Okay. I have to pat myself on the back a little bit today, uh, but also kind of cry because
this is so horrible. I've been saying for months, Donald Trump is not married to Fox
News. Fox News didn't support Donald Trump early in the 2016 Republican primary. In fact,
it was sort of the opposite. Early on. Fox News was opposed to Donald Trump. They eventually
came around and I've said that they could bail at any time.
A few months ago, Donald Trump started sending some sort of light attacks against Fox News.
Shepard Smith was a target. The weekend anchors on Fox News were targets, and I told you Trump
could abandon fox news and Fox News could abandon Donald Trump. And if this happens,
watch out because Donald Trump is going to start promoting an even crazier channel called
o a n one America News, or sometimes it's o, h n n one American news network. This is
my clip. Okay? From months ago talking about this, Fox News is not necessarily going to
stick with Trump. They're about profit and right-wing propaganda. In a general sense,
Trump might be the vehicle for that propaganda, but he also might not. And just to prepare
you, if Trump and fox have a falling out, you need to know that Donald Trump's network
of choice is going to become this absolutely whacked out thing called o a. N the one American
use network or one American use.
Check it out online, but not with kids in the room and not close to mealtimes because
it is truly it'll, it'll turn your stomach. Uh, but o h n is where Trump will go if ultimately
he abandons Fox as the propaganda vehicle of choice. And right on cue yesterday, Donald
Trump tweeting quote, watching fake news, CNN is better than watching Shepard Smith
the lowest rated show on Fox News. Actually, whenever possible, I turned to o a n n and
I'm actually getting credit for this one. My predictions are normally so bad. I'm actually
glad to be getting some credit for this one. I noticed on the subreddit yesterday, didn't
David predict this with a link to Donald Trump's tweet? So it's all fun and games and okay,
I got one right finally after getting so many wrong, but this is a really dangerous channel.
This is even more dangerous actually than Fox with the exception that it has a much
smaller audience for now, so I guess in a way that makes it less dangerous.
They for now only have about 380,000 youtube subscribers. We are just one show that's an
entire network and we have about double that so it's small for now, but they're growing
quickly. Donald Trump putting the spotlight on them and saying that it's a good channel
is going to give them significantly more support. This is a channel that promoted the Seth rich
conspiracy theory. This is a channel that promoted a conspiracy theory about 17 year
old activist David Hog. They pushed the story about Hillary Clinton Funding Antifa. This
is, I mean Fox News is bad and it's very well funded. This is bad and this is what the president
is increasingly promoting. Uh Oh, the OAN also published smears of George Soros, but
like I probably didn't have to tell you that. That's almost a given for these channels.
Obviously they're smearing George Soros. It's almost like a rite of passage. I looked yesterday
after Trump tweeted this at some of the very toxic pro Trump internet enclaves that I don't
even want to name.
They're thrilled that Donald Trump is now promoting OAN because as far as they're concerned,
Fox isn't right wing enough for them and it's not pro Trump enough for them. This is going
to be an insane election season and this also relates to why we need to be thinking of media
in the context of who are we funding through our cable subscriptions and in other ways.
Maybe without even knowing it and thinking about how we can make sure that our dollars,
even the ones that we are offhandedly spending in a cable subscription aren't going to support
some of these channels espousing views that we find completely deplorable and disgusting.
Let me know what you think. I'm on Twitter at d pacman. The show is on Twitter at David
Pakman show. Make sure all to follow me on twitch at twitch.tv/david Pacman. I ended
up having an impromptu debate with Steven destiny banella yesterday about TPP, which
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