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'I am angry!' Lauren Boebert throws screaming fit over Twitter's censorship of her 'freaking joke'
February 08, 2023
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) blasted former Twitter employees on Wednesday for allegedly "censoring" her account before Elon Musk purchased the social media platform.
During a House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday, Boebert became irate as she recalled that Twitter had limited the visibility of her account.
"Did either of you approve the shadow-banning of my account?" Boebert asked former Twitter employees Vijaya Gadde and Yoel Roth.
Both witnesses said they had not approved restrictions on the lawmaker's personal Twitter account, but she was not satisfied.
"I know you looked at it because fascist Twitter 1.0 had a public interest exceptions policy, which means for members of Congress to be shadow-banned, it had to go before you, Mr. Roth," she asserted. "So, I'll ask again. Did you shadow-ban my account?"
"Again, not to the best of my recollection," Roth replied.
"So the answer, Mr. Roth, is yes, you did," Boebert announced before claiming that Twitter had shadow-banned her over a joke about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
"It's a freaking joke about Hillary Clinton being angry that she couldn't rig her election!" Boebert exclaimed. "It's a joke! But in response, being the sinister overlords that you all are, you placed a 90-day account filter, so I could not be found!"
Boebert used the majority of her five-minute question period to yell at the witnesses about her personal acccount.
"I bet that Putin is sitting in the Kremlin wishing he had as much election intervention interference as you four here today!" she shouted. "We've heard about threats to Democracy; what about shutting down a duly-elected member of Congress? This is fundamental to our nation's governance, and you all attacked that very foundation!"
"I'm not angry for myself," Boebert insisted. "I'm not angry because I was silenced. I can reach out to Elon and to his staff and I can see what's happened. And I can sit here today and hold you all in account. I am angry for the millions of Americans who were silenced because of your decisions, because of your actions, because of your collusion with the federal government!"
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Former Republican adviser and Lincoln Project cofounder Steve Schmidt tore into the State of the Union response speech by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR) on his "The Warning" podcast.
Sanders' speech, which was panned by commentators as "dystopian," was simply more of the same false pro-Trump propaganda that she was notorious for spreading as White House press secretary, Schmidt said.
"Last night, the American people were abused," said Schmidt. "They were abused, once again, by MAGA lies. Lies, this time, once again, by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, now the governor of Arkansas. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is a pathological liar. She lied to the American people on a daily basis, five days a week, in the name of Donald Trump. She lied thousands of times for a president who, in four short years, lied to the American people tens of thousands of times."
Schmidt took particular umbrage at the line in Sanders' response where she said, "The dividing line in America is no longer between right or left. The choice is between normal or crazy."
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"She said that while Marjorie Taylor Greene conducted her antics and disgraced herself on the House floor with her jeering and her booing of the President of the United States, who conveyed in his message to the American people the significant accomplishments of his administration," said Schmidt. "Last night's speech was supposed to be a Republican response. And we're told over and over again by the news media that Republican leaders want to move on from the era of Trump. But last night they picked, as the person to respond, the Trump-era spokesperson."
Among the other things Sanders claimed in her speech are that America is under threat by a "woke mob," and that under Biden "we must partake in their rituals, salute their flags and worship their false idols."
"Sarah Huckabee Sanders positioned herself as the voice of a rising generation of Americans. No thank you," said Schmidt, calling her a "congenital liar who broke her oath." "It was stale. It was old. It was an ugly speech from a lying governor who is unfit for any type of public service."
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ State of the Union response was more lies | The Warning w/ Steve Schmidt www.youtube.com
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GOP's Twitter bias claims upended as 'remarkable' report reveals Republican requests to censor posts
February 08, 2023
While Twitter was the preferred social media platform for former President Donald Trump, the entire Republican party's discontent with Twitter posts was tracked in a database Twitter kept of GOP requests to remove posts, according to a new Rolling Stone report.
The discovery of this detailed list is contrary to the partisan point-of-view that new Twitter owner Elon Musk has been sharing, as he has strategically been dialed-in on communicating Twitter post removal and content challenges from Democrats. At no time has Musk revealed the listing of GOP post removal requests.
The finding comes as part of Wednesday's House Oversight Committee hearing on Twitter and its alliances with both political parties, including suppressing content to benefit either Democratic or Republican messaging.
According to the story in Rolling Stone, the requests not only came from the staffs of both then-President Trump and current President Joe Biden, but also from the staffs of high-profile members of Congress, including Republican Representatives Kevin McCarthy (California) and Elise Stefanik (New York). The requests include reinstating banned right-wing personalities.
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Ironically enough, Trump's staff would email to request post removals on their definition of "hate speech," which would also include death threats made at Trump and other influential GOP leaders. They would also contact Twitter about posts they considered misinformation.
A 2019 post by model and social rights activist Chrissy Teigen also drew the ire of Trump's staff. Trump has not publicly commented on the Twitter requests.
During Wednesday's hearing, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) asked for the "remarkable" Rolling Stone article to be read into the record.
"So for everybody's reading enjoyment, if people think it was biased against, this would lead us to believe it was definitely biased against liberals and progressives," Raskin said.
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