Thread by @MattNegrin

History will not remember the Republicans who told the Big Lie

For 7 weeks John Barrasso tried to overturn the vote. On Dec. 14 he was asked if Biden won and called it a "gotcha"

@jimsciutto put him on air today and didn't mention it once but they did talk about Jim's birthday

All the outrage and fury over Republicans denying the reality that Biden won has completely subsided

This was an egregious intention to spread a lie to overturn the vote — on the day the electoral college certified Biden's win — and it has been erased

https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1338618335056044042?s=20

Barrasso was on @MeetThePress three days ago. Not one question or mention of how he tried to overturn the election by lying about it being stolen. Not one follow-up on how he called it a "gotcha"

The worst actors in the mainstream media want you to forget Republicans did this

How can someone like Sciutto forcefully rebut the Big Lie with "fact checks" and then turn around to swiftly platform a Big Liar and pretend that it never happened?

How is this at all responsible? How is this anything but deliberately not mentioning it?

https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1364950896522715139?s=20

I legit shudder to do this but fucking CHRIS CILLIZZA wrote about Barrasso’s “gotcha question” bullshit — it’s not like this was a goddamn secret

Absolutely not a whiff of it from @jimsciutto as he gave Barrasso a platform to lie about anything he wanted cnn.com/2020/12/15/pol…

"I've given seven minutes of airtime to a person who told a lie about the election being stolen as part of a misinformation campaign to deceive millions of people and let them recite party talking points as if they might suddenly be honest so I thanked them" is a journalism tenet

“History will remember that it’s my birthday” at least

Jim if you're still there we'd all love an explanation for why you platformed this Big Liar the day before Jan. 6 or do you want to erase this from history also