So getting $400,000 a month to post a minimum of four YouTube videos a year is NOT...suspicious?Yep! It’s the structure of the rightwing media, right? Harlan Crow, Dick Uihlein, Paul Singer, the Wilks brothers, Koch, Phil Anschutz, Murdoch… the whole rightwing media ecosystem is BUILT on being paid off by billionaires.
— Eric Blair🔥🟧 (@protecttruth_) September 5, 2024
That made this easy.https://t.co/mpwn0IB3Fp
Their defenders point out the people paid to be Russian shills weren't indicted. That's because they didn't know enough to realize they were acting as unregistered foreign agents. Plausibly because of the generosity of Crow and Uihlein and Singer and the Wilks brothers, the Kochs, Anschutz, Murdoch.... Suddenly Soros looks like very small beer, ya know? Anyway, those fine upstanding Christian (?) patriots about whom it would be slander to speak ill!, set the environment in which Tenet and its mouthpieces thrived. I'm old enough to remember Limbaugh mocking the "liberal" talk radio network that tried to compete with him. Limbaugh was a product of the free market. But none of the right wing outlets supported by oligarchs (or Russia!) would last ten seconds without Daddy's money. Huh.Ah yes, the real victims were grifters who took crazy sums of money from a questionable source and didn’t find it odd at all.
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) September 5, 2024
Who doesn’t get paid $400,000/month to produce four videos? https://t.co/oEdhS6RPbt
Any minute now he's going to say he was hacked. Or all his money is tied up in Trump Media stock. Of course, the list of useful idiots just gets better and better:Have you donated your Russian blood money to charity yet? You really should, Tim. https://t.co/Qa9tu4DyAv
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) September 5, 2024
Not that the bullshit storms are going to abate:Hey @stephenm? Why do your lies about migrants so closely match this RU plan to help Trump win even though Biden has got the economy booming again? https://t.co/2jEHIy6UR7
— emptywheel (former grocery store checkout) (@emptywheel) September 5, 2024
At least they're following the playbook:In response to learning their favorite podcasters were unwittingly on the Russian take, the far right again wants to know why 51 people weren't indicted for writing a true letter.
— emptywheel (former grocery store checkout) (@emptywheel) September 5, 2024
WILL THESE RIGHT WINGERS NEVER STOP THEIR ASSAULT ON FREE SPEECH? pic.twitter.com/H5QRkkc8LB
Everything new is old again.Conservative playbook for scandals.
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) September 5, 2024
It’s all a hoax.
Even if it happened, no one got paid.
Even if someone got paid, they didn’t frame their conduct around that payment. <—— you are here
Even if they did change their conduct, it wasn’t illegal.
Hunter’s laptop!
Just follow the indictment:Tim Pool claim he is victim in Russian funding scandal was foretold more than 25 years ago https://t.co/W2J9R2MFqu
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 4, 2024
The on-line squealing is like the weather; it will pass. The implacable mills of justice will grind exceeding fine.Yes, @gtconway3d, interesting that some will “squeal,” others will deploy “hoax” or “freedom of speech” (already see this), while more will be incredibly quiet, hoping not to draw attention.
— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) September 5, 2024
The @TheJusticeDept provided links in the indictment that make all categories very… https://t.co/IS63KMv02q
In this Ohio town, it was tradition: Latin mass, biscuits and gravy at Bob Evans, and then down to the old Russian content factory to make six figures trashing America’s democratic institutions. But now the woke mob wants to take all that away.
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) September 5, 2024
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