“Controlled opposition” is a term that is thrown around quite loosely by anyone who ends up disagreeing with an outlook of conservative punditry. However, as it has become increasingly obvious, the GBNews organization is the very definition of ‘controlled opposition.’
GBNews pundit Mark Steyn refused to adhere to the new compliance rules of the organization, and also refused to indemnify the outlet against any lawsuits filed as a result of Mark Steyn’s commentary [Background Here]. Against the backdrop of Steyn’s public explanation for his departure, conservative pundit Katie Hopkins decides it is time for the truth about the GBNews outlet to be openly discussed. WATCH:
Within Britain, all media speech is monitored by the Office of Communications (OfComm), where official government censors track commentary according to regulatory and compliance rules established by the government.
As noted by Steyn in the contract he rejected: “To the extent that the presenter and/or the US producers do not incorporate Ofcom regulatory input into an edition of the program, this shall be considered a material breach of this agreement, and the Mark Steyn Company shall indemnify GB News for any and all direct loss, liability, costs, including reasonable legal costs, damages, or expenses that it suffers as a result of any regulatory breach.”
GBNews acquiesced to the thought police, and Mark Steyn is rightly leaving. Good for him.
It plays for me.
Working fine for me.
It is nice confirmation that Mark is one of the good guys. Along with being one of the astute and often hilarious guys.
Feel better Mark!
And then I think of neil Oliver. Just heartbreaking.
Reminiscent of what Steven Crowder was trying to get people to understand the choice he was being faced with from the Daily Wire which, by all appearances now seems to be the holding pen or corral for all of those who were going MAGA. A place to rein in the young ones before they too become uncontrollable.
Same everywhere, in Sydney Australia we had some control over the narrative with an excellent conservative radio station 2GB and such commentators as Alan Jones et al…all gone now due to these contracts and Sydney no longer has a conservative radio station at all and nothing on the idiot box either…and now they will attempt to get rid of your ability to read this stuff on-line. Please do something, this is all coming from the DNC and will not stop until you do something to stop it.
Also, in all seriousness you guys need to drop DS as a possible POTUS candidate and support DT. You may have noticed all the leftist swill support DS over DT within the GOP….what does this tell you? The massive win in FL in the midterms is because the loony left decided they couldn’t possibly win it and so didn’t bother to cheat and pretend that shows DS is more pop. than DT….get it? I suggest all the swing states would have had similar margins except for the cheating. And the Latinos love Trump, or DS would never have been elected in the first place…..
Also…DS could have stopped the Feds from entering DT’s pad until he had made suitable legal arrangements….BUT DIDNT!!!! And instead was being secretly prepared to take over GOP control while the LL attempted to have DT jailed or bared from running again, etc. ….This should also tell you something….use your critical brains guys….it’s our weapon against the insane fascist left.
Our one advantage other than the magnificent bastard DT, is that they are insane…………….
Does “DS” = Ron Desantis? Please explain, great irritable one.
(No disrespect intended, just trying to have fun)
You’re preaching to the choir here, regarding RD & DJT. We see through Ronny, albeit with sadness.
Excellent comment!
Yup and Crowder got mocked by mark dice for his revelation. Dice condemned him for telling the truth about the abusive contracts and for selling “merch” then went on to brag about his “merch.”
Crowder the Courageous. I don’t love his style, but I admire his courage and honesty.
log out of you tube
This is the way that all commercial media works, it has always been so.
This is coming soon to the US. My bet is they try to implement it right after Gavin Newsom is installed in 2024.
Seems that it is already here.
It’s pretty much already here!
…with Beto by his side.
Newson – Arschloch?
What? Dude, read the article ha ha….and if you don’t think the USA is a censorship nation…I have an excellent bridge to sell you in Sydney…..
The US government is doing their censorship right now through the social media companies. With the exposure of their schemes on Twitter, they will drop their attempts to hide behind the social media wall and do it like in the UK. They will handle it without trying to hide it. After all they are the ones with the hardware that Twitter was using anyway. Thanks but I don’t need a bridge in Sydney, they won’t let me in. I didn’t take the jab
Admittedly our 1A and 2A are being eroded but are still way better than UK/EU.
