Viral Conservative Song "Rich Men North of Richmond" By Oliver Anthony EXPOSED As FAKE PLANT!
August 15, 2023
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10:17Now PlayingViral Conservative Song "Rich Men North of Richmond" By Oliver Anthony EXPOSED As FAKE PLANT!
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as posted by the channelA MAGA Account exposed Oliver Anthony and his song "Rich Men North of Richmond" for being a fake astroturfed campaign by corporate conservative James Howerton, CEO at Reach Digital to make a supposed "real", "authentic", "rugged" song. But it turns out that this was just a big conservative industry plant.
Account user MAGAHULK on Twitter exposed this by tweeting: "I didn’t want to comment on all this because Oliver Anthony seems like a genuinely great guy, but Matt Walsh’s sanctimonious word vomit forced my hand. There was nothing authentic about this song’s rise to popularity. Jason Howerton seems to be the key player involved in the astroturfing campaign. He’s the CEO of Reach Digital, which helps “media companies and political influencers grow their social media footprint exponentially.” Jason was one of the first accounts heavily promoting this song as he provided a background on Oliver Anthony and his faith. Jason indicates that Oliver Anthony had been contacted to record the song. Jason also admits he even covered the cost to produce the record. So who wrote the song? And how did so many big right wing-accounts have the video ready to post simultaneously? You can like the song, and like it’s message without gaslighting us into believing this was an authentic viral hit by a simple country man with a mic and a guitar. “Launch a product, get over 1.3 million hits” overnight was the article Mr. Howerton shared on LinkedIn.
This was another Conservative Inc AstroTurf campaign. Embrace it."
Conservative lunatic Dan Bongino then confirmed this story by admitting many of this true while also combatting the allegations by throwing many adhominems towards this MAGAHULK guy. Read the tweet here
Many conservatives like Kari Lake and Matt Walsh and others were praising this song for being authentic, rugged, etc. But this song is completely fake. It's an industry planted song, with an industry planted artist. This is an astroturfed campaign by conservatives to create some kind of conservative anthem to co-opt supposed "right-wing populism" to try to embrace some portion of the general voter base.
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