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Hawley flips script on reporter over anti-Elon Musk tweets — then the reporter promises he’s not drunk

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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) turned the tables on a journalist this week, confronting him over “vitriolic” tweets targeting Elon Musk and the billionaire’s supporters.

Hawley sat down for a remote interview with Mark Maxwell, political editor at NBC-affiliate KSDK-TV. But before Maxwell could begin asking his questions, Hawley had some of his own for the journalist.

“I gotta ask ya, why all the hate for people who like free speech on Twitter? What’s going on with that?” Hawley asked.

Maxwell responded that he was unsure to what Hawley was referring. So the Republican lawmaker proceeded to read Maxwell his own tweets disparaging supporters of Elon Musk.

“You called people who liked Elon Musk buying the site Twitter a bunch of ‘boot-lickers.’ This was on March 6. I’m looking at it right here. Seems kind of vitriolic,” Hawley told Maxwell.

“Yeah, I suppose it was. That was a moment of frustration when the site went down and there were a lot of folks in my mentions who have quite the cultish adoration for him,” the journalist responded, trying to justify his comments by claiming Musk has attacked the First Amendment.

Hawley also confronted Maxwell over tweets in which he suggested Musk’s supporters worship him and one in which he suggested he was not sober.

“I hope you do our interview sober,” Hawley told him. “I hope you’re sober now.”

Maxwell excused his tweets by classifying them as “satire,” which he noted is protected under the First Amendment. Invoking a First Amendment defense was odd because the government is not trying to silence Maxwell from exercising his free speech rights.

“When journalists or so-called journalists refer to people they don’t like as ‘boot-lickers’ on a public platform, when they attack folks and then say they don’t necessarily do stuff sober, it does tend to get my attention,” Hawley finally said. “I mean, we give you a lot of access. I just want to make sure that you’re actually sober and taking this seriously, good lord in heaven.”

At that point, Maxwell committed to taking a blood-alcohol-level test to prove that he was not inebriated.

“I’m happy to do a blood alcohol test. I have had no alcohol this morning and that was a joke,” he said.

Maxwell now appears to have deleted the tweets that Hawley confronted him about.

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Is America turning into North Korea?

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When Yeonmi Park fled North Korea, she came to what she believed was the freest country on earth.

However, one of the first questions she was asked upon becoming a citizen was whether or not she would ever use hate speech against another person. If she had said yes, she would not have been allowed to become a citizen.

This was jarring to her, as she knows better than anyone that if you are not allowed to engage in free speech, you are not in a free country.

Dave Rubin sat down with Park “The Rubin Report,” where she tells him just how worried she is about the state of America. She says, “Most people would get really shocked that, you know, how dare you compare North Korea to America?”

She argues that she’s not “comparing the living standards,” but rather “the tactics that North Korea used to control people and brainwash us were the same tactics [she’s] seeing right now in current America.”

Park warns that she “sees this country getting destroyed.”

She goes on to explain that she was demonetized, censored, and shadow-banned on all the social media platforms for attempting to discuss how North Korean women are being raped and their organs harvested in China under the communist party. What happened to freedom of speech in America?

Not only that, but during the pandemic, her 2-year-old son was forced to wear a mask for up to eight hours a day while people were opening strip clubs and dog parks next door to the day care.

She says she remembers thinking that “somehow the dogs have more rights than my child in America right now.”

She continues, “I am scared every day for my son, because if America falls, I cannot imagine the world without America. Where would my son escape to for freedom? There’s no place left.”



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BBC Suspends Soccer Host over Social Media Posts Comparing Illegal Migrant Crackdown to Nazis

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McCarthy shuts down CNN reporter’s question with serious accusation against the network: ‘That was a real concern’

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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy defended on Tuesday his decision to give Tucker Carlson the Jan. 6 tapes, fiercely responding to a CNN reporter who questioned him.

CNN reporter Manu Raju asked McCarthy whether he regrets giving Carlson the tapes, accusing the Fox News host of using the footage to “whitewash” what happened on Jan. 6, 2021. McCarthy was clear that he does not.

“No,” the California Republican responded.

“I said at the very beginning, ‘Transparency.’ And so what I wanted to produce for everybody is exactly what I said, people can actually look at it and see what’s gone on that day,” he explained.

When the reporter asked McCarthy if he agrees with Carlson’s reporting, McCarthy responded, “Each person can come up with their own conclusion.”

That’s when McCarthy zeroed in on CNN for allegedly exposing the secret location where congressional leadership fled on Jan. 6.

“I just wanted to make sure I had transparency, because I know on CNN, I mean, I had here where you guys actually wrote where we were,” McCarthy said. “This was a secret location: Fort McNair. I don’t know if you got concerned by that. I don’t even know from a point of view of security if we could ever be taken there again.

“But when you broke that at CNN, that was a real concern to a lot of people,” he added, referring to transparency in media.

Interestingly, McCarthy also revealed that he consulted the Capitol Police before releasing the tapes to ensure sensitive material was not released. He said the Capitol Police only raised concern about one piece of footage, which was protected before its release.

On the other hand, the Capitol Police told McCarthy that the Jan. 6 committee did not consult with the agency before it released footage.

Last October, CNN exclusively reported that congressional leadership had established a command center at Fort McNair in Washington, publishing additional footage not shown by the Jan. 6 committee.

The committee had shown footage of lawmakers gathering there, but the committee did not disclose the exact location. Instead, it labeled the footage as having taken place at an “undisclosed location,” according to CNN.

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Governor swiftly fact-checks NBC’s Chuck Todd when he singles out Fox News for ‘intentionally lying’

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New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) quickly corrected NBC News anchor Chuck Todd on Sunday for singling out Fox News as a dishonest media outlet.

On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Todd asked Sununu what Fox News needs to do to “regain some trust.”

The question was related to the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit that Dominion Voting Systems filed against Fox News. Last month, Fox Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch acknowledged under oath that Fox News personalities endorsed then-President Donald Trump’s claims about the 2020 election.

Despite the development, Sununu promptly called out the dishonest framing of Todd’s question.

“Oh, well, I don’t think it’s just Fox. I mean, I’ll put them in there, but all of media, all of television media, and everyone has to own a little bit of the lack of trust, the lack of accountability,” he responded.

“It’s okay to get something wrong in the news, but you’ve got to come back and own it,” the governor added. “And whether it’s Fox, or CNN, or MSBNC, or, you know, whatever, everyone just has to own it.”

Todd, however, defended his question. He accused Fox News of “intentionally lying to viewers,” saying the network’s actions “seemed to cross a line” and that it “wasn’t a mistake.”

But Sununu wasn’t buying it. He responded by pointing out other stories with which the mainstream media approached dishonestly.

“Look, I’m not defending anybody because I think you’re all in the same basket, I really do,” he told Todd.

“But I could go to CNN when they’re going to ignore the Hunter Biden laptop story. We could talk about the virus truly coming out of the lab in Wuhan, we could talk about a lot of different things,” he continued. “If you’re not owning that you misrepresented the story, whether it was intentional or not, everybody does it, and that’s the problem. America is losing faith in media, and you guys have a huge opportunity to regain that.”



Meet the Press full broadcast — March 5youtu.be

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