I think he is an opportunist and when he saw the rise of Trump and his loyal supporters went all in to cater to that crowd.
Think more to the folks on rivals who would fall completely head over heels into mediocre trolling. Folks like Rebelman and RoganBerry.
The people who like Clay Travis are the type of people who think Blazing Saddles is hilarious, but don't understand the satire.
This is obviously what happened. Usually its wackjobs of the opposite party who make money when a president's in power. And while I'm sure that's still the case, the number of Trumpers or almost Trumpers who are cleaning up right now is pretty amazing.
Pretending to be persecuted and fighting the (((liberal media))) bias is a pretty standard way to make a living as a Conservative. Travis just found a niche in sports. It's nothing new, just modern day huckstery.
Ann Coulter gets to do it under Obama, Michael Moore does it under Bush. That's how it usually goes. I think Trump people still feel like they're out of power even though they're in power. There was a little of that under Obama, but not nearly as much. Shit's weird
Fox News rose to #1 when GW Bush was in office so your timeline is quite off. It's more of conservative love to pretend to be discriminated against and liberals tend to pay attention when republicans are in office but not so much when a democrat is in the WH.
Clay Travis was opportuning white males anxiety long before Trump This thread was created 7 years ago
Speaking of, pre-Trump, I had no idea who Steve Bannon, Alex Jones, Bill Mitchell, Jack Posobiec, Mike Cernovich, Joe Walsh, etc. were. It kinda creeps me out how many of these MAGA media types just appeared out of nowhere and are now capitalizing by parroting conspiracy theories and hate rhetoric on the norm.
I think the point was that Alex Jones has become a lot more mainstream. I don't think that's arguable.
Who defended him? I don't think "he's not the same as someone who thinks America should be a white ethno-state" is really defending him
I hate the guy but to say he's akin to Ann Coulter or Alex Jones is at a minimum reckless and pretty damn dangerous
Oh he's absolutely not at her level, you guys are correct. That said, let's not minimize his idiocy here either.
No one is minimizing his idiocy but to compare Ann Coulter and Alex Jones to him is minimizing white supremacy and wacko conspiracy theories.
Can we stop talking about how much politics sucks dick and keep talking about how much Cray Travis sucks dick?
I've never seen moore's documentaries. Are they any good? I'm sure watching them now, knowing where things have gone, would leave the viewer.... in some way
I've never actually watched any of them. He won an academy award for Bowling for Columbine but I've never seen it.
Only saw Fahrenheit 9/11 where he theorized that the Bush administration falsely linked 9/11 to Iraq so they can justify going to war with Iraq. That is the documentary that has made him a target for rwnj, yet they still condemn him for his "conspiracy theory" despite everything that has come out.
In all honesty, 2010 TMB would've found some guy going on CNN and saying he loves boobs hilarious. Some people never grow out of that phase.
There's a video of Hitchens just destroying him for Farenheit 9/11 somewhere. Going to have to find it now.
I don't have any interest in watching any Michael Moore movie besides Canadian Bacon, but I'm also not going to assume that Hitchens was being completely ingenuous with regard to anything involving Iraq.
He talked about both and made a very disingenuous argument that people against the war in Iraq were convinced that the Sadam Hussain regime was peaceful, which of course it's far from the truth. It's very convenient how the justification for Iraq turned into a mission to free the people of Iraq when the original reasoning was the WMD that were being manufactured in Iraq. Changing facts mid-stream is something that the GOP has perfected and the democrats lag behind on.