How Conservative Media Learned to Play Politics
In 1956, a cadre of frustrated conservative media activists formed a PAC and bankrolled a populist candidate. Then they made Goldwater famous. Call it the Steve Bannon playbook.
.. Though little remembered now, Clarence Manion was in many ways the godfather of modern conservative media.
.. “Delegates, I understand, were bought or intimidated with Ford and General Motors dealerships, pressure from banks, insurance companies, and even, I am told, Ford Foundation grants.”