Media Malfeasance

As extraordinary as it is for Musk to expose the inner operations of Twitter, the media’s reaction is even more extraordinary and disturbing.  Just as the media spiked the laptop story, it spiked the Twitter disclosures over the weekend.

If they covered it at all, it was largely to attack Matt Taibbi, a former editor of Rolling Stone, who had access to the Twitter files.  Before the weekend was over, Taibbi was accused of “selling his soul to the richest white nationalist on earth.”

The left’s theme of “saving democracy” is a total sham.  The Washington Post’s motto – “Democracy dies in darkness” – is a total lie.  The left-wing media are totally willing to lie when it serves their purposes.  But it’s this kind of propaganda media that puts democracy in danger.

The “free press” is supposed to serve as a check on abusive government power to preserve free speech.  It is not supposed to support Big Government’s abusive efforts to suppress free speech.

And it’s equally disturbing that large American corporations stopped advertising on Twitter.  Why did they do that?  Because Musk was restoring free speech. 

But why are so many American corporations uncomfortable upholding one of the central rights of the American Republic?  Because they are scared of the woke left-wing mob. 

Again, that’s evidence that our constitutional Republic is in danger -- not from conservatives, but from the intolerant, totalitarian neo-Marxist left.

By the way, Apple CEO Tim Cook was on Capitol Hill last week to meet with House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and other top Republicans.  Reports suggest it wasn’t a very comfortable meeting for him. 

There’s video of Cook walking through the Capitol refusing to answer questions from a Fox News reporter about Apple’s activities in communist China.  (He looks like a criminal suspect about to plead the Fifth.)  But Cook’s decisions and Apple’s recent actions raise serious questions as to whether Apple really is an American company or a communist Chinese company.