The talking bobbleheads over on CNN - minus poor Scott Jennings, who has somehow managed to keep his sanity in the middle of the intellectually deficient swamp he’s stuck in - are now calling for X (formerly Twitter) to be “regulated” by the government because people are currently allowed to say whatever they want.
And we just can’t have that, can we?
Speaking on Musk’s half-joking suggestion that he’d be interested in buying MSNBC, which is currently up for sale, the CNN panel complained that the social media platform Musk currently owns isn’t being “regulated” enough.
CNN is calling for X to be censored and moderated because people are allowed to say what they want and that has to end. pic.twitter.com/Afft3GnDdu
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“Platforms are not regulated right now, which gives them carte blanche to do whatever they want right now,” a CNN panelist whined, adding that “Elon Musk is to someone that likes to be regulated so to buy MSN, he would go under some regulations.”
“Who’s regulating CNN right now?” another butted in.
“The FCC?” the clearly stumped first panelist half-asked.
“We’re not a broadcast,” he reminded her. “It’s cable.”
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“I mean, I don’t think cable stations are really under the same regulatory structure that broadcast is,” Jennings chimed in.
Clearly annoyed at having been called out for their own freedom to spew open bias and lies, the leftwing panelists quickly jumped in to claim that while CNN may not be “regulated,” per se, it’s “definitely regulated more than Facebook and Twitter.”
“There’s still a litmus test of journalism that you have to pass - you can’t just come on TV and make up things and say things,” CNN’s Cari Champion claimed.
Things like calling Black Lives Matter riots “fiery but peaceful”? Or perhaps pushing the Russia hoax for years on end with no proof, and peddling myths that were later summarily debunked? Or claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop story was “Russian disinformation”?
Things like openly calling Donald Trump “Hitler” and saying his supporters are fascist, racist, sexist, xenophobic Nazis? Or saying this interview with Kamala Harris was “live,” when it was in fact pre-taped and edited?
Just asking for a friend, here.
Cue in Jennings for the knock-out punch.
“Just how much regulating of the First Amendment are you for?” he asked Champion - who notably couldn’t answer the question.
“There’s a level of professionalism in what we do here, because we are journalists and we adhere to something, at least morally, and there is no moral compass on this thing called X,” she responded instead.
You can't make this stuff up.
Perhaps conservative users who've flocked to X to exercise their First Amendment rights openly don't meet Champion's definition of “moral” - which apparently includes things like openly lying to viewers, omitting information you don’t want them to know, and slandering half the country as Hitler-loving Nazis because you don’t like their politics.
But if I have the choice between all that “regulated morality” and free speech? I'll take the latter all day, every day.