gop-candidate-reveals-newsmax's-quid-pro
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is surging in the polls, with some polls showing him knocking Ron DeSantis out of second place. And now his associates are saying that he was told by the president of conservative outlet Newsmax that if he wants some positive coverage on their network, he’s going to have to pay up. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
Link - https://www.semafor.com/article/08/20/2023/republican-candidate-say-newsmax-tried-to-make-him-pay-for-coverage
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Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is surging in the polls with some polls showing him knocking Ron DeSantis out of second place totally. And now his associates are saying that he was told by the president of Newsmax that if he wants more positive coverage, he has to spend more money. Now, when I first saw this, first a couple things, you know, this guy is emerging.
He really is. He's come from nowhere.
I don't know if you've been listening to him, but he's kind of beating the hell out of DeSantis right now, moving into that second place. But we hear this story, we've heard this story forever, that not just Newsmax, but all these networks. There's some quid pro quo. We'll put you on midday when nobody is gonna be watching you. But you know what, if you buy some advertising with us and advertise your campaign, we're gonna put you on prime time. Right?
Yeah. And look, presidential campaigns, anytime we have a big election year, not just with the candidates, but with the Super PACs, advertising goes crazy. Each election breaks the previous elections record of how much money was spent on advertising. And Newsmax is basically doing what all the other networks are doing and says, hey, you know what? You've got money to spend, you've got your Super PAC, we would like that. If you wanna reach our audience, that's the best way to do it. So when this came out, and Ramaswamy's associates say that he told them that Ruddy told him. I think it's a big game of telephone where something got lost along the way because it does seem like Newsmax was simply trying to say, listen, if you wanna reach the entire audience, the best way to do it is advertising, which is true.
There's gotta be something positive about the Newsmax story. One positive is they're kind of kicking Fox's butt right now. There's an exodus there. But, you know, it's all of them. Do you recall, I used to do, for a long time I did commentary on CNN and MSNBC and even Fox, I was the left, I was the liberal commentator for them a while. But to show the impact that these advertisers have, I would be on the air in the close count, Pap 10, 9, 8, 7, and somebody would come in my ear, we're gonna have to kill the story that you're doing on Bayer and how Bayer Industries is killing hundreds and hundreds of women with a dangerous product. Instead, we're gonna flip it over to some inane issue. Pap, talk about the constitutional validity of this or that. And what would happen is, in between the tease coming up, Mike Papantonio, Ed Schultz discuss Bayer killing people by the dozens or hundreds with this new product. In between the tease and me appearing Bayer would make a call and they, or whoever it is, and Bayer is just an example, if you don't kill the story, we're gonna pull back on our advertising. Right.
And I'll take it even one step further, a story you may have forgotten about, because back in 2002, you had a weekly segment on MSNBC, rat of the week. And everything was going great. You would talk about the corporations, the problems, until one time it was the arsenic tainted wood from osmose, which later became yellow wood, they were using wood tainted with arsenic in playgrounds for children. And after you did that story, the following week, you were no longer there.
No, no. Can I give you the backstory? So, Griffin, Phil Griffin, whoever was the little punk that was running MSNBC wanted me to go on and apologize.
Yeah, that's right.
And I said, no, that's not gonna happen. I'm never gonna go on and apologize for a story.
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