n yet another reminder of the damage inflicted by the Trump-Russia collusion hoax on the establishment media’s credibility and sanity, liberal pundit Keith Olbermann recently took to Twitter to renounce “the stain of Russian heritage” that apparently haunts him.
It’s unclear where this is coming from in the first place. In 2007, Olbermann spoke of “my immigrant German ancestors” to try to score a point against conservative immigration restrictionists. More than a decade later, he seems to have discovered new foreign blood to weaponize against his political opponents. But indiscriminately trashing Russia—not just its government, but the nation as a whole—is nothing new to establishment propagandists. Since the 2016 election, pundits like Rachel Maddow and Jonathan Chait have spun elaborate Russian conspiracies. In 2017, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told NBC that Russians are “almost genetically driven to co-opt, penetrate, gain favor, whatever.”
Russia and Russians are some of the American media’s few remaining acceptable targets because the U.S. defense establishment prefers to focus on Russia to the exclusion of more dangerous enemies. The Obama Administration spent eight years compromising the United States’ ability to respond to Islamic extremism, and the Biden Administration is now re-opening the door to Chinese influence on American institutions.
This leaves Russia as not just a competitor to the United States but as the only foreign power against which the national security state and its supporting actors in the media can deploy unrestrained aggression.
Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
To those who have the means, we ask that you please donate. We have options available now, but there is no telling when those options will cancel us. We have our GivingFuel page. There have been many who have been canceled by PayPal, but for now it’s still an option. Your generosity is what keeps these sites running and allows us to get the truth to the masses. We’ve had great success in growing but we know we can do more with your assistance.
Thank you, and God Bless!
JD Rucker