Feb. 3, 2023
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Cancelling Newsmax is Cancelling Your Choice
By Rick Manning
Censorship of conservative voices by establishment media owners has hit a new low with the decision by AT&T and its subsidiary DirecTV to drop Newsmax from their offerings. One snide commenter was quoted as saying that conservatives have Fox News, why do they need Newsmax or OAN for that matter.
The answer is obvious. As Fox News pushes more and more to the left, viewers who want a variety of honest opinions and reporting are moving to Newsmax and where it is available One America News. With quality hosts like Sean Spicer (who I have known for more than fifteen years) asking tough questions of top quality guests, Newsmax keeps Fox News and their management team honest.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy has spoken out on the Newsmax cancellation by AT&T/DirecTV promising to take action.
U.S. Senators Ted Cruz, Lindsay Graham, Mike Lee, and Tom Cotton have demanded an explanation from AT&T and DirecTV.
Americans for Limited Government, after a conversation with NewsMax host Dick Morris, is also taking action by providing our 100,000+ subscribers and just under 500,000 social media followers the opportunity to have their voice heard as well. By providing a direct link to email the CEOs of both AT&T and DirecTV urging them to not cancel NewsMax.
These direct action campaigns focusing on business executives have proven highly effective in raising top management awareness on issues ranging from urging dozens of major companies to not impose vaccine mandates to pushing Major League Baseball owners to abandon their woke agenda.
AT&T and DirecTV are claiming that they want to keep Newsmax on their platform, but the real story is that DirecTV is more than thirty percent owned by a hedge-fund group that owns something called Vice TV, a far left talk formatted channel which receives half of Newsmax’s viewership. Yet, Vice TV has been getting paid vastly more for their poorly consumed programming than Newsmax receives for theirs, and now Newsmax joins OAN on the shelf and unavailable to DirecTV and other AT&T media subscribers.
The recent censorship imposed by AT&T's decision to remove Newsmax from its DirectTV lineup was transparently political. DirecTV refused to offer NewsMax a subscriber fee (the equivalent of economic life blood), even though DirecTV gives millions of dollars to left-wing channel VICE TV even as its ratings are about half of those Newsmax provides.
The release of emails by Twitter showing the FBI’s pressure campaign to restrict and shut down voices which did not confirm to the approved federal government narratives on the 2020 election, COVID protocols and treatments and the Hunter Biden laptop should send shivers up every Americans spine.
Given this history of political abuse and intimidation in threatening social media platforms, it is reasonable for Congress to ask the FBI and its censorship cousin, the Department of Homeland Security, whether they have a hand in the One America News and Newsmax cable deplatforming?
America is a nation of diverse ideas. This is why the First Amendment protection of free speech is important to the health of our country and political system as a whole.
It never ceases to amaze how afraid the left is of discussion of issues from a center-right perspective. A fear that drives them to purge entire profitable channels from their platforms to prevent the contagion of critical thinking from spreading across the land.
The left has ABC, CBS, NBC, Public Broadcasting System, CNN, MSNBC, Vice TV and a vast majority of entertainment industry working to advance their ideas. Isn’t it amazing that with all that firepower, they considered Newsmax and OAN threats to their control of what ideas can be tolerated in their America.
Fortunately, Constitutional America allows uncomfortable, new, provocative ideas to be heard and debated. And it is driving the institutional left up the wall.
Rick Manning is the President of Americans for Limited Government.
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Cartoon: Team Gruesome
By A.F. Branco
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To view online: https://dailytorch.com/2023/02/cartoon-team-gruesome/
Video: END CENSORSHIP: DirecTV CANCELS Newsmax!!
To view online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn7IleZMOWQ
Market Research Foundation: The 2022 Election Obscured Huge Shifts Away from Democrats Compared to 2018
Despite the decisive Republican victory some analysts predicted failing to materialize last year, the 2022 election showed a marked shift away from Democrats among core Democratic constituencies compared to 2018. In addition, the GOP continued to gain with non-college voters and rural voters and ate into Democratic margins with suburbanites.
Market Research Foundation recently noted the 7-point shift away from Democrats among Zoomers between 2018 and 2022, something the mainstream has downplayed. Young people are not the only group Democrats are driving away, however. CNN exit polls show Democrats also lost ground with women, younger voters, voters of color, moderates, and independents while the GOP widened its grasp of non-college voters and ate into Democrat’s margins with suburban voters.
One of the more startling shifts away from Democrats in 2022 compared to 2018 was among women. Despite many left-wing candidates making abortion a central campaign issue, women shifted right by 11 points. In 2018, exit polls show Democrats won women by 19 points, but that margin dropped to just 8 points in 2022. White women ended up supporting Republicans by eight points in 2022, but were evenly split between the parties in 2018.
Exit polls show that abortion played a lesser role in 2022 than Democrats may have hoped. GOP House candidates won nearly all voters who oppose abortion, but also picked up a quarter of voters who said abortion should be legal.
Market Research Foundation recently noted the shift toward the GOP among voters under thirty, but older Millennials and younger Gen X voters also saw a significant shift toward the right. As shown below, Democrats lost 15 points with voters 30 to 44, while the GOP increased their margins with voters over 45 years old.
Voters of color also shifted away from Democrats last year compared to 2018, with a particularly steep decline among Hispanics. Democrats lost 21 points with Latino men, going from winning them by 29 points in 2018 to 8 points in 2022. Latino women also supported Democrats by 14 points less in 2022 than 2018.
Democrats lost 11 points with Black men, who supported Democrats by 76 points in 2018 and 65 points in 2022. Black women supported Democrats by 7 points less last year as well.
Moderates and Independents both moved away from the Democratic Party in 2022, shifting right by 11 points and 10 points, respectively.
Democrats also suffered losses with urban and suburban voters. Despite still winning urban voters by 17 points, Democrats suffered a 16 point loss with urban voters compared to 2018. Democrats went from tying with the GOP for suburbanites in 2018 to losing them by 6 points in 2022, and rural voters shifted even further right by 15 points.
The 2022 election was far from a victory for the GOP. If anything, the takeaway is that even with embarrassingly underfunded conservative candidates Democrats are losing ground. The left is losing the battle for younger voters and minorities –constituencies that will wield more power in the near future. Millennials, Gen X and Gen Z voters all shifted toward the right between 2018 and 2022. Hispanic voters, a rapidly growing demographic, also shifted significantly toward the right.
To view online: https://marketresearchfoundation.org/2023/01/31/the-2022-election-obscured-huge-shifts-away-from-democrats-compared-to-2018/