GOP Hearing on Twitter Bias Backfires

[Aloha Hoosier]

No they didn’t. Wasn’t mainstream at all.

I didn’t say it was mainstream, but a significant portion of your side were Truthers to various degrees. Some liberal posters here were. It was a big thing. Conyers even allowed prominent Truthers to testify to his committee which IIRC was not sanctioned by the House due to minority status. A significant portion of the party out of power always get stupid and believe conspiracy theories and in stolen elections. Now it’s wingnuts, then it was moonbats.

 

[Hoopsdoc1978]

You understand that those two channels got pulled because their numbers are horrendous, right? No one watches that crap. They negotiate with the networks and the channels overvalued their worth. FOX will never go anywhere because people watch it.

You’re right. No one watches that crap.

You should tell Cosmic. He brings them up a lot.

 

[anon_mya1phvcpf5x4]

I don't get it: he's a law prof and they asked him to opine about legal issues and she's complaining he didn't work for Twitter? So what?

One side props up someone that will say what they want and the other side tries to poke holes in the relevance to lower the impact of what they said.

Pretty par for the course re expert witnesses...or not so expert depending on what side you fall on.

 

[zeke4ahs]

I didn’t say it was mainstream, but a significant portion of your side were Truthers to various degrees. Some liberal posters here were. It was a big thing. Conyers even allowed prominent Truthers to testify to his committee which IIRC was not sanctioned by the House due to minority status. A significant portion of the party out of power always get stupid and believe conspiracy theories and in stolen elections. Now it’s wingnuts, then it was moonbats.

I can think of one person here who MAY have been, and he’s not a liberal. Think you are over stating in order to both sides your theory.

 

[DANC]

I can think of one person here who MAY have been, and he’s not a liberal. Think you are over stating in order to both sides your theory.

Actually, he was referring to you without saying your name.

But keep on living in oblivion.

 

[cosmickid]

I don't know. I have no dog in this fight. I'm just going based off the clip someone posted. I didn't see his original testimony. Did they ask him about matters outside the Twitter file dump?

Congress calls law profs and lawyers all the time to testify about stuff. When they do, they give their legal opinions. They have no special knowledge of the facts, but to call their opinion on the application of the law to those facts as no better than any other Twitter user is just wrong.

"Congress calls law profs and lawyers all the time to testify about stuff. When they do, they give their legal opinions."

Id say the difference in this case may well be that two lawyers with equal credentials are the ones questioning him in Wasserman Schultz and Goldman. They aren't going to attach any value to Turley's "legal opinion", esp since he never worked for Twitter or the Federal Govt.

Prior to the Impeachment, Goldman was an Asst US Attorney for 10 yrs, so besides his disdain for Turley's opposition role during Impeachment he takes special delight in exposing Turley's "embellishment" regarding his claim of working for the Govt.



The problem MAGAs have in this Committee is the clown team on their side- Gym Jordan, MTG, Gaetz, Hageman, Massie. So they have to call someone like Turley to provide "legal opinion".

But the Dems have very capable lawyers Goldman, Wasserman Schultz, Raskin, Linda Sanchez etc... who view Turley as a Fox news shill and relish the oppty to expose him and his "expertise"...

Here's Goldman exposing the irrelevance of claims from one of the Pub's ex-FBI "expert witnesses"





And here's Goldman exposing Jordan's lie about "dozens of FBI whistleblowers"...A very flustered Jordan tries to maintain that the first interview occurred on Tues, when Goldman presses him for notes on the "dozens" of people who had complained to his staff.

 

[zeke4ahs]

Actually, he was referring to you without saying your name.

But keep on living in oblivion.

Well that’s stupid. But he wasn’t. I don’t believe in conspiracy theories and I certainly never believed 9/11 was an inside job. I don’t fall for things like 2,000 Mules.

 

[Aloha Hoosier]

I can think of one person here who MAY have been, and he’s not a liberal. Think you are over stating in order to both sides your theory.

Think what you want, but you’re wrong.

 

[Crayfish57]

Well that’s stupid. But he wasn’t. I don’t believe in conspiracy theories and I certainly never believed 9/11 was an inside job. I don’t fall for things like 2,000 Mules.

Nah, you only believe in the stupid theories you chose to believe in. Never heard your thoughts on the Rolling Stone rape fiasco, yet you choose to get your news from them.

