I’m currently banned on Twitter, but I’ll be back in a week.

In the meantime.. I’m on Gettr at “RudderHardover”.

What horrible timing too, so much good and discussion-worthy news is happening irl around the world. Today I’m going to try and focus my energy into a very deserving adversary: The Daily Beast, aka the Chelsea Clinton/CIA rag.

Within the last few weeks, The Daily Beast has shown itself to be ghoulish by writing a hit piece on a Ukrainian wartime citizen journalist, Gonzalo Lira, a Chilean national living in Kharkov, Ukraine.

A few weeks after this piece, Gonzalo was abducted by Ukrainian security forces and disappeared for about a week. He was later released but barred from speaking about his captivity due to ongoing investigations. He seems in good health given the circumstances and is back to speaking to media outlets. I am thankful for his safety and continued reporting.

Which takes us to this week; with a new piece out on society’s real monster, Kim Iversen. The piece itself is little more than a mashup of broken quotes, anonymous sources and hearsay, and attacks Kim for her “COVID and Medical Misinformation(TM) conspiracy theories”. I won’t bother linking to the piece but I will share some of the tweet thread and quote replies to it below

At this point, I’m not even sure The Daily Beast counts as a tabloid so much as American Pravda - and that’s an insult to Russian Pravda, which did do actual news sometimes.

Russian Pravda wouldn’t even stoop this low. The only thought that comes to mind is “you’re not obligated to take people who think ‘the daily beast is real news’ seriously”. Not even a little bit. Laugh in their faces for reading the digital equivalent of Shitlib Weekly World News.

Counterspin: Lies, Damn lies, and Spin!

Lies, Damn lies, and The Daily Beast