A week ahead of the November 5 election, The New York Times is teaming with far-left Media Matters to shut down conservatives on YouTube.
In a clear-cut case of election interference, the so-called newspaper of record asked neoconservative Ben Shapiro and conservative Tucker Carlson, a major supporter of former President Donald Trump, to explain their publishing “misinformation” on the Google-owned video platform.
The object of the contacts is to force YouTube to demonetize their videos.
Both told the reporter to “f**k off.”
Carlson: Times Working With “Left-Wing Hate Group”
Times writer Nico Grant texted Carlson seeking comment “for an upcoming article that takes a look at how political commentators have discussed the upcoming election on YouTube.”
Grant frankly admitted that “we rely on an analysis conducted by researchers at Media Matters for America.” Hungarian communist billionaire George Soros, a subversive widely known for his interference in U.S. election, subsidizes the far-left outfit.
Grant claimed that Media Matters identified 286 videos between May and August “that contained election misinformation, including narratives that have been debunked or not supported with credible evidence.”
Carlson posted some of those videos, Grant wrote. He cited a clip of Carlson saying, “all the sadness we’ve seen after the clearly stolen election. All these bad things happen, but people I know love each other more.”
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But then Grant revealed his purpose: to shut down Carlson and pro-Trump conservatives.
He asked whether Carlson is a member of the YouTube Partners Program, and “if so, how frequently does YouTube demonetize your videos?”
And he asked, “has YouTube sent you messages, emails, or notices in the last year that your content contains misinformation.?”
Carlson texted two sizzling replies.
“So The New York Times is working with a left-wing hate group to silence critics of the Democratic Party?” Carlson asked. “Please ask yourself why you’re participating in it. This is why you got into journalism? It’s shameful. I hope you’re filled with guilt and self-loathing for sending me a text like this. Please quote me.”
Grant persisted, asking whether Carlson wanted to respond.
Replied Carlson:
Would I like to participate in your attempt to censor me? No thanks. But I do hope you’ll quote what I wrote above and also noted that I told you to f**k off, which I am now doing. Thanks.
Shapiro Thread
Grant wrote the same note to Shapiro, citing the same 286 videos “that contained election misinformation, including narratives that have been debunked or not supported with credible evidence.”
“We feature a clip of you saying: ‘…Your party rigged many of the voting rules in advance of the election in order to ensure an extraordinary number of mail-in ballots, ballot harvesting…,’” Grant wrote.
Grant also asked Shapiro if he is in the YouTube Partners program, whether the far-left-controlled website demonetized his videos, and whether YouTube had contacted him to say he was retailing misinformation.
“If you were wondering what the legacy media would plan for its October surprise, wonder no longer: it’s here,” Shapiro wrote above screen shots of Grants’ text.
And “What, precisely, is NYT doing?” he asked. Answer: Trying to destroy conservative media and “demonetize and penalize any and all conservatives ONE WEEK FROM THE ELECTION.”
The goal: strong-arm YouTube into targeting conservatives.
Shapiro wrote that he has always said President Joe Biden won the 2020 election. But “even if someone *does* think Joe Biden didn’t win the election,“ he added, ”that is still protected speech under the First Amendment.”
And, he continued, battling “misinformation” is hardly what the Times and its Media Matters co-conspirator are about. Rather, it’s attacking anyone remotely pro-Trump.
Continued Shaprio:
This is totally scandalous. In 2020, the legacy media shut down dissemination of the Hunter Biden laptop story and laundered the claim that it was all Russian disinformation, all to get Joe Biden elected.
In 2024, they’re even more brazen: they’re openly trying to intimidate YouTube, one of the most dominant news platforms in America, into shutting down anyone who isn’t pro-Kamala.
Again, understand the mission from these supposed guardians of free speech and American liberty: silence the opposition the WEEK BEFORE THE 2024 ELECTION.
They can’t get away with it, and they won’t. If ever you doubted that The New York Times is part of the Democrat-Media Human Centipede (see below), doubt no longer.
Like Carlson, Shapiro closed sharply: “So, The New York Times wants comment? Here’s my comment: kindly, go f**k yourself.”
Soros-Media Matters Connection
Founded by homosexual David Brock, a conservative turncoat who apologized for a book he wrote about Clarence Thomas-defamer Anita Hill, Media Matters has been on Soros’ payroll for 14 years.
In 2010, it announced that Soros paid the outfit $1 million to battle and “accused Fox News hosts of ‘incendiary rhetoric’ and said he hoped that his money would be used ‘in an effort to more widely publicize the challenge Fox News poses to civil and informed discourse in our democracy,’” The Times reported at the time.
But Soros is, or was at one time, deeply tied to the leftist mainstream media. In 2011, the Media Research Center disclosed that major media outlets “have staffers on the boards of Soros-funded media outlets.”
They included The New York Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today, and three major television networks: ABC, CBS, and CNN.
Last year, Soros’ Open Society Foundation delivered $500,000 to the Media Matters Action Network, an arm of the Media Matters for America. It received $500,000 in 2021.
