Thread by @MattNegrin

The Republicans who incited Wednesday's terrorist attack are being rewarded by the news media

@FaceTheNation is platforming Roy Blunt, a conspiracy theorist who refused to say Biden won, while @MeetThePress rehabs white supremacist Mick Mulvaney

The media is Republican

You can literally run a disinformation campaign against elections, assault democracy because it serves your disgusting goal of catering to a rabid and racist base, incite an actual fucking deadly coup, and STILL GET BOOKED BY @CBSNews TO TALK ABOUT WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT

Pretty fucking gross of CBS — which prohibited its reporters from calling Wednesday's terror attack a terror attack or even an insurrection — to outdo @chucktodd and let Roy Blunt on after he refused, repeatedly, to say Biden won the election WEEKS AFTER HE WON THE ELECTION

Is there a single fucking person at any of these shows who gives a shit about this or have they all convinced themselves that this is what they dreamed of doing when they wrote that essay to columbia journalism school about how they want to comfort the afflicted

you know it really sucks to have predicted this literal exact scenario

https://twitter.com/MattNegrin/status/1336447380955262976

If you want a real easter egg... when Roy Blunt spread the conspiracy theory that Biden didn’t win the election it was Nov. 29 on State of the Union hosted by Dana Bash, who yesterday said Trump showed a “different tone” after his latest video! Bullshit all around! The fuck man

There is just zero accountability—ZERO—in the news media. They hosted and facilitated calls for a coup for WEEKS, acted surprised when it happened like they had nothing to do with it, and two days later decide to invite the very people who called for it back for more bullshit

If these gutless fucks had an eighth of the journalistic drive of even mediocre news hosts in other countries there would be apologies and clarifications for bullshit like platforming Ron Johnson, who signed a statement calling to overturn the election, THREE DAYS BEFORE THE COUP

All these performative "just the facts ma'am" journalists talk about is holding people "accountable" for their actions but when it comes to the actual harm they've done to launder conspiracy theories on their shows they are stone cold fucking silent