JD Vance Praises Far-Right Site The Gateway Pundit
By: Isaac Schorr (Mediaite)
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Vice President JD Vance praised The Gateway Pundit, a far-right fake news site, in an interview with founder and editor Jim Hoft published on Sunday.
Vance's adulatory comments came after Hoft said that he had "heard some news" about Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D), Vance's Democratic counterpart in the 2024 election.
"The FBI and DHS was covering for him and his ties to Communist China," stated Hoft before asking Vance, "Do you think they would have done this for you?"
"No, they certainly would not have. So this is why Gateway Pundit is so important, because you guys report on this stuff, and uncover some of this stuff, and I read about it on your website. But as I understand it, the basic idea is that while the Biden DOJ was trying to throw Donald Trump in prison on fake charges, they were also aware that Tim Walz had all these connections to the Communist Chinese party and did nothing about it," said Vance, adding:
And I think all of us who followed that election closely, obviously I followed it very closely, recognize, okay, so you have a guy who's governor of Minnesota, is a high school teacher, has no reason to go to China. Like, okay, maybe once you go on vacation, but you go over 20 times over a period of years, like there's something weird going on there. And it seems like the Biden Department of Homeland Security actually flagged this guy as a potential security threat for his connections to the PRC. And he's not just some random guy living in Minnesota, he's the governor, and he was the potential Vice President of the United States.
At the outset of the interview, Hoft asserted that his site receives "3.2 million page visits a day," causing Vance to gush, "That's amazing!"
The Gateway Pundit has weathered a number of defamation lawsuits for false claims it has amplified. In 2020, it was a leading propagator of conspiracy theories pertaining to the presidential election that year, and in one memorable 2018 episode, it published an uncredible accusation of sexual misconduct against former special counsel and FBI director Robert Mueller.
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This is borderline jaw dropping. Gateway Pundit is one of the most discredited sites in the history of the internet.
dont recognize the clown on the left, but the rest are Pillow Man, Rudy, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn and Jim Hoft (honcho at Gateway Pundit) . An all star team of far right conspiracy freaks.
Satan's minions
scum of the earth club members ...
The Gateway Pundit files for bankruptcy due to …
Apr 24, 2024 · The Gateway Pundit, an influential website that regularly peddles falsehoods and conspiracy theories, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as it faces multiple defamation suits.
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In a less insane world one would ask what the vice president of the United States is doing being interviewed by that web site.
But we live in an insane world
Feel real bad about Gateway going under.....maybe if they hadn't lied about everything
They were very right-wing. But the Internet is a big place-- there are numerous other sites that are very right wing. (At one point I remember there was a very leftist guy who had a weblog all about North Korea--- the site kept praising North Kora! IIRC he was definitely a Communist-- a Stalinist!
has no reason to go to China.
That's absurd...there are plenty of reasons to go to China!
(They should talk to Buzz!)
Actually this brings back memories. Early on I was a member of Charles Johnson's weblog LGF ("Little Green Footballs") Early on there was a time where it was #1 in blog ("weblog") daily viewership!
At first Johnson was apolitical. His main interest was mainly music. And he was a real techie. (The site had all sorts of cool features).
And members posted about music and an occasional news story. IIRC, over time Johnson went through periods of being a conservative, then a liberal.
At some point Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit started attacking Charles Johnson...(IMO Charles Johnson is really bright...Jim Hoft not so much).
Eventually I lost interest in LGF, and moved on to other weblogs. (Daily Kos, Freeper, etc). Then eventually Newsvine, then NT.
This is from the "About" page from the current LGF site":
For 24 years Little Green Footballs has been a leading source of unique stories and opinion about news, politics, art, culture and music, as well as a host for one of the best commenting communities on the web, wonderfully free of the trolls and haters that plague most comment sections.
We also provide a powerful, full-featured blogging system for our registered users to post their own stories (cont'd here)
I am posting this because Gateway Pundit is in the news-- but also, in my experience, LGF is historically important re: its role in the development of social media.
I just looked at it-- at this there nothing there that interests me.
FWIW, Daily Kos was a "leftist only" site-- but they also had some other wonderful non-political articles. "Freeper" was a right-wing only site. (I don't know if either still exist, but if they do at this point in time they would no longer interest me...