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The '''''Conservative Review''''' is an American website and brand owned and operated by [[Blaze Media]]. It was founded in 2014 by a group of [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] political operatives. The site's stated goal is to "cut through the talking points and the smoke and mirrors ... [by employing] two main tools: the Liberty Score and our conservative commentary."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.conservativereview.com/about-conservative-review/|title=About Conservative Review|website=Conservative Review|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-17}}</ref> |
The '''''Conservative Review''''' is an American website and brand owned and operated by [[Blaze Media]]. It was founded in 2014 by a group of [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] political operatives. The site's stated goal is to "cut through the talking points and the smoke and mirrors ... [by employing] two main tools: the Liberty Score and our conservative commentary."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.conservativereview.com/about-conservative-review/|title=About Conservative Review|website=Conservative Review|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-17}}</ref> |
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==History== |
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On September 1, 2015, conservative commentator and radio host [[Mark Levin]] was announced as the editor-in-chief of ''Conservative Review''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2015/09/01/firebrand-talk-host-mark-levin-to-lead-conservative-review/81234112/|title=Firebrand talk host Mark Levin to lead Conservative Review|website=USA TODAY|language=en|access-date=2019-10-17}}</ref> After starting his show ''[[Life, Liberty & Levin]]'' on [[Fox News|Fox News Channel]], Levin stepped away from his editor-in-chief position at ''Conservative Review''. |
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In October 2016, ''Conservative Review'' announced the launch of CRTV, an online television network, with shows by [[Mark Levin]], [[Michelle Malkin]], [[Steven Crowder]], [[Mark Steyn]], [[Gavin McInnes]], [[Steve Deace]],<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/magazine/steve-deace-and-the-power-of-conservative-radio.html|title=Steve Deace and the Power of Conservative Media|journal=[[The New York Times Magazine]]|date=November 3, 2015|first=Jackie|last=Calmes}}</ref> and [[Matt Kibbe]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.crtv.com/about|title=CRTV About Us|last=CRTV|website=www.prnewswire.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170128145906/https://www.crtv.com/about|archive-date=2017-01-28|url-status=dead}}</ref> Steyn's show was cancelled in February 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/14/inside-the-collapse-of-the-mark-steyn-show|title=Inside the Collapse of the Mark Steyn Show|first=Lachlan|last=Markay|date=30 January 2017|website=The Daily Beast}}</ref> [[Gavin McInnes]] joined the lineup in September 2017, and left in December 2018.<ref>{{Citation|title=Get Off My Lawn Debut Episode {{!}} Part 1 – CRTV|url=https://www.crtv.com/video/get-off-my-lawn-debut-episode--part-1|website=Crtv.com|access-date=2017-09-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922194558/https://www.crtv.com/video/get-off-my-lawn-debut-episode--part-1|archive-date=2017-09-22|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="levine">{{cite news|url=https://www.thewrap.com/blaze-tv-hosts-michelle-malkin-gavin-mcinnes-out-after-crtv-merger/|title=Blaze TV Hosts Michelle Malkin, Gavin McInnes Out After CRTV Merger|last1=Levine|first1=Jon|date=December 10, 2018|work=TheWrap|access-date=April 22, 2019}}</ref> ''[[Duck Dynasty]]'' star [[Phil Robertson]] joined the lineup in October 2017.<ref>[https://www.crtv.com/category/in-the-woods-with-phil-robertson "Phil Robertson is Back"], ''crtv.com''. Retrieved 2017-11-02.</ref> [[Eric Bolling]] joined the lineup in summer 2018.<ref>{{cite news|last=Pandolfo|first=Chris|url=https://www.conservativereview.com/articles/eric-bolling-joins-crtv-promise-will-bold-brash-bolling/|title=Eric Bolling joins CRTV: 'I promise it will be bold, brash, and all Bolling'|publisher=Conservative Review|date=May 3, 2018|access-date=May 3, 2018}}</ref> |
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On December 3, 2018, CRTV, LLC – the owner of ''Conservative Review'' and CRTV – announced that it had merged with [[TheBlaze]] to form BlazeTV and the new underlying entity Blaze Media. The ''Conservative Review'' website continues to be operated separately.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/glenn-beck-mark-levin-create-conservative-media-powerhouse-1165665|title=TheBlaze and CRTV Merge to Create Conservative Media Powerhouse (Exclusive)|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=2018-12-04|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Darcy |first1=Oliver |title=Glenn Beck's TheBlaze and CRTV merge to create conservative media company Oliver Darcy |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/03/media/crtv-blaze-merger/index.html |website=CNN |date=3 December 2018 |publisher=CNN}}</ref> |
