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3 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
SILENCED.

What are we doing here exactly?
I am still SO ANGRY that Disney decided to CANCEL Body Wars!
@owillis feel like you can take it from here
At some point the right is going to find out about Disney's plan to retheme Splash Mountain from the current "Song of the South" focus to "Princess and the Frog," and folks, it's going to be three weeks of content.

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3 Mar
Nine years ago today, Rush Limbaugh offered a half-hearted apology for a three-day binge of grotesque attacks against Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student who had dared to offer congressional testimony about federal funding for contraception. mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/…
Fluke thought making birth control more widely available could aid people like your friend, who took the pills to prevent cysts from growing on her ovaries.

So Limbaugh told his audience of millions that she was a "slut" and a "prostitute" who should produce a "sex tape."
Limbaugh said that she “want[ed] to have all the sex you want all day long,” that she was “having so much sex” she “can’t pay for” contraception and needs the government to pick up the tab, that she "wants to be paid to have sex," and on and on for days.
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2 Mar
I count 85 mentions of "Seuss" on Fox News today as of 4 p.m via closed caption., they've covered his purported cancelation every hour since 4 a.m., saying his name an average of 7 times an hour.
Notably, I don't think they've shown the racist imagery that made Seuss' estate decide to stop publishing those books, just their covers. Which makes the whole scam pretty obvious. If you want to defend the content, defend the content!
My overall take is that it remains good but weird that a major cable news network is so much more interested and invested in this bullshit then the ~$2 trillion relief package moving through Congress.
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1 Mar
1. I have some thoughts on the Maureen Dowd column pushing back against criticism of journalists from the left that mainstream political reporters were tweeting all weekend. nytimes.com/2021/02/27/opi…
2. First, this kicker is from a villain’s monologue about how his bad conduct was justified because he did things how they’ve always been done; his critics have no right to question him because they don’t have his job; and he’d do it all again if given the chance.
3. He is then arrested and presumably replaced by someone who can stand on the wall without doing the bad conduct.

I'd say this is telling, but it's more likely Dowd, as usual, doing film allusions without understanding what the film is saying.
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26 Feb
Currently at 19 mentions of "Potato" and 5 of "Covid" on Fox & Friends this morning, per closed caption search.
Normal stuff.
Love to get my business news from the Fox Business Network.
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24 Feb
Liar or moron, those are the available options.
In Tucker’s defense (?) his staffer most familiar with right-wing message boards was fired for his posts on right-wing message boards.
Anyway he should check in with the also-dumb Jesse Watters, who seemed fully aware last year of both QAnon’s “crazy stuff” and its “great stuff.”
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23 Feb
Thread with some images showing how Fox's primetime shows marked 500,000 Americans dead of COVID-19.
Tucker Carlson
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