What are the odds, and so on.
Oh, Lord.
Ted Cruz has a media strategy. It’s called Breitbart.com.
Well, sure. If you're a crazy nutjob determined to shut down the government for unclear and unattainable reasons, a man willing to trash the reputation of your whole party with your senatorial shenanigans, might as well learn from the site that perfected clip-editing and story faking. But is there another reason the famously fibbing conservative "news" site might be eager to pump up a crazy senator with little to no actual shot at winning the Republican nomination, much less the presidency?
Breitbart.com, which boasts of having 18.7 million unique users per month — almost all of them conservative firebrands — is funded in part by New York hedge fund manager Robert Mercer, whose family is bankrolling a pro-Cruz super PAC as well as a political data company called Cambridge Analytica that is working with Cruz’s presidential campaign.
Breitbart.com insists it’s independent, though proudly conservative, and attributes its often-favorable assessments of Cruz to the fact that his independent brand of conservatism is appealing to its readers.
Got it. Wingnut welfare. Say no more.
Just as an aside, so we in America are now supposed to be just perfectly fine with fabulously wealthy people just finding and having their own pet Republican presidential candidates? Go to the party pound, find a would-be president with the coat you like, pick him up and give him a superPAC? No "appearance of corruption" in having a prospective president owe his entire new career to the rich guy whose name is stamped on a little metal tag and hung from Mr. President's collar?
All right, just checking. Nutcase far-right conservative widely despised by everyone who has to work with him and who has personally damaged his party more times than he has totes gets his own fawning "media" outlet which just coincidentally is funded by the same guy who's trying to make Cruz president in the first place. Got it.