Someone behind an anonymous Twitter account
is trying to destroy the influential conservative Breitbart News website by
smearing it as “racist” – and he’s already scared at least 47 advertisers away
from Breitbart.
In
the current atmosphere of left-wing hysteria over the surprise election of
Donald Trump as president, this blacklisting project has already earned an
impressive return on investment. Breitbart is a target of the wrath of social
justice warriors because it reports the truth about the Left and it used to be
run by Stephen Bannon, now slated to become chief strategist in the Trump White
House. Hurting Breitbart hurts Trump and Republicans in general, the thinking
goes.
The
campaign takes screenshots of advertisements on Breitbart and then harasses the
advertisers, demanding that they stop advertising there. It also encourages
people who hate Breitbart or Trump to take screenshots of a target company’s
ads placed beside content deemed objectionable and tweet the images at
advertisers along with a threat to stop patronizing that company.
The
cowardly crusader hiding behind this effort to frighten advertisers away from
Breitbart by lying about and mischaracterizing the provocative news website’s
content goes by the user name Sleeping Giants.
The
user’s identity seems safe for the moment but if Breitbart files a defamation
lawsuit, Twitter could be forced to disclose the user’s identity.
So
far the identity of the individual or individuals behind Sleeping Giants is not
known, except to Shareen Pathak, managing editor at the DigiDay blog.
Pathak
reports, “The creator of the account said he would prefer to remain anonymous
to avoid being harassed by Trump supporters on the internet. He said he started
the account because fake news and disinformation, are, in his opinion, two of
the reasons why the election turned out in favor of Trump.”
The
creator of Sleeping Giants reportedly told DigiDay, “The biggest way that this
disinformation will continue is ad revenue, just like any news source. Beyond
really wanting to stop this nonsense, this effort was really born out of the
need to inform advertisers about the kind of material that they’re sponsoring.
This isn’t supposed to be a boycotting effort as much as an information
effort.”
The
Sleeping Giants (Twitter handle: @slpng_giants) account was created last month.
At time of writing the account had 3,144 tweets and 11,200 followers. Sleeping
Giants says “We are trying to stop racist websites by stopping their ad
dollars. Many companies don’t even know it’s happening. It’s time to tell
them.”
Of
course Breitbart isn’t even remotely racist but left-wingers don’t let facts
get in the way of an activist push. They know that smear jobs work, especially
in the timid corporate world where companies routinely surrender to left-wing
extortionists like Al Sharpton without much of a fight.
Food
manufacturer Kellogg’s has withdrawn its ads from Breitbart, claiming the site
is not “aligned with our values as a company.” The company offered no examples
of how Breitbart’s values actually differ from its own.
The
decision by Kellogg’s will have “virtually no revenue impact on Breitbart.com,”
the news organization wrote. “It does, however, represent an escalation in the
war by leftist companies like Target and Allstate against conservative
customers whose values propelled Donald Trump into the White House.”
Out-of-touch corporation embracing
false left-wing narratives
The
decision “appears to be one more example of an out-of-touch corporation
embracing false left-wing narratives used to cynically smear the hard working
Americans that populate this nation’s heartland.”
Breitbart
News Editor-in-Chief Alexander Marlow is calling for a boycott of Kellogg’s and
urging conservatives to sign the #DumpKelloggs petition. Marlow says the
breakfast cereal maker’s “war” against the site demonstrates its “cowardice”
and “bigotry.”
Breitbart News is the
largest platform for pro-family content anywhere on the Internet. We are
fearless advocates for traditional American values, perhaps most important
among them is freedom of speech, or our motto ‘more voices, not less.’ For
Kellogg’s, an American brand, to blacklist Breitbart News in order to placate
left-wing totalitarians is a disgraceful act of cowardice. They insult our
incredibly diverse staff and spit in the face of our 45,000,000 highly engaged,
highly perceptive, highly loyal readers, many of whom are Kellogg’s customers.
Boycotting Breitbart News for presenting mainstream American ideas is an act of
discrimination and intense prejudice. If you serve Kellogg’s products to your
family, you are serving up bigotry at your breakfast table.
Welch’s,
a maker of juices and jams, is dropping Breitbart.
Facebook
user Mary Dibbern wrote to the company: “Welch’s is advertising on the
Breitbart site. I will boycott all Welch’s products, plus post a photo of the
ads onto my FB and Twitter accounts if Welch’s does not stop giving Breitbart
their advertising business.”
