taylor lorenz from the washington post
revealed the identity of the individual
behind the account libs of tick tock and
that led to right wingers completely
melting down and i want to give you
examples of
people who are upset what their
arguments are and then we're going to
debunk a lot of them um first just to
remind you all of what libs of tick tock
is all about uh let's go to graphic 11
here her anti-trans tweets went
especially viral she called on her
followers to contact schools that were
allowing boys in the girls bathrooms and
pushed the false conspiracy theory that
schools were installing litter boxes and
bathrooms for children who identify as
cats she also purported that adults who
teach children about lgbtq plus
identities are abusive that being gender
non-conforming or an ally to the lgbtq
community was a mental illness and
referred to schools as government-run
indoctrination camps for the lgbtq plus
community now the woman behind it uh was
basically
anonymous until taylor lorenz reported
on this story and revealed her identity
her name is chaya raychik now
her revealing the identity of the person
behind the account is what has led to
right wingers like glenn greenwald
completely melting down about it he
writes this
taylor lorenz is about to expose the
private citizen behind some anonymous
account on twitter
and when people criticize her for it she
and her friends will claim taylor is the
real victim and anyone criticizing this
type of journalist will be guilty of
causing her trauma so taylor lorenz
opened up about what it's like to be a
female reporter in an industry that is
not friendly to female reporters to
whine about anyone talking about their
lived experience is so pathetic and weak
but that's who glenn greenwald is a
terminally online pathetic little clown
who went from being a pretty impressive
reporter to being someone who we
literally dunk on both on air and off
the air because how could you not but i
do want to also go to something
interesting about glenn greenwald let's
go to graphics 16 here
matt binder
made sure to emphasize
a part of her reporting taylor lorenz's
reporting it's really relevant to glenn
greenwald all of the info in the libs of
tiktok piece was already publicly
available online but taylor had one
thing that no one else had which made
the report possible glenn greenwald
accidentally confirming her identity and
the excerpt let's keep that tweet up
says this when a reporter called the
phone number registered to raychik's
real estate profile and lib libs of tick
tock dot us the woman who answered hung
up after the reporter identified herself
and then later she writes that on monday
night a tweet from glenn greenwald
confirmed
the house that was visited belonged to
raychek's family
oops
i also wanted to add this
delicious tweet from glenn
from september 12th of 2020. it's
amazing it's not that long ago and it
shows you how much he's changed uh so
alex i'm sorry uh this tweet says the
following i don't mind admitting that i
find anonymous cowards who spread lies
on the internet repulsive why wouldn't i
it's an insecure scared petty
inconsequential way of living oops
interesting
okay now all of a sudden he says how
dare you out anyone who's anonymous
online i'm a flutter with it oh my god
i'm so outraged
yeah sure you are glenn god you've
become such a pathetic liar and it's so
obvious
so this is real life consequences so
this lunatic uh chaya rajcik raichik um
let me repeat that her name is chaya
raichik okay by the way don't go to her
house you're not a reporter okay and
don't uh do anything in the in the in
the real world physical to anyone we're
on the left we're progressives we
actually believe in decency and morality
unlike the right wing okay i'm telling
you who she is because of what she's
doing online you don't get to hide
behind your hood while you go and attack
gay people left and right and try to get
anyone who's decent to gay people fired
right okay so now
so all we're doing is taking our hood
off that's it um
uh now uh
she has the crazy conspiracy theory that
anna told you many of them and we talked
about it earlier in the show too some q
anon like uh conspiracies and it's uh uh
and of course the election was stolen
and of course covid conspiracy theories
etc but look at the litter box one that
anna just mentioned okay so the kids are
dressing up as furries and they're
defecating in the middle of the school
and that's why they had to bring in
litter boxes
we've done stories where several
different different school districts had
to put out statements saying please stop
attacking us yeah there are no kids
actually dressed up as cats there are no
litter boxes in the schools it's total
insanity it's not at all true now now
glenn greenwald is coming around and
saying oh no no being anonymous while
you spread insane conspiracy theory is
like that that's awesome that's free
speech baby parents were showing up to
school board meetings
and they were hysterical okay they were
terrified that their children were being
offered litter boxes to defecate in
because the school was trying to be
accommodating to furries why did they
think that oh it turns out the origin of
that nonsense was libs of tick tock and
they're
no sorry jake and i just love the
defenders of that account like what what
i mean she's she's just reposting what
libs are putting up on on social media a
