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Among their most fevered fixations is anything having to do with President Obama or his wife Michelle. So on Sunday Fox News put out a story that reached back in time to malign the former First Lady for something she wrote nearly two years ago.<\/p>\n
The story was an attempt to associate Ms. Obama with the pathetically shallow “Twitter Files”<\/em> nothingburger that Elon Musk has been hyping as an <\/em>“expos\u00e9”<\/em> of the alleged liberal bias of Twitter’s prior management. Not surprisingly, they not only proved none of their baseless allegations, they actually revealed how responsibly Twitter’s Trust and Safety team acted to protect their platform – and the nation – from the deliberate incitements to violence of Donald Trump and his “Big Lie”<\/em> confederates.<\/p>\n SEE THIS: The Sham \u2018Twitter Files\u2019 Expos\u00e9 Actually Proves that Trump\u2019s Coup Plot was Appropriately Muted<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Fox’s story<\/a> featured the sensationalist tabloid headline, “Twitter Files reveal Trump ban came after Michelle Obama, others pressured the company.”<\/em> Needless to say, the files didn’t reveal any such thing. They merely made reference to a statement that Ms. Obama released the day after Trump’s insurrection on January 6, 2021. Fox’s story began saying that…<\/p>\n “Former President Donald Trump was banned from Twitter the day after former first lady Michelle Obama and others demanded the company ‘permanently’ remove him, according to the newest ‘Twitter Files’ installment.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In reality, Ms. Obama never “demanded”<\/em> anything of Twitter. She simply expressed her opinion about what should be done to prevent another atrocity like the one that occurred the day before. Here are some excerpts from her heartfelt and moving statement with the fragment that Fox News quoted in bold [the full statement is here<\/a><\/strong>]<\/em>…<\/p>\n “The day was a fulfillment of the wishes of an infantile and unpatriotic president who can\u2019t handle the truth of his own failures. And the wreckage lays at the feet of a party and media apparatus that gleefully cheered him on, knowing full well the possibility of consequences like these.” […]<\/p>\n “I cannot think about moving on or turning the page until we reckon with the reality of what we saw yesterday. True progress will be possible only once we acknowledge that this disconnect exists and take steps to repair it. And that also means coming to grips with the reality that millions voted for a man so obviously willing to burn our democracy down for his own ego.” […]<\/p>\n “I hurt for our country. And I wish I had all the solutions to make things better. I wish I had the confidence that people who know better will act like it for more than a news cycle or two. All I know is that now is a time for true patriotism. Now is the time for those who voted for this president [Trump] to see the reality of what they\u2019ve supported \u2014 and publicly and forcefully rebuke him and the actions of that mob. Now is the time for Silicon Valley companies to stop enabling this monstrous behavior \u2014 and go even further than they have already by permanently banning this man from their platforms and putting in place policies to prevent their technologies from being used by the nation\u2019s leaders to fuel insurrection. And if we have any hope of improving this nation, now is the time for swift and serious consequences for the failure of leadership that led to yesterday\u2019s shame.<\/strong>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Ms. Obama’s remarks were addressed to a nation that was in shock after having watched anti-democratic thugs desecrating the seat of our democracy, assaulting brave, outnumbered law enforcement officers, and threatening the lives of our representatives. She was speaking for millions of Americans who never thought they would witness such a despicable mob of traitors acting out their hostile treachery at the behest of a sociopathic, wannabe dictator, who couldn’t accept the fact that he’s a loser – which he still is, and still can’t<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n What Ms. Obama was not doing was “pressuring”<\/em> Twitter. She was exercising her First Amendment rights to express an opinion about what ought to be done in response to the horror we all saw on our television screens. Fox News offered no evidence whatsoever that she ever even spoke to anyone at Twitter. To the contrary, it was Trump and his cohorts who directly threatened Twitter in response to his well warranted suspension. And regarding the rioters at the Capitol, he is even now promising to pardon them for their heinous crimes<\/a><\/strong> if he were to return to the White House.<\/p>\n That shouldn’t surprise anyone who has been paying attention. After all, Trump recently called for the “termination”<\/em> for the Constitution in order to have himself installed as America’s first authoritarian tyrant.<\/p>\n SEE THIS: Trump Doubles Down on His Constitution Bashing and Misquotes Himself to Gaslight His Cult<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. So if anyone wants to tweet articles from my website<\/a><\/strong>, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly.<\/p>\n Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse\n
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