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Staffers at conservative website claim Trump is paying them for good press

Mon Aug 10, 2015 at 03:15 PM PDT
by Hunter
for Daily Kos


I ... I don't know what to believe anymore.

According to BuzzFeed, some Breitbart staffers think something's fishy about their "news" site's glowing coverage of presidential candidate and walking professional parody Donald Trump. And by "fishy," I mean they straight-up claim the site is being paid off by Trump. [ http://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/breitbart-staffers-believe-trump-has-given-money-to-site-for#.nwy9Ze683 ]

According to four sources with knowledge of the situation, editors and writers at the outlet have privately complained since at least last year that the company’s top management was allowing Trump to turn Breitbart into his own fan website — using it to hype his political prospects and attack his enemies. One current editor called the water-carrying “despicable” and “embarrassing,” and said he was told by an executive last year that the company had a financial arrangement with Trump. [...] Additionally, a conservative communications operative who works closely with Breitbart described conversations in which “multiple writers and editors” said Trump was paying for the ability to shape coverage, and added that one staffer claimed to have seen documentation of the “pay for play.”

Executive chairman Steve Bannon denies the charge, though boasts that he does "personally talk with many of the candidates and their senior staffers often."

So here's the challenge. The site responsible for Every Conspiracy Theory Conservatives Go On About, the happy little place where ACORN still lies in wait, Barack Obama's secret Kenyan birth certificate is always days away from being discovered, the place where Sarah Palin goes to write that it's time to impeach Obama for reals, the place that single-handedly made doctored videotape a cornerstone of the modern conservative press and the source of half of everything you might hear on Fox & Friends has current staff members complaining of a conspiracy within their very halls.

On the one hand, it's Breitbart, so it's certainly a very plausible accusation. On the other hand, the people who are claiming this ... work for Breitbart, so it's almost certainly complete hokum?

Wow. This isn't just your everyday paradox. This is the sort of paradox Captain Kirk would use to break a computer so that it stayed broke. It's the riddle posed by the ancient guardian of a legendary treasure. It's the conspiracy theory equivalent of dividing by zero twice.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/10/1410647/-Staffers-at-conservative-website-claim-Trump-is-paying-them-for-good-press