You can always tell the elites in the media feel safe when they see something like the Department of Homeland Security setting up a Disinformation Governance Board run by a woman who dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop story as a “fairy tale” and say, this looks like a good idea. Here, MSNBC’s Chuck Todd and whomever he’s talking to a quick to note that the Right referred to this new unelected board as the Ministry of Disinformation. Todd says the Right is trying to “weaponize” the idea — but worst of all, as a supposed “journalist,” he seems to think there need to be curbs on “free speech.”
This isn’t surprising, though. As Twitchy reported, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul was on “Meet the Press” with Todd this Sunday and argued that you don’t protect hate speech, adding the (untrue) claim that you can’t shout “Fire!” in a crowded theater.
MSNBC's Chuck Todd: "Look at the way the right try to weaponize the idea that DHS was going to … attempt to monitor hateful rhetoric … this is always what the right does to appease the white supremacist movement — by saying, 'hey, free speech.'" pic.twitter.com/FAAYnSloRn
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) May 17, 2022
At the very beginning of the Trump administration, this editor was amazed by the number of editorials being published in major newspapers arguing that maybe we should take a second look at freedom of speech; maybe it’s not such a good idea. “Maybe liberals shouldn’t be such free-speech absolutists after all,” wrote Jennifer Dalton is WaPo.
These people in the news business have lost their minds.
— KC Frew (@KnoxvilleKC) May 17, 2022
This is a giant mess @chucktodd – there were a lot of legitimate reasons to oppose this project AND the person they named to run it that had nothing to do with "supporting white supremacists."
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) May 17, 2022
So…everyone who is concerned about the free speech implications of this is a white supremacist? 🤔
— Mackerel (@300_928) May 17, 2022
Has @chucktodd ever left D.C.?
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) May 17, 2022
Can’t imagine why @chucktodd got demoted. It’s a mystery.
— Red Dot in a Blue Dot in a Red State (@reddotaustintx) May 17, 2022
Linking free speech with "white supremacy" is an incredible reach.
Gaslighting. But they are definitely trying.
— often uncommon 👊 (@oftenuncommon) May 17, 2022
There is so much wrong with what @chucktodd claims here. First, DHS wasn’t just “monitoring hateful rhetoric”. They were acting as censors for school boards and going after parents with legitimate concerns. Second, yes “free speech”.
— Taro Tsujimoto (@RCannon74) May 17, 2022
If someone who’s career depends on free flow of speech and information is so disinclined to defend that principle, then we have reached a truly dark place with media. He should be ashamed.
— Taro Tsujimoto (@RCannon74) May 17, 2022
He’s not.
Just as a reminder, here’s what the former CEO of Reddit said about free speech:
At the end of the day, the free-speechers really just want to be able to use racist slurs. CW: racism, immaturity, stupidity, and even more racism and extreme stupidity pic.twitter.com/tn9RgJK4jZ
— Ellen K. Pao (@ekp) April 5, 2022
Related:
N.Y. Gov. Kathy Hochul uses Buffalo shooting to trot out bogus justification for cracking down on free speech, and Chuck Todd doesn’t bat an eye https://t.co/EytlzUIjlZ
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 16, 2022
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