McCarthy Campaigns For Speaker By Denouncing Twitter After It Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene

[Zorro]

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Monday took aim at Twitter a day after the social media platform permanently suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) personal account, which the far-right lawmaker had used to claim that the COVID-19 vaccines were causing people to die.

McCarthy did not mention Greene by name, but issued a diatribe complaining about “recent decisions to silence Americans” including “a sitting member of Congress” because, in his words, these banned individuals “share views different from the political and media elite.”

McCarthy goes on to compare COVID-19 deniers and anti-vaxxers to an array of unnamed Democrats and media figures and to Vice President Kamala Harris, and to claim that Twitter had, with its account suspensions, censored “first amendment protected free speech.”

“On the other end of the spectrum, Americans on the political left, including popular cable news hosts, members of Congress, and even the Vice President have themselves made public comments that are now universally understood to be false. Yet, they face no repercussions from the gatekeepers of America’s town square,” McCarthy said. “It is clear any speech that does not fit Big Tech’s orthodoxy gets muzzled.”

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/mccarthy-twitter-greene-ban

[spanone]

1. Can't figure out if mccarthy is really that stupid or if he just plays stupid for his party?

p.s. he's also full of shit.

[Walleye]

2. In my opinion he really is stupid. You look in his eyes you don't see anything

[monkeyman1]

11. called a vacuum between the ear's !!

[Walleye]

12. Waste of space

[monkeyman1]

13. to stupid to get out of his own way !!

[Walleye]

14. Stupid and cowardly, deadly combination

Guess the right wing is all motivated by fear

[monkeyman1]

15. there afraid of a of what ? a ol' pos that will-

open his anus looking mouth & rat them out about what ? we shall see ! republican is a doomed party ! if networks air's his bulll-shit on the 6th , there ratings should go in the garbage zone ! then boycott major news sites to be announced on the 7th ! advertising people should be tanked ! million's have internet ! right now it's about the only voice we got & about time we use it ! vent time over !

[Walleye]

16. They are afraid they will lose their white privilege that's what they're afraid of

[monkeyman1]

17. canceled : trump j-6 party canceled , lard ass chicken shit'd out !

[2naSalit]

3. He's really that stupid...

And powered by greed.

[SouthernDem4ever]

10. He's a stupid asshole

the worst kind.

[JHB]

5. He's in one of the largest Republican congressional caucuses...

The Dumber Than Topsoil caucus.

[niyad]

8. Hey, I object to the insult to topsoil. It has use and value.

[The Wizard]

4. If McCarthy believes calling Democrats

communists is a winning political calculation he should read the historical accounts of his Uncle Joe.

[Lovie777]

6. Ya know the GQP are killing and maiming their own base . . ...

and their base doesn't care. This shows that propaganda and brain washing works.

[intheflow]

7. Twitter is an unregulated private business.

It can bar whoever the fuck it pleases and has ZERO to do with the First Amendment because that only applies to the government. These people need to stop licking horse dewormer from Trump's boots, come down from their bad trip, and wake up to the fact that what Twitter has done is based on the free market.

[Gore1FL]

9. It's fun to turn this delusion around on them.

I explain that for 1st Amendnent rules to apply, they either want to impose government regulation on private businesses, or they believe twitter should be a government entity. I then ask if they are arguing for increased business regulations or socialism.