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There was a HUGE contingent of very hacky comics who went anti-Biden/pro-Trump claiming that "woke scolds" were "canceling comedy." Feels like maybe they should be speaking up? RE:
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“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives
Taibbi did post a short article about it, but seems mostly upset about the optics of it. This is WAY WAY different than his response to the Biden admin asking Twitter if it had policies in place to deal with vaccine disinfo, which he described as one of the worst attacks on free speech in history. RE:
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Has Taibbi found a way to defend this yet?
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Thank you @npub1rshp...jszu for saying this. RE:
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Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter...
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Ilya Shapiro remains the least serious "libertarian" on Earth (and there is a ton of competition for that title).
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I usually believe in "slow news" and tend to write about things the next day, but this Kimmel shit is such a mess, I put this together quickly. Key points: 1. Most people are pretending Kimmel said stuff he didn't. 2. SCOTUS just last year said that you can't do shit like this. RE:
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Meanwhile... I had just been putting the finishing touches on an article about Disney/Jimmy Kimmel just *won* the lawsuit George Santos had filed against him... Guess I need to put that aside to write up this nonsense. RE:
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This is insane. Once again, Kimmel didn't even say what Carr accused him of saying. RE:
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