WSL pulls ads from right-wing website, not the other way around…
Mea culpa etc. Yesterday, it was revealed, here, that the WSL had banned Breitbart ads from appearing on the site during the broadcast of the Billabong Pro Tahiti final.
A victory for echo chambers, safety spaces and so forth.
Breitbart, as we might as well explain again, is a right-leaning website created by two Jews in response to what they saw as the relentless leftism of popular media and its demonisation of Israel.
It ain’t my bowl of hummus, if I’m to be honest, but neither are the flabby opinions on Salon, Mother Jones or the Huff Post. But I do like to read both sides and find a position somewhere in the middle.
Anyway, thanks to sharp-eyed reader and podcaster David Scales, we got it the wrong way around. It wasn’t Breitbart ads appearing on the WSL broadcast and subsequently getting removed by the WSL (at the behest of noted San Diego surfer Richard Kenvin) but the other way around.
The WSL was shovelling paid ads onto Breitbart!
Kenvin had sent a screenshot of the Breitbart home page to the WSL who, in an understandable panic they’d be labelled as an offshoot of the KKK only a day after race riots in Virginia, quickly pulled the ads.
The WSL has since assured BeachGrit the “appropriate filters are in place” so this sorta thing “doesn’t happen in the future.”
Oh, and here’s my little exchange with Kenvin.
DR: I just saw that you’d singlehandedly managed to get the Breitbart ads off the WSL site.
RK: Little old me? Oh, I’m such a homebody! I like cats and serious non-fiction books.
DR: At least, I think so, I missed the previous post.
RK: Yeah, I deleted it.
DR: I want to run a story on BeachGrit. So I ask…
RK: BeachGrit? Whats that? Oh I get it. BeachBart. BreitBeach.
I don’t go right.
That David scales sure is sharp as a tack! Surfsplendor and the grit are the highlights of my little surfing world. I must admit I love me some Scott bass as well, but the Chas-casts lately have been excellent.
Is that you, david?
Ha! No, but he does mention he visits here often. I’ve wondered what his handle is as well.
’tis me! I just installed Diqus on Spit! and Surf Splendor, so I figured I should stop stalking and start commenting. Let’s play!
Man, do I feel important today! Huge fan of the show for sometime now. Really liking the new formats, keep pumping out not just content, but solid content! If I may ad, my vote is for long format on the chas-casts all the way. Don’t go replacing bass though, he is a good egg, and highly entertaining.
chas > bass. Only way that the SurfSplendor duo could get better is if they recruit Jed Smith
Chas 2020 https://www.youtube.com/wat…
FUCK YES. Florida’s great white hope
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Chas weighs in at 100 lbs at least
can someone photoshop Rory in with a bandaged head, fist raised and the caption “oh the humanity”
A receding hairline that can only be matched by the neck-hole of that shirt
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YOU LOOK LIKE FUCKING SHIT. HAVE SOME RESPECT MAN!
I demand Mullet, KVF, Drunken Angel (ostensibly an anarchist), and all the rest of you commies stand with the democratic party, Colin Kapernik, and Ivanna Trump. Pull your comments from Beachbart.
I am not a commie! How dare you! fuck you! I am proudly in the mummies brigade of my local anarchist chapter https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Please learn you political spectrum!
Fixed it. Gooooo Diversity!!!!!
BreitBeach? My, he’s clever..
If you like bullet proof skateys, can I interest you in the latest from the Postie Garage? It’s an ashtray for a, wait for it, a motorbike! No? How about if I said I had found a way, through extensive genetic modification, to put tits on a bull?
I want to see two cocks put on a dog so that he has no idea which one to lick. Be amusing for a minute or so.
On the other hand, bitches be happy.
How much are you cunts going to pay me for the rights to my autobiography? I just added a chapter full of disgusting orgies in Montenegro if that floats your boat.
extract ?
It’ll come in handy when you ollie the Active Shooter, or even the school shooter, whatever wrong place at the wrong time you happen to be.
I read that and went looking for Rory and found his latest article where he slapped a 90 pound homeless woman.
What a world.
I found the same thing! Although, to be transparent,, a version of the story appeared here a year or two ago.
I’m surprised he didn’t rewrite to make Chas the recipient of the biff.