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
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
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Steve Scalise incited a terrorist attack, intentionally gave covid to people in a room with him by refusing to wear a mask during the attack, then voted for the terrorists’ cause after the attack. There is video of all of this
Roy Blunt LIED about the election and helped Trump incite a terrorist attack
And today @FaceTheNation let him lie about it again. @margbrennan did not ask him ONCE about how he refused to acknowledge Biden as pres-elect
This is Fox News level propaganda on a major news network
For WEEKS after the election, Blunt refused to say Biden won. He spread the conspiracy theory that election was stolen. This lie led directly to Wednesday's attack
This was not even MENTIONED by @margbrennan. Instead Blunt was allowed to lie and say he had nothing to do with it
Worth noting that on Wednesday @CBSNews prohibited its journalists from calling the terrorist attack a terrorist attack or even an insurrection. They protected the pro-Trump mob and censored their journalists from telling the truth. A clear pattern of helping to rehab Republicans
This is a lie. Trump did not “pivot” after witness tampering during his impeachment trial. He continued to do it and WH said it was free speech. @chucktodd either doesn’t know this or wants this lie to spread. He didn’t push back at all
Mulvaney is telling the same lie on Fox. @NBCNews should be better than Fox and issue a correction immediately. @chucktodd should apologize for spreading this misinformation to his viewers either intentionally or ignorantly
The day after Donald Trump incited a domestic terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol @DanaBashCNN said he is showing "a very different tone"
@DanaBashCNN The news industry must be completely demolished, from top to bottom and every meticulous detail in between, just annihilated. Journalism is poisoned and the only cure is a total redo
@DanaBashCNN In the most generous interpretation of this, Dana didn’t have a good analysis and just had to say something to fill the air. @DanaBashCNN you should apologize this is absolutely fucking nuts. Trump incited a mob that killed people
Chuck Todd is lying. He has not "had enough of hearing this." Immediately after this, he asked Johnson more questions and allowed him to lie about the election, again
Not sharing the video because it's pure misinformation. This is performative bullshit from both of them
Meet the Press is laundering election lies on its platform unabashedly by participating in the GOP's misinformation campaign. If you've "had enough" of it, you wouldn't allow it to continue, @chucktodd. And yet you do, every week, because you want to help Republicans spread lies
@chucktodd “I’ve had enough of hearing this. Now let me ask you again: what do you think about the election being stolen? Please use complete sentences in your answer.”