Right-wing media trying to help Moms for Liberty play damage control after '60 Minutes' debacle

 How much of a disaster was that '60 Minutes' interview for Moms for Liberty? It was so bad that the right-wing media is trying to swoop in to help stem the damage. 

From Media Matters

Too often, Moms for Liberty and its co-founders have received coddling rather than questioning from mainstream media outlets. In many interviews, Moms for Liberty representatives mischaracterized the group’s activities without meaningful pushback from reporters. 

Critical details were omitted, including Moms for Liberty’s routine harassment, extremism, and violent threats directed at librarians, teachers, and school officials. It’s likely that Moms for Liberty was expecting standard media coddling, because the moment 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley began asking even softball clarification questions, co-founders Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich visibly fumbled. 

 . . . Pelley wasn’t asking hardball questions, but Justice and Descovich were clearly unprepared for even the slightest bit of pushback. Unsurprisingly, right-wing media are already scrambling to vilify 60 Minutes and conduct damage control for Moms for Liberty. 

 Justice appeared on Steve Bannon’s War Room the day after the interview aired and accused Pelley of dishonestly editing the segment. Justice then spoke with Fox News Digital, claiming that the interview was “heavily edited” and they were “censored” by CBS News.

 Newsmax host Rob Schmitt said 60 Minutes was “advocating for the LGBTQ agenda in schools” and described the segment as “biased.” BlazeTV’s The Steve Deace Show jumped to defend Moms for Liberty’s use of “groomer.” Megyn Kelly — who previously hosted a Moms for Liberty fundraiser — blasted Pelley for the interview, saying he “failed America’s children'” and calling him “disgusting.”

Full '60 Minutes' segment:

Moms For Liberty's latest embarrassment comes from '60 Minutes' interview disaster

 

Moms for Liberty founders Tiffany Justice (left) and Tina Descovich (right). 

It's been an extreme pleasure over the last few months watching hate group Mom for Liberty continuing to slide down the ladder of embarrassment. On Sunday, two of the founders, Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich, were interviewed by Scott Pelley of '60 Minutes' and it was wonderful. 

When faced with probing questions by a serious journalist instead of friendly interviews from propaganda pushing pundits (such as on Fox News) Justice and Descovich malfunctioned quicker than actress Paula Prentiss in that scene from the 1975 movie The Stepford Wives ("How could you do a thing like that. How could you do a thing like that. I was just going to give you coffee. I was just going to give you coffee. I thought we were friend. I thought we were friends . .")

The two clips below are what I'm talking about

Scott Pelley asks the founders of a conservative group calling for book banning: “What ideology are the children being indoctrinated into? What is your fear?” https://t.co/6dUGXXacjT pic.twitter.com/mE7YiO1gfk

— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) March 4, 2024

"What do you mean by that?” Scott Pelley asks Moms for Liberty founders about claims, posted on the group’s social media, that students are being “groomed” by teachers and librarians. https://t.co/aZk0Imib73 pic.twitter.com/zxiuKnA5gz

— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) March 4, 2024

You can watch the entire segment:

 

Federal judge puts temporary stop on Texas AG Ken Paxton's demand for information on families with transgender kids

Texas AG Ken Paxton

A judge ruled on Friday that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton cannot receive information on Texas families with transgender kids. At least for now.

From The Advocate

A judge has temporarily blocked Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s demand for information on PFLAG National’s work on behalf of Texas families with transgender children seeking gender-affirming medical care. Paxton, an intensely anti-LGBTQ+ Republican, issued a demand in early February for the organization to turn over documents, communications, and other information related to its work with these families. 

This would include the names and addresses of trans youth members. PFLAG National is a plaintiff in two lawsuits filed against Texas’s restrictions on gender-affirming care for trans youth — its ban on this care and an order from Gov. Greg Abbott that families allowing their children to undergo it be investigated for child abuse. Responding to the latest demand, PFLAG National filed a new lawsuit against Paxton’s office and sought a temporary restraining order to keep him from obtaining the information. Travis County District Court Judge Maria Cantú Hexsel granted the order Friday. 

