12.11.23
First Amendment Strike Force – MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA
- Feeling the heat after lighting the fire
In a new development in the Media Matters versus Elon Musk feud, the left-wing activist outfit is facing more legal issues after Musk filed a suit against the non-profit. The attorney general of Missouri is looking into the practices of the group, alleging that it fraudulently collected money from citizens of his state.
He has ordered MMFA to preserve all communications regarding its targeting of Xitter and its attempts to compel companies to pull its business off the platform. This will include all internal documents as well as those in contact with a list of corporations it has been lobbying to pull advertising from the social site, in its effort to sink Musk and his efforts.
🚨BREAKING: We have reason to believe Media Matters used fraud to solicit donations from Missourians in order to bully advertisers into pulling out of X, the last platform dedicated to free speech in America.
— Attorney General Andrew Bailey (@AGAndrewBailey) December 11, 2023
We have launched an investigation. pic.twitter.com/jBUJqdsFYL
Legalized Press-titution – POLITICO
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If ever a piece justified this category, it is this one. Politico goes out of its way to grant disgraced Democratic candidate Susanna Gibson the chance to clear her name from the completely valid and proven accurate commentary that she was having sex on camera on an adult website to earn money.
You get the sense of how defensive things will be as the subheader describes "an opponent exposed her private digital life to the public." Gibson performed sex on a public website and performed various acts after compelling users to pony up enough cash to do so. Politico allows Gibson to make wild claims without anything in the form of pushback or challenging her on the specifics. She was seen on video performing sex acts and telling the people who were watching on the site Chaturbate to give her cash to perform various acts. But she is free to say this:
They had found these videos on the dark web and shopped them around to various news outlets. I didn’t have any idea that there were ever videos of me that had been made and uploaded to multiple sites.There are scholars that argue that non-consensual pornography really should be relabeled and called image-based sexual abuse.
Pounce Of Prevention – THE NEW YORK TIMES
- By now, the effort to overlook what these college presidents were saying is becoming desperate.
Still, in an effort to minimize the impact of college presidents being dismissive of antisemitism on their campuses, The Times tries this trademarked dose of deflection. Last week, when the congressional testimony first arose, it was said the Republicans on the panel were the issue. Now, as the fallout has been widespread – with a resignation, endowments being pulled, and others under fire – the paper tries to suggest that we should be focused on those "seizing" on the moment.
As fury erupts over campus antisemitism, conservatives seize the moment (From The New York Times) https://t.co/a1HsZrpi0J
— South Florida Sun Sentinel (@SunSentinel) December 11, 2023
Low Octane Gas Lighting – NEW YORK POST
We understand the appeal and lure of being the contrarian, but c'mon…!!!
Exercise may not be the key to living longer — it might even be aging you faster https://t.co/3DGII7WuQn pic.twitter.com/lUxBgopnjA
— New York Post (@nypost) December 7, 2023
Democratic Custodial Services – ASSOCIATED PRESS
We here at RFTH always enjoy it when our country's truth seekers and misinformation warriors ignore hard-core truths. The economy has soured to the extent that the Democrats, after a couple of years of insisting things were just going super swell, have abandoned the use of the term "Bidenomics." This has not deterred the AP, however; the news syndicate wants to insist that we are missing out on the fabulous financial conditions.
Despite months before the 2020 election consumer negativity was at 58%, and Joe Biden was pledging to fix that, we now see that negativity has ballooned to 84%. But the AP forges forward:
Pollsters and economists say there has never been as wide a gap between the underlying health of the economy and public perception. The divergence could be a decisive factor in whether the Democrat secures a second term next year.
Biden goes into 2024 with the economy getting stronger, but voters feel horrible about it https://t.co/lQVpzLbNsN
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 11, 2023
Anti-Social Media – POLITICO
- So now we cannot follow someone we had no interest in following…?
The press loves to tell us how disgraceful and inhospitable Xitter has become under Elon Musk – from their Xitter accounts. The latest is that Politico reports that upon the news that Alex Jones has been reinstated to Twitter, a civil rights lawyer has quit the platform.
We have little clue why we should find this relevant when not only will they likely run to another social site where antisemitism is rampant, but it is telling this person had been on the site prior, while congressional members from The Squad had been spewing antisemitic contents and Iran's Ayatollah has his platform active to declare Israel needs to be eliminated.
But Alex Jones? Well, that just tears it!
Civil rights lawyer quits X after Alex Jones' return to platform https://t.co/7NFiQkrRKK
— POLITICO (@politico) December 11, 2023
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