Too DELISH! - Media Matters' President Cries Because 'Right-Wing Misinformation Machine' BEAT HIM

Posted • November 7, 2024: Remember just a few weeks ago when we found out the New York Times was working with Media Matters to target right-leaning media and get us all shut down RIGHT before the election? They went after Tucker, Daily Wire, Daily Caller, and so many others … And of course they failed because right-wing media is done being bullied and censored. So as you can imagine, Trump's win has Media Matters' president Angelo Carusone pretty freaked up and upset. This is a rather glorious watch: Media Matters’ Angelo Carusone unleashes diatribe on the "right wing misinformation engine” that has says has captured the minds of Trump voters: They “actually believe that a vote for Donald Trump is a vote for democracy."

"Many of them don't believe in democracy as a principle, and they want something more autocratic and authoritarian. But there's another part, a much larger part that actually believe that a vote for Donald Trump is a vote for democracy because they have validated and internalized the idea that there's an anti-democratic, secret cabal that is actually preventing their desires in an exercise of democratic power from being implemented and put in place, and that only Trump can restore their power." - “The foundation upon where all of this is, is a large right wing misinformation engine that has created an environment and a lens through which people see the world that is not the way it is." -- The misinformation machine is fueled by legacy media and corrupt organizations like Media Matters — and the fact that more and more Americans have repudiated it has people like Curasone apoplectic. This is the same org that has targeted Elon Musk and 𝕏 for that very reason. (…)

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https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/11/07/media-matters-meltdown-is-phenomenal-n2403446