As we told you yesterday, Democrat Sen. Ed Markey was ranting at Elon Musk about being parodied on Twitter:
A @washingtonpost reporter was able to create a verified account impersonating me—I’m asking for answers from @elonmusk who is putting profits over people and his debt over stopping disinformation. Twitter must explain how this happened and how to prevent it from happening again. pic.twitter.com/R4r7p6mduP
— Ed Markey (@SenMarkey) November 11, 2022
Musk then let Markey have it:
Perhaps it is because your real account sounds like a parody?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2022
And why does your pp have a mask!?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2022
Naturally the mainstream media sounded the alarm about the dangers of members of Congress threatening to go after private-sector business owners.
Just kidding!
But the media, in this case Politico’s Sam Stein, have seemingly taken the politician’s side, which is a little like going to a casino and defending the house:
Always risky to attack members of congress. Especially risky with Dems assured of Senate power. Curious play by Musk here. He has many interests before Congress https://t.co/XxEtm6NuBq
— Sam Stein (@samstein) November 13, 2022
Christina Pushaw has a good title for how this played out:
Regime media threatens dissident https://t.co/dlzB01RJUA
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) November 14, 2022
What would we do without the American media holding public officials’ feet to the fire!?
Took a screenshot in case you come to and realize what you just insinuated. You know, for posterity.
— just a nurse (@hib343434) November 13, 2022
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Strange how insulting Republican politicians never elicits a response like this.
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) November 13, 2022
Right?
It seems there’s a story to be had here for any “journalist” who dares to accept the assignment:
Isn't journalism supposed to be calling out government revenge like this if it exists, not cheering it on? https://t.co/gTlbck2XJY
— MeerkatYitz Democracy Ender (@MeerkatYitz) November 14, 2022
A politician uses the power of his office to harass a critic. Seems like there's a story there, Sam
— Josh Allen’s BFF (@AnthonyBialy) November 14, 2022
There is… if anybody would care to write it up. If a Republican senator threatened a rich private-sector liberal we’d be much more likely to see that story published.
Tell us more about how @SenMarkey might abuse his power to punish a citizen for exercise his freedom of speech. This sounds fascinating.
— Eric Spencer (@JustEric) November 13, 2022
These are the Dems who want everybody to believe that Trump is the wannabe fascist.
Markey says he doesn’t like business owners “picking fights online” but he and Liz Warren https://t.co/IfQWBjMbCB https://t.co/qb8c7Cx2jc https://t.co/25PX7kAUae and AOC have seemingly infinite time for fights & trolling. What a government. 🤦🏻♂️
— Tom Kattman (@TomKattman) November 13, 2022
The projection is off the charts.
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