For *10 minutes* McDaniel, a Big Liar, was allowed to lie unchallenged about things like "Hunter Biden"
When she said Democrats should condemn "antifa and antisemitic groups" because they "burned down cities" @margbrennan said "mmhmm"
This came after @margbrennan allowed covid denier Kristi Noem to lie for eight minutes and spread public health misinformation
@FaceTheNation has platformed enough election and covid deniers in the last half hour that it would qualify as a Newsmax show
Big Liars have found a disgusting haven on CBS and ABC in recent weeks and haven't been challenged in any meaningful way at all on their role in spreading the lie that the election was stolen
Instead they are invited back, week after week, to spread the same lie and more lies
There is a cancer of misinformation at @CBSNews. During the Jan. 6 insurrection, when @CNN and others were calling the attack an attempted coup, the CBS standards desk was telling its journalists to lie about what was happening
Today alone @FaceTheNation booked three Republicans and one Democrat
This is a conspiracy theory-friendly show, produced to spread Republican talking points and explicit, repeatedly debunked misinformation that should have no place on a news show, let alone a network news show
Once again I’d like you to imagine what it would look like if a nonwhite person who understands that the Big Lie is an overt racist attempt to
a) throw out Black votes that were cast and
b) suppress future Black votes
were allowed to host one of these “newsmaker” shows
After being told by someone who literally tried to overturn the election that Democrats are the real antisemites and burned cities to the ground and hate parents and want to destroy jobs and "Hunter Biden" is a criminal it is a little strange that a journalist would say:
One reason this interview might not get as much attention as Jon Karl's botched platforming of Steve Scalise last week is that @margbrennan didn't even ASK McDaniel about how she spread the Big Lie. There's no viral moment to clip of a weak question because there was no question
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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
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?
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