 

[MrBing]

I’ll jump in. Johnathan Turley is a law school professor. He didn’t work for Twitter or the FBI, so he’s not a witness to anything regarding what actually happened between Twitter and the FBI. He knew nothing to lie about.

I really wish people on my side of the aisle were much more logical and a lot less . . . well, whatever it is you think you were doing in that post. Also learn to differentiate between facts and opinions.

Concur on the first paragraph and I think you're hoping for too much in your second!

 

[cosmickid]

You’re right. No one watches that crap.

You should tell Cosmic. He brings them up a lot.

You should learn the difference between online video excerpts (which cosmic links to) and broadcast channels within a platform.

It's beyond pathetic for whiny wingnuts to claim they are being "censored" because one of the myriad of right wing channels on a broadcast platform is being dropped for being greedy.

I recently had a week or two of access to Direct tv. In addition to Newsmax, and maybe even OAN, there were also multiple iterations of Fox (FNC, FBC, Fox local) while there was a single channel of both CNN and MSNBC. I watched exactly ZERO of any of them, unless you want to count basketball on FS1 as a Fox iteration...

So the next time you want to display your ignorance and sarcastically claim that the whiny pukes crying about this have anything close to an actual fact on their side, just leave me the Hell out of this.

There are far more right wing channels on every news platform than there are anything remotely left wing. My viewing comes from you tube, where that is even more pronounced as the right wing grifters are everywhere...

 

[IUCrazy2]

You should learn the difference between online video excerpts (which cosmic links to) and broadcast channels within a platform.

It's beyond pathetic for whiny wingnuts to claim they are being "censored" because one of the myriad of right wing channels on a broadcast platform is being dropped for being greedy.

I recently had a week or two of access to Direct tv. In addition to Newsmax, and maybe even OAN, there were also multiple iterations of Fox (FNC, FBC, Fox local) while there was a single channel of both CNN and MSNBC. I watched exactly ZERO of any of them, unless you want to count basketball on FS1 as a Fox iteration...

So the next time you want to display your ignorance and sarcastically claim that the whiny pukes crying about this have anything close to an actual fact on their side, just leave me the Hell out of this.

There are far more right wing channels on every news platform than there are anything remotely left wing. My viewing comes from you tube, where that is even more pronounced as the right wing grifters are everywhere...

Lol

 

[cosmickid]

Nah, you only believe in the stupid theories you chose to believe in. Never heard your thoughts on the Rolling Stone rape fiasco, yet you choose to get your news from them.

You certainly are getting a lot of mileage about a single story, retracted within a year and settled out of court for $1.6 Million. I wasn't sure exactly of the details so I had to look it up, and the fact that you have to go all the way back to 2017 to find an example to try and prove your vacuous argument is telling...

Rolling Stone magazine settles rape story lawsuit for $1.65 Million

Rolling Stone Magazine is putting to end its battle with the University of Virginia by agreeing to pay the school $1.65 million to settle a defamation lawsuit.

www.nbcnews.com

Meanwhile Fox and various members of the wingnut echo chamber have droned on for over 2 1/2 yrs on false claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent. As a result Fox is currently being sued by Dominion for over $ 1.6 BILLION, and this was not a single printed story but hundreds of hours of Foxbots and their guests spewing ludicrous lies that in most cases they even knew were false. And this isn't even the first time the Fox "Entertainment network" has been sued...

 

[Crayfish57]

You certainly are getting a lot of mileage about a single story, retracted within a year and settled out of court for $1.6 Million. I wasn't sure exactly of the details so I had to look it up, and the fact that you have to go all the way back to 2017 to find an example to try and prove your vacuous argument is telling...

Rolling Stone magazine settles rape story lawsuit for $1.65 Million

Rolling Stone Magazine is putting to end its battle with the University of Virginia by agreeing to pay the school $1.65 million to settle a defamation lawsuit.

www.nbcnews.com

Meanwhile Fox and various members of the wingnut echo chamber have droned on for over 2 1/2 yrs on false claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent. As a result Fox is currently being sued by Dominion for over $ 1.6 BILLION, and this was not a single printed story but hundreds of hours of Foxbots and their guests spewing ludicrous lies that in most cases they even knew were false. And this isn't even the first time the Fox "Entertainment network" has been sued...

