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18 Apr, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Three mass shootings in three days

After 20 kids died in Sandy Hook, Democrats tried to prevent mass shootings with gun laws. The House speaker, John Boehner, said fuck off

Anyway enjoy @chucktodd praising Boehner this morning for being a sensible man because he has a new book
Chuck Todd, a Republican and host of the highest-rated Sunday show, believes his job is to equally blame Democrats for not stopping gun violence
Chuck Todd helps Boehner spread the lie that it was a group of “knuckleheads” who took the GOP in a bad direction and not he as House speaker who embraced the racism of the tea party and stopped any chance of gun control because he doesn’t care who lives or dies
Chuck Todd didn’t ask Boehner, who supports mass shootings, a single question about gun violence

Instead Todd, a Republican, praised the Republican Party for "trying to eradicate" white supremacy

They also had some fun joking around because Boehner is such a fun guy!

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Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC Profile picture
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10 Apr
Sen. Roger Wicker told the Big Lie that led to the insurrection and is getting a red-carpet rehab

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Tomorrow @ThisWeekABC is inviting him on to help erase his history as a Big Liar
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28 Mar
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
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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
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24 Mar
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
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“We did it!!”
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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

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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
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But Crenshaw can still hold this up as "I took on the lying msm"
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