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The Bucks County Standard warns Pennsylvania voters that Mastriano, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, “vows to ban abortion with no exceptions”. The paper informs readers that, “Patrice Martin, a registered Republican in Bucks County, called Mastriano ‘frightening,’ saying she was ‘all about’ Mastriano until she heard about his stance on abortion.”
If you’ve never heard of the Bucks County Standard, no one there has heard of what is supposed to be the “trusted source for local news in the North Bucks County” area either.
The ‘About Us’ page for the paper reveals that it’s actually the “Commonwealth Community Report” whose mission is to be “the voice for local news in Virginia” and that it’s a product of Local Report, Inc. Local Report, Inc is registered in Florida and has a mailing address in Orlando near a Publix and a YMCA. That’s quite a long way from Pennsylvania.
The Lehigh Valley News reported that “Senate Democrats Pass Historic Climate and Health Care Bill Over Unanimous GOP Opposition”. It emphasizes that, “Every Republican in the Senate voted against the Inflation Reduction Act.” It may not surprise you too much to learn that “your trusted source for local news in Lehigh Valley” is another product of Local Report trying to be the voice of local news in Virginia. The article, like many of those published in the many outlets of the Florida organization, actually comes from nearer to Virginia in Washington D.C.
Many Local Report articles come from The American Independent Founded by Clinton ally David Brock, it’s gone through different names and iterations, its president, Matt Fuehrmeyer, was the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s director of strategic communications, its VP, Jessica McCreight, worked on Hillary’s campaign and in Obama’s White House comms, Its outreach director also appears to also be the campaign manager for a Democrat congressional candidate. In other words, it’s a typical campaign operation.
Except that, The American Independent Foundation is a 501(c)(3). Abusing its IRS non-profit status, it develops content that’s used by The American Independent, under the umbrella of True Blue Media, an organization funded by Brock’s American Bridge: a 501(c)(4).
How can they get away with it? The answer lies in Internal Radical Service by David Horowitz and John Perazzo. The latest pamphlet from the David Horowitz Freedom Center reveals how the IRS has enabled the rise of a Democrat empire of nonprofits funding partisan elections.
The American Independent Foundation’s paperwork from previous years shows that it was headed by Angelo Carusone, the president of Brock’s Media Matters, who also boasts of being the #DumpTrump organizer. His Twitter feed promotes Oliver Willis, a Media Matters blogger and currently a senior writer at The American Independent.
Media Matters is also a 501(c)(3), but the fake news machine popping up as local papers in swing states is intimately connected with electioneering. A recent Axios report described the effort as the “Democrats’ swing-state local news ploy”. It noted that, “the sites are focused on key swing states with elections in 2021 and 2022: Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, New Hampshire, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.”
Stacey Abrams sent out a hit piece from the Columbus News. As did Georgia Democrats. The fake paper is another Local Report production. As Axios shows, it’s part of a pattern with their materials appearing “in communications from the Democratic Parties of Georgia and Michigan, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Michigan’s Democratic secretary of state and independent political groups such as Color of Change and the Democratic Coalition.”
The formula is simple. All of the sites use the same template. They even employ much of the same language. A smattering of local content is mixed together with hit pieces on Republican candidates and puff pieces on Democrats.
Even left of center sites like Newsguard documented the relentless fake news electioneering with headlines like “Arizona Republicans nominate racist venture capitalist Blake Masters for Senate” in The Arizona Independent and “GOP Ohio Senate nominee J.D. Vance has supported cuts to Social Security and Medicare” in The Ohio Independent.
Political opinion enjoys a lot of leeway, but this is a fake news network that doesn’t exist to put out points of view. Instead it’s electioneering under the guise of fake news fed by a nonprofit. This isn’t a media organization, it’s a messaging operation for political campaigns that wrongly operates as a nonprofit because the IRS chooses not to enforce tax code regulations.
As Internal Radical Service by David Horowitz and John Perazzo lays out, Democrats have built a massive nonprofit political machine funded by taxpayers and abetted by the IRS. In, “How Taxpayers Finance Democrat Voter Registration”, the Freedom Center described the massive nonprofit voter registration machine that provides a powerful strategic advantage.
Democrats already enjoy a tremendous communications advantage through for-profit and nonprofit media, some funded by taxpayers, which conduct opposition research on their behalf, endorse their candidates and promote their causes, but the local news fake machine operation is a ‘last mile’ effort to have taxpayers fund the messaging operations of political campaigns.
In “How the ACLU Abuses the Tax Code to Campaign for Democrats”, the Freedom Center exposed the growing intervention of 501(c)(3) nonprofits in political campaigns, running major ad buys and, like the ACLU, splitting into C3s and C4s to gain the benefits of nonprofit status while maintaining political targeting in partisan campaigns. The fake news machine has gone even further, fusing nonprofit status, media status and a campaign operation in one so that it enjoys the advantages of all with the responsibilities of none. It brings slimy D.C. tactics into swing state and red state races, but that also exposes a potential vulnerability.
