Liberal journalists are a hilarious bunch. It may not be intentional like 99% of the time, but still. They do and say all kinds of things that make us laugh.
One of our favorites is when they pretend to have their fingers on the pulse of everyday Americans, as though they can identify with us and feel our pain. Rarely is that the case, but nevertheless, they persist. They actually think they’re fooling us, as though we’re too far below their ivory tower to see who they really are.
Well anyway, some of the most egregious offenders from the journalistic class are also some of the most privileged and well-to-do. Tweeter @FearTheFloof decided to take a closer look at a few of them today.
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577630330625921025
This thread is quite fascinating in its own right. @FearTheFloof begins with Carlos Maza, the über-Left self-proclaimed “Marxist pig”:
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577632718115979266
A hypocritical Marxist? Well, butter our buns and call us biscuits!
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577634639535030272
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577635702174621698
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577636612770512897
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577642167987834880
Neat trick, huh? Of course, Carlos isn’t the only lefty journo who actively tried to deceive the public about his background. Let’s shift our attention to Taylor Lorenz, shall we? She’s a ginormous phony in her own right.
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577643751765417985
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577645618255863809
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577646338975694852
Talk about privilege.
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577652137085091842
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577653011031236608
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577664594486624256
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577665711282995205
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577667728722350081
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577668717252599812
Happy birthday, Taylor!
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577679984990339072
So she’s extra privileged, if you really think about it.
Now, how about NBC News senior reporter and “dystopia beat” guy Ben Collins (the guy who had a weird but illuminating meltdown yesterday over the prospect of Elon Musk owning Twitter)?
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577684741658116097
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577688827690459137
Who’d you have to pay off, Ben?
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577693095466000384
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577694841248571393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577696884038172674
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577699580287885313
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577700416124604417
Uh-oh, guys … Ben Collins got wind of @FearTheFloof’s thread and is not impressed:
The crack researchers of the far-right internet have once again confused me with a racecar driver who has the same name as me.
They think I'm a 47-year-old British millionaire. Which would be amazing. This thread has thousands of retweets. https://t.co/Z7zMPbahap
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) October 5, 2022
Isn’t Ben just proving @FearTheFloof’s point, though?
Is his reporting as misleading as this tweet. The point here is clearly that if you try to look up this Ben Collins on the internet, all you find is information about the other Ben Collins such as this. But he's pretending otherwise and everyone is playing along. https://t.co/SFGoOJFkjv
— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) October 5, 2022
Exactly.
Dead at the idea of using one of these no-effort SEO-farm question-and-answer pages as evidence https://t.co/O4yLhY7RPK
— Andrew Egger (@EggerDC) October 5, 2022
Andrew, why were you too lazy to read the thread where he specifically says it's not the same Ben Collins, are all journalists this lazy?
— Jack (@arity1010) October 5, 2022
https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/1577732273113567232
Beautifully said.
This guy is a disinformation researcher and he doesn't even realize that the tweet is about how you can't find him on Google and instead it's all results about the other Ben Collins. People trust this guy to be rigorous. https://t.co/Fr9qGTr8JA
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) October 5, 2022
"What we do know is he is a 47 year old man"
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) October 5, 2022
He got your age wrong in a different tweet. That is entirely not what you argued that he did, buddy.
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) October 5, 2022
lol just take the L
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) October 5, 2022
I adore that you think you won this exchange. By all means go back to harassing young women because they get an op-ed in the NY Times that you don't like.
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) October 5, 2022
Don’t stop now, @FearTheFloof. You’re on a roll!
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577704482326319104
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577706201026297856
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577709582302023686
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577719228748238855
And there’s still gotta be so much more where all that came from.
R.I.P. your account
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) October 5, 2022
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1577676362080550914
See, folks? This is what actual stunning and brave investigative journalism looks like.
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional text and tweets.
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Update:
OK, this little thread on @FearTheFloof’s thread is actually great and definitely worth including in this post:
https://twitter.com/FormerlyCBM/status/1577721439767101440
https://twitter.com/FormerlyCBM/status/1577721887215403009
https://twitter.com/FormerlyCBM/status/1577722693083959306
Perfect.
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