[Breitbart] Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with a range of establishment conservatives in Silicon Valley on Wednesday to discuss the reported suppression of conservative content.
There were reportedly 16 attendees at the meeting, which included:
- Glenn Beck, founder of the The Blaze
- Barry Bennett, an adviser to Donald Trump
- Jim DeMint, former GOP Senator from South Carolina
- Robert Bluey, editor in chief of the The Daily Signal
- Dana Perino, host at Fox News
- Alex Skatell, founder of the Independent Journal Review
- Mary Katharine Ham, Hot Air Editor at Large
- S.E. Cupp, CNN political commentator
- Jenny Beth Martin, CEO of the Tea Party Patriots
- Brent Bozell, President of Media Research Center
- Zac Moffatt, part of Mitt Romney’s campaign
- Arthur Brooks, American Entreprise Institute
Representatives from Breitbart were asked to attend but declined the invitation, as did American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp.
Cupp posted on Twitter after the meeting to say "it had been very productive."
Meanwhile Fox News host Dana Perino told The Blaze that the meeting was "overall positive," adding that Zuckerburg had a "genuine desire" to fix Facebook’s rift with conservatives.
President of Media Research Brent Bozell also talked positively of the meeting, saying that "Facebook understands there is a problem" and that they also "have a genuine desire to correct it."
Zuckerberg himself posted on Facebook shortly after the meeting to say "I know many conservatives don’t trust that our platform surfaces content without a political bias."
"I wanted to hear their concerns personally and have an open conversation about how we can build trust," he claimed. "I want to do everything I can to make sure our teams uphold the integrity of our products."
Meanwhile Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos was critical of the meeting and the image it portrayed, saying that it merely assisted Facebook in its marketing efforts and that "extreme stupidity" was the only explanation for the participants’ attendance.
Facebook have also confirmed they are aware of Yiannopoulos’s invitation to debate Mark Zuckerburg one on one over the issue of censorship of conservative media.
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A conservative is someone who wants to protect the tried and tested, but will throw out anything that doesn't pass the test.
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Paps - Conservatives are Nazis - is that what you were going for? The NYT would be proud, not least because this view is counter factual.
Fascism was an Italian phenomenon. Nazism was a left wing movement. The name is a hint. It stands for National Socialists. Jonah Goldberg does a good job laying this out in Liberal Fascism.
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Meanwhile Fox News host Dana Perino told The Blaze that the meeting was "overall positive," adding that Zuckerburg had a "genuine desire" to fix Facebook’s rift with conservatives.
Good old Neville Dana!
I'm sure this will lead to peace no more bias in our time!
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Paps - Conservatives are Nazis - is that what you were going for?
It's called 'sarcasm'. Perhaps you've heard of it.
Fascism was an Italian phenomenon
The priciples of which seems to be making a comeback in Europe, and among a certain part of the American political spectrum - which doesn't like conservatives.
[Intercept] MORLEY SAFER, who was a correspondent on CBS’s 60 Minutes from 1970 until just last week, died Thursday at age 84.
There will be hundreds of obituaries about Safer, but at least so far, there’s been no mention of what I think was one of the most important stories he ever told. Slipping down a few paras to the BLUF.
But in the 50 years since, from essentially everything the Nixon administration said about Vietnam, to the Reagan administration’s claims justifying the invasion of Grenada, to the George H.W. Bush administration justifying the Gulf War because Iraqi forces were massed on the border of Saudi Arabia, to the Clinton administration’s wild exaggerations about Serbian violence in Kosovo, to essentially everything the Bush administration said about Iraq, to Obama’s Director of National Intelligence James Clapper denying the National Security Agency gathers data on millions of Americans, most of the U.S. media has been, as Sylvester put it, "stupid." Not to mention the Mohammad video, Benghazi, Susan Rice and the Sunday Talks.
Time and again, members of the Washington press corps have credulously accepted officials’ lies and misinformation and passed them on to their readers as the truth. Their real-time skepticism is almost nonexistent. And they keep doing it. David Rhodes, brother of Presidential Advisor Ben Rhodes, is the President of CBS News. In February 2011, Rhodes was named President of CBS News, becoming the youngest network news president in the history of American television.