There is no free speech this side of the pond. That is why we rely on you as the last bastion of legal fee speech and self defense.
You are worse off, much, much worse….you have an illegitimate Gov. who are bought and paid for by the international Fascist left, they have poisoned the world with an illegally altered SARs virus and then introduced already existing poisons to further destroy humanity (to save the planet) and have intentionally caused a war with Russia and in many other countries too….
You guys talk a big game about your precious Constitution…but do nothing as the world is consumed by your politicians and vile Statest elitism.
You are in effect, a fascist nation now and killing millions of people world wide in one way or another…please use your precious Constitution to stop it!
I lived in the US for 10 years and I fully concur with you
Your line about conservatives talking a big game about the US constitution resonates.. . Some times I feel that this is all conservatives can do … They have been rendered powerless by decades of supporting RINO candidates and can only fantasize about a country ruled by the Constitution
The reality of course is that the U$ is now an openly authoritarian one party state that crushes political dissent by putting them in prison without due process and ruining their lives in a way Josef Stalin would have approved of
A Canadian chiming in!
We in Canada are in a monumental struggle with our totalitarian Trudeau.
Sadly though the “big dog”
the U.S.A. is running the show..I was born in the fifties in the U.K. and emigrated to Canada in the seventies.
The U.S. government ( not its people) are and have always been truly evil.
How will this all “shake out” only God knows.
But tens of millions worldwide are now awake.
I ain’t acquiescing to this tyranny..
The fight will be a challenge so what!
It’s better than sitting watching T.V.🤮
Cheers!
I don’t talk a big game about the Constitution. It stands on its own as a God inspired gift of truth to the planet.
We the people are not fascists. We the people care about all us “little people”, worldwide.
It is the banking families, worldwide and to a large extent in the USA, who are the enemy.
I believe that “we the people” will eventually rise up and start the worldwide spark to throw off the chains of the banking families/corporations. I have no idea on the timeline, but I suspect we are less than 3 years from a major change.
Once that happens, it will be up to you to continue the spread of justice worldwide.
thank you Bill.
And I agree.
We have NOT one for now to say let’s roll.
Many of us would.
Pray to God someone will.
maybe clean the cookies from your browser and try again?
It is exciting though that people are speaking out, walking away, and finding new ways to have their voices heard. More sunlight shining every day.
Bessie2003: It’s going to take a thousand simultaneous supernovas of light to move people off censored social media.
Like the starfish story, one light bulb turning on at a time works too.
Yep.
I don’t think so. I had some fool cursed me to die on Fakebook because I was the president of volunteer organization that did free work for parks. The park authorities made the decisions and volunteers were organized by the volunteer organization and the fool didn’t like what the park did, so they attacked me. Fakebook did nothing. I deleted the account.
My premiss is they more people know how negative these sites are the less they will use it. I feel there is a big awaking on the way.
Maybe I’m wrong.
Please don’t stop telling everyone the truth. Sooner or later the truth will come out ~ The truth has no agenda. Plus, it is easy to remember.
You are correct!
So true Bessie.
We are reminded once again to “become ungovernable”.
To not comply or to throw sand in the gears.
And and so many of us are finding ways to do just that.
Dark times ahead Bessie, sadly…”they” will crash the internet soon enough as they have been saying they will for a while now…they may use your emergency laws to do this or simply crash it and blame Putin…or the Donald somehow…. And then how will your sunlit day seem?
Daydreaming is fine…but if you want liberty, the physical embodiment of daydreams, well then, you had better get organized…or you will lose everything….your choice.
I disagree.
The best resistance is a disorganized.
The Viet Cong ( and others over the years) have shown that.
There are cells everywhere in the free world.
Cheer up!
We can assume you are “organized” and leading a charge?
I sure would like to see people like Mark, Tucker, and others at an outlet that is deserving of their contributions.
Wonder if Lindell TV has a home for these voices?
Would be something to see.
Sure, at 1/10th of their previous salary. Not all media jobs are alike, and many people aren’t willing to take such a large hit to their income. Plus, once you accept a position working for the little guys, you’ll never be hired back on a network.
