Democrats Panic As Conservative Billionaire Shakes Up Media Empire

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Democrats are losing their grip on reality.

I don’t mean that they’re going crazy. That ship sailed around the time they started saying “sex assigned at birth.”

I mean, they’re literally losing the ability to shape the narratives that determine what most Americans perceive as “reality.”

They know it’s happening, and they know exactly who to blame: a Trump-aligned billionaire named David Ellison.

Last year, his film production company Skydance (which gave us the refreshingly patriotic “Top Gun: Maverick”) bought Paramount, giving Ellison ownership of CBS News.

A few months later, he bought news site The Free Press and installed its founder — anti-woke, classical liberal Bari Weiss — as CBS’s editor-in-chief.

The change was obvious right away. Weiss refused to allow a story about President Trump’s deportation policy to run without proper context. Then, at a time when most mainstream outlets were scoffing at the administration’s war on health care fraud, CBS sent a reporter to pound the pavement and discover the true extent of these scams.

But Ellison wasn’t done. Late last month, Ellison inked a deal to acquire Warner Bros.-Discovery and its vast stable of media assets, including CNN.

This is a disaster for the Democrats. Bernie Sanders took to X to warn of a right-wing “oligarchy.” Elizabeth Warren signed a letter expressing “concerns” that the deal might violate antitrust law, even though she barely objected when the reliably liberal Netflix, which raised far more antitrust red flags, was in line to buy Warner Bros.

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