{"id":1865183,"date":"2023-03-02T05:04:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T10:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1865183"},"modified":"2023-03-02T05:06:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T10:06:28","slug":"lawmakers-mum-as-ticketmaster-doles-out-tickets-for-farrakhan-hate-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-mum-as-ticketmaster-doles-out-tickets-for-farrakhan-hate-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers Mum As Ticketmaster Doles Out Tickets For Farrakhan Hate Rally"},"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\">22<\/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%2Flawmakers-mum-as-ticketmaster-doles-out-tickets-for-farrakhan-hate-rally%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=1865183&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-->\n<\/p>\n<p>Ticketmaster makes money on Farrakhan&#8217;s attack of the&#8217;stranglehold&#8217; that Jews have upon this government \/ Getty Images    <\/p>\n<p>Jewish activists have criticized the ticketing giant for selling tickets to an Louis Farrakhan event, in which the minister supported Adolf Hitler&#8217;s cause and predicted another Holocaust against Jews. Many of Ticketmaster&#8217;s most vocal critics on Capitol Hill seem not to care.<\/p>\n<p>   <a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/claim-yours-ots-fbeacon-ads-30?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbeaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023marchots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">  <\/a>   <a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/claim-yours-ots-fbeacon-ads-30?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbeaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023marchots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">  <\/a>    <\/p>\n<p>Ticketmaster,\u00a0which\u00a0charges\u00a0service fees on each ticket it sells, raked in money selling\u00a0tickets to Farrakhan&#8217;s annual Saviours&#8217; Day conference in Chicago last weekend. His inauguration, Farrakhan received a lot of attention. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ogaride\/status\/1630082236841349120?s=51&#038;t=cVRrOEC7HqoeeefgDh4iIA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speech at the event<\/a>Farrakhan attacked the &#8220;stranglehold that Jews have on this government&#8221; Claim &#8220;Jewish power is what has all of our people of knowledge and wisdom and talent afraid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Capitol Hill received a few crickets, but almost no member of Congress voiced concern about Ticketmaster&#8217;s profiteering from the Farrakhan concert. This is a stark contrast with the lawmakers&#8217; reaction to Ticketmaster&#8217;s botched sales of Taylor Swift&#8217;s concert tour last year. This scandal was featured on the news for several weeks. It led to a Department of Justice investigation, as well as a Senate Hearing. Both sides of this issue claim that Ticketmaster, and its parent company LiveNation, hold a monopoly in the ticket industry. This has resulted in price gouging as well as failures to crack down against automated scalping.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Daily reminder that Ticketmaster is a monopoly, it&#8217;s\u00a0merger with LiveNation should never have been approved, and they need to be reigned in [sic],&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1592587226801934336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1592587226801934336&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1677775192890000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2MbzF_Wws5NHI2Cvyigj5V\">Write<\/a> In a November tweet, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D.N.Y.), expressed concern about Ticketmaster&#8217;s practices. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R.Wash.), who is currently the chairwoman for the House Energy and Commerce Committee raised concerns about Ticketmaster&#8217;s practices last year, while Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D. Conn.), and Amy Klobuchar(D. Minn.). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blumenthal.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press\/release\/blumenthal-klobuchar-and-markey-urge-doj-to-hold-ticketmaster-live-nation-accountable-for-failing-consumers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.blumenthal.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press\/release\/blumenthal-klobuchar-and-markey-urge-doj-to-hold-ticketmaster-live-nation-accountable-for-failing-consumers&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1677775192890000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2WvvtQLzgB2GDtSywEEWBn\">So called<\/a> On the Department of Justice to investigate. None of their offices were able to respond to a request regarding Farrakhan sales at Ticketmaster.<\/p>\n<p>Only Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.)\u2014who also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackburn.senate.gov\/2022\/11\/blackburn-blumenthal-press-ftc-on-bot-operations-amid-ticketmaster-debacle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.blackburn.senate.gov\/2022\/11\/blackburn-blumenthal-press-ftc-on-bot-operations-amid-ticketmaster-debacle&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1677779247588000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0DSxf1dX7cW7QBscaSMmX5\">spoke<\/a> out about the Taylor Swift debacle\u2014weighed in on the Farrakhan controversy when contacted by the <em>Washington <\/em><em>Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is very concerning that Ticketmaster chooses to use its platform for elevating and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ticketing giant hated by Taylor Swift fans and everyone else who has ever tried to buy concert tickets is now under fire from Jewish activists for selling tickets to a Louis Farrakhan event in which the minister defended Adolf Hitler and predicted another Holocaust against Jews. But many of Ticketmaster&#8217;s biggest critics on Capitol Hill don&#8217;t seem to care.<br \/>\nThe post Lawmakers Mum As Ticketmaster Doles Out Tickets For Farrakhan Hate Rally appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":1865186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[15793,16705,6208,3673,17970,4433,12073,7367],"class_list":["post-1865183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-doles","tag-farrakhan","tag-hate","tag-lawmakers","tag-mum","tag-rally","tag-ticketmaster","tag-tickets"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1865183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1865186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1865183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1865183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1865183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}