It Looks Like the Usual Suspects Fell for the Fake News About Big Tech, Matt Gaetz, and Gun Rights
Matt Vespa
Posted: May 31, 2021 5:00 AM
Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Matt Gaetz (R-FL) are doing something the liberal media hates: speaking out. They’re on tour right now, and it’s driving the liberal media insane. Both complement each other with regards to their ability to stir up controversy. The pair adds zest to the American political scene, though in many other ways they go off half-cocked, making statements and declarations that are simply wrong. Still, these two were elected and I’m certainly not on the bandwagon of booting people on the basis that some DC folks think they’re insane. We have these things called elections. Remove them that way barring any felonious behavior. Gaetz could very well be on his way out over a sex scandal, but until he’s indicted, let’s wait and see. For Greene, she has done nothing but say things that many might find cringeworthy; that’s not enough to be removed from Congress.
At any rate, because these two are hated by the liberal media, they’re going to lie about them. They’re not going to be able to withstand just listening to what they have to say during their Save America tour. If they had, they wouldn’t have peddled fake news about what Gaetz said about the Second Amendment and Big Tech. The liberal media line is that Gaetz said we should use the Second Amendment against Silicon Valley. In other words, they think he said Republicans should go out and kill these people. That’s not what happened. Nick Arama at RedState filleted this lie:
Gaetz was speaking about the First Amendment — about Silicon Valley, Big Tech censorship and cancel culture.
“Let us use the Constitution to strengthen our argument, and our movement. We have a First Amendment right to speak and assemble, and we better use it. The internet’s hall monitors out in Silicon Valley, they think they can suppress us, discourage us. Maybe if you’re just a little less patriotic, maybe if you just conform to their way of thinking a little more, then you will be allowed to participate in the digital world. Well, you know what? Silicon Valley can’t cancel this movement or this rally or this congressman.”
He then started a separate point about the Second Amendment with, “We have a Second Amendment in this country, and I think we have an obligation to use it.”
But the deceptive clip left out the context that those were two separate thoughts, with that last sentence being that start of a discussion of the Second Amendment…
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