OPINION:
Earlier this week, a friend of mine sent me a picture of a sign posted in front of Goya products at Publix limiting their purchase to two items per customer. I found this to be relatively amusing given the left’s outrage and call for a boycott of the products after the CEO of Goya, Robert Unanue, complimented President Trump — and in less than 30 seconds fired off a tweet with image and the sarcastic wording “The Goya boycott looks like it’s working well.” I was shocked at what happened next.
Sure, the tweet performed well, garnering almost 50,000 likes, but I was fact checked by multiple major publications. A journalist at Business Insider spent hundreds of words attempting to debunk me, someone she identified as a “conservative comic,” which I am. She called Publix and got a statement from their spokesperson, and when the statement didn’t give her the results she wanted, she blamed the pandemic and world’s demand of beans for the signage. USA Today sent a Harvard-educated woman to fact check me, she reached out for comment and I replied to her simply with a tweet of mine saying how ridiculous fact checking me is.
Why are they doing this? Why are they fact checking a comedian, and not necessarily a good one’s tweets?
The left is so convinced that their worldview is correct and that everyone must agree with them that they will now fact check literally anything that disproves that. They want to believe that when their side made the hashtag #BoycottGoya trend, that everyone agreed with them, and my throwaway sarcastic joke of a tweet threatens their narrative. I’ve written extensively before about the left being in their own echo chamber.
The Democratic National Committee and Democratic House leadership pay more attention to retweets and stories from their friends and fans than they do America. It’s why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a thing. The New York-based leftist national media fawned over her because she was young and attractive, then pushed her to the moon on social media for no reason other than the fact that they were fans.
After this cyclical spin room — that required no actual policy or rational thought from her — promoted her, her social media presence grew, and Democratic leadership actually gave her terrible ideas and uninformed thoughts a platform. Remember how the world was ending in 12 years? I think we have 10 left by the way.
AOC isn’t the only example of Democrats thinking everyone agrees with them. Who can forget moving forward with impeachment? Democratic fans in the leftist media declared it the end of Mr. Trump — for what seemed to be the hundredth time — Nancy Pelosi handed out souvenir pens, and no one in America was interested in the show they put on. Ratings flopped as intelligent Americans turned their televisions off, but Democrats believed they had a case because of social media and the coverage they got from their media fans.
So, how far does the delusional thought brought on by the echo chamber go?
Not long ago, USA Today fact checked the design of a Trump campaign shirt, claiming that the eagle they used was the same as a design from Nazi Germany. They never thought to fact check that the design was the same on dozens, if not more items common in American politics now, including Nancy Pelosi’s Speaker of the House logo, because it just didn’t fit the left’s narrative that Mr. Trump is “literally Hitler.”
Perhaps it’s time for the left to take a breath and do a bit of introspection. Hundreds, if not thousands of dollars were wasted over the past few days as editors, assignment editors and journalists have been fact checking the tweet of me, a comedian. I hold no public office; I never claim to be accurate; and I share my opinions, which I attempt to add humor to, for a living.
Imagine being a hard-working journalist waking up in the morning, looking in the mirror and having to convince yourself that by heavily researching a tweet from someone like me, that you’re making a difference in the world. That’s not exactly what happens. What does happen is the journalist wakes up in the morning and because of their indoctrination in leftist politics, they don’t think twice about attempting to debunk a worldview that doesn’t agree with them.
Clearly, everyone thinks the same way they do — the same way their editors do — the same way everyone they follow and who follows them on Twitter do - and the same way everyone else in their bubble does. They’ve convinced themselves that everything else must somehow be a lie.
Spoiler alert — it’s not. Also, you seriously tried to debunk a comedian tweeting about beans — beans!
• Tim Young is a political comedian and author of “I Hate Democrats/I Hate Republicans” (Post Hill Press).
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