On Thursday, Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (D-TX) displayed to the entire world her ignorance.
She had no clue about a popular new platform for information, that journalists are to protect sources, the way that Twitter works, and how to word a question without completely humiliating herself.
First Rep. Garcia tries to get Taibbi to reveal his sources. The pugilistic Taibbi didn’t back down.
After Rep. Stacey Plaskett claimed they are not trying to get @mtaibbi to reveal his sources, Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX) once again tries to get him to reveal his sources. pic.twitter.com/ECsl643EAr
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 9, 2023
Here is Rep. Garcia admitting that she has no idea what Substack is while questioning Substack journalist Matt Taibbi about… his Substack.
Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): "You posted on your umm I guess it's kind of like a web page. I don't quite understand what Substack is." pic.twitter.com/LJQx7nIpJy
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 9, 2023
Rep. Garcia doesn’t know how Twitter works, either.
Does Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia even know how Twitter works? pic.twitter.com/zeqAZuFHa7
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) March 9, 2023
But the most spectacular moment was probably this one when Rep. Garcia turned her questioning to Michael Shellenberger:
Through her line of questioning, Rep. Sylvia Garcia reveals she doesn't know who @bariweiss is and proceeds to ask a rather…awkwardly worded question. pic.twitter.com/zjF6gRk33U
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) March 9, 2023
Yikes! Could that be the most awkwardly-worded question in a Congressional hearing?
The best part of that exchange is the way that Shellenberger speaks slowly to her like he’s talking to a child.
Weiss’s spouse, Nellie Bowles, another New York Times alum, shows that award-winning investigative journalists can have a heck of a sense of humor.
In her regular TGIF post on Weiss’s Substack recently rebranded as “The Free Press”, she included that interaction with Shellenberger with this commentary:
My wife’s fidelity questioned by Congress: Here is Rep. Sylvia Garcia, a Texas Democrat, asking Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger some uncomfortable questions about my dear, devoted wife.
Asked if they had formed “a threesome” with my spouse as they reported from Twitter HQ, my former friend Michael Shellenberger responded: “There are many more people involved than that.” Disgusting. Appalling. My father watches C-SPAN.
The Intellectual Dark Web has become nothing but a polycule, and I’m its jilted lover! A woman scorned.
I hear other things were revealed during the hearings. Politicians apparently have never heard of Substack. Also, one Democrat—a ranking member of the House Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government—accused Taibbi and Shellenberger of endangering Twitter employees by reporting on Twitter at all. Land of the free, indeed. (Now I’m just bitter.)
Source: The Free Press
You can watch the full video of Rep. Garcia beclowning herself here:
Source:
Bowles, Nellie. “TGIF: ‘I Hate Him Passionately’.” The Free Press on Substack. March 10, 2023.
https://www.thefp.com/p/tgif-i-hate-him-passionately?publication_id=260347&post_id=107521526&isFreemail=true
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