November 26, 2024

WATCHING LEFTIST NARRATIVES BEING DESTROYED IN REAL TIME: Scott Jennings Schools CNN By Pointing Out News Reported by CNN. Note carefully the dates on these two tweets:

Surrounded by people bemoaning Elon Musk’s very existence and the fact that he owns Twitter/X, Jennings pointed out that Twitter/X is the most ideologically diverse source of news available. Both Democrats and Republicans rely on Twitter for news at essentially the same rate. Before Musk bought Twitter it was a Democrat ghetto.

We know that because CNN reported it. Harry Enten–another treasure at CNN because he breaks down public opinion polling well and in a very entertaining way–went through the numbers for all to see.

This, being inconvenient to the Narrative™ that the left wants to impose, created outrage on the panel. Scott was spewing misinformation!

This exemplifies both the bubble that liberals live in AND how that bubble gets created and maintained. No matter how the facts are laid out, the Authority™ of Journalisming entitles the practitioners of that dark art to dismiss reality and create a new one.

That was the beauty of Twitter pre-Musk. It was an ideological bubble dominated by liberal activists, maintained by censors, in which inconvenient facts were never acknowledged. Now that the ideological bubble was popped, it is an abomination that must be destroyed.

Notice also that the panel simultaneously decried the influence of billionaires in the abstract–as if news organizations aren’t often owned by billionaires (NYT, Washington Post, L.A. Times, Facebook, LinkedIn, The Atlantic… have all been or are currently owned by billionaires in whole or in part, and billionaires subsidize specialized news on topics of interest at newspapers and the Associated Press)–but then turn around and express happiness at the idea of Bill Gates owning news sources.

It’s not the principle that bothers them but the ideology. Only leftists should speak because the left is the reality to them.

Similarly, as Steve noted in the last hour, this is what happens when a leftist who previously nattered on about the horrors of “Project 2025” is actually on a panel with one of its authors:

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll