As Twitchy reported earlier Saturday, what looked to us like President Trump calling for freedom of speech on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook looked to CNN’s Oliver Darcy and Brian Stelter like the president supporting the conspiracy theories of “far-right figures” like Alex Jones, whom Darcy made it a personal and professional quest to have banned from Twitter.
You know how the more careful on Twitter always put in their bios that retweets do not necessarily equal endorsements? Though Trump did retweet tweets from Paul Watson and Laura Southern, the tweets he featured called for an end to censorship on social media.
Now Darcy is back on his InfoWars quest and wants to know what the difference is between InfoWars and @realDonaldTrump:
What's the difference between the president's Twitter feed and, say, InfoWars?
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) May 4, 2019
We smell a ratio cookin’.
What the difference between CNN & InfoWars? https://t.co/iuhjR8okst
— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) May 4, 2019
InfoWars is entertaining and occasionally gets stuff right. @CNN is pure garbage.
— Haytham Nomis (@HaythamNomis) May 4, 2019
Hey, maybe that Malaysia Airlines flight did vanish into a black hole. (Don Lemon was named one of the year’s worst journalists by the Columbia Journalism Review in part for entertaining that theory.)
Whats the difference between a CNN reporter and a left wing activist?
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) May 4, 2019
CNN doesn't have reporters so this is obviously a trick question.
— A Kermode Bear (@AKermodeBear) May 4, 2019
— Nox (@ARCTrooperNox) May 4, 2019
It's the way in which this fake news hack assumes CNN has more credibility than Info Wars that had me rolling around the floor weeping.#CNNFakeNews
— Iconoclast (@Iconoclast1982) May 4, 2019
What’s the difference between CNN and the DNC?
— WindTalker (@nmlinguaphile) May 4, 2019
Irrelevant.
Keep hating on speech – yours may be threatened next.
— RockPrincess (@Rockprincess818) May 4, 2019
— Eddie Zipperer (@EddieZipperer) May 4, 2019
the president doesn’t get paid for clickbait?
— stuart duke (@stuartduke6) May 4, 2019
What's the difference between CNN & The National Enquirer
— Ed Z (@edzsplace) May 4, 2019
The Enquirer actually broke real news about John Edwards.
— Mortis (@WitchyDruss) May 4, 2019
What's the difference between CNN and InfoWars? InfoWars has higher ratings! ???
— Emma Lou (@WheelSassy) May 4, 2019
So much journalisming.
— Mattison Brooks (@MBPRDC) May 4, 2019
What's the difference between CNN and, say, propaganda?
— Leonydus Johnson (@LeonydusJohnson) May 4, 2019
What's the difference between CNN and actual fact??
A shitload.
— Coby J. "2 Fingers" Ascott ?????? (@CobyJAscott) May 4, 2019
Only here for the ratio?
— Pete Rich☀️ (@petemsgt1787) May 4, 2019
I'm just here to add to the ratio
— ?? BUt mUh MueLLeR tiMe⚒️ (@k_ovfefe) May 4, 2019
What’s the difference between @CNN and say Mad Magazine?
— Space Woman Spiff ??? (@BellaPelosi) May 4, 2019
Mad Magazine KNEW they were a parody…
— Nimrod Wildfire… (@temersonb) May 4, 2019
Number of followers
— Analyst @ Surefire Intelligence (@AaronAjlen) May 4, 2019
What's the difference between Infowars and CNN?
About 20 million viewers a day.
— David Patrick Dennis (@dpdgraphix) May 4, 2019
What's the difference between CNN's Twitter feed and, say, a two year old having a tantrum because you won't let her eat mud?
— Mortis (@WitchyDruss) May 4, 2019
Maybe not the sort of thing a CNN “journalist” should be asking, Sport.
— #That’sTrue (@PaulWDrake) May 4, 2019
Did you apologize to Covington Catholic or Kavenaugh? https://t.co/CbuL3gem81
— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) May 4, 2019
InfoWars isn’t afraid to directly call you a little bitch.
— Savanah H. (@sav_says_) May 4, 2019
What's the difference between Oliver Darcy and an angry Xbox gamer?
