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On 1/25/24 8:53 AM, BTR1701 wrote:

Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

Ex-CNN reporter Chris Cillizza got some backlash — and a Community Note — for
his claim that President Joe Biden had never suggested workers in one
profession could simply change jobs by learning to code.

The conversation began with news of recent layoffs at a number of media
outlets — including The Los Angeles Times — and a response posted via X by
DeSantis’ Press Secretary Jeremy Redfern. “The LA Times is not having a good
day, and I’m at peace with that.”

In context, Redfern has been on the receiving end of a number of media
inquiries from the L.A. Times and other outlets, many of which had
intentionally framed their pieces to attack his boss. But Cillizza did not >> see things that way.

“Will never get people who celebrate when other humans — with families, >> mortgages, medical bills etc — lose their jobs.”

Will never get people who celebrate when other humans — with
families, mortgages, medical bills etc — lose their jobs
https://t.co/uAsqPbnUEx

— Chris Cillizza (@ChrisCillizza) January 24, 2024

“Journalists did this with the coal miners so cry harder,” one person
replied, prompting Cillizza to respond: “They didn’t though. At all. Biden
said it (and he didn’t even say ‘learn to code.’ Like, facts matter.”

They didn't though. At all. Biden said it (and he didn't even say
"learn to code."

Like, facts matter. https://t.co/nXtTKXBZ1Y

— Chris Cillizza (@ChrisCillizza) January 24, 2024

“Kind of like journalists cheering people getting laid off over COVID shots.
Zero sympathy here,” another replied to Cillizza. “The journalists now need
to hustle and get real jobs. Hey, maybe learn to code. Enjoy.”

“It just didn’t happen. And, again, no journalist said ‘learn to code.’ And
neither did Biden,” Cillizza responded.

It just didn't happen.

And, again, no journalist said "learn to code." And neither did
Biden. https://t.co/Tkd6lpvEnt

— Chris Cillizza (@ChrisCillizza) January 24, 2024

A Community Note soon followed, linking to a 2019 article published by The >> Hill. “Then candidate Joe Biden, during a campaign rally in Derry, NH in 2019
stated, ‘Anybody who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn
to program as well,’ in a policy proposal to move away from fossil fuels,”
the Note read.

GOP Rapid Response director Jake Schneider shared video of Biden saying that >> coal miners could learn to program.

“Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program >> for God’s sake!”pic.twitter.com/kTYS5Wm4S3

— Jake Schneider (@jacobkschneider) January 24, 2024

The last time a bunch of journos got fired and people on Twitter mocked the ones who'd repeated Biden's "learn to code" about the coal miners by
telling them to learn to code as well, the journos got their feelings so
hurt that they convinced the left-wing management at Twitter at the time to classify telling a reporter to learn to code as hate speech and suspend the account of anyone who did it.

Buncha hypocritical crybabies.

It's probably their fault for having legitimate identities.

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