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</font></div><div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Friday, October 12, the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Metropolitan Republican Club in New York City <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=YqgukYA3Mrlri-dqG7I8Tgy2yqrBM8c7Rx_jip8UeGKuGwQYmyEE7T8GlI3M76jDutnwqrECVvx78sy7Xulu8A&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=9&v=1450">invited</a> <b>Proud Boys founder and right-wing media host Gavin McInne</b>s to speak.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On his CRTV show (CRTV is the digital network run by Fox News host Mark Levin), McInnes <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7_D1pOY7s_UyVceRq6xacRWK7tPDGUq_qrDielrGWC4LTESaxlRoV-hhLipGcGfsmQ&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=10&v=1450">advocates</a> for revanchist positions: He's <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7z4H6Szh2ve6Id8D7jzs3293AfT2H3j-zF4CSHnTz-rBItL4eNm6TBXyAA7CHDvMLgBohXD5kGe6NCv-Vq_VeXtnkZQnqbt8fc83p7KOsouR4q_W9HFa8pbPV1O5Tgx-FEx4Fe5-dvkqXgqJPLf4paHStVUwcUZzMqaO0fVRmDFM6skMZxnc8XH8V9TFZju4Vw&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=11&v=1450">called for</a> "a big memorial for all the whites," <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4TIN0bBIFxRLr3O8FILUYa4nB9RbgTKjpQ3S3QCq-popxtB-7MAsA7hyZXjl4bRue-waw9vm7IbRZO4C-CFLk1vrJ_NLBYLF9_2hfj2vaaj1DZx7izQsOqKigXtvGBiJGZLeAO4SHCCoGAA0FeJxiUzR3v_4oI8aFiXnkHjh8ABQ&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=12&v=1450">teamed up</a> with a men's rights activist to attack Black women, <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7z4H6Szh2ve6Id8D7jzs32_6mKMVpXuD1OBIx0cOGVKZdG33UY-YV9A3ooHqM0qcqGyOQBbK8Rh07j25uHSHDrZ5Gufst3hHzA8VpPq9v9QmYYSSkBhFW61x0P-oy4Cc9XlGmNY5xxs-6eXUPiO37oM&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=13&v=1450">talked about</a> how great he thinks the patriarchy is, <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7z4H6Szh2ve6Id8D7jzs329s2SMPYVBEfbfQX-8gL7_ebb29SxXMNr8lwvk1PsQB7K3Miuv8lEEqR1DyTGmrSvwk190_NT6FiT1SLyw2REqakDIq9gTyTiYVPw74PIV6gJ_HJUCKqt8BTQ8cs3w9yIKMfCTrlpHSOYTjEPAEtwG8&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=14&v=1450">made disgusting</a> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7z4H6Szh2ve6Id8D7jzs32-PVJzbZSp-bPTL8TH9YLR7NF-6pmLyyZrMh9JHseW4dWqKZQf2mzT2xPqi5mpcdQb1Gtpiuw4A-CmAJQc6wdX4Sq_McZn9eeLfJc4A3x2Uuub6eJHbSrwH1HgrKjYbBO52Z5supIi2VqmkrsDOIH&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=15&v=1450">remarks</a> about LGBTQ people, <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7z4H6Szh2ve6Id8D7jzs32-ZAK358jNUWBb77ahlyEq4KSFj1QWSKwoLJMzhznGoGkui9CBKgGrhH0upCmencb6KfEQfzPS-tNDW0o5CuTuAHMekvZABJdkKYbNGRBw77O_Wjfp1TR-thawJAGfBQSrDkxJPUZ0aCJ8oohBX4_F-&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=16&v=1450">argued that</a> women don't belong in the workplace, and much more. McInnes' written work can <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4QjQsfLB00ifuaWQiHg312w5Ov7oi61SwRqblGfwU71sBznB41ClJPev_gZ9JMsoF6EUX941DyTH2AKCaYlNQ7tsUfVjoz0oYOkFPdi04C_ug&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=17&v=1450">best be described</a> as attempting to forge new ways to be racist.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">McInnes is also the founder of the Proud Boys. </span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4SxL0jwo62VXUqUYni4O1dOFEYMJEQgxva5NPvtr0jQnqNzLFeEiIjLg6jYQvHM0c637pjbUqv8cu0i1J-iSNnRCd6W32WupK3J_FDBPOuf-wotwb4E0WrHdhBRYnqk9moSpv80LvwbYOYNCWvFYf-w&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=18&v=1450" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Proud Boys</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> is a self-described “Western chauvinist” men-only fraternal organization. There are two crucial things to understand about the group: Misogyny and violence. Misogyny is the </span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=WCdINNQTxhVXOayKPDEtMzytyVcWBvBMW4_hm4hqL3bASarlLGTKjeMfIUSVByVc&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=19&v=1450" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">core operating principle</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> of the group: Not only are women not allowed to join, they are not even allowed to be present when meetings take place. The group even has a ritual where members subject themselves to punches while naming breakfast cereals. To reach the inner sanctum of the group, a Proud Boy must engage in violence with anti-fascists. The group also </span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4T4qXlZo5cuaQL8sekLpljRKyj8oUkWH7gwxA2jXeF-VS6XXuHee16qvMoQOAcuotgDCJtx0DVLzVoPgzk6fLTB9iw-Y3w2xlOOhsfgDh-iOp0VnyiH9K3-rVSBFAhEJ6qdVDm0UAqc37eY4DSCjiyX&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=20&v=1450" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">has ties</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> to white supremacists; the chief