{"id":35678,"date":"2019-03-19T13:40:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T17:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35678"},"modified":"2019-03-19T13:40:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T17:40:12","slug":"if-you-are-still-convinced-the-media-isnt-trying-to-form-opinions-in-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35678","title":{"rendered":"If You Are Still Convinced The Media Isn’t Trying To Form Opinions In Elections…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Guy Benson posted an article at Townhall<\/a> about the recent Texas Senate race between Robert Francis O’Rourke and Ted Cruz. Robert Francis O’Rourke goes by the name Beto O’Rourke.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Shortly after Beto O’Rourke announced his 2020 presidential campaign<\/a>, Reuters<\/em> broke a fairly shocking news story about the former Democratic Congressman. \u00a0We now know that O’Rourke was a member of a notorious secret online hacking ring known as the Cult of the Dead Cow. \u00a0The public was already aware of O’Rourke’s previous arrests for DUI (an incident in which he attempted to flee the scene<\/a>) and burglary, but this revelation<\/a> was not reported prior to the 2018 Texas Senate election:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article includes a quote from the reporter who discovered the hacking ring:<\/p>\n

\u201cI decided to write a book about the Cult of the Dead Cow because they were the most interesting and influential hacking group in history. They illustrated a lot of the things that I think are fascinating about hacking and security work. \u201cWhile I was looking into the Cult of the Dead Cow, I found out that they had a member who was sitting in Congress. I didn\u2019t know which one. But I knew that they had a member of Congress…And then I figured out which one it was. And the members of the group wouldn\u2019t talk to me about who it was. They wouldn\u2019t confirm that it was this person unless I promised that I wouldn\u2019t write about it until after the November election. That\u2019s because the member of Congress had decided to run for Senate.\u00a0<\/em>Beto O\u2019Rourke is who it was…After more than a year of reporting, Menn persuaded O\u2019Rourke to talk on the record. In an interview in late 2017, O\u2019Rourke acknowledged that he was a member of the group, on the understanding that the information would not be made public until after his Senate race against Ted Cruz in November 2018.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Do you think this information might have changed a few votes if voters had been aware of it? This is only one way the media manipulates the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Guy Benson posted an article at Townhall about the recent Texas Senate race between Robert Francis O’Rourke and Ted Cruz. Robert Francis O’Rourke goes by the name Beto O’Rourke. The article reports: Shortly after Beto O’Rourke announced his 2020 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1291,3753,3838,163,11619,2119],"class_list":["post-35678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-elections","tag-guy-benson","tag-ted-cruz","tag-texas","tag-townhall","tag-townhall-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35679,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35678\/revisions\/35679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}