"NEVER FORGET" Joe Scarborough delivered a blistering rebuke of the GOP on Wednesday's Morning Joe. He called out Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley each by name, likening them to terrorist sympathizers on the basis that they want to move on from what was clearly a domestic terrorist attack that, in his words, was done by individuals who were looking to assassinate their colleagues. Vaccine Privilege The Overlake Medical Center in Seattle is under fire for their coronavirus vaccine distribution process — which offers prioritized access for donors who gave "more than $10,000" to the hospital. The Seattle Times exposed the scheme after obtaining an email sent to those donors. The QAnon GOP Rep GOP Congresswoman and QAnon conspiracist Marjorie Taylor-Greene supported calls for the assassination of Democratic leaders and even proposed executing Speaker Nancy Pelosi for "treason," it has been revealed. And video has emerged showing her viciously and cruelly harassing and accosting school shooting survivor David Hogg on the street just weeks after the horrific events at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 people dead. NotMyPillow MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell lashed out at Twitter for shutting down his account, and then bizarrely accused the company, and CEO Jack Dorsey personally, of having been secretly posting content on his Twitter account to discredit him. The super weird interview with Tucker Carlson is one you really have to see to believe. Not Moving On House Democratic Caucus Chair Rep. Hakeem Jeffries had a simple but punchy response to former Trump cabinet member Nikki Haley’s suggestion that the country “move on” from the Capitol insurrection whose incitement is the subject of ex-President Donald Trump’s second impeachment. “Nikki, we are not moving on from insurrection. We are not moving on from sedition. We’re not moving on from a violent assault on the Capitol no matter what you might think of our efforts to hold this president accountable," said Jeffries, in a direct and blistering response on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes. 200 Million Vaccine Doses President Joe Biden has announced the order of an additional 200 million doses from Moderna and Pfizer, in an effort to vaccinate 300 million Americans by the end of the summer. Newsweek Changes Story to Fit Narrative Newsweek quietly changed a story this week to support a new column critical of Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) after his office reportedly alerted the publication to the discrepancy. The change came after Newsweek’s Natalie Colarossi rewrote a Jan. 23 column from Salon that suggested Cotton “didn’t have” experience as an Army Ranger, despite attending the U.S. Army’s Ranger School, a course required for leaders in the 75th Army Ranger Regiment. However, the Ranger course is also open to anyone in the military and is routinely attended by soldiers and officers who never serve in a Ranger unit. However, an Aug. 8, 2015 Newsweek story about two women who had completed the course suggested it was synonymous with being called a Ranger. “For the first time in the Army Ranger School’s 64-year history, two women have completed the intense training program and will become Rangers,” the original version noted. Newsweek edited the story this week to allow for greater ambiguity, with the revised introduction stating... Rupert Murdoch Embraces a Vapid New Conspiracy: A ‘Wave of Censorship’ Against Conservatives OPINION In the days and weeks that followed the 2020 election, President Donald Trump and his political and media allies promoted a dangerous conspiracy that the election was stolen. It wasn’t, but there were enough true believers, devotees to the Word of Trump that a deadly insurrection was waged on the Capitol in an effort to fight back against the perceived injustice of a stolen election. This has been described as a “big lie,” a reference to the fascist tactic of fabricating a false claim from whole cloth, knowing that, if repeated enough, it would be believed. Trump now faces his second impeachment trial over that riot, and conservative media is lunging for a fresh topic to serve an audience eager to have their aggrievement justified. As a result, there is a new dangerous conspiracy afoot, and it’s being amplified by arguably the most important person in all of political media: Fox Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch. The new lie that is growing in size every day? That conservative voices are being stifled, censored, or silenced by what Murdoch called, in rare public comments, an “angry woke orthodoxy.” The truth of the matter is that conservative voices aren’t being stifled for their beliefs at all... [Read the rest from Mediaite's Colby Hall] 6.5.0 |