that's not true she's specifically
framing them as dangerous nefarious
individuals who are grooming your
children clearly she's posting things
that are lies like the litter box
nonsense and then more importantly
listen media matters literally just
takes video clips of what right-wingers
are saying they post it and the
reporters the people who work at media
matters they're not anonymous
they're they're literally just taking
the content reposting it on their site
and the reason why they're not hiding
their identities is because they're
doing nothing wrong they're not taking
people out of context they're not
defaming individuals they don't have to
worry about lawsuits because they're not
defaming individuals but this individual
right chaya raichik
she is defaming individuals she knows
what she's doing that's why she wanted
to remain anonymous she wanted to go out
of her way to get people fired to
destroy people's lives take away their
livelihood with no repercussions no
consequences whatsoever and now you have
a reporter like taylor lorenz who had
the courage the balls and also the uh
journalistic integrity to do her job
appropriately and report on this story
and the right wing is not used to anyone
fighting back against them effectively
that is why they're having this
simultaneous meltdown and that is why
i'm i'm in a great mood today i love to
see it i love to see them cope like the
little babies that they are in fact jake
why don't we take a little trip to the
copium den so we can view it all for
ourselves and really enjoy this moment
the pull book is completely off what was
it called by oh my goodness all the
networks dumps they call them dumps big
massive dumps
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another person in the copium den is
megan mccain taylor lorenz is knocking
on doors of relatives and trying to dox
anonymous figures from twitter but will
cry on tv about being harassed i mean
you
megan
no one cried on tv more than you did i'm
the only conservative on the view it's
not fair are you really gonna call her
out for crying on air anyway is she a
sociopath
this right here is why the vast majority
of american public hates the press no
megan you're a sociopath you you think
there's uh
kids dressing up as uh furries in
schools there's litter boxes you think
uh there's child molestation and
drinking of blood of children you think
all that lunatic stuff and you think
that this lives or tick tock is some
sort of hero to you
if you think that she's some sort of a
journalistic hero and taylor lorenz is
the bad guy for pointing out who she is
you're the sociopath
so look there's other parts of this too
that
literal state legislators have gone
around with that litter box theory okay
they've done speeches like we've got to
protect again from the litter boxes
because the right wing has lost their
minds right and so
what about the school officials that got
attacked
based on the lies from libs of tiktok no
but they love it they love it wait you
you don't seem concerned about them
being
outed no because
and they didn't even do anything wrong
you just made up she just made up stuff
about them they love it what happened to
all the trump administration officials
who uh were trying to out the person who
wrote that anonymous op-ed about trump
remember that oh yeah yeah yeah i mean
there was a lot of that going on but i
didn't hear anyone on the right who's
currently having a meltdown worry about
that at all and in regard to
taylor lorenz showing up at people's
houses
listen
maybe you don't know anything about
journalism and that's fine if that's not
a the industry you work in the field of
work you do that's totally fine it is a
common practice it is a widely used
practice it happens all the time now
megan mccain wouldn't know that because
she was never a journalist and only
received uh media offers because she
happened to be the daughter of a late
senator
clearly her on-air commentary was not
compelling or interesting or unique uh
she didn't get those jobs based on merit
and clearly she didn't get those jobs
based on journalistic knowledge or
integrity but putting that aside okay if
people find that a little off-putting oh
journalists showing up at people's
houses uh to learn more about these
stories um i want to go to alex alex
thompson's tweet here because he's
absolutely right he's a reporter over at
politico who says showing up at people's
homes is standard journalism
that more reporters should do
like half of all the president's men is
woodstein showing up at people's homes
and let me also remind you that
fox news
used to have someone dubbed the ambush
guy and that person still works at fox
news his name is jesse waters
in fact uh jesse waters bragged about
ambushing people in their homes
all the time he put a compilation video
together for it here's a little snippet
from that compilation video
do you regret
verbally abusing ivanka trump on the
plane you harassed a woman with her baby
on a flight are you proud of that
real class act aren't you now you're
afraid to show your face
i'm giving you an opportunity to
apologize sir
nothing to say
that was just a person who said
something that wasn't polite to ivanka
trump an incredibly powerful person on a
commercial flight uh he also creepily
followed huffington post reporter amanda
turkle around when she was on vacation
