Crowder vs. Shapiro: Is The Great Influencer Mob War Upon Us?
Crowder vs. Shapiro: Is The Great Influencer Mob War Upon Us?
What l'Affaire Crowder reveals about not knowing you're a foreign op
For those who have spent talmudic attention to detail watching the war of words between the Daily Wire’s Jeremy Boreing and Steve Crowder the real game you’re watching isn’t the game being played. There are many possible interpretations of what’s going on between the different conservative e-celebrities.
This is akin to rappers battling with each other, sans bullets flying (or at least not yet).
A friend writes me:
This is the modern CAA applied to conservatives. This is how CAA create their super stars. They crush the other ones they own with the dirt they piled up on them over the years working for them. Their new super stars get to devour the old ones they want to get rid of. It’s like a really good recycling program.
I think we need to just stop pretending these are real businesses. It’s embarrassing. These are foreign-funded fronts, powered by foreign cash and the good will (and hard earned money) of true believers.
We’ve already delved into how many conservative influencers are in fact foreign agents of hostile powers and we’ve pointed out how those social media platforms have longstanding ties to foreign intelligence themselves.
On the macroeconomic side these social platforms are under increasing pressure now that high interest rates are changing the economics of personal consumption and thereby reducing ad revenue. We’ve not really seen high interest rates for nearly fifteen years and these platforms — Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat — weren’t built for them.
We’re now entering the part of the conversation where government action is needed to crack down on what are essentially foreign-funded intelligence operations in the United States. With any luck the high interest rates will force many of the players in the space to exit the fake marketplace once and for all and to get real jobs.
I reached out to Crowder to warn him about what was going on and this was his response. Well, OK.
Maybe Crowder is in on Big Con all along. His early career was financed by Cary Katz, billionaire owner of a student loan company and proprietor of The College Loan Corporation. It’s hard to read Katz’s bio and not think that he’s mob adjacent. Who has $20 million to “invest” in a conservative website? He lives in Las Vegas. He plays in poker tournaments which as you know from my Musk exposé tend to have a lot of mob connections.
Do you think someone might have a financial interest in college politics and hijinks if they were one of the larger student loan issues? Of course they would. College drop outs with student loan debt make a lot of money for student loan companies.
Crowder then went to work for The Blaze which is Glenn Beck’s operation. Shari Redstone owns the video streaming site — PlutoTV — which features the Blaze. There have long been weird figures around Glenn Beck, including Israeli handlers.
There were even talks about having Daily Wire acquiring Beck’s properties. I’m told that Beck, who is based in Dallas, is often spotted around the Wilks brothers properties in Idaho.
Crowder left the Blaze and now he wants to go on his own way. Much like to him but he needs to know that Ben Shapiro’s running an op not a business.
By bringing Crowder on, is the Daily Wire taking a piece off the board? Is the contract so filled with poison pills that it would essentially remove Crowder with no intention of paying him in full?
What is Crowder’s real value? He’s coming off as a poor negotiator in this scenario, but what is his real following, and what is that really worth? Or did he turn this contract down because his numbers are fake?
Def a poor negotiator and probably not as popular as he portrays.
Crowder got the Jack Nicholas treatment where a guy named Millstein now owns his company, his name, who he can talk to, etc. You can read about it in Sports Illustrated.