If you look at the last few weeks of the New York Times, you’ll learn that U.S. officials say that American troops in Yemen "are working at the headquarters’ level and are not near the front lines" and that a Navy SEAL killed in Iraq "was two to three miles behind the front lines" when it happened. Do you think they’re telling the truth? Assuming that would be stupid.
If you want a skeptical press corps that doesn't believe everything it's told by insiders and game-players, you need a Republican president and a Republican administration...
Back in the bad old days of the dead tree press, it was said that California leads the nation in trends. And it had for a good long time, at least in positive trends.
This newest drive is part of a nationwide effort which will follow Hillary Clinton should she wind up in the White House in January. You can tell because noted firearms experts such as Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric, for all intents and purposes Golden Throats who know what's best for you, much better than you.
As to Couric's claim that a "silent majority" of firearms owners want more gun control, I have zero doubt about that. You can see it even in Arms List, where about 15 to 20 percent of all sales listings require a background check by the seller.
This goes to Arms List's refusal to clean up their own sales lists, including gun shops who list their wares privately. Those shops are required by federal law to require a background check as a condition of sale. That requirement makes the private gun sale category meaningless because once the firearm is sold via a background check the sale is no longer private, but has been recorded for the government by the seller.
Individuals who require background checks as a condition of sale and gun shops should be required to list their sales as a vendor.
Individuals who require their gun sale through a background check are the exemplar of what Couric is taking about. People who believe that the rights enumerated on the Constitution apply to them and them alone. Everyone else can be left with nothing just as long as they have their rights. The left has been using this false sentiment against gun owners for decades now to tremendous effect.
Over at Knuckledraggin My Life Away blog, I guess blogger Ken Lane decided to start a fight about the AK vs AR comparisons. Some amazing reader's comments came from that post.
typical rifle cost AK win
ammo weight AR win
ease of tear down and maint AK win
long range accuracy AR win
typical skirmisher ranges 50 – 300 yds draw
quality ammo availability and choice AR win
barbie-dollability AR win
Bottom line the age old debate will continue. Thank god Kenny threw out the bait. There will be a bunch of responses to this one. ps I am an AK guy after a seeming lifetime with the AR platform as marksmanship instructor in the MC. For me the KISS principle rules all. :)
Thanks for saying that, WC. All I know is that 9 times outta 10 … When one squad with ARs is going at it with another with AKs …. The guys with the ARs win. The AK belongs to the third world and they can have it.
Above is a link from Tactical Response when Reid Henrichs was an instructor there. One video on youtube does not win the argument but it does give you a starting point and you can go on from there. But you wont. You have spent to much “sexifing” your vietnam’ war machine and been telling yourself and others for far to long and its become a point of self accomplishment in your mind.
Mustafa Amine had been Hezbollah's operations chief since February 2008, when his predecessor and brother-in-law, arch-terrorist Imad Mughniyeh, was killed in a car-bomb attack in Damascus.
Last Friday, May 13, Badreddine, too, met a violent end--killed, according to reports, in a mysterious explosion near Damascus International Airport.
Badreddine's terror activity with Hezbollah went back to 1983, when he led a cell that car-bombed the U.S. embassy in Kuwait. Captured and imprisoned in Kuwait, he managed to escape in 1990 when Saddam Hussein invaded the country.
Badreddine made it back to Beirut, his Hezbollah comrades, and terror activity--both against Israel and against U.S. and British forces in Iraq. But Badreddine's most notorious exploit came on February 14, 2005, when he masterminded the vicious killing of moderate Sunni Lebanese leader Rafiq Hariri in Beirut.
As Israeli investigative writer Ronen Bergman describes it:
....a suicide bomber driving a van loaded with explosives equal in damage power to three tons of TNT collided with Hariri's armored convoy, turning it into a fiery hell.
The attack succeeded, Bergman says, even though
Hariri was one of the best-guarded people in the world, with his security protocol formulated by experts from Germany and the United States. Badreddine's success in killing Hariri (together with 21 other people) had once again proven that apart from Mughniyeh, he was the best operative in the organization.
Badreddine was also--surprisingly, perhaps, for a Hezbollah chief--a hedonist and womanizer who made sure to live life to the fullest, including studying at the American University of Beirut, dining at expensive restaurants, running a jewelry store and having many friends and pleasures that he was unwilling to give up, not even for Hezbollah.
Which still leaves open the question: who was it that finally put an end to Badreddine's versatile career last Friday?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
