Congress Spends All Week Attacking The Free Press In Defense Of Democracy Or Something

The U.S. Congress he has spent the entire week attacking free press to defend democracy or some other cause.

The bipartisan affair is first Attained mass hysteria level Republicans, Democrats and even supposedly neutral party like the Capitol Police harassed Tucker Carlson, Fox News, for daring air never-before seen security footage from inside the Capitol Building, on January 6 along with his own commentary.

We all know that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called this a “mistake,” Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority leader, called him “dangerous,” and even President Joe Biden questioned the gall of somebody to cast doubt on the government-media-complex-approved record of that day.

This demagoguery continues, but Congress has a new target: Thursday’s election. Trio of journalists Who reported? “The Twitter Files” — Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and Bari Weiss.

Thursday’s testimony by Congress was given by Shellenberger, Taibbi and others about their reporting which showed corruption between Big Tech (Big Government) and Big Tech (apparently to silence conservatives).

The hearing was appropriately named. “Weaponization of the Federal Government on the Twitter Files,” Some Democrats seem to be determined to continue weaponizing the federal Government, it seems. The emails were sent by an unknown Twitter source to the three reporters. Democrats were keen to find out who this was.

For example, Representative Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) Attempted to bully Taibbi into divulging his sources — particularly about Twitter CEO Elon Musk. Although journalists are constitutionally prohibited from disclosing their sources, she attempted to do so in the name Democracy.

“Who gave you access to these emails? Who was the individual who gave you permission to access these emails?” Plaskett demanded to be informed.

Taibbi did not respond. She also tried to denigrate him during their back and forth. “so-called journalist.”

He quickly defended his position by pointing out his credentials.

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“Ranking Member Plaskett, I’m not a so-called journalist,” He . “I’ve won the National Magazine Award, the I.F. Stone Award for independent journalism, and I’ve written 10 books including four New York Times best-sellers.”

Even if he did not have those awards, he would still be entitled to First Amendment protections as a journalist — whether that be citizen or corporate.

Plaskett wasn’t the only one. Sylvia Garcia, a Democratic congresswoman from Texas, tried to persuade Plaskett to give up his sources.

Rep. Garcia: “So you’re not gonna tell us Musk first approached you?”

Matt Taibbi: “You’re asking a journalist to reveal his sources.”

Garcia: “So you consider Musk to be the direct source of all this?”

Matt Taibbi: “Now you’re trying to get me to say he’s the source.”… https://t.co/JmY0IUClz4 pic.twitter.com/JLjm6MIQ4F

— Real Mac Report (@RealMacReport) March 9, 2023

Debbie WassermanSchultz, Florida Democratic Congresswoman, continued to criticize Taibbi “profiting” He should stop reporting. She ended the lecture by  implying he only released the Twitter files for “attention.”

“Eyeballs, money, prominence, attention,” She . “All of it points to problems with accuracy and credibility. And the larger point, which is social media companies are not biased against conservatives, and if anything, they ignored their own policies by allowing Trump and other MAGA extremists to post incessant lies, endangering public safety and even our democracy.”

Taibbi may not be a Trump supporter but she has to have ignored that.

Rep. Wasserman-Schultz (@DWStweetsAfter Taibbi refuses to tell him he’s sorry, ) becomes annoyed with Taibbi “profiting” The following are the links to help you get started: #TwitterFiles pic.twitter.com/nxEWdDob1L

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 9, 2023

The main message of the hearing was clear: You must agree with the leftist narrative or you will be a threat to America’s democracy. Perhaps calling opponents “racists” They had to lose their sting and change their preferred method.

The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles was also called a full fledged reporter. “Nazi” Jamaal Bowman, a sitting congressman from New York (D-NY), was prompted to do so by the podcast host and best-selling author who stated that transgenderism should not be tolerated. “eradicated” From public life.

“Michael Knowles is a Nazi hellbent on keeping only white men alive and in power,” Bowman tweeted. “We cannot allow him and others to push their evil agenda and we must stand up for the transgender rights. CPAC has made one thing clear this year – they support a future run by Nazis like Knowles.”

In response, Knowles tweeted, Bowman “called me ‘a Nazi hellbent on keeping only white men alive and in power’ because I said society should treat ‘transgenderism’ as we did before 2015,” While adding that the New York Democrat should also be “censured for these outrageous and defamatory remarks.”

A sitting Democrat congressman called him me “a Nazi hellbent on keeping only white men alive and in power” Because I said society should treat “transgenderism” As we did in 2015

Bowman should be reprimanded for his defamatory comments. @SpeakerMcCarthy @HouseGOP https://t.co/xOxOexrwxd

— Michael Knowles, falsehood eradicator (@michaeljknowles) March 7, 2023

It was all in all a very informative week for anyone who pays attention to the “Defenders of Democracy” crowd.

Their response to free speech was one thing, in case you haven’t picked it up yet: “democracy” They do not refer to America’s Democratic Republic or its rights, customs and traditions. “Democracy” The Swamp’s code name for their agenda, which aims to increase government control and make it more difficult for citizens. This definition makes their rhetoric much more understandable.

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