organizer of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville was a Proud Boy, and when a white nationalist narrative goes viral, there's </span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4TVBRc9sCtDKjBjGXmW7SBkQt5GUG7rpz7hCXqMf-sTu4P5_rYkPpeNBHVgYkXCqSonkt2F68lR35Vb12F51izkMLr72DPKNmPXUnTUknZB-7SoX6mQNkJhD6rmJr7pwyIlIL5jB6K5XifWo5j2eEwp7ft1XYwAR-7VfX23Ku17vg&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=21&v=1450" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">usually</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> a link to the Proud Boys. In terms of finding members, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Proud Boys has used <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=ljGGjwsWGVvnf2S6Fayhbn2dnExoxOVNOsji173Plmhdi4H7RwLnXeo0dr5pjAY3OjCw7bjH1iuhKRuyst9dzA&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=22&v=1450">Facebook</a> and <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4SxL0jwo62VXUqUYni4O1dOFEYMJEQgxva5NPvtr0jQnqNzLFeEiIjLg6jYQvHM0c637pjbUqv8cu0i1J-iSNnRCd6W32WupK3J_FDBPOuf-wotwb4E0WrHdhBRYnqk9moSpv80LvwbYOYNCWvFYf-w&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=23&v=1450">Infowars</a> to recruit. If you had to sum up the Proud Boys, it would be to describe them as a pro-Trump street gang, the violent wing of the modern Republican Party.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After the event, Proud Boys </span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=31LENR9BgsePFvyAr7aruLmEHnkBLPWLYigUUVsFUbjVHBxMkzaiVoJAp7nEuA7aDzc3yklS2OCaBi0xidZti2sWEzJ7xKje6ja_jcZiqdMvKLch-TLzn8yHkP2iAUZzFiYJKB7DR5P1Tm_f9dfFsvKXs9QFPIK4RrlZBy6CA0Q&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=24&v=1450" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">assaulted</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> three protesters; video </span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=AsR_z4Ya39h-kIzczbN9CaH6n1i-U06IHblW3K1IMMoToWKRhLnRZmIzAy4fsqljvTC-o7Li7Cgq_dpkkZzGi08yayOF9APZGYN8ueLODQWLL6HwXDLETAO1f7CLpufw&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=25&v=1450" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">shows</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> "more than a dozen" Proud Boys, </span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=CtZl-TKSIC8fgSY6J75jE5P2SFUQyELWsDLgGY0UBgXV8-LY4F1bOJZ93RE1AvzKZ36iOtwsnvRmohFiQ_lizu_VoYXplD_UPuums5jVmY29UTXsEn9zZWYFJxYNV3IO3GV5amQ4HeHhpnDMeir1MxTBuTeIsQb0VV8r3PkXkyOLKge-Sr7G0Ey8K3hYScs8&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=26&v=1450" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">including</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> at least </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">three skinheads, punching and kicking protesters on the ground.</b> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The NYPD <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=31LENR9BgsePFvyAr7aruLmEHnkBLPWLYigUUVsFUbjVHBxMkzaiVoJAp7nEuA7aDzc3yklS2OCaBi0xidZti2sWEzJ7xKje6ja_jcZiqdMvKLch-TLzn8yHkP2iAUZzFiYJKB7DR5P1Tm_f9dfFsvKXs9QFPIK4RrlZBy6CA0Q&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=27&v=1450">told Buzzfeed News</a> that they were still "researching a response" as to why none of the Proud Boys were arrested even though there were officers on the scene. Video from the scene is <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=YqgukYA3Mrlri-dqG7I8TkX66B_kRzNWTW6dgfYWASxZ_fkrVv-TlAHC7AgQGJa4b1G-fPDTAwFZPhjA2UeOOg&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=28&v=1450">horrifying</a>.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>As the beatdown happened, Fox News immediately put the blame onto left-wing protesters and <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=7EL176YFyxKF3ox3wD2rUS7usvPHQqTac3gWKnAmLDXC2EKgadv4n9NuzMp6ryAkrXowJBnE_nKCWc3Cj94B5ZbLkpy9LG3LPPTW4Alie74&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=29&v=1450">portrayed</a> the Proud Boys as the victims</b>. There is <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=JNO4c-GH-KGwAqGopQLVls5nVQyS08YgeL3ovqWSMKvEuX3Oe8-2RJikWNobODrpFR1tYf1GuAK8SNp4VO6eSg4QDVKlPbOPCMxGrOypX1Db-VZlvulAvYUNuVWbNcsJr_grLQ7WGcSRklbU7DnS-A&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=30&v=1450">no evidence whatsoever</a> for that conclusion, and to the contrary, while Fox News warned of "swords and vandalism" at the event, the only sword was wielded by McInnes himself -- the event was to <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=YqgukYA3Mrlri-dqG7I8TnyyEWzeiJII86t5CFmB0yxqt0aENYKDPpeUKKyz-RCVWWo8Qzjsvhj59IAjvJ6B0w&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=31&v=1450">commemorate and reenact</a> the execution of the Japanese socialist Inejiro Asanuma.