That is rich, the lengths and paragraph after paragraph you go to try and prove your vacuous postings and ramblings is hilarious, and once again the point went right over your head. Zeke goes on about everybody else's sources and her go to is to get her news from Rolling Stone was the point. I realize you aren't really capable of cognizant thinking on your own but give it a try sometime.

Back to the actual article if you wish to discuss it too. Retracted within a year? GD, it was total fiction to begin with and 1.6 million is absolutely nothing to them.

 

[UncleMark]

Zeke goes on about everybody else's sources and her go to is to get her news from Rolling Stone was the point.

She cited them once. You've made a career out of harrassing her over that and for most everything else she posts. Stalking Zeke and blowing her shit is the foundation of your Cooler persona. You really need to find some new material.

 

[DANC]

She cited them once. You've made a career out of harrassing her over that and for most everything else she posts. Stalking Zeke and blowing her shit is the foundation of your Cooler persona. You really need to find some new material.

She cites them all the time. Maybe once in this thread, but she does it all the time.

 

[cosmickid]

So did the Young Turks or MSNBC give you your talking points?

You guys would be screaming to the high heavens if the shoe was on the other foot.

Why in the world would I need "talking points" to characterize these "hearings" as limited interest? They're not even being carried on Fox, and polling shows exactly where my point came from...

This was how people felt when it was just a hypothetical, before the train wreck actually erupted last week. Come to think of it, the circus may actually provide entertainment value, with more people tuning in because they're interested in seeing how wacky MTG and co can be.

The Dem strategy heading into the next elections is to paint MTG,Boebert, Gaetz etc as the "face of the MAGA GOP". Ironically some (not all) of the MAGA types on this board actually enthusiastically embrace the issues those clowns are pushing...

But unless you want to make the ridiculous claim that a MC/Politico poll is record level "biased", these numbers tell a devastating story with regards to how many people view investigating Hunter" as important"...

The House GOP’s Agenda for the Next Congress Isn’t Particularly Popular

Few Americans want Congress to prioritize investigations into Hunter Biden, Dr. Fauci

morningconsult.com

That is rich, the lengths and paragraph after paragraph you go to try and prove your vacuous postings and ramblings is hilarious, and once again the point went right over your head. Zeke goes on about everybody else's sources and her go to is to get her news from Rolling Stone was the point. I realize you aren't really capable of cognizant thinking on your own but give it a try sometime.

Back to the actual article if you wish to discuss it too. Retracted within a year? GD, it was total fiction to begin with and 1.6 million is absolutely nothing to them.

It was a single article written by an author who hasn't been heard of since. RS did their own quality control, investigatedsome troubling issues and retracted the story within a year. Meanwhile, there are still election deniers not only appearing on Fox,Newsmax,OAN etc, but a number of them won GOP Primaries and were on the ballot this past Nov.

Where do you get your "news" from? Dinesh D'souza? Catturd?

 

[Bulk VanderHuge]

Why in the world would I need "talking points" to characterize these "hearings" as limited interest? They're not even being carried on Fox, and polling shows exactly where my point came from...

This was how people felt when it was just a hypothetical, before the train wreck actually erupted last week. Come to think of it, the circus may actually provide entertainment value, with more people tuning in because they're interested in seeing how wacky MTG and co can be.

The Dem strategy heading into the next elections is to paint MTG,Boebert, Gaetz etc as the "face of the MAGA GOP". Ironically some (not all) of the MAGA types on this board actually enthusiastically embrace the issues those clowns are pushing...

But unless you want to make the ridiculous claim that a MC/Politico poll is record level "biased", these numbers tell a devastating story with regards to how many people view investigating Hunter" as important"...

The House GOP’s Agenda for the Next Congress Isn’t Particularly Popular

Few Americans want Congress to prioritize investigations into Hunter Biden, Dr. Fauci

morningconsult.com

It was a single article written by an author who hasn't been heard of since. RS did their own quality control, investigatedsome troubling issues and retracted the story within a year. Meanwhile, there are still election deniers not only appearing on Fox,Newsmax,OAN etc, but a number of them won GOP Primaries and were on the ballot this past Nov.

Where do you get your "news" from? Dinesh D'souza? Catturd?

He gets his new from DANC.

 

[JamieDimonsBalls]

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