Commentary

I was thoroughly enjoying the left’s meltdown over Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, but when Fox News Channel showed a clip of MSNBC’s chief legal correspondent Ari Melber fretting over the very practice the site’s previous owners were guilty of in 2020, I had a big laugh.

We all know now that Twitter locked-out messages by President Trump or Trump staffers leading up to the 2020 election, and Twitter, along with other social media sites and the mainstream media, refused to cover the Hunter Biden laptop scandal or stories of corruption in the Biden family. 

As a result, millions of Americans on the left voted without having knowledge of the unethical character of their candidate, many of whom have since said they would not have voted for Biden had they been aware of the facts that were withheld.

Incredibly, Melber would have you forget all about that as he begins thinking about that similar election interference under Musk’s Twitter:

“You could secretly ban one party’s candidate, or all of its candidates, all of its nominees, or you could just secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else and the rest of us might not even find out about it until after the elections.”

“Uh, hello?” jabbed the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, reminding of Twitter banning President Trump, and just a month before the 2020 election moved to “turn down the reach” of the New York Post, which revealed the story behind the Hunter Biden laptop. “Suddenly, freer speech is a national crisis.”

Journalist Mary Margaret Olohan, had fun with it @MaryMargOlohan: “You could secretly ban one party’s candidate … secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else and the rest of us might not even find out about it until AFTER the election.”

In my last post, I told you about President Biden’s “concerns about the power of social media platforms, including Twitter, to spread misinformation, disinformation, and the need for these platforms to be held accountable.”

Misinformation and disinformation didn’t seem to bother him when the media was withholding scandalous details about his family.

As expected, all of the other talking heads on CNN and MSNBC were practically in tears – Brian Stelter and Joy Reid – among them.

Over at CBS, Norah O’Donnell, who desperately wants to be the next Barbara  Walters, fretted that a “hands-off” approach might “make Twitter a haven for disinformation and hate speech.”

New York Times editorial board member Greg Bensinger calls the future Musk Twitter, “a scary place,” even before he takes over.  “Female Twitter users, in particular, ought to worry whether Mr. Musk will bring his apparent disdain for women to the company he’s about to own.”

It’s going to be fun to watch.

Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America.