The Red Line for Journalism

 

I wonder why Speaker Johnson is so passionately weighing in on the Ronna firing… oh… https://t.co/Ek1OdMBDyN pic.twitter.com/uh7JEewLpr

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) March 28, 2024

This is what I was talking about: the GOP would take the opportunity to read McDaniels' firing as being about cancelling Republicans when it is really about not giving a platform to election deniers and insurrectionists. Maybe she was "normie" by the standards of today's GOP, where asking if the 2020 vote was legitimate is now a qualifying question. But what if we just altogether derided the absolutely batshit claims that got us here--the Venezuelan voting machines, the German servers, the Italian satellites, the Chinese thermostats, that absolutely shit-pilled people seem to have believed in and are now losing their livelihood for--

I'm talking about Jeff Clarke, for whom this shit was that real. 

Or maybe for Mike Lindell. 

Ginni Thomas doesn't have a "job" per se, but she believed in the German severs.

There is a lot of rubbish otherwise sane people seem to have believed or pretended to. All of it pretty loosie-goosey bullshit.

These ideas are toxic waste, and were deployed by the Trump administration as if they were actually real, when they look like, in the clear light of day, nonsense.  Why in the world would any reputable news outlet support anyone who lent support to so much bullshit? 

UPDATE: The RNC is considering limiting NBC's access because of the McDaniel firing. But, but--they fired her first? LOL. 

See, what this tells me is forget access journalism--the GOP prefer an adversarial relationship and maybe they should get it. And good! Does access to liars get you good news? Or does investigation and research? 

UPDATE: And McDaniels' tv hopes are not even dead--Newsmax among others are in talks about getting ahold of her "talent".  Some MAGAS might have considered her a RINO a minute ago but hey!

She was cancel cultured! It's the circle of life!

UPDATE: Is she gonna sue? Because Hugh Hewitt says so. I don't know what that is good for, but he says it. 

If NBC execs thought hiring TrumpWorlders is just something you do in case Trump gets re-elected, remember a good warning--the only winning move is not to play. He and his movement are a danger to democracy, and that will include the free press. Act accordingly. What is best? He doesn't get re-elected in the first damn place.