NBC and CBS are endorsing the Big Lie

On Sunday @chucktodd is using Meet the Press to host Kevin Cramer—who appeared on MTP a year ago to deny that Biden won the election (11/22/20)

On CBS @FaceTheNation is hosting TED CRUZ—a repeatedly proven liar who incited the Jan. 6 attack
Both of these bookings are explicit endorsement of the Big Lie. To invite Republicans who pushed anti-democratic misinformation—in one case *on your own show* and in the other case *at a rally encouraging the execution of Democrats*—is the media telling you “they are credible”
CBS News in particular has been a friendly home to election deniers. This year they invited Lindsey Graham, Ronna McDaniel, Steve Scalise and Kristi Noem. These people all tried to literally throw out votes to overturn the election. @FaceTheNation says their claims are legitimate
It is frankly insane that fascism is getting a boost from the mainstream media and possibly even more insane that not a single journalist is writing about this

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More from @MattNegrin

21 Nov
Jan. 6: "History will remember"

Nov. 21: "Good morning Senator Cruz, welcome to @FaceTheNation"

Today CBS News endorsed the Big Lie, giving Cruz *13 unchallenged minutes* to say the election was stolen

This news outlet wants you to think it's legitimate to believe Trump won
This is not journalism. @margbrennan gave Cruz a platform to deny the election. She then asked "are you going to run for president in 2024?” and after he said Democrats are pushing "open borders" and "killing jobs," she said:

“All right senator, sounds like a campaign slogan"
Face the Nation since January 6:

"The election was stolen"
"The election was stolen"
"The election was stolen"
"The election was stolen"
Read 6 tweets
17 Nov
Hello I'm Chris Christie, my new book is called "Saving the Party from Truth Deniers and Conspiracy Theorists," here I am today talking to Maria Bartiromo who as of this moment has spent over a year screaming about a stolen election. Thanks to everyone for taking me seriously
Hello I'm Chris Christie, I've written a book about how to save the Republican Party from conspiracy theorists, I'll be spending all day in the Fox News building hanging out with my friends who, like me, believe Barack Obama was born in Kenya. Thanks for not bringing this up
Hello I'm Chris Christie, self-proclaimed expeller of conspiracy theories from the Republican Party, promoting my book here on Fox & Friends where they spend every day telling people the covid vaccine zaps your semen with Muslim nanobots. Thanks for having me on
Read 4 tweets
23 Oct
The “democracy dies in darkness” paper has a 9,000-word profile of domestic terrorist Kevin McCarthy framing him as a master tactician and granting credibility to Jim Banks and Jim Jordan—who *still* lie about the election—by asking them for positive quotes as character witnesses
A story that media reporters could look into is how @washingtonpost staffers react privately to lifetime Republican publisher Fred Ryan’s influence in editorial decisions
Jan. 6: “History will remember”

Oct. 23: “Jim Jordan says Kevin McCarthy has a gold N64 and we’re all going to his house after school to play it”
Read 4 tweets
17 Oct
Chuck Todd opens Meet the Press by endorsing Republicans’ anti-vax misinformation campaign to blame Biden for not returning everything to normal
Your parents are getting GOP propaganda beamed into their eyeballs and they don’t even know it, because that’s how good GOP propagandists are at hemming their message to the Chuck Todds in the media who are already inclined to want Democrats to be punished
Chuck Todd frames everything that anti-vax and pro-Jan. 6 Republicans do as a strategic move — “seeing an opening” — regardless of their immediate history and current role in lying through misinformation campaigns to convince people that the election and covid are fake
Read 8 tweets
10 Oct
Meet the Press is actively engaged in a misinformation campaign to refurbish the image of every white supremacist who intentionally killed 700,000 people with covid and tried to overturn the election by ending democracy

This is 100% bullshit and @chucktodd wants you to buy it
@chucktodd This person deliberately spread covid misinformation knowing it would kill people. She enjoyed her role in destroying people’s lives and families. She is a heartless modern propaganda minister who will never face a consequence. @chucktodd wants to make her an NBC contributor
@chucktodd Chuck Todd gave 9 minutes to a white nationalist and didn’t challenge her once on any lie she told while she worked in service of America’s rising fascism movement. He asked her what she thinks about 2024 and said “thank you for coming on and sharing your perspective with us”
Read 5 tweets
4 Oct
Face the Nation just now boosted this clip from Sunday specifically because right-wing covid deniers are circulating it on the RNC feed and calling for Fauci to be fired. This is how GOP propaganda works: corporate media and bad-faith actors working together for the same goal
The “war on Christmas” false narrative colliding with “fire Fauci” is a right-wing dream that @CBSNews is intentionally fueling
The sole reason @FaceTheNation did this was because they saw the RNC tweet doing numbers and they thought “we can help”
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