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Editorial: The gift of Gab is no gift at all
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | July 24, 2022 | The Editorial Board

Posted on 07/25/2022 7:35:06 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano has made it clear that he has nothing but disdain for the mainstream media. The state senator routinely bars news organizations from his events and ignores requests for comment from reporters.

But a candidate running for statewide office has to get his message out somehow — so now he is posting and advertising on Gab, a far-right social media site where Robert Bowers, the Tree of Life shooter, uploaded violent anti-Semitic messages before committing the most deadly assault on Jews in American history.

Associating with Gab — paying it for services, palling around with its CEO, posting on it knowing that doing so will generate anti-Semitic backlash against one’s opponent — is a slap in the face to Jewish communities around Pennsylvania, especially in Squirrel Hill. It’s beyond unbecoming. It’s heinous.

(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 2022; ads; andrewtorba; antisemitism; disinformation; dougmastriano; election; fud; gab; gaslighting; mediabias; msm; news; pennsylvania
Post-Gazette's take on Mr. Mastriano's association with Gab.
1 posted on 07/25/2022 7:35:06 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I guess he means unlike the democrat killers who posted on YouTube?


2 posted on 07/25/2022 7:36:46 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano has made it clear that he has nothing but disdain for the mainstream media."

Same media has nothing but disdain for normal Americans.

3 posted on 07/25/2022 7:42:03 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: Mr. K

Tell that to BJ and the Kenyan. That’s the only way they’ll win. Makes women want to take off their pants and the rest of us jealous(or envious). Worked for JFK. Would women want to hop in the sack with Gore or Kerry? Think again. They were losers.


4 posted on 07/25/2022 7:42:37 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Didnt the shooter in Illinois post his garbage on YouTube? No stories about ‘far left’ You Tube?


5 posted on 07/25/2022 7:45:22 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Editorial: The gift of Gab is no gift at all

Then why did salesmen make $200k/yr while I built $10k of product a week and made $20k/yr?

6 posted on 07/25/2022 7:45:23 AM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I'm sure it is unintentional, but this reads like the Post-Gazette is seriously butt-hurt.

What a shame...

7 posted on 07/25/2022 7:48:46 AM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free state of Florida)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The gift of posting on an article without reading it is priceless!!!


8 posted on 07/25/2022 7:51:40 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: MrRelevant

To the abnormal leftist filth, YT is “normal” and “mainstream”.


9 posted on 07/25/2022 7:53:31 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

People of Pennsylvania - If you vote for a democrat for any political position you are voting FOR the destruction of America! Look at the last two years and wake up!!!!!


10 posted on 07/25/2022 7:55:45 AM PDT by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It ‘s a cheap smear.


11 posted on 07/25/2022 8:18:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
If Gab is "far-Right" than Twitter is "far-Left".

Two can play at this game.

12 posted on 07/25/2022 8:21:08 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,599.971 users on Truth Social)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The lame left is trying to implicate and condemn gab for allowing someone to post somehting on their free speech platform. They are trying to imply that any9ne on the site is a “far right domestic terrorists”


13 posted on 07/25/2022 8:37:43 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434

The mass media wants total control over speech—and declares anyone who seeks to circumvent them a “crazy right wing extremist conspiracy theorist.”

Bonus: They claim their iron grip on speech is what real “democracy” is all about!


14 posted on 07/25/2022 8:41:26 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: DannyTN

What are you talking about? I read the whole thing.


15 posted on 07/25/2022 9:00:07 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Bus No. 2525)
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To: cgbg

Yup! Control speech, control the world


16 posted on 07/25/2022 9:02:52 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434

The mass media uses the wife beater approach to speech.

“If you say anything about me beating you I will beat you again...”


17 posted on 07/25/2022 9:10:45 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I read only the title. Decided it was likely a really stupid thread, but commented anyway.


18 posted on 07/25/2022 9:50:07 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I’d call the paper “Post-Relevant.”


19 posted on 07/25/2022 10:32:20 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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