 According to the HuffPost: 

The ACLU, which is representing FPLAG in court, said it will seek a permanent block on Paxton’s demand “so that PFLAG can continue supporting its Texas members with transgender youth in doing what all loving parents do: supporting and caring for their children.” 

 This isn't the first time Paxton, who by the way has been the subject of intense legal trouble due to other issues, has targeted the trans community and healthcare providers of gender-affirming care. Twice he has made demands for information from transgender healthcare providers in other states. One demand led a lawsuit by a Seattle hospital filed last year. In 2022, a federal judge blocked his office from investigating the families of trans youth in Texas. During that same time, it was pointed out by various experts and researchers that Paxton was relying on inaccurate data and distorted research to justify his investigation.

Delusional Chaya Raichik talks about 'eradicating gender ideology'

 I got this courtesy of Ari Drennen from Media Matters:

Chaya, please. You are delusional. You actually think you're special.

Do you think you are the first person who tried to take any part of the LGBTQ community out? We've faced bigger, prettier, and more intelligent wannabes than you. And we've always remained standing. We know how to fight, to endure, and win. You are simply another future notch in our belt.

You cannot "eradicate" the "gender ideology" because it doesn't exist. Just like the "radical gay agenda" or the "radical homosexual agenda" doesn't exist. No matter how many phrases people like you use to dehumanize and no matter how many lies you tell, you can't wipe us out.

The trans community - the LGBTQ community in general - has existed long before this country and no bowling pinheaded, flavorless wannabe with bad split ends is going to do us in. We aren't going anywhere. And we will be here when someone develops enough holy water to banish a certain piece of unwanted, unloved, unneeded gutter trash to the depths of hell's toilet where she was obviously formed. 

Trump promises to give far right evangelicals 'political power “at a level that you’ve never used it before”' if they support him

 A recent incident involving Donald Trump and evangelical voters reminds me of a story from the Bible regarding Jesus and Satan.

From Right Wing Watch:

Former president Donald Trump delivered a campaign speech at the National Religious Broadcasters convention in Tennessee  . . .  promising the right-wing Christian audience that they will wield political power “at a level that you’ve never used it before” if he is returned to the White House in 2024. Trump’s audience and the larger convention were populated by the same religious-right activists who are regularly featured here on Right Wing Watch and who are planning to use a second Trump term to impose their Christian nationalist worldview on the nation. 

And based on Trump’s remarks at the conference, he fully intends to give them more political power than they have ever had before. “Today I come before you as a friend and an ally and a fellow believer to ask for your help and your support and your prayers for this country,” Trump said. “I make you a simple promise: In my first term I fought for Christians harder than any president has ever done before, and I will fight even harder for Christians with four more years in the White House.”

 “We did things the likes of which nobody has ever done for Christians in this country, and I’m very proud of that and honored by it,” he added. “Just think of what with God’s help we already achieved in our historic first term under my leadership and working with you.”

 “For four years, we went through a great period [where] you were able to speak, and we’re going to make that on a permanent basis,” Trump continued. “Because you’re the people we want to hear from: the pastors and the ministers and the rabbis. The people in this room are the people we want to hear from and they have to have a political voice.” 

“You have such power, but you really weren’t allowed to use that power,” Trump told the audience. “You’re now allowed to use it. If I get in [to the White House], you’re going to be using that power at a level that you’ve never used it before."

There is a story in the Bible about Satan tempting Jesus while Jesus was in the wilderness. He told Jesus that he would give him all of the power in the world if Jesus would simply bow down and worship him. Jesus of course strongly turned him down. Too bad those who claim to follow Jesus didn't seem to get the hint.

'Is there a law against lying?' Libs of TikTok's Chaya Raichik tries to justify her 'transgender school shooter' smear

Libs of TikTok's Chaya Raichik doubles down on a lie she told about a 'transgender school shooter.'

Okay folks, I know I'm probably driving you nuts with the two-day (now three-day) coverage of Libs of TikTok's Chaya Raichik's interview with Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz, but bear with me, especially about this last revelation. This one is about receipt keeping should Raichik become liable for any type of legal action in the future.