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While shocking, Fox News' protection of the Proud Boys should come as no surprise. Fox News is explicitly deferential to the Proud Boys. They've interviewed McInnes <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7z4H6Szh2ve6Id8D7jzs329zHlLY_8QFASRFMilHlYvJ_9s4s8fGduER0jt7kFhcFxwsMT0T5dIFRIyG0LUiTySWgQmdFwvGppxnqnX7CKBplGlCwggrxK6ZW9G9dt5Fgt5d9TWoHzJjplnm0-mmOcGUqCDpkcMnnLKes-UtpQbo&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=32&v=1450">on air</a> without even identifying him.<b> Tucker Carlson has <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=hD_ytbz-4OyxZ1BTobpEJjDJ6Ial9QbKPRipRw9f7G21ZmDQqY-1p3lcfbVE9WGiEBxl1PT-JLRVadDtjBydg6nTjqw0eSl66qmfEh6-Qs5j8PJCF6TD4dBlcHtsQvLY&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=33&v=1450">posed for pictures</a>with Proud Boys</b> and refused to distance himself from the group, and in fact has <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4QM_bblVrAsxTsDP098gTqeT0KnGN0zldVwkNJWc6rq_1R9RHsw3jilTIPWSXxbnJRpo-K6hRllLCPTVCXc-KzHqucTxCLw2N6ZFoThLWyvZz8HsNb-wytl1TNifFJ_DWZ6vqay7LvkIvCgH1ohUd5A&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=34&v=1450">even echoed</a> some of McInnes' rhetoric. A <em>New York Post</em> columnist <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7z4H6Szh2ve6Id8D7jzs329v3lw1KlNCx2tucy67kPMckmXUmLN4h2kTus_hevymLZGijM6-2I7P2d-ksq0tDlvWoYIGNIF9dKawTinm4TvgNOayhFUCxHQU_IVYs8alhIfD7-JR6T75_6dG222MHWs&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=35&v=1450">recently argued</a>on <em>Fox & Friends</em> that the Proud Boys "don't have any real dark beliefs."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But it's not just right-wing media that gets the Proud Boys wrong. NBC News <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4T4qXlZo5cuaQL8sekLpljRKyj8oUkWH7gwxA2jXeF-VS6XXuHee16qvMoQOAcuotgDCJtx0DVLzVoPgzk6fLTB9iw-Y3w2xlOOhsfgDh-iOp0VnyiH9K3-rVSBFAhEJ6qdVDm0UAqc37eY4DSCjiyX&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=36&v=1450">profiled</a>the Proud Boys in 2017 and made a series of mistakes, in the end only glamorizing the group. A <em>New York Times</em> headline about the melee <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=YqgukYA3Mrlri-dqG7I8TlEduUL1iXJy78ltc5EgpYgvAabP4cTaUncJ0ZnPrYkuWi5Gktqzco02mQTrOOx3cw&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=37&v=1450">merely labelled</a> McInnes a "right-wing provocateur."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump has <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7z4EVfCjbZoWmUaHTpg4MOmB8MfLvR4mDFY2utEGgR43&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=38&v=1450">repeatedly</a> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4SngvrWYI_HLDY0CKk916Ow4pM60B43oWFqAIU_cEXJmLDRtFahCuayXHMa0bdEwl4zMae-xB6R0nfViJFDahdMk-Ln-_Qoo2UrhpAaufMmpZ6RU1R8EQlhuze5J8DZtdQ&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=39&v=1450">incited</a> violence at his rallies. Of course a pro-Trump group would take that call to action to the streets.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Amidst right-wing violence, conservatives complain about angry left-wing mob</font></strong></p></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.wnd.com/2017/03/mark-steyn-responds-to-firing-by-crtv/">https://www.wnd.com/2017/03/mark-steyn-responds-to-firing-by-crtv/</a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">There are strange goings on at CRTV, the new “conservative” online television network built largely around the personality of talk-show host Mark Levin.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A new show by Canadian conservative writer and talker Mark Steyn launched only a month ago has been summarily dropped without explanation, leaving Steyn bewildered.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“This has been a stunning and sobering week for me, with nothing quite like it before in my professional life,” he mused on his website this weekend. “Many viewers of ‘The Mark Steyn Show’ have asked me to write my account of what really happened. To be honest, I’ve found it easier addressing Trump’s joint address and the Obamas’ book deal and immigrant terrorists and immigrant gangs and almost any other subject – which is why I’ll be back on the telly next week, rather than sitting around the house getting slumped in despair.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Steyn went on to say he has not fully processed what happened and it’s a matter of legal dispute.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Earlier last week, Steyn tweeted that neither he nor his production firm had been paid by<b> Conservative Review, the business that owns CRTV.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“CRTV’s contract with Mark Steyn Enterprises has ended, and we will no longer be carrying the Mark Steyn Show,” a statement for Conservative Review reads. “CRTV wishes Mr. Steyn and his team the best in their future endeavors.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">But that’s not how Steyn sees it.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Find Out More ></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>65,727</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Actually, the contract is up on June 30th 2021. So @CRTV gave me 4 1/2 yrs notice,” he tweeted. “(But no severance.)”