Timothy Birdnow

I am watching Meet the Press and the whole thing has nauseated me to no end. It was one lie after another.

I was tempted to use Joe Pesci's opening statement in the trial of his cousin in My Cousin Vinny "everything that guy said was bullshit. Thank you."

First, Josh Shapiro was interviewed and he waxed poetic about the right to free speech and how the Trump Administration was pooping all over them. The hypocrisy is astonishing! Where was he when the Biden Administration was threatening social media if they didn't suppress free speech? I was banned several times and shadow banned repeatedly because I openly disagreed with things the Administration wanted. Where was he when the FBI was going after Turning Point USA, or other conservative activist outlets? Where was he when Biden set up a "misinformation office"?

Second, and this applied to the second speaker, RAnd Paul, threatening to use the FCC licenses to stop hateful speech is no more censorship than the banning of the N word on television, or not allowing a husband and wife being in bed together. It's ALWAYS been censored as the broadcast band is limited and thus regulated by the government since they alone can give out licenses for that bandwidth. Paul kept jawboning about "censorship" but we've ALWAYS censored television.

Shapiro then bragged about how well his state of Pennsylvania is doing. Well, that's because Trump has eased environmental regulations on oil and gas - the very thing making his state rich. Duh.

Kristin Welker, the crone who runs Press the Meat, was a bulldog with Rand Paul, repeatedly demanding him to condemn Trump.

And then there was the nonsense about how Trump evilly got Jimmy Kimmel fired and how that is what tyrants do. But Kimmel's rating were lower than snake poo, and he should have been fired long before. Two top affiliates of ABC said they wouldn't carry him. So they made a business decision. I would add what Rand Paul added, which is every business has a code of conduct and Kimmel clearly broke it.

Of course Welker was apoplectic about Trump pushing his DOJ to prosecute the political hatchet men who went after him, and he was not asking to charge them with anything bogus, but rather with crimes that have already been unearthed. In fact, they can charge him with what they falsly charged HIM with; they were doing what they accused him of doing. Justice requires they be prosecuted.

But of course Welker and the other leftists in the media (meaning all of them) now want an armastice over lawfare when they were happy to use it when it suited them. And of course Trump isn't using lawfare - he's going after actual crime.

Meet the Press is nothing but a carnival of lies these days.

BTW Rand Paul is a REPUBLICAN but not a conservative. He's a libertarian, and thinks very differently than a conservative. If Welker wanted true balance she would have asked Josh Hawley on, or Eric Schmidt, or any other true conservative. She chose Paul because she was looking for a sound byte to bludgeon Trump.

Paul did well enough but he kept on with the "no censorship" business which he should not have done; he should have said this isn't censorship in any new or novel way.

At any rate I don't know why I watch Meet the Press; it's just propaganda.

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