DirecTV Plans To Drop NewsMax; GOPers Send Veiled Threat
"Nice little business you got here. It would be a shame if something happened to it."
Okay, GOP House members weren't that obvious, but close. RawStory reports that GOPers are all worked up about DirecTV planning to drop Newsmax from their channel lineup.
“If Newsmax is removed from DIRECTV, in less than a year House Republicans will have lost two of the three cable news channels that reach conservative voters on a platform that primarily serves conservative-leaning areas of the country,” read the letter, sent by first-term Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX), a regular guest on the network.
The letter, which was co-signed by 41 GOP lawmakers, accused the carrier and its corporate owners, AT&T and TPG Capital, of “moving to de-platform Newsmax by denying it cable fees on a fair and equitable basis,” and referenced comments from Democratic members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee that described Fox News, Newsmax, and OANN as "misinformation rumor mills and conspiracy theory hotbeds."
“Given the jurisdiction of the Energy and Commerce Committee over your companies’ business interests, it is reasonable to assume you took this letter seriously and complied with these demands,” the letter said.
OH NOES!!!! It was all a giant PLOT by woke liberals to deprive MAGAts of their daily minimum requirement of propaganda and Republicans must stop them!