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The cancellation of the program was made at the behest of Cary Katz, CRTV’s principal investor and founder of the company. He’s a bit of a mystery man inside conservative circles, until recently supporting mostly establishment Republicans.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Katz built his fortune as founder of College Lending Corp., a private company that specializes in marketing loans to university students. It lent nearly $11 billion in 2008 but took a big hit thereafter with the advent of Obamacare, which abolished private-sector distribution of federal loan monies.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>For his role in the venture, Levin was an adamant “Never-Trumper” during much of the 2016 campaign – along with Glenn Beck, whose fortunes have waned, at least in part, because of the strong “against-the-grain” approach on his radio show.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div class="mce-content-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>right-wing digital media outlet CRTV has booked three of its hosts on the conspiracy outlet Infowars</b> in the last two weeks, serving as the <b>latest indication that the network is pivoting to appeal to the fringes of the far-right.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CRTV is a subscription-based video streaming network that streams through services like Roku and Apple TV. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It was launched in 2016 by Conservative Review, the online outlet founded and edited by conservative political commentator Mark Levin, and was initially <a href="http://www.marklevinshow.com/2016/10/24/crtv-launches-digital-network-with-mark-levin-michelle-malkin-and-mark-steyn-to-headline/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">headlined by</a> Levin and Michelle Malkin.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The network’s initial hires were voices who were already well known in conservative media, such as Steve Deace and Steven Crowder.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> But CRTV has recently hired a few right-wing YouTube personalities who have established cult followings in the far-right. Recent hires have included McInnes, a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/gavin-mcinnes-sambo-sen-cory-booker-is-shucking-and-jiving-for-the-white-man/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">far-right</a> media personality who leads a bizarre fraternity called “<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/proud-boys" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Proud Boys</a>” that initiates its members by beating them until they name five breakfast cereal brands (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPABaFF1pD0" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">really</a>). The Southern Poverty Law Center recently <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/proud-boys" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">named the Proud Boys a hate group</a> thanks in part to McInnes’ track record of using <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/gavin-mcinnes-sambo-sen-cory-booker-is-shucking-and-jiving-for-the-white-man/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">racist</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/gavin-mcinnes-trans-candidates-wouldnt-have-won-if-men-didnt-let-women-vote/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">misogynistic</a> and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/gavin-mcinnes-suspects-immigrants-may-be-to-blame-for-social-media-censorship/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">xenophobic</a> rhetoric on his CRTV show. Laura Tam—known online by her username “Roaming Millennial”—has also been hired by the network and has been producing videos for CRTV aimed at mocking concepts like structural racism.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">McInnes has made numerous appearances on Infowars over the past few years and appeared on the network as recently as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PJWpN-zAp4&t=155s" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">March 14</a>. But in recent weeks, more CRTV hosts have appeared on the conspiracy outlet—the latest indication of CRTV’s apparent efforts to appeal to the fringes of the Right.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">CRTV did not respond to request for comment.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Earlier this month, after CRTV host <b style="">Steven Crowder </b>was temporarily suspended from Twitter after he posted a video containing an anti-gay slur, he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGinbCyBD7c&t=669s" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">appeared</a> on Infowars with Alex Jones. Crowder urged conservative YouTube personalities who believe they are being censored on the platform to begin taking legal action against YouTube to “hit them where it hurts legally and sting them.