Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.) on Wednesday blamed mass shootings on the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion.
“When I was growing up in Springfield, you had one or two murders a year,” he said on Columbia, Missouri’s 93.9 The Eagle. “Now, we have two, three, four a week. So, something has happened to our society. I go back to abortion — when we decided it was Ok to murder kids in their mothers’ wombs. Life has no value to a lot of these folks.”
Rep. Billy Long...
“When I was growing up in Springfield, you had one or two murders a year,” he said on Columbia, Missouri’s 93.9 The Eagle. “Now, we have two, three, four a week. So, something has happened to our society. I go back to abortion — when we decided it was Ok to murder kids in their mothers’ wombs. Life has no value to a lot of these folks.”
Rep. Billy Long...
- 6/2/2022
- by William Vaillancourt
- Rollingstone.com
It’s 2018, which means that by definition we just had a crazy week. But this week in President Trump’s America was certainly crazier than your average, and so Stephen Colbert spent his opening monologue on “The Late Show” Friday night taking a look back, drinking a refreshing alcoholic beverage to dull the pain, and then doing an Alex Jones impression that was surprisingly pretty great even though doing it caused Colbert physical pain.
“What a week we have gone through together. We had the revelations from Bob Woodward’s book that confirmed everything we thought was happening was happening,” Colbert said to open the monologue, before plugging Woodward’s upcoming appearance on “The Late Show” on Monday.
“Then, what else happened this week? We had an op-ed in The New York Times from an anonymous Trump administration official saying, ‘Yeah, yeah, it’s happening.’ Hell of a week, you know?...
“What a week we have gone through together. We had the revelations from Bob Woodward’s book that confirmed everything we thought was happening was happening,” Colbert said to open the monologue, before plugging Woodward’s upcoming appearance on “The Late Show” on Monday.
“Then, what else happened this week? We had an op-ed in The New York Times from an anonymous Trump administration official saying, ‘Yeah, yeah, it’s happening.’ Hell of a week, you know?...
- 9/8/2018
- by Phil Owen
- The Wrap
Facebook isn’t deliberately pulling right-wing voices from its platform, despite the suspicions of conservative Congress members, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday.
During the second day of his Washington testimony on the Cambridge Analytica data leak, Rep. Billy Long (R-mo) pressed Zuckerberg on what he and many Republicans view as a coordinated blackballing of conservatives by the social network. Long revealed a picture of conservative commentators “Diamond and Silk,” who were recently told by Facebook their content is “unsafe,” and asked Zuckerberg if he knew who they were.
“I believe that is Diamond and Silk?” responded Zuckerberg.
Also Read: Mark Zuckerberg Says His Info Was Leaked to Cambridge Analytica
“That is Diamond and Silk, two biological sisters from North Carolina. I’d like to point out they’re African-American. And their content was deemed by your folks to be unsafe,” said Rep. Long. “Diamond and Silk have a question for you and that question is: what is unsafe about two black women supporting President Donald J. Trump?”
“Well congressman, nothing is unsafe about that. The specifics of this situation, I’m not up to speed…” said Zuckerberg, before Rep. Long jumped in to say Facebook should be using its analytics team to see how many conservative voices have been silenced in comparison to liberal commentators.
Diamond and Silk have around 1.4 million Facebook followers, but have said the social network has curtailed the reach of their videos for several months. Rep. Long joined several other Republicans in blasting Facebook’s perceived bias towards conservatives. On Tuesday, Senator Ted Cruz asked the 33-year-old exec about Facebook’s “pervasive pattern of political bias” — something Zuckerberg shot down and said he was concerned about himself.
Also Read: Sen. John Kennedy to Mark Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks'
“Senator, let me say a few things about this. First, I understand where that concern is coming from because Facebook and the tech industry are located in Silicon Valley, which is an extremely Left leaning place,” said Zuckerberg. “And this is actually a concern that I have and that I try to root out in the company is making sure that we don’t have any bias in the work that we do, and I think it is a fair concern that people would at least wonder about.”
Rep. Long added he wasn’t in favor of regulating Facebook, but that it’s recent issues with the data leak might force the hands of lawmakers.
Also Read: 'Senator, We Run Ads': Hatch Mocked for Basic Facebook Question to Zuckerberg
“So far, we’ve done nothing…we’re getting ready to overreact,” said Rep. Long. “So just take that as a shot across the bow warning to you.”
Read original story Gop Congressman Berates Mark Zuckerberg With Huge Photo of Fox Personalities Diamond and Silk At TheWrap...
During the second day of his Washington testimony on the Cambridge Analytica data leak, Rep. Billy Long (R-mo) pressed Zuckerberg on what he and many Republicans view as a coordinated blackballing of conservatives by the social network. Long revealed a picture of conservative commentators “Diamond and Silk,” who were recently told by Facebook their content is “unsafe,” and asked Zuckerberg if he knew who they were.
“I believe that is Diamond and Silk?” responded Zuckerberg.
Also Read: Mark Zuckerberg Says His Info Was Leaked to Cambridge Analytica
“That is Diamond and Silk, two biological sisters from North Carolina. I’d like to point out they’re African-American. And their content was deemed by your folks to be unsafe,” said Rep. Long. “Diamond and Silk have a question for you and that question is: what is unsafe about two black women supporting President Donald J. Trump?”
“Well congressman, nothing is unsafe about that. The specifics of this situation, I’m not up to speed…” said Zuckerberg, before Rep. Long jumped in to say Facebook should be using its analytics team to see how many conservative voices have been silenced in comparison to liberal commentators.
Diamond and Silk have around 1.4 million Facebook followers, but have said the social network has curtailed the reach of their videos for several months. Rep. Long joined several other Republicans in blasting Facebook’s perceived bias towards conservatives. On Tuesday, Senator Ted Cruz asked the 33-year-old exec about Facebook’s “pervasive pattern of political bias” — something Zuckerberg shot down and said he was concerned about himself.
Also Read: Sen. John Kennedy to Mark Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks'
“Senator, let me say a few things about this. First, I understand where that concern is coming from because Facebook and the tech industry are located in Silicon Valley, which is an extremely Left leaning place,” said Zuckerberg. “And this is actually a concern that I have and that I try to root out in the company is making sure that we don’t have any bias in the work that we do, and I think it is a fair concern that people would at least wonder about.”
Rep. Long added he wasn’t in favor of regulating Facebook, but that it’s recent issues with the data leak might force the hands of lawmakers.
Also Read: 'Senator, We Run Ads': Hatch Mocked for Basic Facebook Question to Zuckerberg
“So far, we’ve done nothing…we’re getting ready to overreact,” said Rep. Long. “So just take that as a shot across the bow warning to you.”
Read original story Gop Congressman Berates Mark Zuckerberg With Huge Photo of Fox Personalities Diamond and Silk At TheWrap...
- 4/11/2018
- by Sean Burch and Jon Levine
- The Wrap
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