Thread by @MattNegrin

Every day there’s more proof that the news media will never stop booking the terrorists who incited the Capitol attack to ask them more about their interesting opinions regarding “voter fraud”

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1353146195389149184

You’ve booked someone who lied about a monumental topic knowing it was a lie. He says he has no regrets and will do it again. Why on earth would a journalist continue to interview someone who has just said they are going to lie about whatever they want

There’s really only one way to do this if you’re going to do it:
- do you acknowledge there was no voter fraud?
- when you said there was, did you think there was or did you know it was a lie?
- did you lie to please trump knowing it wouldn’t work or did you want it to work?

This whole interview is a reporter bringing the fact check to a liar who doesn’t live in a world in which fact checks matter. You’re doing it for press pickup (“GOP congressman slammed!”) and not holding him accountable at all. Accountability is BANNING the liars from lying MORE

Every day that we perpetuate this fallacy of “republicans have concerns about voter fraud” by interviewing them about fucking voter fraud, which does not fucking exist, you create a new reality in which maybe there is something to the argument that the earth is flat

We are climbing up an infinite wall because the media operates with false parameters. If one crazy congressman says voter fraud stole the election, news outlets would ignore him because it’s crazy. But if all republicans say it, the media rushes to book them. It’s no longer crazy

The newsworthiness of the lie has nothing to do with the substance of the lie, only how many people are telling the lie. They made this up out of thin air, stuck together with an amazing message (“stop the steal”), and now get to talk about it in the media whenever they want

The disgusting lesson this teaches lying insurrectionists like madison cawthorn is not just that they don’t have to stop lying—it’s that they should *keep* lying, about anything they want, because it will make it *more* likely they’ll get invited on a major platform to spread it