My take right up to the Phone Call being released was this.
This is a bad look for Conservatives, the offer was an opening offer, anyone who has ever done contracts knows you start with a low-ball offer with plenty of wishes and demands…. The offered party can simply walk away or can make a counter offer. If a Counter is made then starts the negotiations with offer and counter until both parties come to a contract they both can agree with.
Knowing that it should have simply been done that way and kept private. But we then get from what I can tell this time line. Correct me if im wrong on it.
Around or about October the Offer was made.
The offer was then rejected by Crowder.
Next we have Crowder starting the “Con-website”
Next we have him Calling his friend about the October offer in January 3 to 4 months later roughly.
Then we have Crowder coming out with the “Contract” video
Within hours we have a lot of people pointing out it was daily wire
(Suspect on my part but as fast as it came out it was TDW it seems like it was leaked who)
Then because of all the speculation of heat at TDW they make a video.
Then after the video was made by TDW, Crowder releases a taped recording of the conversation with a Friend (NOT the entire call) ((But selected parts of it)) and Business associate. Why not release it all? Could it be in full context it would validate what TDW said? We do not know.
So here we are today, I cannot after looking at all that transpired with a timeline wonder if this was not a plan by Crowder….. Regardless if it was or not…. Both Parties admit to being friends for over a decade, so DICK MOVE by Crowder on recording a friend… That violates ALL Trust. It makes people suspicious of you to outright not ever able to believe you again.
Some will say the offer from TDW was a BS offer….AGAIN this was the opening offer and in negotiations you never start at the top, you low offer and negotiate… So that is a moot argument to anyone who has done contracts. I have and have had to negotiate for a better deal even though the person was a “friend” I will even tell you there was a “No Compete Clause” they wanted me to agree to for 5 years, I told them No, They also wanted my client list to become theirs even if I left, Again NOPE after a few days of back and forth we came to an agreement and final contract after the lawyers looked it over. SO NO the argument of the offer was BS does not stand the real world test.
I think both companies look bad in this, and it has two of the biggest conservative voices or should I say Business’s openly fighting. It is not good for Conservatives look . But I also must look again to that timeline of events, and unless someone has something I missed or got wrong. I CANNOT Trust a man who would what it appears violate the confidential conversations of a friend. But more it actually appears by the timeline to be a full on set-up of the friend and his business.
I am no fan of either, listen on rare occasion to both, so no dog in this fight. Just the observations of someone looking from the outside in.
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