@BarbaraAnnStein@mtaibbi@walterkirn He made sure to dodge the issue saying the threats by Carr were irrelevant because he read somewhere unverified the decision by affiliates to take Kimmel off the air was made prior to Carrs threat. Can you imagine his enraged response if the Biden admin did anything of the sort?
@mtaibbi Look at Walter Kirn seething through his shit faced grin trying to minimize/deflect Trump’s unprecedented threats of government censorship. He puts an “asterisk” on his free speech absolutism on this issue because it’s a broadcast network. Why does anyone listen to this hack?
@Esz1257@mtaibbi Got my popcorn ready to see how Taibbi tries to weasels out of this one. It’ll probably start with “but what about the Twitter files!”, then he’ll move the goal post again.
@richardcalderon@Esz1257@mtaibbi Matt knows how intellectually dishonest it would be to try to continue to move the goal post or claim that this isn’t a major assault on free speech. He also knows that if he says anything critical about Trump or the FCC, he would lose a large number of followers, or worse.
@DeanDude33@mtaibbi And then Matt and Walter will go on their podcast and say that “it’s concerning, but just needs to be continued to be monitored” and shift the conversation to the Twitter files 😂
@DeanDude33@mtaibbi I’m sure Matt will downplay the fact that the FCC chairman threatened to revoke ABC’s broadcasting license if they didn’t get rid of Kimmel, and will probably try to say that this is just cancel culture biting liberals.
@mtaibbi Kinda like when the IRS allegedly did a home visit with you, nothing happened, and then you spent the next 2 years dining off that story as if you were the victim of a grand conspiracy to silence you?
@mflbeardsley @mtaibbi I bet he doesn’t want to talk about that. Most of his followers don’t want to hear any criticism of Musk or Trump and he would have a hard time addressing it without sounding stupid. If he does, he’ll probably use his old tried and true (false) argument of “Biden was worse!”
@mtaibbi Matt, it’s strange to watch you fawn over Trump’s purge of CIA/FBI as if he is trying to address the issues you believe exist. It’s obvious that his singular goal is to staff those agencies with Trump loyalists to harass, arrest, and spy on his political and personal enemies.
@BillKristol Do our best to limit the damage? Screw that. I say we let Trump and Republicans do whatever they want without really fighting back at all, at least for the next 2 years. A majority of America voted for autocratic rule, and they should get what they voted for.
@hmh1497@ParikhClay@tomhanc27155447 What Richard is really trying to say is “Do the election over and over until we get the result we want.”
You lost. Quit whining.
@Thaleresq@raystern 2. If these allegations had any credibility, you would’ve showed up and presented your evidence. But you don’t present evidence, John. You make outrageous claims with no evidence and then whine/ skip court when no one believes you. And they don’t believe you bc you are a joke.
@Thaleresq@raystern 1. You don’t know if 3rd parties placed calls “instructing” her to do anything. Let’s see the subponea you filed to get those records. You are clearly making this up in the hope that the mere allegation will save you. It won’t.
@Adamsbomb@teamphil @DenverPolitical @gentle_class7@adamsbombs We’re just having a conversation here, right? So by the standard you demand, Donald Trump stink finger fetish must be accepted as true.
@Adamsbomb@teamphil @DenverPolitical @gentle_class7 For someone who believes they’re defending the Constitution, you might want to read it. Prosecutors have the burden of proof to show that someone has committed a crime, and they meet that burden regularly. To say “Neither are provable from any of us” means that as the proponent…