They both threaten to dox private citizens who hurt their feelings so…
— DJ (@DJNYified) May 4, 2019
What’s the difference between actual journalists and Darcy?
— Jer™️ (@jerbergmann) May 4, 2019
What’s the difference between Oliver Darcy and, say, The Onion?
— Joseph Wade Miller ✝️ (@J_Wade_Miller) May 4, 2019
What the difference between you an a paid democratic party lobbyist?
— Chris Connor (@LastCallwChrisC) May 4, 2019
What's the difference between Oliver Darcy and, say, a potato?
— mattjeh (@mattjeh) May 4, 2019
Potatoes have a positive impact on the economy.
— Robert Novak (@gallifreyan) May 4, 2019
What's the difference between a CNN hall monitor and, say, a Nazi brownshirt? pic.twitter.com/aHXZBjZsfV
— Weird Chick (@WyrdChyk) May 4, 2019
What's the difference between a power-mad, authoritarian censor and CNN?
Power-mad authoritarians are more honest
— silas ashe (@SeanPatrick933) May 4, 2019
Infowars doesn't advocate for fascistic censorship…
— Schwarz ⭐⭐⭐ (@mastamune) May 4, 2019
CNN’s collusion with Facebook to silence their competition should be illegal. Darcy should be ashamed of himself. He isn’t a journalist. He’s a liar.
— Paul "The Book Guy" Alves (@PaulTheBookGuy) May 4, 2019
And so begins the call for national censorship of those that folks like Oliver, the "enlightened " or "educated" find offensive. The fight for our children's future, and it is worth fighting for.
— Ringo (@enochssecret) May 4, 2019
Oliver Darcy is now trying to get the President of the United States’s Twitter account banned.
— JenniferW (@JenWoodruff79) May 4, 2019
They love #alinskyfascism
— Lion & Lamb (@ljm_scuba) May 4, 2019
What's the difference between Oliver Darcy's Twitter feed and, say, Vox's?
— J.G. Petruna (@jgpetruna) May 4, 2019
Its hard to believe this is what CNN and journalism has come to.
Its disgraceful.
— Todd kaz (@kaz_todd) May 4, 2019
What's the difference between Russian disinformation and, say, CNN? ?
— Saving America (@SavingAmerica4U) May 4, 2019
CNN just spent the last three years desperately chasing a conspiracy theory regarding the President. How does that make them different than InfoWars?
— George Peppard (@George_Peppard) May 4, 2019
Oliver spreads Russian conspiracy theories that lead to the shooting of a republican congressman, the beating of another congressman, and millions of dollars worth in property damages. Under his rules, he should be labeled dangerous, and should be banned from all social platforms
— XpanseMaga (@2scooooops) May 4, 2019
Imagine if infowars had created the Russia hoax and cost so many millions of dollars and countless livelihoods.
Logic dictates who should be banned.— AltNewsMedia ? (@AltNewsMedia) May 4, 2019
One is banned on Twitter, the other is amplified by the beltway media.
— OUFENIX (D) (@oufenix) May 4, 2019
Any which way the wind blows ….amirite Oliver? pic.twitter.com/DISyHstGjz
— yvonneburton ✝️ (@_YvonneBurton) May 4, 2019
Oh I don't know Mr. Darcy, what's the difference between a CNN reporter's twitter feed and, say, this… pic.twitter.com/MP2FBlN4Hy
— The Great Deplorable Henry ☕️❌❌ (@hammy413) May 4, 2019
So free speech for all, as it should be.
— Mark Roxberry (@roxberry) May 4, 2019
Hands up don't shoot was a lie
I can't breathe was a lie
I know a news outlet that posted fake Gulf War vids
The news media stages fake photos in war and refugee zones.
Nazis are very fine people was a lieShouldn't news outlets be deplatformed?
— Abe Woodhull (@politiwars) May 4, 2019
Well, if you can’t get viewers, you might as well get ratios
— Fart noises (@Fartnoises2) May 4, 2019
Related:
CNN's Oliver Darcy wants the media given credit for Alex Jones being removed from tech platforms https://t.co/ubfmDsyebY
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 6, 2018
