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David Frum @davidfrum
This industry will celebrate how their favorite Substack / podcast / Facebook star has achieved an audience vastly larger than that of Stephen Colbert or the Boston Globe - and never ponder, "So maybe it should matter that your hero earns a lot of his living spreading untruth?" — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
We have this vast and growing industry of self-proclaimed "media critics" who define "media" to exclude the great majority of the media actually consumed by present-day Americans. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
But maybe it's time for the media that do care about getting things right - that employ editors, that correct mistakes - maybe it's time for them to act more robustly when they come under fire from the Fauci-tortures-puppies disinformation industry. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
But maybe when media that do scrupulously try to get the story right - that employ editors and fact checkers - that correct their mistake - that such organizations should act a little more robustly when they come under fire from the Fauci-tortures-puppies people. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
I don't have a neat bow with which to tie up this thread. Who the hell knows what to do about the antivax/Trump/Facebook/GOP 2024 nexus of bullshit? Not me. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Self-examination and self-improvement are always laudable exercises. But the MSM people engaged in these exercises need to keep in mind: not one of the people who spread the Fauci-tortures-puppies story will ever do the same. They'll just move onto the next item, then the next. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
I have attended some of the many, many exercises by MSM people in which they hand-wring about their standing with the American people - in which they self-examine how to do better. (More interviews with Trump voters in rural diners? More CNN contracts for ex Trump staffers?) — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
... it's illuminating to be reminded that - whatever the flaws/biases/limits of the so-called "mainstream media" - the principal alternative to MSM for most Americans today is garbage information like the "Fauci-tortures-puppies" story. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
But when you've spent a day - as I have today - hearing complaints about the so-called "mainstream media" ... — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
It's not news that the US is systematically misinformed by a vast industry of deception that joins together medical cranks, the far left, and the pro-Trump right. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
And of course the false story dominates Facebook https://t.co/s5HjXiVkUn https://t.co/6oYjUTASAN — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Columnists in hometown papers have brought the story to even the least-online readers https://t.co/bFBuEZ5Q8D https://t.co/PYEOa8H89v — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Fauci's office was overwhelmed by telephone calls from citizens outraged by the false story of puppy abuse https://t.co/rwhkrXhFJA https://t.co/xr8tXL84PC — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Marco Rubio, Susan Collins, and other Republican senators have "demanded answers" about the allegation https://t.co/pvXcH4Ytz7 https://t.co/kI8SgTt7vb — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
There may be more details that I overlooked when I got too disgusted to keep reading. But here's the thing: as crazy and paranoid and false as this Fauci-tortures-puppies story turns out to be ... it's a really big deal. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
The allegations seem to have originated with advocates who oppose any experiments on animals - got taken up by anti-vaxxers who oppose research that might yield a vaccine - and then got weaponized by Cruz, DeSantis, and Trump Jr to support their personal vendetta against Fauci — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
The experiments in question a) seem eminently reasonable research to advance a vaccine against a serious disease; and b) had nothing to do with Dr Fauci. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
The experiments in question a) were eminently reasonable humane efforts to find a vaccine against a very serious infection and b) had nothing to do with Dr Fauci. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
With that roster of names endorsing the story, it probably won't greatly surprise you to hear that the story was arrant bullshit. https://t.co/WGLtQpBi3d — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Senator Ted Cruz https://t.co/rLoLv80a0a Gov Ron DeSantis https://t.co/as3gm9By3E and of course the ultra-online Donald Trump Jr. https://t.co/KB8HFVWbPp — PolitiTweet.org
Ted Cruz @tedcruz
Anthony Fauci’s NIH funded the Wuhan lab that “did indeed enhance a bat coronavirus to become potentially more infe… https://t.co/5CQrMu4BeX
David Frum @davidfrum
"What do you know about this story of Dr Fauci cutting the vocal cords out of beagles and leaving them" - the beagles - "to be eaten alive by sand flies?" The question arose at a dinner recently. It sounded crazy, but I quickly discovered that the allegation had been spread by — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @jzembik: I’ll never understand why vaccination wasn’t made a requirement for flying as soon as the vaccine was widely available. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Delete joke about man who killed father and mother asking for mercy on grounds he is an orphan. Insert joke about newspaper editorial that blames Joe Biden for not doing a better job countering the anti-vaccine propaganda spread by the newspaper's owners. https://t.co/Fla7qFwayh — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
This is a terrible story. Think twice before watching the video — PolitiTweet.org
Graeme Wood @gcaw
Note the Rittenhouse two-step: legally bring a gun to situation that doesn't call for it, then use it (again, legal… https://t.co/SEQiEzFCx1
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @RadioFreeTom: It was inevitable that when Buzzfeed dumped the dossier in the open, Trump's defenders would say "because stuff in this i… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @ShashiTharoor: I will never forget the moving experience of visiting all the sites in Mumbai on the first anniversary of 26/11 and call… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @TheAtlantic: "The usual suspects in the pro-Trump media ecosystem will of course endorse and repeat everything Trump says, no matter ho… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @anneapplebaum: The spread of yet another Big Lie - this one describing Russian interference in US elections as a "hoax" - prompts me to… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @harrylitman: .@davidfrum "It remains fact that Russian hackers and spies helped his campaign. It remains fact that the Trump campaign… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
As always, you can reach me via https://t.co/EaHted4uYz If you're minded to send antisemitic or obscene abuse, I'll save you time by alerting you it's deleted before I see it. — PolitiTweet.org
