Republican majority leader rails against censorship of post that he censored

Handing off the baseless claims.

With Donald Trump issuing more claims that the Reich is being “censored” on social media platforms, other Republicans are scanning walls, tweets, and grams with calibrated eyeballs, looking for signs of any leftward tilt. And the clearly super tech-savvy majority leader of the House, Republican Representative Kevin McCarthy, caught Twitter blatantly blocking the posts of a hard right “thought” leader.  

Another day, another example of conservatives being censored on social media. @jack easy fix: explain to Congress what is going on. #StopTheBias cc @IngrahamAngle pic.twitter.com/QjzpmfadXS

— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) August 17, 2018

Yeah, get on that, @jack. Except … what’s blocking Ingraham’s post from appearing for McCarthy isn’t a filter on Republican thought. It’s that he has the filter on his own account cranked down to levels appropriate to the average kindergarten viewer. It’s not Twitter blocking the post. It’s McCarthy. 

Ingraham’s post contains the word “pedophile,” which apparently tweaked the “save my delicate sensibilities” setting McCarthy had set for his account. Maybe he should issue a tweet complaining about that guy censoring conservatives.

A few tens of thousands of Twitter users have tried to point this out to the majority leader since the tweet went up. But McCarthy has neither responded nor changed his filter. It’s almost as if he doesn’t care about the truthfulness of his statement and was only trying to score a quick point with people too ignorant to see his ignorance.