Local Report’s Florida registration opens up the organization to being investigated by Attorney General Ashley Moody. The presence of its operations in states like Arizona and Georgia also make it possible for state investigators to look into the legality of its setup and its coordination with The American Independent and various associated organizations. The IRS, as Internal Radical Service lays out, is not about to do its job, but state attorney generals can do theirs.
Especially because the fake news operation is only in its early stages and is sure to target them.
I certainly hope that someone has made the AGs of PA, OH, VA, AZ & FL aware of this.
The AG in PA Is Josh Shapiro, a publicly rabid Democrat Trump-hater who infamously bragged on Twitter BEFORE the election that *when the votes are counted, Biden is the winner*. He’s as leftist, has no qualms about lying and slandering and does it prolifically as you can get, and is running against the above-mentioned Doug Mastriano. He’d be tickled pink to receive complaints and mock the complainants.
You are a douche bag. Keep your party lies to yourself
Hey Bob Mack, I take issue with your tarnishment of the fine reputation of the douchebag!
Old disinformation trick from the Cold War, as of course you know. Set up obscure newspapers to print the story you want promoted. Then have more legitimate news sources pick up the story, as coming from xxx.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict that not one of Joe Biden’s 87,000 new IRS agents will be assigned to investigate this.
You remind me of Putin who sees Nazis and racists everywhere (except in his own country)…
“And the IRS is letting them get away with it.”
As Gomer (that well-known social and political philosopher from yesteryear) used to say: Shazaam! So what else is new about corrupt Democrat Administrations (and corrupt D ‘swamp’ bureaucrats) since time immemorial? Except for the nonpolicy people in the Federal Government (i.e., the file clerks and similar level people), maybe the Congress should just do away with ALL civil service protections so that a new incoming Administration can dismiss anyone above a certain minimum level to have its own people enforcing the laws (i.e., in so many words, the Ds already do this anyway–it’s time for the Rs to be able to do the same).
So other than being an ounce more brazen, how are these chickenshit rags any different from other DNC outlets like CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, NYTimes, The Atlantic, etc, etc, and on and on.
This is the same IRS that went after all things Tea Party & conservative.
Almost all Nixon/Watergate books point out Nixon’s attempt to audit a political enemy with drama-queen style lament.
Now the IRS, the FBI, OSHA, the EPA, NLRB are leftists fighting the good fight against all things MAGA & conservative.
(Each of those bullshit organizations need to be disbanded and several members jailed.)
He solicits abuse.
He is a special needs poster.
I think, “greater dishonesty is impossible”.
Then they manage to push the envelope.
I long ago, stopped looking at newspaper headlines when in the supermarket. Why get aggravated?
NY Post is OK some of the time, but the rest. no!? Oh my, they’re so hateful.
So now we have more fake news in fake news outlets.
It’s better than that.
These are fake fake news outlets.
The savings on payroll and overhead are substantial.
Post your shirtless photo, you man of musculature.
Don’t think we won’t spot a Charles Atlas knokoff.
My favorite headline was “Atlantis Discovered Off Portugal” 🙂
” All of the sites use the same template. They even employ much of the same language. A smattering of local content is mixed together with hit pieces on Republican candidates and puff pieces on Democrats.”
This sounds like the Gannett owned Columbus Dispatch.
“…… and the IRS is letting them get away with it.”
No, no, no, that just can’t be true! The IRS would never do something as shady as that. *sarc*
Said no one ever….
and you are such an obsessed loser who’s got nothing better to do than troll this site day in, day out between bong hits and hot pockets – get lost, useful idiot
Small, local papers could be a good thing if they echoed articles written by the preeminent national conservative writers but provided clarification on local issues with local writers The goal would be to cut through the lies and confusion disseminated by the left. They could destroy the left’s fake newspapers in no time.
A unified national message in addition to a local voice would connect voters in a way they aren’t now. The contrast with the Soros crap would be high and easy to spot.
Here is another example of radical leftists setting up a support system for “independent local news websites”. LION publishers backed by Google, Facebook/Meta and Democracy Fund. I tracked this through the Blue Valley Post in Overland Park in suburban Kansas Ciity. BVP put on a “candidates forum” with very biased questions.
Might be worth looking into as a case study.
https://bluevalleypost.com/
Here is another example of radical leftists setting up a support system for “independent local news websites”. LION publishers backed by Google, Facebook/Meta and Democracy Fund. I tracked this through the Blue Valley Post in Overland Park in suburban Kansas Ciity. BVP put on a “candidates forum” with very biased questions.
Might be worth looking into as a case study.
https://bluevalleypost.com/
So i see the Eco-Nazis/Watermelons want Climate Skeptics Exicuted or sent t to Concentration Camp/Gulags Typical of them