{"id":601625,"date":"2021-07-23T21:05:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T01:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=601625"},"modified":"2021-07-23T21:05:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T01:05:50","slug":"comcast-refuses-to-let-lincoln-project-grifters-air-anti-fox-news-commercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/comcast-refuses-to-let-lincoln-project-grifters-air-anti-fox-news-commercial\/","title":{"rendered":"Comcast Refuses To Let Lincoln Project Grifters Air Anti-Fox News Commercial"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fcomcast-refuses-to-let-lincoln-project-grifters-air-anti-fox-news-commercial%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=601625&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/AAD2EEF5-ED00-438A-9E2D-7C7DE6D23F7C-scaled-e1627086498884.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>One of the nation\u2019s largest cable providers has refused to broadcast an ad from an anti-Republican PAC that blames COVID-19 deaths on Fox News \u2014 and calls on providers to drop the top-rated cable news network from their line-up.<\/p>\n<p>Comcast has again declined to air a paid advertisement from The Lincoln Project, the scandal-plagued megadonor PAC founded by jilted GOP strategists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs Rupert Murdoch <em>trying<\/em> to kill Americans?\u201d the latest rejected spot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CIl_rf4v-YY\">begins<\/a>. \u201cThe Americans dying from COVID are almost all not vaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ad accuses Fox News of \u201cpushing anti-vax hysteria\u201d \u2014 before playing a clip of Laura Ingraham <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-is-fox-news-killing-people\">opposing<\/a> the Biden administration\u2019s proposal to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/internet-erupts-after-biden-psaki-push-door-to-door-plan-targeting-unvaccinated-people\">send government employees door-to-door<\/a> asking Americans if they have been vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFox News is helping kill Americans. Call your local television provider and tell them to drop Fox News,\u201d the narrator says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not about politics,\u201d the ad concludes. \u201cIt\u2019s about life and death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lincoln Project\u2019s timing could scarcely have been worse, as Fox News Channel <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/564210-fox-news-airs-psa-telling-viewers-get-the-vaccine\">rolled out<\/a> a PSA asking Americans to get vaccinated. Prime time staple Sean Hannity and \u201cFox and Friends\u201d co-host Steve Doocy also encouraged viewers of the top-rated cable news network to do the research and take the COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Comcast turned down the ad, and its revenue, telling The Lincoln Project that the spot violates the company\u2019s advertising guidelines. \u201cAn advertisement may be rejected if it is merely an attack of a personal nature, a direct attack on an individual business, or comment on a private dispute,\u201d said the guidelines, which the Project quoted in a dyspeptic <a href=\"https:\/\/hillreporter.com\/watch-statement-from-the-lincoln-project-regarding-comcasts-refusal-to-air-new-ad-holding-fox-news-accountable-for-promoting-vaccine-hesitancy-107567\">press release<\/a>. The Project noted that \u201cComcast has repeatedly rejected Lincoln Project ads,\u201d such as an extreme 60-second ad <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ed8HFawtEIE\">criticizing Toyota<\/a> for making donations to the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c<\/em>Comcast is one of the main sources of Fox News\u2019 revenue and our ad called on Americans to ask their cable carriers to drop the propaganda network,\u201d The Lincoln Project said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/hillreporter.com\/watch-statement-from-the-lincoln-project-regarding-comcasts-refusal-to-air-new-ad-holding-fox-news-accountable-for-promoting-vaccine-hesitancy-107567\">statement<\/a> after the rejection. \u201cComcast has made one thing clear: Their bottom line comes before anything else; it comes before democracy; and in this case, it comes before the health and safety of the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That sounds ironic, as The Lincoln Project has been accused of the same charges. Right-populist journalist Ryan Girdusky revealed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/the-lincoln-projects-predator\/\">The American Conservative<\/a> that Lincoln Project co-founder <a href=\"https:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2015\/06\/john-kasich-just-hired-a-strategist-who-has-waged-war-on-conservative-christians\/\">John Weaver<\/a> had long used his position to allegedly pressure young, male aides for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/deplorable-and-predatory-behavior-the-lincoln-project-condemns-cofounder-after-nyt-reports-he-allegedly-sexually-harassed-14-year-old-boy\">sexual favors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Lincoln Project promptly threw Weaver under the bus, saying, \u201cJohn Weaver led a secret life that was built on a foundation of deception at every level. He is a predator, a liar, and an abuser.\u201d The project said it had been a victim of Weaver\u2019s predatory actions, as well. \u201cLike so many, we have been betrayed and deceived by John Weaver.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although allegations about Weaver\u2019s sexual harassment go back at least 21 years, his Lincoln Project was able to recruit some of the most prestigious consultants in the Republican Party \u2014 who profited handsomely from their association with the \u201cNever Trump\u201d PAC. As The Daily Wire\u2019s Emily Zanotti noted, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-anti-trump-lincoln-project-facing-questions-over-spending-practices\">$50 million<\/a> of the $90 million in donations The Lincoln Project has raised since its formation went to firms run by the group\u2019s leaders. The grift seemed so transparent that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said The Lincoln Project seemed to exist deep in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/11\/07\/aoc-slams-lincoln-project-def-in-scam-territory\/\">scam territory<\/a>.\u201d Were Lincoln Project members putting their own bottom line before the \u201csafety of the American people\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Comcast, which owns MSNBC, has benefited The Lincoln Project in other ways; its leaders have been mainstays on the left-wing network, which frequently airs their ads for free as part of its news and commentary programs. Last month, Brian Williams broadcast a Lincoln Project ad titled \u201cWho is Antifa?\u201d that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/msnbcs-brian-williams-equates-antifa-with-d-day-veterans\">equated<\/a> violent anarchist rioters with World War II veterans on D-Day.<\/p>\n<p>With former President Donald Trump temporarily out of the public focus, the Left\u2019s focus has largely shifted to Fox News, especially the network\u2019s coverage of the novel coronavirus global pandemic. CNN\u2019s Dana Bash has asked whether Fox News is killing people, and Brian Stelter dedicates most of his show, \u201cReliable Sources,\u201d to bashing his more successful competitor.<\/p>\n<p>Denying Americans the choice to watch Fox News would banish the most effective center-right network on television.<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln Project co-founder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-cnn-mocks-trump-supporters-as-stupid-rednecks-who-cant-read-spell\">Rick Wilson<\/a> took Comcast\u2019s most recent rejection in stride and did what he does best: ask for donations. \u201cLooks like we\u2019re gonna have to make a big digital buy instead,\u201d Wilson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRickWilson\/status\/1418226186568802310\">tweeted<\/a>. \u201cWho\u2019s in?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.1322957198444\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In addition to donating to the Insurrection Caucus\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/comcast?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Comcast<\/a> is refusing to air our Fox ad.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like we&#8217;re gonna have to make a big digital buy instead.  Who&#8217;s in?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iIw0akHoXa\">https:\/\/t.co\/iIw0akHoXa<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/02qF5TKddL\">https:\/\/t.co\/02qF5TKddL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRickWilson\/status\/1418226186568802310?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the nation\u2019s largest cable providers has refused to broadcast an ad from an anti-Republican PAC that blames COVID-19 deaths on Fox News \u2014 and calls on providers to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601625","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}