by Twitchy
At this point in the whole #TwitterFiles world, we’d be more surprised if Matt Taibbi or the other journalists involved WEREN’T exposing another Democrat who tried to use their office and authority to pressure Twitter into silencing/censoring the Right. It’s becoming a trend really.
And sure, the Left is shrieking about the Trump admin asking Twitter to remove a mean tweet Chrissy Teigen wrote (which was silly but whatever), and claiming this proves it’s not just Democrats doing this, but give us a break. Wanting Twitter to remove a tweet because it hurts your feelings or pride is VERY different from an elected official trying to silence an entire group of people based on a narrative they believe could hurt them politically.
Taibbi used this thread to mock, humiliate, and embarrass the media … and it’s a beautiful thing:
TWITTER FILES #16
Comic Interlude: A Media Experiment pic.twitter.com/Knp0UjfaMp— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) February 19, 2023
Don’t recognize this guy? Don’t feel bad, we didn’t at first either.
Keep going.2. The #TwitterFiles have revealed a lot: thousands of moderation requests from every corner of government, Feds mistaking both conservatives and leftists for fictional Russians, even Twitter deciding on paper to cede moderation authority to the “U.S. intelligence community”: pic.twitter.com/njklzvX0n1
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) February 19, 2023
Which is really the big story BUUUUUT gosh, golly, and gee, the mainstream media just doesn’t want to cover THAT part.3. These and at least a dozen other newsworthy revelations produced exactly zilch in mainstream news coverage in the last two months: pic.twitter.com/aZO9msFCtM
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) February 19, 2023
Shocker.4. Then House hearings were held last week, at which one witness told a story about Donald Trump asking to remove a mean tweet by Chrissy Teigen.
The press went bananas. Now THAT was big news! pic.twitter.com/8ynYaD0lBb
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) February 19, 2023
A MEAN TWEET! TRUMP! REEEEE
Forget that Adam Schiff literally got a journalist kicked off Twitter in essence violating his First Amendment rights … TRUMP didn’t like a tweet from Chrissy Teigen and that’s the real news y’all.5. Purely to show the bankruptcy of media in this area, let’s introduce a pair of loud new data points, and see if any press figures at all cover either of them.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) February 19, 2023
We’re not holding our breath.
But, why not? If Twitter is suppressing speech, why not comply with ALL requests?
See, suppressing speech the left doesn’t approve of is righteous. You know, suppressing constitutional rights is how democracy is saved, and stuff like that. The media, like the DOJ, could be damaged beyond repair. The media is in the 1st Amendment business and they don’t even care if the government is suppressing 1st Amendment rights. Yeah, they think it’s all fun and games… until it gets aimed at them, which it eventually will.
The worst it gets for the M.S. Media bottom feeders the better it is lets see t he NYT’s lose a lot of subcalibers and readers of their daily libera leftists rag