So what would not being muzzled look like?
Josh Hawley is a piece of work.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, called out Senator Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, for claiming in a widely read op-ed that he’s been “muzzled.”
In a cover essay published by the New York Post on Monday, Hawley claimed that he’d been “canceled” and “muzzled” in the U.S. The title of Hawley’s essay is “It’s time to stand up against the muzzling of America.” The GOP lawmaker, who has been widely criticized for formally objecting to Arizona’s and Pennsylvania’s electoral votes when they were certified by Congress earlier this month, linked to the article in a tweet Ocasio-Cortez later retweeted with criticism.
The New York Post is owned by the powerful Murdoch family, who also own Fox News. Headed by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, the family is estimated by Forbes to be worth approximately $20.6 billion. The New York Post was ranked in 2019 by Cision, a public relations and software company, as the fourth most widely distributed daily newspaper in the country. The newspaper’s website says that it had more than 73 million unique visitors in November and more than 400 million page views.
The New York Post probably wouldn’t publish anything I wrote; does that make me muzzled?
Ocasio-Cortez is right about his deep unpopularity:
Senator Josh Hawley’s former academic adviser at Stanford University says he’s “distressed” and “bamboozled” by the Missouri Republican’s actions surrounding to the January 6 insurrection against the U.S. Capitol.
The raised fist, for instance, which was swiftly followed by the violent attack on the Capitol.
“I am more than a little bamboozled by it, certainly distressed by it,” David Kennedy, a professor emeritus of history at Stanford told The Kansas City Star for an article published on Sunday. Kennedy served as Hawley’s academic adviser when the future senator attended the elite university; he later penned a foreword for a 2008 book Hawley wrote about former President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt.
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A number of corporations and companies have announced that they will no longer contribute financially to Republican lawmakers, such as Hawley, who objected to the certification of Biden’s win.
Is that the “muzzling”? But nobody has to contribute financially to any lawmakers, and not doing so certainly isn’t censorship.
I would say that’s a big yes. Definitely missed something essential.
On the same day I see this, I see that a NYT editor (contract, not full-time) expressed pleasure and relief that Biden was elected, which was, in the eyes of some right-wing nut jobs. evidence NYT is “biased”. The editor was harassed and stalked, including photos taken of her near her home, and NYT has fired her. That sounds like real muzzling to me; what Hawley is going through, not so much.
While I agree that Hawley is far from being muzzled, it is irritating that there is this often all-or-nothing attitude about the concept of “cancel culture”; as if the falsity of this claim of canceling demonstrates there is no canceling going on anywhere.
And here’s Lord Molloch having a whinge about a ‘Wave of Censorship’ and ‘Awful Woke Orthodoxy’.
It seems owning the world’s biggest bully pulpit isn’t enough to protect Rupe.
And can I just add, America, nay the world, needs more Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s.
And a lot fewer Josh Hawleys.
Right wingers don’t get to complain about woke orthodoxy; it’s the backlash to their crazy shit. It’s *our* subject to complain about.
Re that column Hawley wrote when he was 15, it appears that the news media has extrapolated too far. Hawley wrote in defense of militia members, not those specific militia members (although he did defend Fuhrman, the LA cop). He did not defend the OK City bombers, nor did he defend the bombings. I’ve been seeing corrections in articles on that point.
People who belong to groups do often rush to defend those groups when one of their own does something terrible. I think Hawley’s teenage column is one of those. It’s bad that he defended militias, but the news media extrapolated too far from that.
I muzzled a Malamute on the weekend. It did nothing to shut him up, it just meant he couldn’t bite me. He continued to express his feelings by howling plaintively every few seconds. If someone wants to shut Josh Hawley up, they would need to gag him. If he finds himself muzzled, he should have a think about what he has done to justify that kind of precaution (Hannibal Lecter springs to mind).
Yes. Until you are made required reading in US high schools, you are being muzzled.
Of course, if OB was required reading in US high schools, the ones being ‘muzzled’ now would be screaming about forcing the liberal agenda.
Catwhisperer, I love that explication. Yeah, we don’t want Hawley to bite. He already bit us with his support of the insurrection, and we don’t want to let him tear us apart.