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">During his Infowars appearance, Jones praised Crowder’s popularity with younger viewers, which Jones claimed “scares the globalists.” Jones also used Crowder’s appearance to repeat his bizarre claims that LGBTQ activists want to protect people who want to have <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/alex-jones-people-will-call-you-a-homophobe-if-you-dont-let-them-have-sex-with-your-car/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">sex with your car</a> and declared gender nonconformity was “total mental illness.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Crowder, who hosts a late night show for CRTV that often features distasteful jokes about LGBTQ people and racial minorities, also used his appearance to complain that his critics have falsely labeled him a neo-Nazi.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Jones sympathized with Crowder, saying, “That’s what they do to me. They say that I say there’s Martian bases. They say I say firefighters blew up the World Trade Center. No, I said there was a stand-down. It’s come out in the news. That’s how they get us all. They misrepresent what I say. They misrepresent what you say. Then they attack when you go on my show or I go on yours.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Jones made an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdrpF3w79_M" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">appearance</a> on “Louder with Crowder” in December 2016, shortly after Crowder announced that his show had been picked up by CRTV. Crowder had also appeared on Infowars <a href="https://youtu.be/pp6dFSFbNms" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">once</a>in 2016, before he was employed with CRTV.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Yesterday, Tam <a href="https://youtu.be/R-ab_P0sK5M" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">joined</a> Infowars editor-at-large Paul Joseph Watson while he complained that conservative institutions like Fox News haven’t sufficiently embraced right-wing internet stars popular with younger audiences. Tam said that liberals have turned TV networks popular with young people, like MTV, “into propaganda mills” that are “dang effective” and that conservative leaders aren’t putting the same amount of effort into connecting with young people.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The duo went on to discuss one of Tam’s more recent YouTube videos, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ3JTI6tbKY" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">in which</a> she claimed that so-called “social justice warriors” and members of the racist alt-right movement are “a mirror image of each other when it comes to race, segregation [and] views on society.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">” Watson said the alt-right movement only exists so members of the press can use it as a tool to attack “ordinary conservatives,” going on to cite </span><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/report/white-supremacy-figured-out-how-to-become-youtube-famous/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">our report</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> last year about alt-right activists on YouTube and the figures like Tam who have helped to legitimize them to more mainstream audiences. Tam lied about the contents of our report and claimed she was labeled an alt-right figure (she wasn’t) before saying that the alt-right is “exactly like Black Lives Matter, but for white people.”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In the hours prior to Tam’s appearance, Alex Jones had <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/03/27/alex-jones-infowars-releases-video-depicting-parkland-survivor-emma-gonzalez-member-hitler-youth/219754" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">been comparing</a> the teenage leaders of the March for Our Lives rallies to Hitler Youth, going so far as to dub over footage from Florida shooting survivor David Hogg’s speech at the D.C. rally with audio from an Adolf Hitler speech.