NBC Late Night was not happy with Republicans on Thursday for holding hearings into Twitter’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story, claiming “no one actually gives a [bleep]” and trying to pretend that Republicans are greatly upset Twitter took down tweets containing nude photographs of Hunter Biden.
After playing a clip of Rep. Byron Reynolds asking why certain tweets were removed and former head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth replying that they were non-consensual nudes, Meyers sarcastically claimed, “Excuse me, Mr. Roth, but the American people are demanding to see Hunter Biden's nudes.”
Meyers them lamented that “his is what Republicans are spending actual time on at a Congressional hearing” and “aside from the fact that no one actually gives a [bleep] about any of this nonsense, it's also just wrong to say Republicans are somehow victims being persecuted by social media.”
In an attempt to prove his point, Meyers declared, “Twitter did field requests from the Trump Administration, the actual government at the time, to remove content that Trump didn't like. In fact, it was reported yesterday by Rolling Stone that Twitter kept an entire database of Republican requests to censor posts and in the hearing, a Democratic member of the committee, Maxwell Frost, brought up one of those examples, which led to some explicit language being read into the Congressional record.”
After playing a clip of Frost speaking about a request from the Trump White House to remove a Chrissy Teigen tweet calling Trump a “pussy ass bitch,” Meyers joked about C-SPAN’s lack of a bleep button before declaring, “Once again, Joe Biden could not have asked for a more flattering contrast. Republicans are using their time in the House to throw tantrums about their Twitter accounts getting suspended and Hunter Biden's nudes.”
It is easy for Meyers to pick at the low-hanging fruit when he jokes about Reynolds’s inquiries into tweets containing nude photos, but Twitter really did suppress the New York Post story, something they never did for a Rolling Stone article about Trump or one of his children and conservative accounts were suspended for “hate speech,” or, more accurately, running afoul of new left-wing rules about gender.
As for that Biden-GOP comparison, “Biden, meanwhile, is laser-focused on economic populism and kitchen table issues that actually matter to everyday people. He even called out Republican Senators Rick Scott, Ron Johnson, and Mike Lee for their proposals to cut Social Security and Medicare. Three guys who are also known by their nicknames –”
Meyers’s sentence was finished with a clip of U.S. Safety Policy Team senior expert Anika Collier Navaroli recalling the “pussy ass bitch” tweet.
This segment was sponsored by Dove.
Here is a transcript for the February 9-taped show:
NBC Late Night with Seth Meyers
12:54 AM ET
2/10/2023
SETH MEYERS: Excuse me, Mr. Roth, but the American people are demanding to see Hunter Biden's nudes. And you better not make them pay to see it. There's nothing worse than expecting a free peek at male genitals, only to find out there are hidden fees, aka –
JOE BIDEN: Junk fees.
MEYERS: Now, this is what Republicans are spending actual time on at a Congressional hearing. Aside from the fact that no one actually gives a [bleep] about any of this nonsense, it's also just wrong to say Republicans are somehow victims being persecuted by social media. Twitter did field requests from the Trump Administration, the actual government at the time, to remove content that Trump didn't like. In fact, it was reported yesterday by Rolling Stone that Twitter kept an entire database of Republican requests to censor posts and in the hearing, a Democratic member of the committee, Maxwell Frost, brought up one of those examples, which led to some explicit language being read into the Congressional record.
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MEYERS: Once again, Joe Biden could not have asked for a more flattering contrast. Republicans are using their time in the House to throw tantrums about their Twitter accounts getting suspended and Hunter Biden's nudes. Biden, meanwhile, is laser-focused on economic populism and kitchen table issues that actually matter to everyday people. He even called out Republican Senators Rick Scott, Ron Johnson, and Mike Lee for their proposals to cut Social Security and Medicare. Three guys who are also known by their nicknames –
ANIKA COLLIER NAVAROLI: Pussy ass bitch.
