Coop Scoop: Elon Musk Is Constructing the Big Lie #2

Now it is how Trump would have won if not for a biases Twitter

By Marc Cooper

December 15, 2022

The walls might, indeed, be closing in on Donald Trump as the DOJ accelerates its probe of both the Mar-a-Lago case and the January 6 conspiracy to keep Trump in power.

It now seems a near certainty that Trump will be tagged for indictment sooner rather than later.

Adding to the dilemma of the extremist right, the Republican campaign for congress last month was a giant belly flop.

And apart from whack job Kari Lake, the defeated Republican candidates did not claim they were cheated. Even Herschel Walker gave a rather gracious concession speech. They stayed away from any version of STOP THE STEAL.

So can we now celebrate the fact that The Big Lie is in decline and on its way to extinction?

No way.  In a record speed transition, Elon Musk has stepped in to be the new standard bearer of the aggrieved Republican masses. And it seems he is dead set, actually obsessed, with the notion that Twitter “censorship” mist have cost Trump the election.

Indeed, The Richest Man In The World is no longer satisfied helming Tesla and Space X.  

He has now cast himself as the beloved leader of the millions of Trumplikins, the acolytes of MTG, the gun nuts, the extremist militias, several pockets of Know-Nothings, insurrectionists, election deniers, and every hoople-head from Maine to California.

This is the coalition he has assembled since taking over Twitter and frantically tweeting out crap that he knows the hooples want: That he is now voting Republican, that Dr.Fauci should be prosecuted, and that the greatest danger in the world is wokeness, which he vowed to destroy.

Ordinarily, one would just write this stuff off as the pointless musings of a bored billionaire.

Not this time around.  Musk now directly owns and controls Twitter and he is using it hour by hour to whip up his new coalition

In this effort he is being supported by a few journalists like Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss to whom he handed a load of Twitter files from past management and who have been frantically typing out five separate Twitter Files threads.

I don’t want to give these jerks more oxygen by going into deep detail, other than to say the Musk-Taibbi-Weiss team are twisting facts, committing massive omissions, and generally exaggerating the supposed sinister Old Twitter. 

By having prevented the story on Hunter Biden’s laptop from going viral – for one day, in October 2020, by having suspended Trump’s account after he clearly incited the January 6 insurgents to violence, and by having shut down the accounts of thousands of neo-Nazis, health quacks undermining  public health during the pandemic, and removing other nefarious accounts, the Musk crew claims this was partisan censorship and are now inching quickly toward the line that Trump would have won if not for “Democrat Twitter,” these folks are attempting to stand up a new Big Lie i.e.  Trump’s defeat by 8 million votes can be laid at the feet of  a biased Twitter.

The entire basis of Musk’s “revelations” is premised on bullshit.  For the most comprehensive run down of  how far off base, how far out of this world, Musk’s Twitter Files are, I recommend you open this link and read Micah Sifry’s painstaking and detailed  analysis.

The "Twitter Files" and the Meme Wars

I will add one point that’s not in Micha’s run down.  Musk and Company are basically saying that the platform was being used by Democrats to further their political ends.  But that is exactly what Musk is doing now day and night.  He seems to be much more interested in tweeting than ever before and he is openly proselytizing for the Alt-Right.

And make no mistake., Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss are strategic allies in this quest by Musk to stand up The Big Lie #2.  I can’t believe there’s a debate if Taibbi is or is not a leftist journalist.  Well, he might have been once but let me be clear: Matt Taibbi is now a thought leader for the Trump forces.

Bari Weiss was never smart enough to do very much except whine that the was suffering as a NYTimes opinion editor. Her Twitter Files thread is a hodge podge of myths, lies, distortions and extreme right wing political bias,

Perhaps Musk’s most powerful ally from the ranks of journalists in Glenn Greenwald – a much better known name than Taibbi and Weiss.  No question that for the last couple of years Greenwald has been blazing the path for Musk and his pal Taibbi. Check out these tweets from the last couple of days:

I am curious to know how these bizarre comments from Glenn Greenwald would compare to those of, say, Tucker Carlson, on the same subjects.  Then again, Greenwald has been playing footsie on air with Tucker on a regular basis.

For those of you who did not open the link to Micah Sifry or for those who want a simple summary of what the Twitter Files are about, it’s this: 

Twitter like Fox News or the New York Times and just about every other media outlet in this country are privately owned, 

The First Amendment has nothing to do with private venues,

If want to start a site that leans conservative or liberal, or pro-communist or anti-China, it is my right to do so. Period.

I don’t buy the Musk-Taibbi claim that Twitter was a Democratic tool that “censored” conservatives.  But for the sake of the argument, let’s say it was partisan liberal.  If so, there is still no “censorship” but rather a series of editorial decisions.

The massive hypocrisy of journos like Taibbi and Greenwald to make their censorship claim against Twitter while they both remain absolutely mum on all the stories that, say, Fox doesn’t “censor” but simply ignores. And it has a right to do that as it is one more private entity.  Remember that Fox initially chose not to cover live the January 6 riot itself.  But Greenwald regularly dances into the Fox studios to denounce liberal censorship while not saying Word One about the platform he is using, the most biased, most incomplete, most inaccurate news outlet in America.

I’m tired of liberals, and progressives and certainly some leftists who are still defending Taibbi and Greenwald.  They are incapable of understanding that people change, and these two palookas are now front-line propagandists for the great Big Lie #2 coalition Musk is building.

For the moment, I prefer to see this bitching and squealing as mostly desperation by the Right to fill the void Trump is slowly creating and, perhaps, the uncontrollable narcissistic need by Musk to be the center of attention.

As to Taibbi, Weiss and Greenwald and what is in it for them, I suspect it is radically expanding their substack subscriber base with a mass influx of Trumpies, election deniers and thousands of other loose screws.

I would not yet classify Musk’s venture as a threat to democracy because this whole thing might blow over when public attention turns to the indictment of the former president.

But if this Big Lie #2 takes off and gets footing we are in for a very rough ride. ++

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