiest businessmen. Yet the paranoia-racked brains of conservative dimwits think that he is plotting to “consolidate all of the major pro-Second Amendment media titles in this country, strip them down, and destroy them.”<\/em> For some reason they think that Hindery has suddenly cast off his mantle of capitalist media baron and is willing to lose millions of dollars in a scheme to deprive magazine readers of titles like “Shooting Times”<\/em> and “Gun Dog.”<\/em> That’ll show the NRA. And he and Obama will have a good laugh.<\/p>\n

The evidence presented by Howley consists mainly of testimony from anonymous employees who are afraid they are about to be laid off. Imagine that – there are magazines and media companies that are struggling in these digital times and may have to downsize or close. Who knew? Howley also cites the reduction in work at a Minnesota studio that he describes as a “beautiful”<\/em> facility that had “60 employees, a massive studio, at least nine editing bays and fully-wired machine rooms and was conducting about four studio shoots per year.”<\/em> Pardon me but, it doesn’t seem like four shoots a year is enough to sustain the studio he just described.<\/p>\n

The weakness of the arguments in the article are almost irrelevant when considering that the premise is so bonkers to begin with. This is nothing more than an investment company pulling together assets and then seeking ways to mitigate expenses through operational mergers. There may be a case to be made that such consolidation negatively impacts employees and public choice, but that’s not a case that Republicans ever seem to be concerned about. In fact, they generally defend and celebrate such monopolistic corporate behavior as the workings of the glorious free market. There is nothing here, however, that any sane observer could claim is a plot to deliberately destroy these businesses in league with the Obama administration as an assault on the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n

It is just astonishing that people will put stories like this out and expect to have any credibility. They are cognitively numb and running on the fumes of conspiracy theories and delusional psychoses. Their audience must be on feeding tubes waiting for someone to declare them legally brain-dead and pull the plug. And when their businesses fail I’m sure they will have an explanation at hand that blames it all on Obama, George Soros, and eco-terrorists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FERCHRISSAKES!!! I just can’t take it anymore. There have been a plethora of utterly insane notions floated by cretins on the right that make no rational sense whatsoever. They range from non-existent “death panels,” to FEMA concentration camps, to Kenyan-born presidents, and those are the least deranged among them. 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