(My wife wrote features for a local CBS station, after working her way up from indie channels. Working for non-alphabets, she made 25-30k/year. At CBS L.A., she made middle six figures. If she had gone up to the national broadcast it would have been over a million.)
Passing by Fox News later in the evening last night and saw Harmeet Dhillon was on Tucker . . . click.
Lou Dobbs, too
Agreed. I left Fox when Lou did.
Tucker is the only one there that i watch.
Good for Mark Steyn! The iron-fisted tyrants cannot control the entire Internet. The truth is getting out. These censors are scoundrels and propagandists.
They are running scared right now.
Absolutely true!! But they do have a firm grip on every form of mass communications. The truth gets out, but in drips and coded statements only.
CUT THE CORD
CUT THE CORD
CUT THE CORD
TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS
I did in 2005.
Whaddya want, a medal? Some of us like movies, and one can get smaller a la carte package of channels from Sling and other providers and bundle it with phone and internet for about $50/month. Pluto TV, Peacock, Crackle and other apps are free, though you do need internet to use them.
Thank you Invisible for taking the hit and responding to Dear Ol Bob! He’s wearing my patience away and wishing he was Invisible also. Why does he come here if not for the contributions of those who have the knowledge and ability to contribute to a healthy informed discussion. I love to read comments from some very informed individuals. How do they get so informed? They read from all the places I don’t have time to read, or ability to process that information because the expertise here is execeptional!
I love it here and cannot ‘cut the cord!.’ I choose to be informed best I can and love my spot on this branch. Thank you all for the contributions you make. Now please, Bob, give it a rest.
Pluto has OAN and Newsmax for free too!
CUT THE CORD!
Mark Steyn should have been Rush’s replacement. What’s the audience now with the two bozos that took over the show? Maybe 10-20% of Rush’s listeners?
Totally agree.
From what I’ve read 60% of Rush’s audience just disappeared, Dan Bongino is getting 25% of what’s left
Actually I didn’t know about replacements. When Rush passed, I was done. Hmmm
me 2
Mark is Rush’s true heir in my estimation. He should definitely replace the two ass clowns that are running it now.
It would be great for business AND for MAGA.
Who are the 2 ass clowns?
Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Sexton is a former CIA analyst from Glenn Beck’s Blaze stable.
not a stallion fer sure.
never heard of the other guy until the show announcement.
that noon hour now is met by silence at he house.
Good, i’d say.
I’d rather hear nature than 2 bought and sold slaves of the rnc cabal.
My local radio station broadcast Rush for many years, After Rush they tried Hugh Hewitt, who was not a good fit, now we have a trio of clowns Markley, Van Camp and Robins, from some east coast enclave. Rush did leave a gaping hole , I h. ad hoped Mark Steyn might have got the nod. He seems to be a very principled person with a clever turn of wit. Get well quickly Mark.
Mark would have been the choice to replace Rush but the same deal was , no talk about stolen election. Therefore he turned it down. I listened to about 5 minutes of the ass clowns on their first show. Turned them off and have never looked back.
WLS, same thing. They lost me when they chased off The Mancow.
Markley VanCamp and Robbins are based in my hometown Peoria IL. M and R have been broadcasters for 35-40+ years, both central IL recovered liberals who now speak the conservative truth. VC is a TX boy and very astute. The fact that the MCVR show has been syndicated to countless stations across the US in the past few years is a testament to their talent. Their byline “making sense of it all and having some fun” is a great summary of their show.
On Rush’s former station in Metro Detroit, WJR, we “get” Dan Bongino. I get a bit tired of Dan’s whining.
I like Clay Travis as a sports commentator with conservative takes, but Steyn was the clear and obvious choice. I was actually shocked that he wasn’t brought in, and wondered what sort of background political shenanigans were going on.
“Within Britain, all media speech is monitored by the Office of Communications (OfComm), where official government censors track commentary according to regulatory and compliance rules established by the government.”
So if I take eveything Zelensky and Greta says and states its a statement from Meghan then it will get censored/slandered?
