#tipsheet

[stephen-barry]

Young Adult Activist David Hogg’s push to change the DNC and why ‘a real reckoning’ is coming to the Democratic Party https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/david-hogg-s-push-to-change-the-dnc-and-why-a-real-reckoning-is-coming-to-the-democratic-party/vi-AA1wET2M

FYI:

Florida Shooting Survivor and Student Activist David Hogg Says He Respects Most NRA Members (2018):

townhall.com/tipsheet/laurettabrown/2018/02/21/florida-school-shooting-survivor-david-hogg-had-this-to-say-about-nra-members-n2452376

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Dan Pfeiffer at The Message Box:

Even in a media environment where consumers have unlimited choices, a 60 Minutes interview is the coup de grace. A campaign would do almost anything to be featured. The highly-rated program comes on right after NFL football — making it the one thing on broadcast TV that still draws a mass audience. Donald Trump pulled out of the 60 Minutes interview, ceding the entire show to his opponent. In the campaign's final weeks, Trump also reportedly pulled out of interviews with CNBC and NBC News. He turned down an opportunity to participate in a prime-time CNN town hall. In fact, Trump didn’t do a single interview with a traditional news outlet in the campaign's final stretch. No national broadcast interviews, no sit-downs with local TV anchors or newspapers.

The winning candidate ignored the traditional media, focusing instead on partisan media outlets and politics-adjacent podcasts. While this change isn’t new, it seems clear that 2024 was a pivot point for the role of the legacy media in politics. Democratic communications strategies have evolved over the years — and the Harris campaign did some very innovative things. Nevertheless, our approach to communicating with voters continues to depend heavily on the legacy media. When we have something to say, we look for a cable or broadcast network to say it on. We spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the morning tipsheets and which surrogates are booked on cable news. New York Times headlines can be a party-wide obsession. Do Democrats need to follow Trump’s lead and break up with the legacy media? The Right Wing media’s advantage was particularly decisive during this election. This is the first in a series of posts discussing how Trump outmessaged us in the 2024 election and what we can do in the future. 

A Changed Dynamic

For a long time, the political press was the most powerful force in politics. So powerful that they were known as the “Fourth Estate” with the capacity to make or break a campaign. The list of failed presidential candidates who were unable to win over the tastemakers in the media is long. One can credibly argue that unfair press coverage from the New York Times and others were a significant factor in Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss.

The traditional media has been losing relevance for a while now. The death spiral of the political media is a much longer, more complicated story (I wrote a lot about it in my most recent book), but there have been a few dynamics driving this descent.  The first is the rapid pace of technological innovation. Newspapers were once the most powerful entities in media. A presidential campaign wanted nothing more than a great picture on the front page of the Des Moines Register, Philadelphia Inquirer, or Detroit Free Press. Most local papers are shells of themselves — simply carrion for private equity to drain the last few cents before closing up shop. While the New York Times and Wall Street Journal are thriving, the Washington Post is bleeding money and full of controversy, and USA Today barely registers (I had to Google if it was still published). Cable and broadcast viewership is down as more consumers cut the cord or turn to social media for news. Legacy media is simply reaching fewer people. Second, the media reaches people who are less likely to believe what they read/see/hear. 

[...] A Data for Progress poll found that Kamala Harris won voters who consumed “a great deal” and “a lot” of news but lost the voters who consumed no news by a whopping 19 points.

The New New Media

The biggest media events of the 2024 campaign were not on 60 Minutes or Meet the Press. They didn’t involve the New York Times or any of the major cable channels. They were interviews with podcasters Joe Rogan and Alex Cooper. The media titans are influencers with large followings and parasocial relationships with their audiences. Many voters no longer trust media institutions, but instead trust folks with whom they often spend hours every week. A Pew Knight study found that one-in-five Americans – 37% of adults under 30 – regularly get their news from social media influencers. Trump and the Republicans have better understood this shift than Democrats. At the end of the campaign, nearly all of Trump’s media interactions were with Right-leaning podcasters commanding massive social media followings. During Trump’s victory speech, UFC boss Dana White came on stage and specifically thanked Adin Ross, the NELK Boys, Theo Von, and the folks from Barstool Sports. The GOP has actively tried to support their influencers with interviews and attention. While Kamala Harris did appear on Cooper’s wildly popular Call Her Daddy podcast, most Democrats kept podcasters and news influencers at arms length.

Dan Pfeiffer’s latest Message Box Substack post shows that the Democratic Party’s overreliance on legacy media at the expense of nontraditional media came back to bite them, and that Dems should focus more on nontraditional media outlets in addition to the legacy MSM.

[republicanidiots]

Media Tipsheet for Writing abt Israel And Palestine:

1.). Hamas (terrorist organization) is attacking Israel (country, singular). No mention of Israel’s superior military forces can be made.

2.) Just write whatever Israel says. Example:

“Islamic Jihad, the group Israel blamed for the hospital blast, is an armed group often aligned with Hamas.”

3.) Be shocked at everything Palestine does:

“The use of hostages’ Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp accounts to livestream attacks and issue death threats is a new tactic, experts said.”

[theweatherinmyhead]

Adding on a link from that page that has info on identifying whether filming an encounter is more likely helpful or harmful.

hey chat did you guys know there's a whole website with informational videos on the rights you hold when interacting with ICE or witnessing interactions with ICE. all written by immigrants and for immigrants. idk man it'd be a shame if people watched these informational videos y'know.

[stephenmcelroy]

Portions of the Tapes Between Biden and Special Counsel Robert Hur Have Been Released. They’re Brutal.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/05/16/confirmed-biden-forgot-when-his-son-beau-died-n2656908

[deblala]

This Crime Against Young Boy Is Exactly Why FL LEOs Are Working With Feds to Round Up Illegal Immigrants

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2025/04/25/illegal-immigrant-accused-of-raping-13-year-old-boy-n2656082

[sagefrizzle]

Gonna keep reblogging this one with new news articles https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2025/01/30/breaking-arrests-made-in-brutal-chicago-killing-with-a-key-detail-revealed-n2651393?fbclid=IwY2xjawIIl6pleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHfGXw6o9wqeplLhDEKjIi-ZxDDmc6AGl48WKzESrnAXIGjk10mK7Z-I-bw_aem_P9KAM_MDKa0T4lbx8I8COQ

reminders for today:

if you or someone you know might need it in the next few years, purchase plan b. the shelf life of plan b is 4 years, and we might not be able to access it as easily as we can now in the days ahead.

if you are larger/plus size: go online and purchase ella instead of plan b. plan b is less effective if you aren’t under 160 pounds.

if you can, purchase books that project 2025 is looking to ban.

mass deportations are starting. if you see ice vehicles or agents, yell ice raid and la migra as loud as you can.

if someone asks who you voted for, keep your mouth shut. they’re fishing for traitors.

if anyone, anyone at all asks about your neighbors or their legal status in the us, you know nothing. don’t be the reason that their family is separated.

if anyone asks about your religion or lack thereof, keep it vague. this administration will look for any excuse to persecute you.

your friends are trans or queer? for the next four years they’re not. don’t expose anyone’s status as a trans or queer person to anyone else, even if you think you can trust them.

did someone you know get an abortion? no, they didn’t. they were never pregnant.

in short, don’t be a snitch, and keep to yourself these next four years. we’ll make it through this even if it seems hopeless at times.

this is all i can think of at the moment, but i’ll be adding on to this as the day continues.

we can survive this. we’ve survived before, and we’ll survive again.

[justiceheartwatcher]

The campaign to hide Kamala

I’m seeing a lot of commentary about the baffling way the Democrats are handling the Kamala Harris campaign: trying to pump her up into a pop culture phenomenon while simultaneously hiding her from reporters or any situation where she might be asked a question that would reveal her unfitness for office. It’s exactly like the Biden campaign only with senility replaced with stupidity.

But for those looking for a way to understand the strategy, I’d suggest they look all the way back to the 1800s. This isn’t a political campaign, it’s a medicine show.

The way a medicine show works is that the sellers pop up out of the blue, usually arriving in a colorful covered wagon. They dazzle the rubes with professional entertainment (maybe even a dancing stallion), then give them a sales pitch for some miracle elixir that they promise will solve all their problems. It can do everything from curing cancer to removing paint to growing hair on bald heads. While the people are dazzled and distracted, they’re ripe for the plucking and hand over their silver dollars. The sellers hope that by the time the buyers discover it was all a pack of lies and the product is not merely useless but toxic, they’ll be long gone.

Substitute Kamala for the snake oil and ballots for the silver dollars. If the Dems can just keep the rubes bamboozled until after Election Day, then it will be too late once they discover their horrific mistake. No refunds!

And will it work? As Guy Benson warns at Townhall.com, if the Republicans and the Trump campaign don’t do a better job of reminding voters what Harris really is like, impose some discipline and stop attacking each other, it just might. -Mike Huckabee

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2024/08/05/reality-check-kamala-can-win-n2642809

[country-bumpkin-69]

**Biden Threatens to Use Military Jets On Law-Abiding American Citizens** [https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/01/21/biden-threatens-to-use-military-jets-on-law-abiding-american-citizens-n2633933][https_townhall.com_tipsheet_saraharnold_2024_01_21_biden-threatens-to-use-military-jets-on-law-abiding-american-citizens-n2633933]

[https_townhall.com_tipsheet_saraharnold_2024_01_21_biden-threatens-to-use-military-jets-on-law-abiding-american-citizens-n2633933]: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/01/21/biden-threatens-to-use-military-jets-on-law-abiding-american-citizens-n2633933

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[mightyflamethrower]

At 94, Home Depot Co-Founder Explains Why He's 'Never Been More Frightened for This Country'

“If you look at what's going on around you, you know that we're falling apart. Our economy is falling apart,” he told an audience in Palm Beach, Florida during an event for Job Creators Network, which he founded 10 years ago. “I get up every morning, I swear to God, and I say, ‘what the hell is [President Biden] going to do today to kill our country? And he never fails to disappoint me. Something always happens every day that makes this country weaker, not stronger,” Marcus added. 

FULL STORY: (https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2023/11/23/at-94-home-depot-co-founder-explains-why-hes-never-been-more-frightened-for-this-country-n2631506)

[divashmiva]

Pete Buttigieg Wants You to Stop Driving Cars

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/09/03/pete-buttigieg-wants-you-to-stop-driving-cars-n2627883#google_vignette

[bleedinblueblog]

Tipsheet: Blues GM Armstrong ready to wheel and deal ahead of NHL Draft

http://dlvr.it/SrFSxm