CBS News Chief Legal Correspondent Jan Crawfor deleted her tweet Sunday Morning, but it was too late.
We had already seen the real her. We had already seen the real CBS News.
Crawford’s tweet was an endorsement of the viral exchange between U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and a bigoted Republican plant who wanted to know why the Democratic candidate hadn’t condemned the Muslim Brotherhood.
As you can see from the exchange, El-Sayed of course condemned the Muslim Brotherhood without hesitation. But that wasn’t enough for Crawford. According to her, she “had to watch this twice to catch Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s nanosecond ‘yeah absolutely’ response.”
“[El-Sayed’s] subsequent uninterrupted three-minute diatribe proving your exact point is the kind of spectacular self own most ppl only dream about triggering,” Crawford wrote. “Congrats.”
Sadly, anti-Muslim bigotry and pro-GOP cheerleading is not unusual for the new CBS. But this weekend’s developments are powerful reminders of what we are up against as we try to win the midterms, confront rampant corruption and fight back against surging bigotry.
And that’s just the tip of the right-wing iceberg.
This weekend, millions of Americans took to the streets for another No Kings march. The scumbags at Meta were apparently not happy to see that. And so Meta pulled down the No Kings Instagram page — when people needed it most.
Ezra Levin, one of the No Kings organizers, told Meidas Touch that “you can go to it publicly now, but we can’t post, and despite us trying to get back access to it while these mobilizations are going on, the No Kings Coalition has no access to the back end of that account.”
“Look, this is strikingly reminiscent of what we saw in Brazil just this week,” Levin said. “A court ruled against Meta for favoring the authoritarians in that country. And we might be seeing something similar from Meta in our country right now, but rest assured, we’re not going to stop organizing against this regime.”
Meta claimed it was an accident and apologized. We’re calling bullshit.
Because it also didn’t stop there.
Just weeks after all the major social media platforms refused to take paid advertisements for “Musk,” the new documentary about the world’s richest asshole, TikTok permanently suspended the film’s ad account.
So much for that liberal media bias we’ve heard so much about.
The truth is that there are massive and powerful forces aligned against us. While we bust our asses to restore democracy and decency in this country by sending postcards and small-dollar donations that many of us can’t afford to send, Elon sends $158 million to a Super PAC to try and buy a U.S. Senate seat in Texas. While candidates like El-Sayed swim against the currents of racism, white political reporters are happy to call him “defensive” and ignore the political history of the operative who challenged him. While we struggle to keep our sanity, self-proclaimed Democrats like Bill Maher and Stephen A. Smith dine at the White House with racist shitheads.
It’s a miracle we have any shot at winning these races at all.
But like the man once said, they’ve got the guns but we’ve got the numbers.
Trump and his allies and supporters in Big Media and Big Tech are doing everything they can to turn the United States of America into a Russian-style oligarchy. They have endless resources, control of the biggest microphones and an army of reporters pretending to be objective and unbiased while relentlessly pushing GOP talking points on unsuspecting audiences.
But they didn’t count on you.
Because, at least for now, we still have the real power in this nation. We still have the vote. We can organize even without Instagram. We can win Texas even though we aren’t the world’s richest man. And we can see the truth even when people like Jan Crawford try to push their gross bias and call it journalism.
That’s why we’re so proud to be in this fight with you. The odds are stacked against us, but we keep showing up. We keep showing up because we believe a better America, one that isn’t controlled by the rich and the bigoted, is still possible. If those special interests seem panicked and afraid, it’s because of you.
We’re coming for them, and they know it. That’s why their masks keep slipping. That’s why we’re seeing the real them. And no amount of deleted tweets or crooked oligarchs are going to stop us.
Tommy is a white nationalist who works for Josh Hawley.
Abdul completely schooled him. It was beautiful!
Crawford obviously saw a different exchange than I did!