with her family
but the right wing didn't care about
that that was totally fine it's the
ambush guy it's the ambush guy that's
totally okay
was he going to deflate amanda's tires
uh because he's also a creepy stalker
who apparently that's his idea of
getting a date um he just said that last
night on his show um so he also showed
where that guy lives
yep okay uh taylor lorenz didn't do that
you did that jesse waters when they do
it but again but it's the ambush guy
yeah the right wing doesn't date guys
i've got to stop trying to make sense of
it or trying to talk to them because
they don't care about logic or reason
they just don't when jesse waters does
it they love it if they could they'd go
inside that house they'd show the
address they'd terrorize that person uh
non-stop in fact a lot of the victims of
of uh chaya raichik have gotten death
threats and been harassed and the right
wing loves it they love it right
and then when you say oh by the way the
person doing it is this person
i can't believe you out of someone who
was anonymous even after glenn greenwald
just two years ago that tweets not from
20 years ago that was from two years ago
when he was like oh anonymous people
should all be outed now he's like oh my
god it's the biggest crime there is
you're just so pathetic all of you uh
and so i want to go back to something
that just happened
state senator
mallory mccarro in in michigan gave an
impassioned speech finally fighting back
it was so good to see a democrat fight
back for like the first time ever right
uh and why because uh lunatic republican
state senator lana theis had said uh
that
that the fellow state senator had quote
put our children in danger
and uh
and that mcmorrow was outraged that they
can't teach
uh they
can't groom and sexualize
kindergarteners or that eight-year-olds
are responsible for slavery do you guys
now get it uh the way that she
intentionally framed people uh as
groomers as people who want to groom
children so it's not the same as what
media matters does where they just
repost right wing content to make a
point about what right wingers are
saying she specifically would frame
people as these dangerous nefarious
individuals who should lose their
livelihoods simply because of who they
are as members of the lgbtq community
and honestly one other thing i just want
to say and then i'll i'll end it in
terms of my commentary
the members of the left and yes i'm
calling out media members on the left
specifically online media people who
have decided that they'd rather pander
to right wingers who do not share our
values and certainly don't give a damn
about unions they don't give a damn
about economic justice they don't give a
damn about ensuring that workplaces are
better for the ordinary american worker
they'd rather pander to those clowns by
just minimizing these kinds of stories
minimize minimize they're uncomfortable
with the lgbtq community we don't want
to make them uncomfortable yes we want
to make them uncomfortable they're not
our allies they're not our allies
because guess what a work environment
that fires people for who they are
because of their identities because of
the fact that they're part of the lgbtq
community that's not a workplace i want
to support that's not a good working
condition that i would be in favor of
and these clowns
it's look it's about you appealing to
the right wing it's not at all about
fighting for economic justice i just
want to call that out i don't need to
name names everyone knows who i'm
talking about okay so
my last thing is
now it has spread from libs of tick tock
and other social media influencers and
laura ingram and tucker carlson to
actual republican legislators like the
ones that i atlanta theist that i just
told you about and she's accusing other
state legislators of being groomers
for pedophilia
with no evidence of course
just lunatic
really dangerous stuff and mainly
because they say
yeah it's okay to say in school that
someone
is gay or or that gay people exist
and now you get called a groomer for
that right
so
no we're going to fight back against
that
i love that
senator mcmorrow gave a speech about it
and said no you don't get to call me
that and i and i don't fight back and
the reason i'm mentioning that is
twofold one is lib's a tick-tock isn't
just like oh some poor innocent babe in
the woods oh i was just sitting here
sending out flowers and roses and
rainbows when all of a sudden i was
outed by the evil taylor lorenz no she's
a despicable person spreading hate
throughout the country but the second
reason is to anna's point democrats
people on the left will you for god's
sake stand up stand up the fascists are
already here
okay
so
and just fight back man and and fight
back with
principles with journalism with
integrity uh but don't just sit in a
corner afraid that they're gonna attack
you next on social media that's exactly
how the fascists win no it's amazing
like
again this will be the final thing i say
your posts
pump puffing your chest up as if you're
like the next che guevara
is pathetic
when you cower
the second the right wing decides to
come after the left
i'm not here for it okay don't be posing
as some sort of revolutionary if you're
going to cower in the face of the worst
individuals who want to further
disenfranchise the powerless in this
country you ain't no revolutionary
you're a joke