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BUT BUT he was a RATINGS king

artappraiser — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:12:54 +0000

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BUT BUT he was a RATINGS king!!!

After it was reported that Mr. Crews was the voice behind Streiff, Erick Erickson, who served as the editor in chief of RedState for 10 years, said on Twitter that while he disagreed with Mr. Crews’s outlandish takes on the pandemic, his work had nonetheless helped the site bolster its readership.

“He has grown RedState’s traffic far more than I ever did,” Mr. Erickson wrote, adding, “They should boost his profile now that he is not shackled to anonymity.”

Just another example of how a lot of these supposedly ideologically passionate peeps on the internet are more like just trolls in it for the mon-ay or feeling of pow-ah of being an influencer, able to manipulate crowds.

From This Misinformation Was Coming From Inside the House by Zach Montagu @ NYTimes.com, 4 hrs. ago, which stresses in the beginning of the article that at Red State, he pushed the memes of "masks are dangerous" and "lockdowns have no public health beneft while harming economy."

Thanks for the example. I'm

artappraiser — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 05:37:51 +0000

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Thanks for the example. I'm pretty cynical about what P.R. people do, they're guns for hire, but even I draw the line at health stuff, geez.

“We’re at the point where it

NCD — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 23:59:37 +0000

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“We’re at the point where it is safe to say that the entire Wuhan virus scare was nothing more or less than a massive fraud perpetrated upon the American people by ‘experts’ who were determined to fundamentally change the way the country lives and is organized and governed,” Streiff wrote on RedState in June. real name William Crews. NIH

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This is like Heller's Catch-22, where Yossarian finds the bomber squadron is being paid to bomb their own side.