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MeatEater, a popular hunter-focused entertainment company started by outdoorsman and writer Steven Rinella, was purchased by a rabidly anti-gun Democrat financier late last year in a move that has raised alarms among hunters and gun-rights activists. The Chernin Group, a California-based investment fund run by wealthy Democratic activist and Hollywood producer Peter Chernin, purchased a controlling stake in Rinella’s MeatEater in 2018.

The left-wing, anti-gun political activism of MeatEater’s largest investor, as well as political commentary and activity from some of its key partners and sponsors, complicates the company’s expansion plans given that such a large percentage of hunters in the United States — who comprise MeatEater’s core audience — staunchly support both gun rights and Republican political candidates. Chernin’s company announced the investment in MeatEater and its hiring of a new CEO for the company via a press release last October.

Chernin, who has donated nearly $500,000 to Democratic candidates and causes since 2015, has repeatedly attacked gun rights and Second Amendment activists over the last year. He retweeted comedian Michael Ian Black’s attack on the National Rifle Association as a “terrorist organization” and a separate Hollywood personality’s attempt to force FedEx and Visa to sever their ties with the NRA.

In addition to endorsing calls for a ban on so-called “trophy hunting,” Chernin also signed a petition backed by a Michael Bloomberg-funded gun control group demanding a federal ban on semi-automatic weapons.

His detractors, however, may have had a point, given O’Brien’s close connections to long-time Tester political operatives. That’s because O’Brien also serves on the board of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers (BHA), a non-profit run by Land Tawney, a Montana Democratic operative and former Obama presidential campaign surrogate. In 2012, Tawney ran the Montana Hunters and Anglers PAC, which spent seven figures to defeat Tester’s Republican challenger at the time.

According to Federal Election Commission Records, 100 percent of the expenditures from Tawney’s PAC–nearly $1.2 million–were used to oppose Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg, Tester’s opponent. The BHA chairman, Ryan Busse, served as a formal Tester campaign surrogate during the Democratic incumbent’s 2018 re-election campaign. Critics of BHA derisively refer to it as a “green decoy,” an organization that presents as pro-hunter but actually exists to push conventional left-wing environmental policies.

“Backcountry Hunters and Anglers (BHA) represents itself as good-ole-boy outdoorsmen who simply want to hunt and fish and be left alone,” the Environmental Policy Alliance (EPA) writes on the website GreenDecoys.com. “But don’t be fooled. As evidenced by both its sources of funding and current leadership, BHA is nothing more than a big green activist organization pushing a radical environmentalist agenda.”

Good info and deserves further research. This is a group that is also supported by Randy Newberg and other public land advocates. I hate getting duped.


mike r

I know Randy Newberg is or was a member on here and I have posted on his forum before but I believe he has advocated for the reintroduction of the buffalo to areas that would seriously fugk up ranching and push ranchers off public land.

The big mistake with hunters is they see public land as their's to hunt. They don't realize that strong arming ranchers and other demographics off public land is only step one.

If I'm wrong about Newberg feel free to unload. Gently...

As long as bison are livestock this won't happen. Given make the make up of the Montana Legislature (as it is and always will be) and the strength of Montana Stock growers and Dept of Livestock, changing the classification of bison from livestock to wildlife won't ever happen.

Cant remember who but someone on here turn me on to these back stabbing [bleep] who would sell out their mothers.

Think it was rockinbbar.

I do enjoy a good BHA thread.

Thinking we take turns telling the truth about their sorry asses though...

One man couldn't possibly cover all the slime.

^^^If I had this dick head in my corner, I’d reconsider my corner. ^^^^

I posted the Federalist article on here yesterday and it only got one comment. If you listed to Rinella's podcast, it makes you think at times he leans to the left, which I find pretty darn sad. The whole thing about Green Decoys has been going on for 25+ years. I was a Forestry major in college, and then I saw first hand anti's in both hunting, pro-forestry, etc, infiltrating the cause. This is how anti's are elected to the board of state and federal Fish and Game.

As far as Randy Newberg, just go to his website and read how many members are anti-conservative in the political section. That really opened my eyes to quite a few of the issues of late.

Then there’s the APR.

Look at the difference between these two pages. Then try and find a link to the second off of the first.

https://www.americanprairie.org

Vs.

https://www.americanprairie.org/hunting

Then there’s the APR.

Look at the difference between these two pages. Then try and find a link to the second off of the first.

https://www.americanprairie.org

Vs.

https://www.americanprairie.org/hunting