By George, I believe she just described, Fox News, Main stream Media, 400 members of House of Representatives, practically the complete US Senate and the alphabet corruption agencies better known as the Chemtrail Spraying Pedophilia Organization Tax Payer funded.
Sounds like GB has its own Paul Ryan. Bravo! to Mark Steyn for walking — a man with a backbone. Pity that TC on Fox News replaced whatever courageousness he once may have had with duplicity. She nailed it with “performative art” and that it’s happening at Fox News, too (@ 3:48).
She totally described our Main Stream Media…”people you are watching are completely controlled and pretending to be one of us“. and like she said, it’s getting harder and harder to fool the people.
I never even heard of ‘GBNews” before.
Then you haven’t been following Neil Oliver’s weekly show there, as posted religiously by Sundance here at this very site.
I’ve followed Neil Oliver to a fair degree, but just saw him as Neil Oliver, not “GBNews”.
Those videos always had a chyron noting their provenance as GBNews.
Mark Steyn is brilliant and when President Trump is back in the White House, Mark Steyn needs to be in the Trump Administration as well.
I really like her spunk!
So when does Neal Oliver give GB News the old heave ho?
Soon.
When he gets a better offer in terms of $$$. All these guys are pursuing professions. It’s not a hobby.
Well Done Mark!! Thanks Brother!
LOVE Katie Hopkins. Another courageous warrior.
She is terrific,
Always get a kick out of her commentary
I have always enjoyed Katie, although I often wonder if she is ‘Controlled Opposition’
Just like so many others.
Once upon a time I trusted Alex Jones ( he is a bit much and over the top) I believed he was fighting the forces of evil; now not so much.
Same with Steve Bannon, Candace Owens, Charlie Kirk, Lauren Boebert, MTG, Ron DeSantis. (George Bush) <<< boy he fooled a lot of us, the list is growing folks.
Keep all your wits about you and
PRAISE GOD DAILY
We are in a WAR.
Lauren Boebert is the real deal.
I hope so. So many seem like they are at first….
See and hear Mark all day long at https://www.steynonline.com/
OFCOM
…one m.
Sorry to hear her say that Farage is controlled … always liked him – but as she says, I guess you can’t play unless you play along …
At least in Britain the government is up front about their censorship: “all media speech is monitored by the Office of Communications (OfComm), where official government censors track commentary according to regulatory and compliance rules established by the government.”
The American government works through third party agents because remnants of the 1st and 4th Amendments still prohibit direct, overt censorship. Using intimidation and threats from the FBI, DOJ and the FCC to insure compliance, not that the existing news agencies wouldn’t toe the acceptable line willingly…..since they are all left wing socialist extremists.
The world is getting more interesting every day. One day we will “hang out the city dump and talk about the good ole days”….
Mark 4:21-23 NKJV
Also He said to them, “Is a lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Is it not to be set on a lampstand? [22] For there is nothing hidden which will not be revealed, nor has anything been kept secret but that it should come to light. [23] If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”
“where the O stands for ‘Oh, my God! Is that a woman?'” 😆
Mark was the greatest to filled in for Rush.
The others were great but Mark was great
Mark Steyn is to good for corrupt GBN NEWS. Let them eat his dust and pay his way out.
I love that woman!
I met with a guy from the American Conservative Union (ACU) in 2010. The guy was nice enough. But, he was focused on how many names (leads) I could bring to the discussion. It was at that meeting that I realized that conservative media/organizations are solely focused on the grift.
When does Tucker leave Fox? Or will he?
Tucker makes $5 million A MONTH from Fox. He will stay as long as they pay at that level. He will be able to buy his own island.
I guess $60M was Tucker’s price (that’s what Katie said in the video: people will comply for vanity, money, etc.). It’s quite obvious that TCT is now a “performative act,” as Katie says, and that TC has morphed into a good, little trooper — Paul Ryan must be so proud that Fox News now has two Hannitys.
He already owns an island. He commutes from the island to work.
He’d be a good fit for the RAV lineup.
What a cracker jack of a woman!
Newsmax is no different. OAN is only slightly better.
I like a woman who looks nice AND has a foul mouth when it’s needed. : )
Is Katie single?
