Talking points on the left: about those Twitter files and Matt Taibbi
The leftist troops have been told what line to take on Matt Taibbi – who’s been reporting on the Twitter files – and here it is:
Imagine throwing it all away to do PR work for the richest person in the world. Humiliating shit.
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) December 2, 2022
The article goes on to list statement after statement, mostly by people connected to journalism in some way, using the same phrase or nearly the same phrase excoriating reporter Taibbi. Are we to believe all these people simultaneously thought of the same supposedly brilliant ad hominem bon mot? I don’t think so. One thing I’ve noticed over the years is how on-point and organized the left is in its messaging.
Taibbi is being attacked for taking on the task of summarizing the Twitter files on the banning of stories (such as the Hunter laptop) that Musk has recently released, and for that Taibbi must be destroyed if possible and certainly completely discredited. That is a given.
The recitation of the same phrase from so many sources reminds me of this, although the message is quite different:
[NOTE: There are other talking points and rationalizations as well. See Ace’s take on some them here, from the formerly “conservative” NeverTrumpers Kristol and French.]
One should never forget that both Pravda-on-the-Hudson and Pravda-on-the-Potomac were granted a “Pulitzer” for lying about Russia-gate; both are now, of course, lying by omission in refusing to cover in any significant manner this massively important story (while barely reporting on the full extent of SBF’s fraud at FTX). Kristol and French (along with the loathsome and ludicrous lickspittle T Miller) have beclowned themselves so egregiously and so often as to be utterly beyond parody; this have this in common with WaPo’s dreadful duo (Boot and Rubin), along with countless other worthless (yet celebrated, wealthy and successful) “pseudo-conservatives”.
The lockstep operations of the corporate media can astound. See this:
https://twitter.com/akheriaty/status/1596331604070174727?s=20&t=OR0PKyWV8Mz4eJRZl1FmRQ
Nice Erasmus.
Tucker has, on occasion, put together nice video clip montages featuring media parroting of DNC focus group tested “messaging.”
I’ve told this story several times, but while I was still at the college, a very leftist faculty (he stood out back then about 15 years ago, but now would be run-of-the-mill) was bragging about before he was on a local talk radio show he called the DNC headquarters to make sure he repeated exactly the approved talking points.
Musk has earned his riches with ingenuity. So did Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerburg, and Jeff Bezos. I don’t see these leftist mind-numbed robots (thanks, Ruch Limbaugh) complaining about those rich guys.
Turley with a scathing article on the Leftist intellectual mob, the total lack of integrity of the media…and the echo-chamber that they inhabit, a hot-house of VIRTUE and victimhood that scrambles all sense of morality, judgment…and decency.
“”A Cautionary Tale For Everyone”: The Media Mob Turns On Taibbi”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/cautionary-tale-everyone-media-mob-turns-taibbi
New talking points on the march, directly from the White House no less (taking a page from the uncharitable leftist playbook of rhetorical interpretation, observe, if you will, the implicit threat to Elon Musk’s person!):
https://nypost.com/2022/12/05/jean-pierre-says-not-healthy-for-elon-musk-to-release-files-on-censorship-of-hunter-biden-laptop-story/
“Not healthy”, get it? Better beef up your security, Elon. They’re coming for you. Heh.
Curious
https://twitter.com/pepesgrandma/status/1599642505842085888?cxt=HHwWgMCqhciYibMsAAAA
Barry Meislin:
Turley knows whereof he speaks. The same mob turned viciously on him when he testified against a Trump impeachment.
That is a disturbing comment, by Jean-Pierre.
Holy Moley, that “won’t do anything to help a single American improve their lives” is a real keeper!
IOW, the truth “won’t do anything to help a single American improve their lives”—nope, only OUR LIES can do that…AND our non-stop sabotage of the country and AND concerted attempts to destroy anything and everything decent. I mean, really! HOW MANY TIMES do we have to tell you fools and idiots that in order to save the country we first have to totally wreck it??
Indeed, one has truly got to LOVE all those lectures by the perverts and criminals who are firmly convinced that they are our moral “betters”…
A psycho administration…from the “head” all the way on down.
(But since they’ve developed a “KNACK” for stealing elections—LEGALLY, no less!—then it looks like they’ll be around, along with their destructiveness, for awhile.
That is, until they won’t be around…that is, when a critical mass of “The People” realize that their policy is simply and concertedly “[NOT to] do anything to help a single American improve their lives”…
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Meanwhile, Matt Taibbi has this “perfect response” to the foaming-at-the-mouth, hysteria-driven mob:
https://instapundit.com/557537/