I know people bring this up often, but reporters really should follow up on claims like this — whether repeated by Republicans or Democrats — with "do you have any evidence to prove that the protesters were paid?"
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Because it’s always projection with them. It means their proof is that they pay for protesters.
may 14, 2025, 6:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly!! call them out it's the standard go to response- couldn't possibly be Angry, Disabled, upset real ppl worried about their futures, health, livelihood, possible lives
may 14, 2025, 3:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Well you definitely won't get those follow ups from Faux News, which is the reason so many Republicans only go on Faux News and don't do other networks.
may 14, 2025, 1:37 pm • 0 0 • view
If the press allows moronic statements that bear no relationship to reality to stand without challenge, then they are not a free press. And certainly no Fourth Estate.
may 14, 2025, 1:36 pm • 1 0 • view
It's Fox Business though?
may 14, 2025, 1:32 pm • 2 0 • view
Right? Seems like such an obvious thing to ask. Tell us all where to go to sign up to get paid too. Or why aren’t they going these paid protests to prove it to the world if it’s so easy?
may 14, 2025, 1:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Show us the Olive Garden gift cards handed out by George Soros. Show us the W-4 forms the protesters had to sign. Show the 1099s from 2024 sent to those wheelchair people . Have an undercover old person go to a protest and collect his Soros wages. Chuck Grassley could be the infiltrated. #roger
may 14, 2025, 2:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Everyone knows Elon Musk lies about almost everything Have you gone to X lately? Bizarre statements Incoherent repetition of obviously stupid claims No wonder Tesla is failing
may 14, 2025, 1:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, we need to endanger the livability of Earth right now so we can colonize Mars to escape the sun going nova in a couple billion years, which will incinerate both planets, but maybe make Titan livable.
may 14, 2025, 1:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Earth is eminently recoverable Mars will never be. Is a flash story to bedazzle the weak minded
may 14, 2025, 6:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Seriously.
may 14, 2025, 1:44 pm • 0 0 • view
They’d just respond “we’re looking into numerous accusations and are finding a lot of evidence that points to Soros” which would make the claims more believable to their non-critical thinking base.
may 14, 2025, 1:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh puhleeze. I can’t believe anybody thinks that Millions of us have been paid.
may 14, 2025, 1:35 pm • 1 0 • view
It's intentional, the media is complicit
may 14, 2025, 1:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Follow-up? Ha! Reporters too busy chasing clicks to fact-check. It's like trying to find a raccoon's next meal amidst a dumpster fire. Evidence? Ha! That's like asking a squirrel to solve world hunger. Just give 'em a good ol' fashioned conspiracy theory and they're set!
may 14, 2025, 1:43 pm • 0 0 • view
MAGA has Dems beat when it comes to demonizing protests. All GOP party members are on the same page no matter what show they’re on. I wish the Dems were as ruthless and consistent.
may 14, 2025, 2:06 pm • 0 0 • view
"I think it's just generally understood that anyone who expresses an opinion contrary to my own is being paid to do so," says the man whose job it is to be responsive to the expressed desires of his electorate.
may 14, 2025, 1:52 pm • 5 0 • view
Who the hell is on a 'sugar high because of Covid'??? We were lucky to have survived that particular 🍊💩🤡 disaster, and are actively trying to survive the current ones 'Covid' feels like a century ago at this point with the daily assaults of bullshittery since January 20
may 14, 2025, 4:09 pm • 1 0 • view
"My guess"? 🤣
may 14, 2025, 1:46 pm • 0 0 • view
It would be great to see that.
may 14, 2025, 1:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Look, these aren't reporters or journalists when they are working for some of these media outlets. They need a new title/classification.
may 14, 2025, 1:41 pm • 0 0 • view
He’s on FOX, that definitely ain’t happening there.
may 14, 2025, 1:36 pm • 12 0 • view
Well it's not happening elsewhere either.
may 14, 2025, 1:46 pm • 4 0 • view
Reporters could respond to disinformation with follow ups, or, even better, don't report/repeat the propaganda.
may 14, 2025, 1:38 pm • 0 0 • view
It's journalism's lost art. The immediate challenge.
may 14, 2025, 1:34 pm • 3 0 • view
As someone who works in media this is a major issue of pretty much every media outlet being owned by like 6 corporations. The skill of the interview and actually listening to the answer your subject gives you as opposed to having 5 canned questions and just asking them
may 14, 2025, 1:36 pm • 3 0 • view
A follow up question from the msm might lead to actual substance being revealed in an interview. Can’t have that. Obfuscation, projection, and whataboutism makes their font of inane pap much more sustainable as nothing is ever solved or agreed to.
may 14, 2025, 1:50 pm • 0 0 • view
They can't imagine that people can hate them for free
may 14, 2025, 1:38 pm • 2 0 • view
A supine media is a feature of a failing democracy.
may 14, 2025, 1:34 pm • 4 0 • view
🎯
may 14, 2025, 4:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Seriously. For all kinds of facially-absurd assertions. "What's your evidence for that?" shouldn't be so hard to remember.
may 14, 2025, 2:01 pm • 0 0 • view
The people they say that in front of have no interest in committing an act of journalism. They're stenographers, nothing more.
may 14, 2025, 1:51 pm • 0 0 • view
It's also a weird confirmation that they know how to hire people to be paid protesters (otherwise, how do they know it's even a thing?), and no one digs in on that aspect either
may 14, 2025, 1:44 pm • 3 0 • view
Couldn't agree more, but then they more often than not make these types of statements on Trump-friendly outlets like Fox, OAN and Newsmax that will never push back like that.