If we can just get her to switch from Coors to Shiner Bock I can probably procure a Texas passport.
Katie is not known for holding back on her opinions but she did this time out of respect for Steyn as she noted.
Trudeau’s Bill C11, or his Online Streaming Act (OSA) looks like an attempt to create a more expansive censorship capability than even the UK’s Ofcom. The OSA will empower the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) “to assume jurisdiction via regulation over any (internet) ‘program’ (audio or audiovisual online content) that is ‘monetizable’ because it ‘directly or indirectly generates revenues.”
On Dec 19/22, Trudeau’s Liberal “Minister of Canadian Heritage” appointed lawyer Vicky Eatrides to a 5 -year-term as the next Chair and CEO of the CRTC. She’s been a senior exec bureaucrat in gov’t since 2005 and her CRTC tenure will cover Trudeau’s next election period. What will she do with that power?
If the Bill passes the last vote, Steyn’s new “Mark Steyn Show” on the internet could be censored in Canada.
The video below is a brief excerpt of the obligatory OSA debate by the fully “appointed” Canadian Senate. (Compare them to the U.S. Senate) The Sens (including some Conservatives) voted in favor of Trudeau’s Bill–43 Yeahs and 15 No’s.
Sad to see, but here Mr. Oliver does a good job of showing us what controlled opposition looks like; has the right title to the video, touches on the history of things, and then concludes, basically, well, nothing we can do about it folks (my words of what he took 9 minutes to say).
I do think the oath the Founders, and those who fought along with them to gain freedom for the individuals, to pledge their life, fortunes and sacred honor is actually something that is becoming a worldwide movement as people in nations who lived under the assumption they were free are realizing there really is a cost to obtain and maintain that freedom.
Perhaps one day Mr. Oliver will also join in.
HIS Scottish brogue would fit in in BOSTON, Ma. Spent 18 months up there and thought they were all pilgrims yet,LOL.
Great to hear from her. Could only listen to Steyn, Farage and Oliver.
Where the O stands for, Oh my God is that thing really a woman
I LOVE Katie.
That is why she is known as “the gobby one”. “Gobby” is English slang for inclined to talk much or saying things that should not be said.
Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn are proven Free Speech Warriors. In the Former Canada they fought the section 13 law that made “Hate Speech” illegal.
Mark won that Battle. It cost him and Ezra dearly. Ezra’s SunTV was shut down and Mark left Canada.
Mark is a fearless Brave man. Everyone should read his books.
Funny, and Smart, not educated as the arrogant FILTHY LIBERAL critics would say “the unlettered Mark Steyn”.
He is my hero.
God bless this man.
The boys controlling the content are very intertwined with the agenda and ongoing reset. Those they let rant like Tucker are controlled opposition. Only a couple million viewers watch him nightly. Usually the same viewers. Damage is limited.
She is wonderful!
I haven’t watched the MSM or even cable news in years.
I stopped watching Fox in 2016 after election night which was their first time try to sabotage President Trump.
I now listen/watch podcasts. People refer to the podcasts as “alt news”.
I think a different term needs to be used. It seems that is where the journalists who refuse to play the propaganda games have started doing some pretty good reporting.
They are on YouTube, locals,odyssey,etc.
People’s News?
Wherever people like Mark Steyn, James O’Keefe go…people will follow them.
And of course…we have the Treehouse.
That was absolutely brilliant!
Katie,
Please lmk if you are available for a nice Valentine’s Day date!
Cheers!!
Sorry dude! She is married with kinds…
All media is performance art. It’s all infotainment. It’s all controlled narrative. It’s all ‘noisy gongs’. It has been like this for at least 20 years. It’s about time people figure this out.
Katie Hopkins – I do love this dear lady warrior – is stating what reporters have been subjected to for a long time. Most have taken the ‘big shot’ and became part of the media Beast. God bless those who have resisted and not taken the ‘shot’. God bless all who left the Beast system.
If you want to see the world for what it is, read your Bible. Spend time with God. Then, come out and view the world. As soon as world becomes confusing, go back and read your Bible, and spend more time with God.
As Katie says, “The people you are watching are completely controlled”. It’s all a charade.
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