From Media Matters:

Over a month after Chaya Raichik accused an innocent trans woman of carrying out the tragic school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, the Libs of TikTok creator acknowledged in an interview with The Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz that she knew the claim was false – but said she still would not remove the post. Raichik originally used the post — which originated from 4chan trolls — to misleadingly sketch a pattern of mass shootings carried out by transgender people. 

 “Twitter is free speech,” said Raichik in response to a question about why she doesn’t delete the post, which she said she is “glad” has a community note correcting it. “People lie about me all the time on there, and they don’t get taken down.”

 “The Uvalde shooter wasn’t trans,” agreed Raichik in the interview. “Is there a law against lying? … They’re knowingly lying about me."

"Is there a law against lying?" Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik acknowledges that her post accusing an innocent trans woman of committing the tragic mass shooting in Uvalde Texas was false, but she refuses to remove it. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/Zqo90r3nXX

— Ari Drennen (@AriDrennen) February 26, 2024

And that defensive garble of a statement is the point of it all, i.e. the reason why people like Raichik cannot be ignored. They must be exposed and there is a difference between amplification and exposure. Amplifying is when you repeat their filth without nuance or criticism. Exposing them is when you let them speak, but also demand that they explain their words and justify their actions. You don't let them get away with simply throwing out talking points. You challenge them. That way, you deflate whatever illusion they may have built around themselves.

And over these past several years, Raichik has been the queen of illusions. She, with the help of others, built herself up to be this grand right-wing warrior supposedly exposing LGBTQ people as groomers and pedophiles. She got a lot of fame and notoriety because it. Heck, she still has the fame and notoriety.

But what happened last weekend is the same old story which happens when someone starts believing their own hype. African-American elders call it "smelling yourself. Girlfriend got a bit caught up in her ego and put herself out there for an interview which exposed just how limited she is. And when those who oppose your rights, safety, and health expose themselves the way Raichik did last weekend, you should take full advantage in ripping off their careful created facade so that the world can see them for the nauseating creatures that they are.

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Libs of TikTok's Chaya Raichik having temper tantrum because of embarrassing interview clip

Chaya Raichik

Apparently, Libs of TikTok's Chaya Raichik is highly upset about her recent video with Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz.

To recap - on Saturday, a video clip of an interview conducted by Lorenz with Raichik came out and it quickly went viral. The reason for this was that it showed Raichik in a severely harsh light, i.e. revealing her to be a low-intelligence bigoted bully who can't defend her vicious attacks on the LGBTQ community even when give prime opportunity to do so. 

This clip right here:

"Sounds like you do want to tell people what to do in their house": Taylor Lorenz presses Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik to explain her issue with trans adults. pic.twitter.com/XkPP3VRe9l

— Ari Drennen (@AriDrennen) February 24, 2024

Since the clip came out, Raichik has been raging online about how she is the victim and how Taylor Lorenz supposedly did her dirty:

Just to summarize my interview with Taylor Lorenz:

- she’s not at all concerned about our open border and millions of people invading our country
- she’s pro mutilation and castration of minors
- she wants p*rn in schools
- she wants the media to be allowed to defame me with…

— Chaya Raichik (@ChayaRaichik10) February 25, 2024

 Among other things, Raichik accuses Lorenze of being a "lizard person." What is that?

Anyway, the delicious irony is days before all of this happened, Raichik sent a gloating tweet which supposedly mocked her "haters."

Good afternoon everyone! Even the haters, losers, and liars! 😘 pic.twitter.com/cZ8PsP8OQW

— Chaya Raichik (@ChayaRaichik10) February 22, 2024

To fall from such a lofty height of egotism to a deep pit of self-pity has to be humiliating for Raichik and particularly delicious for those who have been the targets of her venom. It's really not a surprise that yet another right-wing culture warrior and fierce protector of morality turns out to be a nothing-happening fraud with the intellectual depth of a dead cockroach and the emotional maturity of a screaming infant who needs to be changed.

LGBTQ people have seen this happen so many times that we should be used to it.