Chris Cillizza from CNN was flying by plane on Friday night, and he needed to share an urgent message with his 642,000 Twitter followers. Here was the message he had to share, which couldn’t wait Another minuteDisseminated
A couple sitting in front me while I flew refused to put on masks.
They were tuned to “Tucker” the whole time.
— Chris Cillizza (@ChrisCillizza) March 26, 2022
I am not qualified to give advice to anyone in media on how to engage their audience. (Though, to be fair, CNN is nominally a news outfit anymore, and whether the number of people who tune in there constitute an “audience” is debatable, as my colleague Brandon Morse wrote in January on the network’s catastrophic failure to draw eyeballs.
(see: CNN’s Ratings Dropped an Astounding 90% After 2021)
However, I digress.
Now, the first problem with Cillizza’s important reporting here on the awful people he was forced to share a plane with is that not even the airlines really want to continue the mask charade anymore. This week, the CEOs from all of the major U.S. carriers wrote the Biden Administration, practically begging them to lift the federal transportation mandate — because, frankly, it’s Been a monthThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has let the dog out of the box about how ineffective it is to continue masking indoors.
On Feb. 25, RedState reported on the CDC’s latest scientific guidance on masks — the majority of people can ditch them safely, they said: https://t.co/fThxevTCRz
— Becca Lower (@BeccaJLower) March 25, 2022
Take a look at the headline. Yes, that’s 70 percent.
But, that’s not all I noticed. There’s an even more important component to this — a real-time example of the idiocy the cult of the mask forces adherent like Cillizza to commit. Publicly, they have to be clowned themselves in order to keep their status and purity. Cillizza calls himself journalist. He feels embarrassed by the shameful self-assessment he makes on social media.
This is an enormous self-regard. These people weren’t looking at your network. The airline chiefs have gotten rid of masks. Why don’t they? https://t.co/9fGYSKGkVw
— Becca Lower (@BeccaJLower) March 26, 2022
I also find it somewhat creepy that he apparently was so obsessed with what these total strangers were doing that he spied on them throughout an entire hour of their watching “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” How else would he know that they didn’t switch to a movie or something else?
Now, several of the commenters on Cillizza’s tweet had a slew of old screenshots of article headlines and media tweets, seemingly at the ready for an opportunity like this. For example, Twitters user “Bloodborne2” appeared to have quite a few receipts on Cillizza and the activist media. I love this one.
— 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞 𝟐 🦑🤺 (@SisyphusGoals) March 26, 2022
I have bad news for Cillizza… He’s going to have to say it one-billion-and-one times, because we didn’t believe him the first billion times he said it.
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