• dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    so Matt Walsh works for Daily Wire, which is a right-wing and conservative media company that was started with oil money:

    The Daily Wire was conceived by Ben Shapiro and Jeremy Boreing, who both worked for TruthRevolt, a news website that was formerly funded by the David Horowitz Freedom Center.[11] After the duo secured several million dollars in seed funding from billionaire petroleum industry brothers Dan and Farris Wilks, the Daily Wire was launched in 2015.

    For context, the David Horowitz Freedom Center is a right-wing Islamophobic foundation, and listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

    So why is ending the Iran war is a demand being made here, and why do we think Matt Walsh is taking this stance?

    Is it because Matt Walsh is an anti-Semite and wants the US to stop supporting a war that he sees as ultimately benefiting Israel (the way MTG ended up becoming anti-Israel likely for anti-Semitic reasons)?

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Matt Walsh is an oil industry puppet and closing the Strait of Hormuz is really really bad for like half the world’s oil production.