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13 Dec, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Steve Scalise signed the sedition letter to overturn the election. Today he was on @FoxNewsSunday to spread the lie that Trump won

Alex Azar refused to call Biden president-elect. Today he was on @FaceTheNation and wasn't challenged once about it

The news media is conservative
The degree to which journalists have granted permission to bad actors to spread this ludicrous conspiracy theory is equally disgusting and unsurprising

Neither Chris Wallace nor @margbrennan will ever face questions from media reporters on why they allow and encourage this
In a moment of sheer unawareness, @margbrennan asked Biden adviser Cedric Richmond how they can work with Republicans who don't acknowledge Biden won — minutes after she legitimized Alex Azar and gave him the top slot on her show following his refusal to acknowledge Biden won
1. Azar refuses to acknowledge Biden won
2. Azar's refusal is rewarded by CBS with a TV slot
3. CBS asks Biden team "how can you work with these people who won't acknowledge Biden won?"

All the journalism professors who taught the producers on this show should issue an apology

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Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC Profile picture
9 Dec
For 32 days Trump and the Republican Party have tried to overturn the results of the election. It took the media about 8 days to say that, after sanitizing his bullshit into "sowing doubts" and "contesting the election" and "fighting back"

Now he's just saying it outright
Even after years of covering Trump, the press always defaults into cleaning up what he says so that it sounds official and presidential rather than what it plainly is

Now that he's tweeted this you should have no reservations about saying the GOP is attempting a coup
The level-one reflex to this is to say “Trump is calling for the election to be overturned” when the actual story you should be writing is “The Republican Party is calling for the election to be overturned”
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Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC Profile picture
8 Dec
The news media is giving election truthers airtime and treating their attack on democracy as a "topic" that has two sides

Republican Rep. Gary Palmer, an open conspiracy theorist, was on MSNBC for NINE MINUTES and denied Biden won the election

The media is irreparably broken
The only responsible way for journalists to treat birthers and flat-earthers is to stop them from spreading misinformation. Don't allow them to abuse your platform

@HallieJackson spread this conspiracy theory on her show by pretending "Biden didn't win" is a legitimate position
Allowing a conspiracy theorist to say "Biden is not the legitimately elected president" and following up with "we should point out that judges have said otherwise" is a framing that suggests there are two sides. There are not. There is one side

This liar was on for NINE MINUTES
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Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC Profile picture
6 Dec
This is not what Mike Braun, a Republican conspiracy theorist, was asked about on @ABC. He was on for 6 minutes and immediately denied Biden won the election. For the ENTIRE 6 MINUTES he spread the conspiracy theory that voter fraud stole it. He was never asked about covid relief
Braun lied about mysterious "boxes of ballots" that were seen in polling places, "thousands" of fake absentee ballots, and other OAN/Newsmax conspiracy videos that have been debunked repeatedly. He was allowed to push these lies for six solid minutes. Complete gross negligence
ABC literally did a Both Sides segment about “did Joe Biden win?” They had Braun on for six minutes to say he did not win. Then they had Durbin on to say he did win. I guess we’ll let the viewers decide
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Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC Profile picture
4 Dec
Omg. @BreitbartNews thinks I'm the host of Hardball. I fucking won the game
Where do I exchange these ski ball tickets that just streamed out of my laptop
I mean obviously breitbart is dumb white supremacist propaganda but do they not have netscape navigator on any of their 2003 Acers that have access to ask jeeves dot com to find out that hardball has been canceled for a year
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Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC Profile picture
29 Nov
Journalists have an obligation to the public to stop putting conspiracy theorists on their news shows. Any Republican who denies that Biden won the election should immediately be cut off and the interview ended. If you can’t acknowledge this fact, you’re a liar. It’s very simple.
The journalism industry should not keep rewarding Republicans who are attacking the democratic process by giving them airtime and allowing their conspiracy theories to spread. This is the wildest and most irresponsible trend in journalism since 2016. Stop the spread.
It is malpractice that this interview has lasted this long. Anybody involved in booking and producing this horrendous spray of misinformation should call their old journalism professors and tell them they did a shit job of training them
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Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC Profile picture
27 Nov
Every Republican supports this attempt to overthrow the democratically elected Biden administration unless they say otherwise. The default shouldn't be we don't know their position if they're "silent." When the president wants to overturn the election, silence is active support
It's been 20 days since Biden won the election. The Republican Party, as its official position, refuses to acknowledge him as president-elect. The press has moved on because the story hasn't changed enough for them, when in fact every day the GOP does this should be another alarm
That every newspaper isn’t putting the names and faces of their state’s Republican senators and representatives on the front page every day with the headline “Republicans Support Trump’s Attempt To Overturn Election” speaks to how good Republicans are at working the press
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