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==Score and profiles== |
==Score and profiles== |
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Revision as of 19:27, 3 January 2023
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| Abbreviation | CR |
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| Formation | 2014 |
| Type | News media Political commentary |
| Headquarters | Houston, Texas |
Region served | United States |
Editor-in-chief | Mark Levin |
Main organ | Liberty Score |
Parent organization | Blaze Media |
| Website | www |
The Conservative Review is an American website and brand owned and operated by Blaze Media. It was founded in 2014 by a group of conservative political operatives. The site's stated goal is to "cut through the talking points and the smoke and mirrors ... [by employing] two main tools: the Liberty Score and our conservative commentary."[1]
History
Score and profiles
Conservative Review assigns each federal officeholder a grade based on their "Liberty Score", which is a grade based on the top 50 votes that that officeholder has taken in the duration of a rolling 6-year window, rather than just the last election-cycle.
According to Conservative Review, the rolling six-year window is "a more accurate picture of a lawmaker’s performance than traditional one- or two-year scoring methods. Scores are determined by points earned divided by potential points. Voting with the conservative position earns one point; voting against the conservative position earns nothing. Missed votes are not included in a member’s score."[2]
Targeting of foreign policy officials
After Donald Trump took office, the Conservative Review was one of a number of conservative media outlets that engaged in a campaign to single out career government employees that they saw as being a part of a "deep state", or "so-called Obama holdovers".[3] The Conservative Review accused Anne Patterson, former assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, of having "fully embraced the policies of President Obama that aligned with radical Islamic actors and alienated Israel."[3] It said that one State Department official was "leftist", citing as evidence retweets by the official of articles critical of Trump, but ignoring retweeted articles friendly to Trump.[4] Many of the articles targeting foreign policy officials were written by Jordan Schachtel, who had previously written for the far-right website Breitbart News.[4]
In March 2017, the Conservative Review targeted an Iran expert at the State Department named Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, who was involved in crafting the Iran nuclear agreement. One article of this agreement, which had suggested that she was a traitorous stooge surreptitiously working on behalf of the Iranian regime, was then forwarded by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to an aide of then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, with Gingrich writing, "I thought you should be aware of this." Internal emails show that White House staff then proceeded to look into how to fire Nowrouzzadeh, who was hired by the George W. Bush administration, worked nearly a decade in national security, and won awards from the Departments of Defense and State, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the F.B.I, emailed her supervisor where she explained that the article was "filled with misinformation". Nowrouzzadeh noted that she was hired by the Bush administration and that "I’ve adapted my work to the policy priorities of every administration I have worked for." While serving under Secretary of State John Kerry, she often advocated a harsher position vis-a-vis Iran than he did. A Trump administration deputy, Edward Lacey, dismissed her email, saying she was among "Obama/Clinton loyalists not at all supportive of President Trump’s foreign policy agenda." Following the publication of the Conservative Review article, Nowrouzzadeh received death threats. Nowrouzzadeh asked the State Department to publish a rebuttal to the article, but her request was rejected. In April 2017, the State Department reassigned her to the "bureaucratic equivalent of Siberia". Nowrouzzadeh alleged unlawful discrimination, and the State Department later settled with her.[5]
References
- ^ "About Conservative Review". Conservative Review. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
- ^ "FAQ". Conservative Review. Retrieved 2018-08-05.
- ^ a b "Trump's Trolls Are Waging War on America's Civil Servants". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
- ^ a b "Federal staffers panicked by conservative media attacks". POLITICO. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
- ^ Osnos, Evan (2018-05-14). "Trump vs. the "Deep State"". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2018-05-14.