​​​​This was gaslighting at its liberal-media worst. Trashing the Twitter listening to held yesterday by the GOP-led Home Oversight committee, Morning Joe would have you ever imagine that removed from searching for to suppress Republicans and assist Democrats, Twitter—98.47% of whose donations went to Democrats in 2020— really bent over backward to assist Donald Trump!

Essentially the most egregious instance of Twitter’s pro-Dem bias was its suppression, within the days main as much as the 2020 election, of the New York Put up‘s reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop computer. However the panel actually laughed that off. 

That is an odd take, coming after the New York Occasions and the Washington Put up finally admitted that emails discovered on Hunter’s laptop computer have been actual, regardless of having initially advised that they have been Russian disinformation.

It tells you all you might want to learn about MSNBC that the dismissal of the significance of Hunter’s laptop computer was led by none apart from Jen Psaki, Biden’s former press secretary who’s now an MSNBC commentator. The panel piled on with a refrain of “no, nope,” denying that individuals are within the topic.

MIKE BARNICLE: I imply, the concept that they assume, apparently, their technique is to key in on people who find themselves vastly considering what is going on on on Twitter.

JEN PSAKI: [Chuckles] This is what they care about: Hunter Biden’s laptop computer and pictures of Hunter Biden that no one needs to see. That’s what they’re defending having on the market.

SCARBOROUGH: No one.

And whereas Mika nonetheless falsely dismissed as “unsubstantiated” the allegations concerning Hunter Biden contained in that New York Put up article, at yesterday’s listening to a former Twitter worker admitted that suppressing the story was a “mistake.” However one way or the other, Workforce Joe nonetheless painted the listening to as a foolish flop.

Scarborough and Mika additionally tried to make issues about themselves, elevating for the umpteenth time their anger over Trump having made a number of tweets implicating Joe within the dying of one in all his aides again in his days as a congressman. Resorting to barnyard vulgarity, Scarborough additionally tweeted his fury on the matter yesterday.

Scarborough railed in opposition to the truth that Part 230, which gives social media platforms with immunity from civil legal responsibility primarily based on third-party content material, prevents him from suing Twitter for having printed Trump’s accusatory tweets. It does not cease Scarborough from suing Trump. 

Scarborough additionally chipped in with an unpleasant assault on Republicans, saying “Do you give out felonies for simply being dumb? I am simply questioning….Severely, as a result of there are quite a lot of Republicans on that committee that have to get themselves some good attorneys if they’ll.”  Presumably not “easy nation attorneys,” as Scarborough, with false modesty, likes to explain himself. 

Morning Joe trashing the Republican-led Oversight Committee listening to on Twitter bias was sponsored partly by Liberty Mutual, Roman, and Sling.

This is the transcript.

MSNBC
Morning Joe
2/9/23
6:05 am ET

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Republicans grill former Twitter workers grilled on Capitol Hill yesterday.

JOE SCARBOROUGH” This did not actually go the best way they anticipated, did it?

MIKA: No. In an try to show that the social media firm singled out — okay, right-wing voices for censorship. In a six-hour Home Oversight committee listening to, the 4 former workers confronted questions in regards to the firm’s determination to ban the sharing of a 2020 New York Put up article which made unsubstantiated claims about then candidate Joe Biden’s youngest son, Hunter, shortly after the Put up” printed the article. 

Twitter pointed to considerations about hacked materials as the rationale for blocking the story. Twitter has since admitted that call was a mistake. However in yesterday’s listening to, the previous workers refuted claims that the positioning colluded with the Biden marketing campaign and FBI to affect the outcomes of the 2020 election. 

. . . 

SCARBOROUGH: That very same former worker revealed that her bosses modified Twitter’s inner guidelines. Mika and I do know one thing about this.

MIKA: Yeah.

SCARBOROUGH: A lot about this. To accommodate Trump’s hateful rhetoric in opposition to immigrants.

. .  .

It is simply surprising, is not it? 

MIKA: Good job!

SCARBOROUGH: It is really the reverse of what the Republicans mentioned was occurring. Once more, Mika and I noticed it, coping with, with, with Twitter. Say, wait a second, so it is authorized for a man to accuse anyone else of homicide 12 occasions, but it surely violates all of those insurance policies. They usually go, yeah, effectively, we’re wanting into that. After which on this case, on, on, on, on this racist trope that fascists use, “return to the place you got here from,” they really stopped letting that be a, a, a banned uh, uh, uh phrase as a result of they wished to vary the principles for Donald Trump. 

. . . 

MIKE BARNICLE: I imply, the concept that they assume, apparently, their technique is to key in on people who find themselves vastly considering what is going on on on Twitter.

JEN PSAKI: [Chuckles] This is what they care about: Hunter Biden’s laptop computer and pictures of Hunter Biden that no one needs to see. That’s what they’re defending having on the market.

SCARBOROUGH: No one.

BARNICLE: The opposite evening on the State of the Union, we have been simply speaking about it off air, the President of the USA spoke briefly in regards to the horrendous nature of prices of flying. 

PSAKI: Hmm-mm.

BARNICLE In case you’re taking your loved ones to a —

PSAKI: And resort charges!

BARNICLE: — for a faculty trip.

PSAKI: Yeah!

BARNICLE: Additional costs for luggage. A separate cost for a distinct seat, stuff like that. That resonates. This, Hunter’s laptop computer, with continued hearings and haranguing about language and every little thing about that? I suppose at some degree it is essential, however the bigger cosmic degree, by way of reaching individuals, I do not assume so.

VARIOUS PANEL MEMBERS: Nope, no yeah. 

. . . 

SCARBOROUGH: Do you, do you give out felonies for simply being dumb? I am simply questioning.

MIKA: I hope.

SCARBOROUGH: Severely, as a result of there are quite a lot of Republicans on that committee that have to get themselves some good attorneys if they’ll.

MIKA: The place do we start? The place do we start?

SCARBOROUGH: That is unbelievable.