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19 Feb, 9 tweets, 3 min read
"History will remember" is bullshit

@ThisWeekABC just booked Steve Scalise — one of the biggest pushers of the Big Lie that the election was stolen

Scalise is a liar. He is dishonest. He is going to lie again and again

These news shows are helping Republicans rewrite history
ABC has been booking Big Liars for months. On Feb. 7 they rewarded Roger Wicker for lying about the election and let him push the bogus claim that the impeachment trial was unconstitutional. He was never asked about pushing lies about "voter fraud"
ABC also booked Rand Paul who, TO THIS DAY, is claiming the election was stolen. He was allowed to lie about this for an entire segment on @ThisWeekABC
Five days ago ABC helped Kellyanne Conway erase her history as a mendacious threat to the public who spread misinformation about coronavirus by inviting her on American Idol
And I hope nobody has forgotten ABC's most egregious decision, to make Sean Spicer a dancing king
The message this sends, unequivocally, to every Republican who spread the Big Lie:

You will be rewarded for what you did. You will always have a place on ABC to lie. We will never hold you accountable for trying to overturn an election by deceiving millions of people.
At the very least, these Republicans *could* be held accountable in an interview. You could ask them "do you acknowledge Joe Biden won the election and that it was fair?" And if they say no, you end the interview.

It'll never happen because Republicans control TV news media
Full disclosure I used to work at ABC News and holy fucking shit is that embarrassing
“History will remember” what a fucking joke

The people whose job it is to literally remember what happened and record it as history have already forgotten what their own network cameras showed on a loop one fucking month ago

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Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC Profile picture
18 Feb
This story reveals text messages showing Cruz lied about how long he wanted to stay in Cancun. It even goes into his history as a self-promoter since 2013

Also doesn't mention the Jan. 6 riot once—the insurrection he led. Their history is being erased
nytimes.com/2021/02/18/us/…
Attacking the government and trying to overturn a presidential election should be something that follows you for the rest of your life, not a random news event that becomes stale after a month just because you did something else really stupid

"History will remember" is a joke
Members of Congress called on Cruz to resign or be expelled because he led a deadly insurrection based on a lie. Probably worth at least a casual mention in a deep dive of someone's divisive history in which the news peg is another lie he's telling
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Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC Profile picture
13 Feb
So I have a plausible explanation that Trump’s defense team can use that would clear this up but it requires them to admit Trump is a total moron

Here it is: Trump is too dumb to write tweets and has a documented history of spending 20 to 30 minutes crafting a single tweet
It’s harder to find examples of this now that Trump’s account has been deleted but before he figured out how to publish all the tweets in a thread at once, he would do them one at a time (like I am now) and often the time stamps were embarrassingly far apart
This usually happened in the morning and he’d end a tweet like “The only thing to do is.......” with like a billion .......’s and everyone would be like “wtf is he gonna say, it’s been 20 minutes” and then he’d pop off the conclusion, something delusional. It took him forever
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Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC Profile picture
10 Feb
All of these quotes from allegedly undecided Republicans should really have the brief and important disclaimer that they pushed Trump’s Big Lie

In this case: “THUNE, who pushed the lie that Biden didn’t win the election for more than five weeks, calls impeachment managers…”
This stuff is easily google-able. Erasing their history as election deniers encourages them to lie again. This is a simple, effective, objective and accurate way to provide context to what Republicans are now saying about the insurrection they all helped incite in different ways
"Roy Blunt, who spread Trump's Big Lie that Biden didn't win the election for more than five weeks, now says about whether videos might change his mind..."
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Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC Profile picture
10 Feb
This guy just fundamentally does not understand anything about the subject he covers
Constantly giving Republicans the benefit of the doubt, suggesting they’re good people who will do the right thing—when all the evidence of the last four years would lead anyone to say the exact opposite—is not just misleading but incredibly generous to a party of fascist killers
Chuck Todd is going to invite a Republican senator who pushed the Big Lie onto Meet the Press on Sunday and thank them for sharing their perspective after they say this is the time to come together, not to divide
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Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC Profile picture
9 Feb
Republicans won't own any of it and will get away with it as always

Four Republicans who spread the Big Lie were on all four network shows on Sunday and not one of them got a single question about how they told the Big Lie, which was the last thing they were gonna "own" forever
They were supposed to "own" their support of Trump when he praised the Charlottesville nazis
They were supposed to "own" smearing Blasey Ford
They were supposed to "own" putting babies in jail
They were supposed to "own" lying about covid

There are no consequences for anything
Here's Trump communications director Alyssa Farah totally "owning" the consequences of her actions ImageImage
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Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC Profile picture
7 Feb
Today every major network invited on a Republican senator who spread the racist Big Lie: Lindsey Graham, Roger Wicker, Bill Cassidy and Rand Paul

None of the hosts even *mentioned* that they lied to overturn the election

CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox are erasing and rewriting history
Graham spent nine weeks saying the election was stolen and that Trump actually won. He tried to get legal votes thrown out in Georgia. He did nothing but blatantly lie

On @FaceTheNation, @margbrennan asked Graham if he thinks the impeachment trial is constitutional
Roger Wicker made false and baseless allegations of voter fraud. He spread the lie to throw out nonwhite votes for Biden and help Trump steal the election. He did nothing but lie

On @ThisWeekABC, @GStephanopoulos let him repeatedly say the impeachment trial is unconstitutional
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