By Jean Guerrero / Los Angeles Times / July 22, 2021
The pro-Trump cable propaganda network One America News is headquartered in a sandy-colored building in the San Diego sun.
It doesn’t look like the epicenter of a collective delusion in which Trump remains president, the COVID-19 vaccine is deadly and “illegal aliens” are destroying the country.
But OAN, launched in 2013 by Louisiana-born technology magnate Robert Herring, is the latest chapter in San Diego’s history as a hotbed of white paranoid extremism. The network has become Trump’s favorite Big Lie megaphone about the “stolen” presidential election. In March, Pearson Sharp, one of its star correspondents, said in a report, “There’s still serious doubts about who’s actually president.” In another, he suggested COVID-19 vaccines are causing mass deaths. He has also said “hordes of illegal aliens” are “turning real Americans into second-class citizens,” and called Biden’s immigration policies “nation-killing.”
The diverse border city of San Diego has long been a magnet for white extremists. The Ku Klux Klan arrived a century ago to terrorize Mexicans. In 1980, the KKK’s Tom Metzger won a county district’s Democratic nomination. He lost the primary, but launched White Aryan Resistance, and a cable TV show.
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I understand the link doesn’t work unless you have an LAT sub.
The “for the balance of this article” one lets you access, but LAT only lets you read five articles per 30 day period.
One should worry more about KUSI than OAN. KUSI has a bigger local audience and has become the OAN of broadcast news right here in San Diego.
Take a look at their web site if you haven’t lately. It is a horrendous stain on our City.
FINALLY! Perhaps this will bankrupt the chancre in Rose Canyon once and for all!
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/dominion-voting-files-scorching-1-7b-defamation-lawsuits-against-newsmax-oan/