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An Analysis of Links from the White House's "Wire" Website

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> top 10 domains that the White House Wire links to (by occurrence), from May 8 to June 24, 2025:

    youtube.com (133)
    foxnews.com (72)
    thepostmillennial.com (67)
    foxbusiness.com (66)
    breitbart.com (64)
    x.com (63)
    reuters.com (51)
    truthsocial.com (48)
    nypost.com (47)
    dailywire.com (36)

jfc.

Obviously nothing but the absolute best from our elected official.

All fairly unsurprising. The president ran with the promise of perpetual partisan warfare rather than being above it. Also makes sense that the linked page word cloud would be dominated by his name.

So the majority are right-wing propaganda sites. Surprising (if you've spent the past 20 years living in a cave with no wifi).

> So the majority are right-wing propaganda sites.

Not a single right-wing site. A bunch of pro-israel sites though. Don't think any genuinely right-wing site would be pro-israel. Just like a genuinely left wing site wouldn't be pro-israel either.

This seems like a non-genuine take. You seem to have a definition of (American) right-wing that fails to include the President’s social media site?

I’m sure you’d like to divorce ‘true’ right-wing causes from whatever is happening in the federal government these days, but a new horse is pulling your cart, and you may need to find a new party to get what you want.

What's "right wing" about being a servant of another country? You think a right-wing president would bomb iran on orders from israel?

> I’m sure you’d like to divorce ‘true’ right-wing

I'm just pointing out reality. Like I said, it's all pro-israel playing the role of right-wing and left-wing.

> Don't think any genuinely right-wing site would be pro-israel

Except that a large faction in the overall right coalition are fundamentalist Christians who want the Third Temple built ASAP so Jesus will come back and they can get Raptured and look down on us sinners for eternity.

Now you may say "well no TRUE Scot^H^H^H^Hright-winger", but that'd be to retreat into an abstraction and ignore everyday reality.

> Except that a large faction in the overall right coalition are fundamentalist Christians who want the Third Temple built ASAP so Jesus will come back and they can get Raptured and look down on us sinners for eternity.

So zionist? What does that have to do with the "right-wing"? A "large faction"? What is it 5%?

> but that'd be to retreat into an abstraction and ignore everyday reality.

All three responses to my rather innocuous comment tried to divert the attention from "pro-israel" to "right-wing" in the same manner. Interesting.

The proper response would be, "yeah, why are the self-proclaimed 'right-wingers' so pro-israel"?

> Not a single right-wing site.

This cannot be a serious, good faith comment. How would you classify, say breitbart.com, then?

Breitbart was found by the guy who help found huffingtonpost. Think about that. It's major bureau's are in LA, Texas, London, and Jerusalem ( wikipedia ). Hmmm? And if tucker carlson and many others are to be believed, it was founded during a meeting with netanyahu.

It's former chief employee, Steven Bannon, proclaims himself ( in every interview ) to be the biggest supporter of israel.

Like I said, we don't have a genuinely right-wing or left-wing media. We have pro-israel media that plays the superficial role of right-wing and left-wing, but none are.

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