re: Jeffrey Lord purged from CNN

Lord was only on there to be their punching bag anyway because he wasn't very good at defending Trump. He tried hard but usually came off looking like the dummy they wanted him to be.

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how does Media Matters try to suppress free speech??

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well MM attacks speech they don't like and tries to silence opposing views

now you can say they're private and not the government and i get it, but they want censorship over the free flow of information. it's just easier/more efficient to say they want to suppress free speech

the fact that JL got fired for this is amazing to me. progs have been calling everything under the sun "Nazis" or "fascist" for 10+ months and JL does it back and he gets fired? the frick?

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YEAAA THATTH THA THPIRIT!!!!

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Now liberals are ok with making fun of folks with speach impediments.

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the fact that JL got fired for this is amazing to me. progs have been calling everything under the sun "Nazis" or "fascist" for 10+ months and JL does it back and he gets fired? the frick?

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But for a communication tool like Twitter, people don't catch things like sarcasm, hyperbole, etc. very well.

And in this case, since the article posted provided the context to make his response more understandable, the title of the article said MMF (mocking media matters), so I had no idea what it was referring to until I read the article.

But his response was front and center before and after I read the article, so knowing a not of people probably don't read an article to get context, or wouldn't understand his response even with the context, it was ridiculously stupid in his part.

Ironically he was too stupid to know that people are too stupid to not realize he's actually supporting the Nazis.

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We are a country of free speech, but it doesn't mean he should be employed or a contributor for any news network.

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i just hope CNN fires every contributor who compares anything to being Nazis or fascists, so it's all equal

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i'm legit more curious who actually believes he was being pro-Nazi or who is just pandering with a legitimately stupid talking point

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I'm going to guess not an insignificant number.

Unless one knows about his ongoing criticisms with Media Matters, and realized the MMF referred to them and/or that Carusone is with them, then it's not obvious by looking at the tweets up until he clarified that he was actually doing it to mock.

He was fine when he was just outright calling them fascists, but when you make a tweet like that, he should how asked himself:

1. Will people probably think this is support for the Nazis?

2. Will a person with no background knowledge be able to get enough context right away to see that it's facetious?