Opinion: Twitter hearing uncovers Democrats' chilling message to journalists

FOX News ^ | March 9, 2023 | By David Marcus

[Oldeconomybuyer]

If there was any doubt that the Twitter Files have struck a nerve and deep fear in the Powers That Be, Thursday’s disgraceful behavior by Democrats in a hearing featuring journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger eviscerated it.

Taibbi and Shellenberger had not even uttered a word yet when the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary subcommittee Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-U.S. Virgin Islands, referred to the witnesses as "so-called journalists" in her opening statement. The pair glanced at each other, clearly surprised and confused by the utterly unprovoked attack.

From there it only got worse. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas, asked the pair of scribes if they were being paid to testify, again to an absolutely shocked response from them. She went on to try to force Taibbi to reveal information about his sources, a journalistic Rubicon he rightfully refused to cross.

The American people deserve a fair, and yes, bipartisan investigation into how our intelligence community is working with social media platforms to police speech. But we did not get that today, instead we got a kangaroo court, something Democrats are getting quite good at.

At one point, a clearly angry Taibbi looked squarely at Plaskett and said defiantly, "I am not a ‘so-called’ journalist." He might as well have been saying, "At long last, have you left no sense of decency," because the McCarthy hearings had nothing on this mess.

He was speaking for all of us. Democrats can try, as they did today, to frighten the news media into compliance with their ever more absurd worldviews, but we are under no obligation to go along with it. We should thank Taibbi and Shellenberger for taking the insults, looking those Democrats right in the eye, and saying we will not be intimidated, and we will not bend the knee.

[SunkenCiv]

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[GOPJ]

The two brave journalists are both liberals... but in the old style - honest and tough men looking for the truth.

We haven’t seen that style in many years.

Stacey Plaskett was the typical democrat congressional bimbo - long on stupid, short on facts, zero awareness of the legal protection the Constitution and Supreme Court have granted to journalists.