may 14, 2025, 1:35 pm • 4 0 • view
Yes preserve denying it from them in the future too
may 14, 2025, 1:35 pm • 0 0 • view
And the January 6 insurrectionists were high on bear spray.
may 14, 2025, 2:28 pm • 1 0 • view
It's Fox Business. They literally tell Republicans what to say.
may 14, 2025, 1:42 pm • 0 0 • view
PROVE IT should be the standard response to everything Trump and Fox Entertainment.
may 14, 2025, 1:36 pm • 6 0 • view
FOR REAL BRO DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO ASK A FOLLOWUP QUESTION OUT THERE? IT MAKES ME SO MAD I HAVE TO USE ALL CAPS!
may 14, 2025, 1:31 pm • 25 0 • view
It's not part of the directions from upstairs.....
may 14, 2025, 1:38 pm • 0 0 • view
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may 14, 2025, 1:36 pm • 0 0 • view
What an ASSHOLE.
may 14, 2025, 1:40 pm • 0 0 • view
WTF 🍊🍊🍊Scum
may 14, 2025, 1:54 pm • 0 0 • view
WTF does a sugar high have to do with anything?
may 14, 2025, 1:54 pm • 1 0 • view
There’s no such thing as a sugar high. Double-blind studies have shown that observers detect hyperactive behavior in kids if they’ve been told that the kids had a lot of sugar, whether they had sugar or not.
may 14, 2025, 2:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Yep! I’ve been telling people that for years and gave up. Was he trying to be funny? You know, those lives have been on a sugar high for four years? Sometimes I’m very literal so I missed the intent when I read something.
may 14, 2025, 2:08 pm • 1 0 • view
WTF is this Stupidity???? Sugar high! What an absolute disgrace to his Constituents, his State, his Country! Ignorance reigns in the GOP ! All for the likes of a common thief! 🤮
may 14, 2025, 1:39 pm • 1 0 • view
However, I agree that journalist should be asking follow up questions. It is unprofessional not to do so.
may 14, 2025, 2:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Seriously? People’s benefits are being cut. Other things are creating an unstable environment. So to be surprised that people are protesting is naïve. To suggest that people are not going to demonstrate is simply distraction. However
may 14, 2025, 2:26 pm • 0 0 • view
He doesn’t have any evidence because he purposely used the phrase “my guess””. No one can call him out on that
may 14, 2025, 1:48 pm • 1 0 • view
And / or follow up with, “why do you think it’s humorous to belittle people who will lose access to healthcare?”
may 14, 2025, 1:33 pm • 3 0 • view
The lack of courage or competence to ask follow-up questions is a disease progressing through journalism faster than COVID went through the population. And it’s just as deadly to journalism.
may 14, 2025, 2:23 pm • 3 0 • view
By George Soros, of course.
may 14, 2025, 2:42 pm • 0 0 • view
What sugar high? All I've seen so far is contraction. In a small town, we rely on small business: first, decimated by covid, now, by tariffs.
may 14, 2025, 2:20 pm • 1 0 • view
These GOP Senators only go on Fox News, Jack, so there certainly would be no follow-up or challenge.
may 14, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Well, I would expect that from any news organization, but not from FoxNews. They have zero journalistic integrity!
may 14, 2025, 1:34 pm • 1 0 • view
"I want to go on national tee vee and say something stupid!"
may 14, 2025, 1:45 pm • 1 0 • view
also, I think he means heroin instead of sugar. what fucking kind of sugar are they selling in this guy's IGA?
may 14, 2025, 1:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Sir this is Fox. If you want journalists please go elsewhere.
may 14, 2025, 1:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Where is this buffoon a senator? His constituents should fire him asap.
may 14, 2025, 5:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Medicare protesters do so for free! No one has to be paid to fight being marginalized and harmed by @rogermarshall.bsky.social Remember #FirstDoNoHarm? That is all you and your @GOP colleagues seem to be able to do. We see through your lies. x.com/atrupar/stat...
may 14, 2025, 1:34 pm • 3 0 • view
They should. But he's on Fox, so they won't
may 14, 2025, 1:34 pm • 1 0 • view
CNN doesn’t do that much better.
may 14, 2025, 1:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Well, he said it’s his “guess” so I would imagine not.
may 14, 2025, 1:35 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s even more galling when a good chunk of those protestors were disabled. Taking precious time, energy and money to protest. Wild that these folks can’t fathom caring enough about everyone to go out of their way to fight injustice.
may 14, 2025, 2:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Well, to be fair, he did start with "I guess". /s "Lots of people are saying" he's a lying asshole though.
may 14, 2025, 1:37 pm • 4 0 • view
New Republican mantra protestors were hired.
may 14, 2025, 1:47 pm • 0 0 • view
And the follow-up “Senator, you say you ‘guess.’ So you don’t have any proof that these people are paid, correct? You’re just making that claim up.” flies away into the atmosphere, unasked.
may 14, 2025, 2:39 pm • 0 0 • view
WHERE are my 86 yr old mom’s and my checks?!?! No, people are demonstrating because they hate dictators!!! 🖕💩🍊
may 14, 2025, 1:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Never expect Fox to do real reporting.
may 14, 2025, 1:37 pm • 0 0 • view