Chuck Todd opens Meet the Press quoting the Onion headline “‘No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens” then immediately blames both sides for inaction on gun violence, not understanding whatsoever that doing that is specifically part of the problem
Wow, this Onion headline really gets at some truth here. It’s amazing we do nothing about guns. I’m the political director of a news network and have no idea why this is, it must be because of our “political system” and the fault of Democrats somehow
One party wants more mass shootings and one party wants fewer mass shootings. As a network journalist I am unable to figure out who is to blame for mass shootings—the party that wants them, or the party that doesn’t. As a network journalist I must blame them both. If it’s sunday,
I know, I’ll help solve the gun epidemic by giving my top-rated Sunday show platform to Republicans who love when people are ripped apart with bullets
Just imagined Chuck Todd saying he found John Mulaney’s “horse in the hospital” bit profound and scathing yet not understanding at all that Trump is the horse
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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
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
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”
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
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"
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
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
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?"