December 18, 2022

During yet another segment hyping the so-called "Twitter files" that no one on the planet cares about other than the right wing echo chamber, the propagandists on Fox's weekend morning show were also celebrating the suspension of journalists on Twitter. They were particularly happy about Aaron Rupar, who, heaven forbid regularly covers their show and highlights the lies and disinformation they spread on there day after day, and all of them admitted the quiet part out loud. That this is all about getting revenge against people you don't like.

Here's Fox & Friends cohosts Will Cain, Rachel Campos-Duffy and Pete Hegseth on this Saturday's show, talking about how happy they are the Elon is punching the hippies for them, and helping Musk lie about any of them supposedly doxxing him or putting his life in danger.

HEGSETH: So while this is the all happening and we're covering now the sixth tranche of twitter the files, this one being one of the most significant because it provides the evidence of a connection between a private company and the government, the rest of the media, not covering the Twitter files, they're talking about the temporary suspension of accounts for left-wing journalists, because they had, you know the story at this point, there was a Twitter account that tracked the location of Elon Musk's jet. He doesn't like that. He banned that account because he said it was doxxing, but there were still other journalists pushing out information about where his jet was, and he suspended those accounts. [...]

And they howled as if it was the biggest violation of the 1st Amendment you've ever seen. One of them, who happens to tweet about this program regularly, put out a statement saying “I have no information. I've been suspended without information. No one's telling me. I have no recourse.”

Welcome to the party, buddy. That's the way it's been for everybody else across the country on an arbitrary set of rules from a tech oligarchy in San Francisco. At least Elon Musk is telling you., you've been suspended for doxxing my location of my private jet. When you stop doing that, you're welcome to come back on.

And this is what Elon m=Musk said is. Accounts who dox my location will have their suspension lifted now, but it's amazing to see the outrage over a couple New York Times and Washington Post reporters getting a time out.

CAMPOS-DUFFY: You know, initially when this story came around, it said, you know, that he was now banning journalists, I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what's going on? But actually if think about it, what he's uncovering is so dangerous to so many people because he's uncovering a conspiracy that is much deeper and wider than we even imagined.

And he actually tweeted at some point, I don't remember, by the way, I have no suicidal thoughts. If something happens. I mean, this is something he's thought about. Like, I am.. I am putting myself. I'm a target, and if... and he doesn't mean that in some sort of hypothetical way. I mean,I think he understands his life could be in danger.

I just want to speak also, Will, to what you mentioned earlier about the 80 agents being the main story here. There are also whistleblower FBI agents who said I was working on kiddie porn cases, on child sex crimes, and I was taken of off in ordered to do probably this kind of stuff.

HEGSETH: January 6th stuff.

CAMPOS-DUFFY: January 6th or the... it's really a disgusting sense of priorities.

CAIN: No doubt. Like you, by the way, when I first read this story, I was -- the Elon Musk suspending several journal I was like, whoa, I am principally for the idea of more speech, even speech I abhor. I don't know who you're or referencing tweeting about this show...

HEGSETH: Aaron Rupar.

CAIN: … but he could not have picked better people to suspend. Keith Olberman? I mean, these are people, to be real, who have zero character, are some of the biggest liars on the internet and deal in the most misinformation and disinformation you can imagine. However, I would defend their right to say insane stuff. Elon has said it's about doxxing thing.

CAMPOS-DUFFY: Do you believe that?

CAIN: Oh I believe that's why Elon did it. Yes, I do. I don't know that he had a clear policy that they knew about ahead of time, and Twitter's changed. It was like the Soviet Politburo, just murky and impossible to tell, and it all flowed in one direction, and now it's more like the Gladiatorial thing in Rome where there's one guy going like this, and it's chaos and he does a poll and he feels the way that the people are going.

But I want a principle that always sides on the side of more speech.

HEGSETH: My initial reaction was “Yes! You go!” You get a little bit of what you had coming at you for a while. How you like that from Elon? That was my initial reaction.

CAMPOS-DUFFY: Your initial reaction just perfectly, you know, sets up both of your personalities. I love it.

HEGSETH: He's right though. He's right. We shouldn't live in a this world, but when you've been getting this for six years, I like a good this right back... so.

CAMPOS-DUFFY: I can relate.

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