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Quietly, Google Seeks to Smother the Revenues of Conservative Media Like Us

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Let's see if Google removes any ads from this page because it has negative news about that monolithic media.

That's what the Internet giant is often doing these days here at RedState and elsewhere in online conservative media. It's not censorship, you understand. It's only about removing "misinformation" and protecting the besotted masses of readers who might disapprove of Joe Biden's policies or be curious about his son Hunter's nefarious activities.

Remember his laptop so chockful of incriminating stories, information, and images of his life involving international influence-peddling on his family name, his drug and alcohol addictions, stuff like that.

In another mainstream media attempt to protect Joe Biden from himself and his own family, NPR announced it was not going to cover that story when it emerged because it was clearly disinformation.

It wasn't, of course. 

But that's the kind of double-barreled censorship the legacy media has performed in recent years to protect its liberal narratives from sterilizing sunlight. 

Facebook has stopped distributing much news. And its algorithms silently shunt conservative stories and commentary into obscure electronic corners. At the same time, it removes, without appeal, all advertising. The impact of that, not surprisingly, is to starve conservative media of much income and potentially eliminate it.

Sometimes, social media even obeys suggestions from the administration about specific topics to squash online. A League of Extraordinary Media in alliance with government; that's called fascism.

The goals, of course, are to protect favored people and topics like, say, climate change (aka global warming). That phenomenon is said to threaten massive rises in ocean levels. 

You might remember, although you're not supposed to, that Barack Obama and his sidekick, Pancho Biden, went around telling graduating members of the service academies that global warming was the most serious national security threat they and the nation faced.

Then, why have we spent so many billions on a military arsenal?

Given wars in Gaza, Ukraine, and threats from Iran and others, that claim has not aged well. But if you believe global warming really is an existential threat to the world, then it augurs an awful future for Barack Obama's two lavish oceanfront estates. Somebody should warn him.

This ongoing attempt to throttle conservative opposition to these sacred liberal shibboleths is what we discuss in this week's audio commentary.

The most recent column, which drew quite a crowd, examined Democrats' increasingly desperate attempt to retake control of the Supreme Court. They're coming up with some, uh, unique strategies, including dumping an existing liberal member of the court because — wait for it — she turns 70 this year. I know, makes no sense. But it's Washington.

Another huge draw the past week was the latest in the Memories series. This one took me to the site of the Titanic's sinking and the wish of a survivor to rejoin his lost father there. To me, it was a heartwarming story of family and a little boy's yearning to be with his Dad once more. Here it is.

The most recent audio commentary praised Donald Trump for his fresh announcement and stand on the contentious evergreen abortion issue. The standard Republican position has been a national ban. Abortion is a topic that has damaged Republican hopes in the last two elections.

Trump's newly-proclaimed position is reasonable, smart, and seeks to set up a defensive political perimeter for Joe Biden's intent to batter the former president's designs on returning to the Oval Office. I liked it.

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