If there’s one thing we know for an absolutely certainty, it’s that the Democrat activist media works full-time to prop up Democrats and to tear down anything and anyone who is perceived to not toe the America Last leftist line.
The latest example of the divisive role legacy media plays in American culture and politics has left multiple outlets with egg on their face for gleefully leaping on a “story” that they hoped would harm Elon Musk, whose purchase of Twitter has caused the most amazing (and hilarious) meltdown on the left (archive link).
The Verge broke the real story:
In videos circulating on Twitter Friday morning, two men carrying boxes are seen standing near the entrance to Twitter’s San Francisco building, claiming to have been laid off by Elon Musk, who officially took over the company Thursday evening.There are plenty of problems with what these two men say to reporters. The most glaring is that one man identifies himself as a software engineer named “Rahul Ligma.” The Verge has confirmed that name does not exist in Twitter’s Slack or email system. There is also no evidence that the employee exists on LinkedIn.“Ligma” is, of course, also an internet hoax designed to elicit the response “lick my balls” from people who are in on the joke. That didn’t stop multiple outlets, including CNBC and Bloomberg, from running headlines Friday saying that laid-off Twitter employees were leaving the building carrying boxes.
Somewhere out there, Heywood Jablome and Pat McGroyne are laughing. Definitely not laughing: CNBC, Bloomberg, ABC7-News in the Bay Area, and other media outlets duped by two Merry Pranksters outside the Twitter offices today.Two men carrying cardboard boxes were interviewed outside the Twitter offices today, bemoaning their fate as laid-off victims of new owner Elon Musk’s promised purge.One gave his name as Rahul Ligma. Fans of internet memes would have recognized the monicker, which is a set-up for a vulgar joke that circulated on Twitter. The other was Daniel Johnson, at least during the interview.Media outlets hungry for a sob story leaped on it, with the usually reliable Bloomberg running headlines of employees leaving Twitter with boxes in hand.Local TV news reporter Suzanne Phan of ABC-7 tweeted video of the scene, capturing poor Ligma’s tale of being fired during a Zoom meeting. Embolded by the media interest, Ligma held up a copy of Michelle Obama’s book, declaring that the former First Lady “wouldn’t have happened if Elon Musk owned Twitter.”Also of concern to the ex-employee pranksters: Britney Spears and the future of democracy, both endangered by Musk’s ownership of Twitter. Topping off their complaints was a confession — since they didn’t have jobs, they were worried that they couldn’t make the payments on their Tesla cars.
As pranks go, this is one for the ages, and even Musk himself got in on the mockery of “journalists” who seem incapable of performing even a LinkIn search before running with a “story” that supports their narrative.
The one that takes the cake is Occupy Democrats; they were still peddling the hoax as if it were real hours after the truth went viral. Did they really not know that it was fake? Hard to believe, especially since they literally quote Musk’s tweet.
While humor and mockery are always excellent tools against the humorless, tyrannical left, we need to see a great deal more pushback on the #FakeNews outlets and their rampant spread of propaganda and lies.
So far, only a handful of Republicans—including Florida governor Ron DeSantis and Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake—have followed President Trump’s wildly popular lead and called them out on their rampant bias and journalistic malpractice.
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