Apples and oranges are different, a tactic in rhetoric is to compare distinct items and issues and pretend they are the same. Comparing PBS or NPR to Breitbart for instance is absurd. But for the shallow thinker it works.
Why though are Americans so easily led by 'dark money' sites? The Mercers use their money to control the conversation and right wing Americans follow like puppies. What happened to thinking in America? Breitbart is funded by the Mercers. Pay attention people they are playing you. Take notice only of who got the tax relief or who wanted to kill healthcare or who wants to kill Medicare. Hint, it's not NPR or PBS.
'Robert Mercer invested offshore dark money to sink Clinton. He must be delighted'
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...aradise-papers
'Bias: Extreme Right, Propaganda, Conspiracy, Failed Fact Checks'
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/breitbart/
"The answer is simple:
billionaires who favor unpopular, ultraconservative economic policies, and work actively to advance them (that is, most politically active billionaires) stay almost entirely silent about those issues in public. This is a deliberate choice. Billionaires have plenty of media access, but most of them choose not to say anything at all about the policy issues of the day. They deliberately pursue a strategy of what we call “stealth politics”."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...what-they-want
Reading for those who still think for themselves.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...nvisible-hands
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833494-dark-money
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...lyover-country
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...their-own-land
'What does political dark money look like?'
"The two most common forms of dark money in politics are politically active nonprofits and corporate entities such as limited liability companies. Certain politically active nonprofits — notably those formed under sections 501(c)(4) and 501(c)(6) of the tax code — are generally not required to publicly disclose their donors. Meanwhile, when limited liability companies are formed in certain states, such as Delaware and Wyoming, they are essentially black boxes; the company’s name is basically the only thing known about them. These LLCs can be used to make political expenditures themselves or to donate to super PACs." NBCNews
"The trick never ages; the illusion never wears off. Vote to stop abortion; receive a rollback in capital gains taxes. Vote to make our country strong again; receive deindustrialization. Vote to screw those politically correct college professors; receive electricity deregulation. Vote to get government off our backs; receive conglomeration and monopoly everywhere from media to meatpacking.
Vote to stand tall against terrorists; receive Social Security privatization. Vote to strike a blow against elitism; receive a social order in which wealth is more concentrated than ever before in our lifetimes, in which workers have been stripped of power and CEOs are rewarded in a manner beyond imagining." Thomas Frank, What's the Matter With Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
Stacey Dash at Walk Away Rally I Got Blacked into Voting’ for Obama
Originally Posted by midcan5
Apples and oranges are different, a tactic in rhetoric is to compare distinct items and issues and pretend they are the same. Comparing PBS or NPR to Breitbart for instance is absurd. But for the shallow thinker it works.
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