James Lacy is a California conservative commentator who has provided refreshing insight on political developments in Washington DC, across the country, and even in California. He has spoken on local public television about the state of the California Republican Party, but has maintained respectable optimism for conservatism's long-term gains.
Lacy supported President Trump early on, too, and was unfazed by damaging reports in the media as well as the heavily slanted polling in Hillary Clinton's favor. The disparaging mockery of the left-wing media elites never distempered him, despite their best efforts.
Trump won, we are all winning, and the media is losing big time in terms of ratings, revenue, and respectability.
Of course, Lacy's dreams and determination have not stopped the diminished, corrosive liberal media from attacking him with abandon. Their unethical efforts to write nasty hit pieces against political opponents have become so overt, it's amazing that anyone takes them seriously, or treats them even level above parody mags like MAD or National Lampoon.
When Lacy wanted to discuss and learn more about the new leadership for the flailing Alt-Media rag LA Weekly, Gustavo Arellano threatened him with a hit piece by muck-raking has-been R. Scott Moxley.
California Political Review reports:
There is a controversy on social media going on regarding
the new ownership of the LA Weekly newspaper.
But Gustavo Arellano, a former writer for the OC Weekly and Voice of
Orange County …
Lacy is too charitable. Arellano refused to lead his failing alt-media rag, since all the pot and porn ads aren't bringing in enough money. The owners of the OC Weekly old La Cucaracha Arellano to cut the overpaid staff by half. Gustavo offered to cut his own salary as part of a different means to save the other hack writers. The ownership said "No!", and Arellano decided to quit.
Wow! Just thinking about it show what a win-win that was! The owners gut the staff, and Arellano threw himself on the funeral bier for added fun. So much winning.
Now, about LA Weekly, last week's headlines announced that a new company had taken over that alt-weekly, and terminated nine of the editors and reduced the office to one staffer.
Lacy commented on social media about this, but Arellano seemds to have a problem with other people exercising their First Amendment rights:
[He] threatened me from participating in the debate on social media by tweeting to me after I made a comment:
“But with you popping in, don’t get @RScottMoxley
interested!”
Should we really be scared of former SoCal award winner Moxley, though?
Lacy continues:
R. Scott Moxley describes himself as a person whose
“award-winning investigative journalism has touched nerves for two decades.” Moxley’s pieces include very negative
exposes, often targeting conservatives, like me. So, what Arellano was conveying to me in his
tweet, now deleted, and blocked from his account, is that if I had anything
more to say about the LA Weekly newspaper ownership issue, that I could draw a
retaliatory negative story from his friend Moxley at the OC Weekly.
Arellano has a habit of attacking people in the social media sphere, then retreating, deleting, and finally blocking those whom he has criticized. Not much courage there, folks, and his influence is diminishing considerably by the day. Where is he writing now? At least we don't have to settle for his anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-American rants in print anymore.
Journalism is great when it “touches nerves” and exposes
hidden truths. But journalists are quite
shameful individuals when they threaten to use their contacts to suppress
public participation in debate.
The double standard on freedom of speech lies with the left. They want freedom of speech, but only if you are talking about what they want to hear. Anything controversial or in conflict with their brittle worldview, and they lash out.
Yet it
is very clear that Gustavo Arellano intended to bully me into silence, and for
this he deserves to be outed for the bully he is, and he owes me, and his profession,
and even R. Scott Moxley, an apology.
They are bullies, but the good news is that conservatives are finding more–and easier–ways to punch back twice as hard. These hollow leftist are falling back, unable to counter the conservative alternatives which Saul Alinksy warned about.
I do believe, however, that justice will be swift indeed. They had written a hit piece against me in December 2016. Friends and followers of mine actually celebrated, because if I was getting the attention of these left-wing hacks, it means that I was really becoming a mover and shaker in the SoCal scene. Incidentally enough, however, their usual coven of readers (all five of them) mocked Moxley and the editors for printing a hit piece against "little ol'" me. Am I really that important? Better question: is OC Weekly important?
Funny but true, the corrupt, hateful, bigoted, anti-liberty left-wing media are getting taken to the cleaners. Conservatives are fighting back and winning the policy and political debate. President Trump took off the gloves and beat down the media as no other President would–or could. Now we are watching their once invincible army falling apart all around them!
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