I was listening to Andrew Klavans Podcast for nearly 2 years every day. Loved Michael Knowles and mostly agreed with the Stuff they posted on their Website.
The last show I saw from Klavan was when he said that he doesn’t think there was enough fraud to swing the election, which felt quite disappointing.
It seems he and the rest of the Daily Wire can’t really see what’s going on which makes their commentary quite useless in regards to some topics.
The last article I saw on their Website had the headline:
Trump Acknowledges Election Defeat, Stops Pushing Fraud Claims, Slams Those Who Got Violent At Riot
He never stopped pushing fraud claims though. I know they are producing some good content and it would be nice to finally see some conservative pop culture. But recently they strike me as very “snobbish”. Not in the funny, smoking Cigars and talking about the culture way though.
Ted Cruz has a similar effect on me, but he gets it.
When it comes to Politicians, the ones that didn’t try to uncover the massive fraud that went on have to go. How is it with media pundits? It wouldn’t feel right for me to support them financially right now.
Thoughts? I could be wrong about this.
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I was watching DW from about March extensively. But a few weeks after election I started to unsub and in a matter of week they were all gone, for good reasons.
I did play with the idea to sub, but passed and now I’m happy I stayed out. Meanwhile I did sub here.
Then the going gets tough the tough gets going. And that is the time you learn the true nature of people.
You have to put your money where you feel it is best served
Good, I’m not the only one.
What are your alternatives? I checked Rumble out for the first time yesterday and watched an Episode of Dan Bongino and one of Bannon.
I don’t know much about both of them, but what I saw until now was good.
From the many chanels had a month ago few survived. I’m still subbed on the Rubin report. Not really watching it and only looked in occasionally in the past, but the fragments looked still fine. So might worth checking out. The ultimate gold is Viva Frei https://www.youtube.com/c/VivaFrei.
I used to spend most of my time cruising PJ Media and Daily Wire in their discussion sections and perusing the daily content from their contributors. The election flipped me on both websites. I can barely tolerate most of the articles on either site.
Tyler O’Neil and Rick Moran on PJM and Ryan Saavedra really abused Trump and his entire legal team right after the election. All the sister sites aligned with PJM (Townhall, Red State, Hot Air) all seem to have taken a dive.
I used to think I was reading moderate Constitutional Conservatives, but right after the election they all seemed to slide straight into Nationalist Progressivism.
I don’t even check either site anymore. Now I’m primarily on Ace of Spades and Gateway Pundit, or alternate sources I find through Gab.
Pjmedia has gone to hell. Especially its comment section. Mostly never trumpers and soros trolls.
The DW’s new comment system has too strong of a nanny filter too. Talk about going too far to broaden their audience.
Dailywire (especially Ben Shapiro) suffers from what I call pundits disease. You eventually get to the point where you tone down just enough to “broaden your audience” and ‘appease the donors.” I hate to say it, but Ben Shapiro 2016 and the Ben Shapiro 2021 are completely different people and I have been noticing that for a while now. It really became clear to me when I saw him and Bill debating on election night as to whether Trump should call out the voter fraud (a debate I believe Bill thoroughly won by the way, not that it matters). Don’t get me wrong: Ben is still a very sharp person, but on some issues he never would have had any trouble articulating in 2016, it’s like he just doesn’t get it.
Another telltale sign of where people stand is how they are commenting on yesterday’s riot. The people who are going out of their way to beat their chest and virtue signal on HOW EVIL yesterday’s events were and the people who are merely condemning the thuggery while still acknowledging the cause of why Americans are so angry are so place. Listen to Bill’s take on yesterday’s events and then listen to every other pundits; you’ll notice a sharp difference. I’d also recommend listening to what Rush Limbaugh had to say today about the incident.
I get now why Ruhs is so big.
“Dailywire (especially Ben Shapiro) suffers from what I call pundits disease.” That? I think he suffers from what we call “mouth diarrhea”. Even just with his 1 hour public piece, I can’t imagine what can be the full 3 hours.
I think he has brilliant mind and lots of very good points but repeating them 100 times is tiresome even with the skip facility at hand.
Probably that’s what is bound to happen when people promise X minutes of daily content aired. I recently unsubbed from several bard game channels for similar reasons, they were great as long as posted stuff that they were enthusiastic about and had something to show. Then eventually made it into a “channel”, created schedule, and the incentive turned into “I need to make the Friday episode”. Too bad.
On the last p — I’m really sad about the yesterday’s happening too. Not because of what happened — but because what did NOT happen and should have. All the mass from the rally could have stand around the building with 1000 transparents about stop the steal and demanding investigation.
That, I it looks from the footage was not even attempted. I would be similarly disappointed without the break-in thingy.
I agree, haven’t listened to any DW podcasts regularly for several months, and stopped using them as my first go-to site when they started pooh-poohing the notion that the election fraud is real. A lot of commentators I might brush off the statement that “there’s no evidence,” but if they didn’t teach Shapiro that SWORN TESTIMONY IS EVIDENCE at Harvard then he should sue to get his tuition fees refunded.
Shapiro’s too much of a pessimist for me. Klavan used to balance that out with his optimism, but’s something’s changed over there recently. Most recently I was enjoying Knowles but even he’s lost something. I just decided I needed to spend my time (and especially my energy) doing something else, like reading a good book, playing the piano, or making friends here at BW dot com.
They are all great guys over there. I understand what you mean by snobbish though. There are a lot of nice things I would say about them but here are my two cents.
Andrew Klavan is the worst theologian in the public eye.
Matt Walsh is abrasive and sometimes states his opinions as facts, rather than “as if they were facts” which has led me astray in the past.
Ben Shapiro is a great wealth of knowledge, but has a habit of expressing himself on topics that he does not understand as well with the same levels of surety as the ones he does understand.
Michael Knowles oscillates from intelligent to unintelligible.
I say all these things because I want you to feel that I have though about my answer. They have valuable input, and are red blooded patriots; best of all Jeremy Boering is almost the most we can ask for the leader of a news corporation, he is succinct and does well in his role. Good allies.
So maybe The Daily Wire goes away but stays around as a platform with Jeremy doing what he seems to still be able to do better than any of the stars are able to to their jobs now?
I think they are a valuable facet in getting a range of well thought out opinions.
Except Andrew Klavan’s theological takes. Those are just the worst.
Maybe they need a Sabbatical to come up with new material?
This can no longer be about Trump, and Biden is an old pony who does not even have one trick.
I am done with them. I haven’t been able to log into my DW account since they released the app (about a year ago). I have been charged for it, though. I’m planning to shutdown my credit card.
It was the repeated “no evidence” comments by Ben that did me in.
You may have to do exactly that. Now, with Disputed Charges they issue you a new account number.
But they gave me the number to use online until the new physical card is mailed.
Did Ben have an answer for the Georgia surveillance footage or the statistical anomalies? Did Ben have any explanation for every single court case being thrown out on procedural grounds? Did he say anything about no plaintiff anywhere was entitled to any discovery, much less the ability to audit votes/machines? The courts were a joke throughout this process.
He did interview the lawyer who seems to have first presented the Georgia surveillance footage but he initially said the claim of fraud was debunked. To your multiple points – yeah!
Ben said the Georgia video surveillance footage was debunked? Really? Good grief, what was happened to that man?
Yeah, it was right after it came out, whatever the GA election department said, I presume. Something about how the law allowed poll watchers but didn’t require them.