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Infowars is the nation’s most notorious conspiracy theory factory, where viewers are indoctrinated every day with conspiracy theories including the idea that a </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">top-level Trump administration official is <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/jerome-corsi-trump-personally-selected-8chan-for-leaking-intel-about-the-storm/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">posting cryptic riddles</a> on 8Chan about a secret operation to destroy a satanic pedophile ring, that humanity is <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/alex-jones-wars-of-impending-world-war-a-lot-of-you-arent-going-to-make-it/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">on the verge</a> of a world war that will kill nearly everyone, and that <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/alex-jones-says-globalists-ordered-florida-school-shooting-because-fisa-memo-was-released/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">global elites ordered</a> last month’s school shooting in Florida to distract from Rep. Devin Nunes’ <a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-nunes-memo-20180202-story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">nothingburger</a> FISA memo. The outlet has also stood behind <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/owen-shroyer-thinks-michelle-obama-is-a-transgender-woman-seeking-to-implement-a-demonic-culture/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">claims</a> that Michelle Obama is secretly a transgender woman, that global elites <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/alex-jones-globalists-are-using-left-wing-citizens-to-commit-genocide/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">are using</a> liberals to commit genocide, and that the FBI <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/after-reading-nunes-memo-mike-cernovich-worries-the-fbi-will-execute-alex-jones/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">may execute</a> Jones.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Jones routinely declares that mass shootings are “<a href="http://fortune.com/2018/02/24/youtube-pulls-alex-jones-infowars-video/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">false flag</a>” attacks <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/alex-jones-claims-texas-church-shooting-was-staged-to-embarrass-trump/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">orchestrated</a> by liberal global elites, spouts <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/alex-jones-people-will-call-you-a-homophobe-if-you-dont-let-them-have-sex-with-your-car/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">bizarre</a> and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/alex-jones-loses-it-over-drag-queens-reading-books-to-children/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">inflammatory</a> claims about LGBTQ people, and warns listeners about a secret satanic <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/alex-jones-artist-painted-sperm-on-obama-as-part-of-globalist-plot/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">pedophile cult</a> supposedly <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/alex-jones-claims-the-bbc-is-a-giant-pedophile-cult/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">controlling</a> mainstream media.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">And believe us when we say that barely scratches <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/infowars/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">the surface</a>.</font></p></div></div><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; border-top: 5px solid rgb(239, 243, 243); margin-bottom: 2em; padding-top: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Tags:</strong> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/alex-jones/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Alex Jones</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/gavin-mcinnes/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Gavin McInnes</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/paul-joseph-watson/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Paul Joseph Watson</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/roaming-millennial/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Roaming Millennial</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/steven-crowder/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Steven Crowder</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/alt-right/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Alt-Right</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/conspiracy-theories/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">conspiracy theories</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/media/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Media</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/new-right/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">New Right</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/crtv/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">CRTV</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/infowars/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">InfoWars</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/proud-boys/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Proud Boys</a></font></p></div></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">===</font></div></div></div>