{"id":1635950,"date":"2022-09-08T03:32:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T07:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1635950"},"modified":"2022-09-08T03:33:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T07:33:15","slug":"corporate-media-are-afraid-of-blake-masters-so-they-published-his-decade-old-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/corporate-media-are-afraid-of-blake-masters-so-they-published-his-decade-old-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Media Are Afraid Of Blake Masters, So They Published His Decade-Old Emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcorporate-media-are-afraid-of-blake-masters-so-they-published-his-decade-old-emails%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1635950&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Huffington Post recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/blake-masters-college-emails_n_6317b3aee4b0faa556c1d236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published<\/a> a \u201ctrove\u201d of emails sent by Blake Masters \u2014 the Republican candidate for Senate in Arizona \u2014 while he was in college. Allegedly, the emails illustrate Masters\u2019 \u201cembrace of contrarianism and devout libertarian ideals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HuffPost reported, \u201cThe messages were sent to the group email list of Columbae, a left-leaning vegan co-op at Stanford University where Masters lived and where the housemates made decisions based on a collective basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201ctrove\u201d notably features messages in which he encourages his peers to be skeptical and not blindly buy into government narratives surrounding 9\/11, tells them not to vote, and says NASCAR is \u201clame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So what?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Everybody changes and grows. Isn\u2019t it likely that Masters \u2014 who at the time of this writing is 36 years old \u2014 has changed his outlook on life from when he sent those emails as a 19-year-old college student?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, he does not hold the same beliefs now that he did then. For instance, HuffPost cites an article Masters wrote for his school\u2019s student paper in which he argued that \u201cyour vote is meaningless and it will not affect the outcome [of an election].\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since Masters is now on the ballot in a statewide election, one can reasonably conclude that his views have changed in the nearly two decades since the article\u2019s publication.<\/p>\n<p>But more to the point, HuffPost\u2019s piece is nothing more than a bad-faith attack on a candidate who is popular among \u201cMAGA\u201d Republicans and is within <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/08\/05\/poll-republican-blake-masters-democrat-sen-mark-kellys-heels-arizona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">striking distance<\/a> of a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/31\/democrat-candidates-in-key-battleground-states-are-ducking-debates-with-their-gop-opponents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vulnerable Democratic incumbent<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why would a leftwing outlet such as HuffPost mention that a Republican candidate thought NASCAR was \u201clame\u201d in 2006? Because they think Republican voters are stupid and won\u2019t turn out to support a candidate who \u2014 more than a decade ago \u2014 thought a sport <a href=\"https:\/\/yellowhammernews.com\/poll-reveals-nascar-fans-overwhelmingly-want-to-make-america-great-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">popular<\/a> among them was \u201clame.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The piece also attempts to frame Masters\u2019 encouragement of skepticism as though he is a crackpot conspiracy theorist who believes 9\/11 was an inside job.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the emails provided by HuffPost, Masters wrote, \u201cThe story we\u2019ve been told about 9\/11 may indeed be correct, but blindingly accepting it would be an error (as would accepting \u2018conspiracy theories\u2019 without reasonable possibilities\/evidence presented).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If skepticism about the government\u2019s narrative of 9\/11 is wrong, why did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/ben-smith\/2011\/04\/more-than-half-of-democrats-believed-bush-knew-035224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than half<\/a> of Democrats once believe that \u201cpeople in the federal government either assisted in the 9\/11 attacks or took no action to stop the attacks\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>What about the still widespread skepticism surrounding the 2016 election? In 2022, long after the Russia-collusion narrative was exposed as a hoax, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/general_politics\/april_2022\/democrats_still_believe_russia_changed_2016_election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">47 percent<\/a> of Democratic voters still believe Russian interference changed the election\u2019s outcome. Is this skepticism \u2014 peddled by the media and intelligence community \u2014 better, worse, or the same as a 19-year-old telling people they should question government narratives?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prior to winning the Republican Party\u2019s nomination for Senate in Ohio, text messages <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/news\/2022\/04\/19\/ohio-senate-race-j-d-vance-questioned-trumps-likeness-hitler\/7372220001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sent<\/a> by J.D. Vance to an old roommate in 2016 surfaced in which the candidate likened Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. These comments made their way across social media with the express purpose of discouraging Ohioans from supporting Vance, who, shortly after their surfacing, secured Trump\u2019s endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody actually cares about Vance\u2019s comparison or that Masters called NASCAR \u201clame.\u201d The surfacing of these comments and the corporate media\u2019s attempts at proliferating them are solely about keeping Republican voters \u2014 and independents \u2014 from supporting their party\u2019s nominee in the upcoming midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of engaging voters on the issues that matter to them and their families, Democrats and their lackeys in the corporate media are doubling down on passing remarks made by people who weren\u2019t even involved in politics at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These tactics show that candidates like Masters are effective; why else would they try to scare people over emails he sent as a teenager?<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Samuel Mangold-Lenett is a staff editor at The Federalist. 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