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Monday, August 27, 2018

Twitter's One Sided Acceptable Speech

Twitter User Says Dana Loesch’s Kids Need to be ‘Murdered,’ Social Giant Says ‘No Violation’

By Jack Davis
August 27, 2018 at 9:53am

Advocating murder has become an acceptable form of speech, Twitter has ruled — at least when the target of invective is the family of National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch.

On Sunday, a Twitter user responded to Loesch as she was trying to discuss the Florida shooting online with other Twitter users.

“The only way these people learn is if it affects them directly. So if Dana Loesch has to have her children murdered before she’ll understand, I guess that’s what needs to happen,” Loesch posted in a screenshot of the comment she received.

At a time when Twitter and other social media giants have been tightening the screws on what they allow from websites such as Infowars, Loesch appealed to Twitter for a ruling to punish the user.

Twitter sided with Loesch’s critic.

“We have reviewed your report carefully and found that there was no violation of the Twitter Rules against abusive behavior,” it wrote, according to the screenshot Loesch posted.

Loesch then drew the only possible conclusion: Fair is only fair when the threats align with Twitter’s politics.

Is Twitter biased against conservatives?

“Apparently this doesn’t violate @TwitterSupportTOS. I know several conservatives who have been suspended for far less,” she tweeted.

The tweet that contained the implied threat was later taken down, although the account of the individual who posted it remains active, Law and Crime reported.

Twitter’s decision was attacked by writer Jazz Shaw on HotAir, who drew together many of the comments made on Twitter about the incident.

Laura Loomer@LauraLoomer

· 6h

It’s unacceptable. Several people have told me this week their accounts were suspended simply because they replied to my tweets or followed me!

The bias must end!! https://twitter.com/izzogian1/status/1034070645347364864 …

Mike Pomorski@colovion

Jack has admitted the lefty bias, and the threats to Dana Loesch's kids being reported but being found not to violate Twitter TOS is just proof of that. Face it, this is a lefty playground so their rules apply.

9:37 AM - Aug 27, 2018

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As insults against Loesch poured in, others demanded action.

Shaw said that kind of action is not in Twitter’s playbook.

“Jack Dorsey continues to talk a good game, bashfully admitting the inherent leftward views of his entire company while feigning shock and disappointment that anyone would think even for a moment that he would let those biases show up in their content suppression policies,” Shaw wrote. “This is one more example which puts the lie to these company pronouncements.”

Thursday, March 1, 2018

CNN Gets Worse By The Day

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CNN’s Worst Week Ever

GUY SHORT

Six-time Republican National Convention delegate and GOP strategist

12:35 PM 02/28/2018

On Monday, CNN’s coverage of the Florida shooting was as “objective” as you’d expect.

The morning kicked off with a flattering profile of Parkland students-turned-activists “changing the government.” Another story criticized President Trump’s “ambiguous 280-character ideas” and urged Republican leaders “to just do something.”

You’d expect better from the self-proclaimed “Most Trusted Name in News” coming off its least trustworthy week ever. CNN’s recent coverage epitomizes why the American people—only one-third of whom trust the media—are rapidly losing faith in the so-called “Fourth Estate.”

On Sunday, Brian Stelter—host of the ironically named “Reliable Sources”—invited student-activist David Hogg to lay the blame at the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) feet. Answering softball questions, Hogg not only claimed NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch “doesn’t care about these children’s lives,” but also defended Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel. (Yes, the same sheriff whose deputies refused to enter the school and defend the children from their assailant.)

Faced with ridiculous talking points, Stelter did nothing but encourage Hogg to regurgitate more of them.

Throughout last week, CNN trotted out students at Stoneman Douglas High School to make the case for gun control. One student called Republican support for Second Amendment rights “scary,” while CNN featured another claiming Republicans who “sit in their gilded House and Senate seats fund by the NRA” are “lying to us.” In another CNN interview, a Stoneman Douglas student described the NRA as “child murderers,” a claim the CNN anchor conducting the interview let stand.

While we all grieve with the Parkland community, the mainstream media’s responsibility is to report the facts and welcome a wide range of analytical perspectives. Instead, CNN has created a platform for unfounded left-wing opinions to supplant traditional news reporting—for no other reason than to spread its own gun control agenda to the masses. The network continues to exploit grieving children as propaganda pawns to score anti-Trump political points.

This takes us to CNN’s so-called town hall in Sunrise, Florida. Last Thursday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Loesch went out of their way to grieve with the victims and discuss gun policy, only to enter a lion’s den—that is, a CNN set-up—of hostile Democrats and vindictive liberalism. In one exchange, a Stoneman Douglas student looked Senator Rubio in the eyes and compared him to the school shooter: “It’s hard to look at you and not look down the barrel of an AR-15 and not look at Nicholas Cruz.” CNN anchor Jake Tapper sat approvingly silent.

Loesch, meanwhile, was heckled by the audience. Several students denounced her as a “murderer,” while others chanted “burn her!” Again, Tapper did nothing to defend Loesch—and the truth.

Instead of fostering a discussion, the purportedly “objective” CNN is openly lobbying for gun control without any consideration for other solutions. Why wasn’t Columbine survivor and Colorado House Minority Leader Patrick Neville (R-CO) invited to the town hall?

Because this particular mass shooting survivor advocates a different point of view. Rep. Neville is vocally opposed to “gun-free zones,” which leaves schools and students vulnerable mass shootings. In his words, law-abiding citizens should be able to “to defend themselves and most importantly our children from the worst-case scenarios.”

He has a point. From 1998 to 2015, more than 96 percent of mass shootings occurred in gun-free zones, where a shooter could fire away at defenseless victims. Arming our schools would discourage would-be mass shooters and prevent tragedies like Parkland, and yet his valuable opinion was ignored by CNN.

Instead of belittling their critics, cable news networks would be better served restoring trust in the news media. If Monday’s coverage is any indication, CNN has a long way to go.

Guy Short (@shortguy1) is a former congressional chief of staff, six-time Republican National Convention delegate, and Republican strategist with over 25 years of experience in politics.