Another news outlet countering the multitude of left-leaning news outlets and infomercials.
Via National Journal
At last month’s Conservative Political Action Conference, a 22-year-old woman named Tomi Lahren walked out on the stage and generated the most memorable sound bite from the conference—perhaps second only to Phil Robertson’s speech.
In her speech, Lahren—who hosts a right-leaning talk show on the little-known cable channel One America News Network—said there is a misconception among young voters that the GOP is populated by “old, rich, white males,” and turned that criticism on the Left.
“Let’s look at the top three Democrats for 2016,” Lahren said. “You’ve got Hillary, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden. Old, rich, white, and if the pantsuit fits … male too?”
Lahren graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2014 with degrees in journalism and political science. When she was looking for journalism internships, she Googled “conservative news outlets” and stumbled upon One America News. Soon, she was taking a day off classes to drive down to San Diego and do a screen test for the network. Two weeks after graduating, Lahren moved to San Diego to start work on her show, On Point.
After Lahren’s CPAC speech, left-leaning websites picked up her “pantsuit” quote, leading to negative feedback and more publicity than the network’s received from mainstream outlets in years.
“Most of the comments that I’m getting are that I’m Barbie; that I’m a bimbo; that I look like a porn star; that the Koch brothers must have paid me to go on that stage; that I’m just auditioning for Fox News,” Lahren told National Journal. “If you’re not ruffling feathers at CPAC, I don’t think you’re doing a very good job.”[…]
Robert and Charles Herring, the network’s founders, envisioned it as an antidote to fluff-filled cable “news” shows. Charles Herring, the network’s president, boasts that the channel broadcasts 21 hours of straight news a day.