Republican Rep. Jim Jordan Issues Sweeping Information Requests To Universities Researching Disinformation

[discobot]

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1451886

[emiliano4]

First to say Waste Of Time

[left_in_washington_state]

Gymboree!!!

The wheels on the committee go round and round

[michaelryerson]

STFU Jim. Really.

[ken_k]

Gym Jordan is just engaging in another fishing expedition hoping he’ll find something he can blow up into a scandal.

And if not he can tell the right wing noise machine all about how he’s fighting the woke communist antifa deep state.

[benthere]

When Jim “looked the other way,” wasn’t that disinformation too?

[zandru]

Folks on the trumpy side had no problem ignoring information requests and even subpoenas from Congressional committees. These universities and think tanks need to do likewise. As well as demanding the “strictly legislative purpose” behind each and every item requested.

[ralph_vonholst]

Someone’s about to, once again, unmitigatingly and irretrievably embarrass himself in public hearings.

[bcgister]

The Weaponization Committee’s cheer leaders and majorette:

[bcgister]

@ralph_vonholst

Someones about to, once again, unmitigatingly and irretrievably embarrass himself in public hearings.

As Qevin McCarthy has shown, some congressmen are immune to shame.

[ifeveroheverawiztherewas]

@ken_k

woke communist antifa deep state

woke communist antifa BLM deep state

[enceladus]

@ralph_vonholst

Someones about to, once again, unmitigatingly and irretrievably embarrass himself in public hearings.

Sadly, he won’t be embarrassing himself to anybody he cares about, only to those capable of independent thought.

[zandru]

@bcgister

some congressmen are immune to shame.

(sigh) Remember the good old (red-baiting) days, when even Senator Joe McCarthy had a sense of shame? His party now holds the position that “shame” is one of those librul afflictions, experienced only by woke snowflake cucks. Nothing that “real men” such as themselves would ever feel. Throw in DEI, ESD, BLM, and whatever is on today’s Sixty Minute Hate.

[tindalos]

@discobot

Democrats have called the committee a modern-day House Un-American Activities Committee, akin to the congressional committee that pursued alleged communists during the McCarthy era.

This is an accurate characterization and I hope Democrats push it in every interview.

[jim195]

The House Orwellian Activities Committee

[becca656]

I maintain that Gym’ll be as disappointed with this outcome as he has been in all the other harassment he’s attempted.

At some point, he’s gonna get shut down because of his lack of success.

[carolson]

The letter recipients should put together a montage of all them gleefully ripping up the “requests” a la Nancy Pelosi. I hope no one takes it seriously.

[civarum]

I’m pretty sure that Gym Jordan is skirting really close to the line of violating the first amendment.

[commanderogg]

@ifeveroheverawiztherewas

woke communist antifa BLM deep state

Woke, Communist, antifa BLM Gorge Sorus funded deep state

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[lastroth]

@becca656

At some point, he’s gonna get shut down because of his lack of success.

Which will be confirmation, in Jordan’s eyes, that there really is a plot to stifle conservative voices, no matter how much time and money he has wasted.
It’s the money part that needs to be emphasized.