Welch’s
promptly caved: “Mary, we assure you that we are taking the necessary steps to
remove all Welch’s content from this site, and others like it. Thank you for
reaching out.”
Other
companies withdrawing advertising from Breitbart include pharmaceutical
manufacturer Novo Nordisk, insurance provider Allstate, eyeglass maker Warby
Parker, San Diego Zoo, 3M, AARP, Earthlink, L’Occitane, Paperless Post,
Saddleback Bags, and U.S. Bank.
AppNexus
Inc., a digital ad firm, has banned Breitbart from using its ad service,
Bloomberg reports. The firm “decided the publication had breached a policy
against content that incites violence.” AppNexus is reportedly second only to
Google in the ad serving market for publishers.
AppNexus
mouthpiece Joshua Zeitz said, “We did a human audit of Breitbart and determined
there were enough articles and headlines that cross that line, either using
coded or overt language.”
Zeitz
claimed preposterously that Breitbart isn’t being targeted for its conservative
inclinations. “This blacklist was solely about hate speech violation,” he said.
The
Sleeping Giants effort is the same kind of malicious campaign waged by George
Soros-funded groups against conservative organizations.
Led
by ColorOfChange, a far-left race-baiting group whose views are largely
indistinguishable from those held by Van Jones (a co-founder) and Al
Sharpton, activists attacked the conservative
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) for its policy stands.
Soros-funded ColorOfChange smeared corporations that donated to ALEC as racist
because the group supported voter ID laws. The campaign against ALEC also led
to the group disbanding the task force that had been responsible for drafting
model voter ID laws to be used by state lawmakers, along with “Stand Your
Ground” laws.
Soros-funded
Media Matters for America (MMfA) claims to have cost “The Rush Limbaugh Show”
“[h]undreds of millions of dollars in losses attributable to advertisers
refusing to subsidize” the show after Limbaugh’s controversial comments about
leftist birth control poster girl Sandra Fluke.
MMfA
has also waged war against Breitbart News, Fox News Channel, Ann Coulter, and
talk show hosts like Glenn Beck, though generally with little success.
This
new attack on Breitbart is happening because left-wingers are still in deep
denial over President-elect Donald Trump’s come-from-behind victory over
Democrat war horse Hillary Clinton and they’re desperately searching for
scapegoats.
They’re
blaming purveyors of so-called fake news – which includes Breitbart since it
doesn’t toe the leftist line.
For
example, useful idiot Craig Timberg recently churned out an outrageous
left-wing propaganda piece in theWashington Post, a newspaper that lied
over and over again about Trump during the campaign.
Timberg
claims a vast Russian conspiracy planted fake news before American eyeballs and
that’s the real reason Trump won.
“Russian-backed
phony news” was behind “[s]ome of the first and most alarming tweets after
Clinton fell ill at a Sept. 11 memorial event in New York,” he wrote, adding
there had been “a spate of other misleading stories in August about Clinton’s
supposedly troubled health.”
She
did in fact fall ill at the 9/11 event, a fact that would never have been
reported by the mainstream media if an onlooker hadn’t captured Clinton
collapsing as she was entering a vehicle and being held up by two security men.
She suffered at least temporary brain damage in recent years when she sustained
a nasty concussion. She also experienced coughing fits on the podium.
Russia’s
“propaganda machinery also helped push the phony story that an anti-Trump
protester was paid thousands of dollars to participate in demonstrations, an
allegation initially made by a self-described satirist and later repeated
publicly by the Trump campaign.”
Well,
the evidence is fairly convincing that the Clinton campaign did in fact pay
anti-Trump protesters to participate in demonstrations and foment violence at
Trump campaign rallies. Democrat uber-thug Robert Creamer has admitted that Hillary personally knew
about the false flag operation which was euphemistically referred to as
“conflict engagement.”
Timberg
adds, “The final weeks of the campaign featured a heavy dose of stories about
supposed election irregularities, allegations of vote-rigging and the potential
for Election Day violence should Clinton win, researchers said.”
This
is all very interesting except that in the modern era all presidential
elections are filled with allegations of electoral irregularities. It’s normal
and it happens with or without fanciful conspiracy theories or Kremlin
involvement.
But
the Left soldiers on, inventing villains and vilifying good people.
These
people can’t win on the facts or by offering rational arguments.
All
they can do it attack, attack, attack.
And
Breitbart won’t be their last target.
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