Politico @playbookdc — once a “here’s what’s really going on” tipsheet that has undergone a disgusting metamorphosis into a talking point playdoh factory and made Ben Shapiro its top reporter — is uncritically repeating snakeshit from Stephen Miller as if he’s a reliable source
“Just got a response from Stephen!!”
“NICE. Put it in!!”
“Should we check to see if it’s true?”
“No, he said it so it’s true that he said it!!”
“Haha sweet!”
“We did it!”
“We did it!!”
“I wonder what ben is up to”
This is gonna top Playbook in 48 hours —> foxnews.com/politics/vp-ka…
If your instinct is “a white nationalist who tried to overturn the election based on the biggest and most easily disprovable lie in my lifetime doesn’t require scrutiny on his statements and deserves to be amplified” are you journalism or breitbart with a better graphics package

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26 Mar
News outlets are endorsing voter suppression based on the Big Lie by calling these laws “sweeping changes” to “election integrity,” leaning on “protesters say” to frame it as a both-sides story, and printing bad-faith quotes from Republicans while using their preferred language ImageImageImageImage
Republicans are stopping Black people from voting. If you can’t call it that, you are doing PR work for anti-voting Republicans. This is the equivalent of an asteroid headed toward earth and describing it as “earth shape reform” followed by a quote from the asteroid
Journalists are supposed to be in the business of truth-telling and, yes, fighting against anti-democratic actors. If you don’t have the courage to describe plainly what’s happening in your own neighborhood then you’re helping the bad guys cover it up. They’re counting on you
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22 Mar
The only good case for putting bad-faith liars on TV is you can "hold them accountable" and "challenge" them

Almost nobody can pull this off because it's virtually impossible to fact-check liars who aren't there to engage in good faith and are just abusing your platform

But...
Mehdi is the only interviewer who can really do this almost perfectly. I'd still argue that Crenshaw, a liar, gets a win just by being booked - he looks legitimate, when he's knowingly spreading false information. But nobody challenges them like Mehdi
Yes I wish more hosts would interview Republicans like this, which requires a lot of research and prep time and actually knowing the material and having the no-stakes-if-they-hate-you approach of cutting off a liar

But Crenshaw can still hold this up as "I took on the lying msm"
Read 5 tweets
18 Mar
Today @politico is helping an insurrectionist rehabilitate and rewrite history

Rep. Lee Zeldin spread the Big Lie that the election was stolen. After the Jan. 6 attack, he *still* voted to overturn it

Too many in the media are helping Republicans pretend it never happened
The journalists here have apparently made the calculation that an unabashed and mendacious seditionist who sided with domestic terrorists is in fact a good-faith official who can be trusted at his word despite propagating the biggest lie in modern American history
What a disgusting act for a news outlet to give this horrible manipulator a platform to legitimize him as anything other than a shameless liar
Read 7 tweets
17 Mar
Peter Navarro repeatedly used the racist slur “China virus” on CNN in almost every interview he did

He was invited back again and again even though the hosts and producers knew he would keep saying it

Don’t throw your hands up and wonder why anti-Asian discrimination is allowed
This should have been the clearest moment that @NewDay decided Navarro was a proud and stubborn racist and would not be allowed back on TV to encourage anti-Asian discrimination

Instead he was invited back by @JohnBerman five days later as if it never happened
All news outlets happily gave Navarro a platform knowing he would shout “China virus”

Stop pretending it was just Trump who spread anti-Asian discrimination. Anyone who gave a platform to this racist (who also still lies about the election being stolen) knew what they were doing
Read 5 tweets
14 Mar
It's so demoralizing that every week @ABC actively helps Republicans erase their history of pushing the Big Lie

On Jan. 6 we were told history would remember those who spread the lie that Trump won the election

Now they get top TV slots and it doesn't come up

It never happened
John Barrasso denied that Biden won the election ON DECEMBER 14 when the electoral college certified it

Why wouldn't you mention this? Why wouldn't you ask him "why did you spread the lie" or "will you apologize for lying?"

Instead here he is blaming antifa in Portland
There were plenty of reporters around when Barrasso did this on Dec. 14 by the way. You could have any of them instead of just asking him "you seem like an honest guy, so what's your response to Nancy Pelosi?" and "what do you think about the filibuster?"
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12 Mar
On Sunday @ThisWeekABC is platforming a Big Liar, John Barrasso

Barrasso claimed Trump won for seven weeks. On Dec. 14, when the electoral college confirmed the results, he was asked if Biden won and called it a “gotcha question”

@ABC continues helping Republicans erase history
Barrasso is enjoying a rewriting-history rehab tour from media-friendly personalities who offer him their TV show’s platform and don’t even mention that he spent almost two months trying to overturn the election

@jimsciutto was the most recent
A few days before him it was @chucktodd who booked Barrasso on @MeetThePress and completely ignored his very recent history of spreading the racist Big Lie to deceive millions of people into thinking the election was stolen by illegal Black votes
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