There’s a shaky argument for holding Big Liars accountable by putting them on live TV and trying to catch them in every part of their lie. It takes incredible skill because they don’t acknowledge any truth. To date no one has done this perfectly. Cuomo doesn’t even come close
The best Trump interviewer was @jonathanvswan and I don’t even know if he could do this right. Once the big liar is on tv they’ve already won. Their only goal is to say “the election was stolen” on a legitimate non-Fox platform. Doesn’t matter if you say “no it wasn’t,” it’s done
Madison Cawthorn pushed the big lie on CNN and @PamelaBrownCNN got him to admit he hadn’t seen any evidence of fraud. But he was still given plenty of time to lie about false anecdotal BS and other “hold up the constitution” nonsense. The question is just why allow it at all?
Even if the best interviewers catch them in one or two lies, they still win by looking legitimate. Asking them for examples of voter fraud is the exact same thing as asking Alex Jones for examples of why Sandy Hook was a hoax. He’s not gonna say “dammit you got me, I made it up”
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@FaceTheNation has booked Ronna McDaniel, one of the biggest Big Liars
@FoxNewsSunday has booked Rick Scott, who voted to overturn the election AFTER THE JAN. 6 ATTACK
@ThisWeekABC has Rob Portman, who pushed the Big Lie for 6 weeks
Journalists at these “news shows” are spreading the lie that Trump won the election
None of these hosts will hold the Republicans they’ve booked accountable for their actions and will treat everything they say as if it might be true
“History” has already forgotten what they did
There are no consequences for spreading the Big Lie. Look at the Big Liars that these same Sunday shows booked just in the past few weeks — allowing them to spread whatever lies they want and never challenging them on the misinformation campaign they *continue* to push every day
Turn on the Sunday shows and this is what you get—
ABC: The election was stolen
NBC: The election was stolen
CBS: The election was stolen
Fox: The election was stolen
Turn on the Sunday shows on a different day and this is what you get—
ABC: The election was stolen
NBC: The election was stolen
CBS: The election was stolen
Fox: The election was stolen
The election was stolen the election was stolen the election was stolen the election was stolen the election was stolen the election was stolen the election was stolen the election was stolen the election was stolen the election was stolen the election was stolen the election was
Steve Scalise spread the racist Big Lie that the election was stolen. He incited the Jan. 6 riot and voted to overturn the election
On @ThisWeekABC he was rewarded with 10 minutes of airtime and pushed the lie again
The networks are actively helping Republicans spread this lie
@ThisWeekABC There is no good-faith explanation for inviting a Big Liar onto your show to ask them about anything at all, let alone the very topic they spent months lying about to overthrow democracy
How can a journalist say Scalise should be trusted while still participating in the Big Lie?
This interview started with an open mic to Scalise to slam Biden on school reopenings and the covid relief bill, as if he’s a good-faith actor with no context at all. Then at the end we get “by the way do you think the election was real? No? Ok thanks for coming on”
@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
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
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