Remember
when
being
the
attorney
general
of
a
state
was
a
real
job
that
involved
actual
law?
Well,
take
your
Metamucil,
Grandpa,
because
those
days
are
over.
Now
it’s
all
about
ownin’
the
libs.
Here’s
Missouri
Attorney
General
Andrew
Bailey
doing
his
“job”
yesterday
on
air
with
plagiarist
shitposter
Benny
Johnson.
AG
Bailey
was
there
to
talk
up
his
spiffy
new
lawsuit
against
Media
Matters
for
America
(MMFA),
who
violated
that
statute
that
bars
hurting
Elon
Musk’s
feelings.
See,
MMFA
made
new
Twitter
accounts,
followed
a
bunch
of
Nazis,
and
blocked
the
low
rent
ads
that
populate
most
of
our
feeds.
This
had
the
entirely
predictable
effect
of
generating
ads
for
major
companies
next
to
explicitly
pro-Nazi
content
—
something
Elon
Musk’s
pain
sponge
Twitter
CEO
Linda
Yaccarino
had
assured
advertisers
they’d
be
“protected
from”
under
her
stewardship.
Musk
lost
his
shit,
promising
to
file
a
“thermonuclear
lawsuit”
against
MMFA
and
all
its
donors.
The
result
was
more
like
a
wet
fart,
as
the
Nevada
company
shambled
into
federal
court
in
Fort
Worth
demanding
redress
against
the
DC
media
outlet
for
a
bunch
of
gobbledygook
torts
which
are
definitely
not
defamation.
After
a
little
prodding
from
Trump’s
racism
czar
Stephen
Miller,
Bailey
and
Texas
AG
Ken
Paxton
jumped
forward
to
defend
their
favorite
damsel
in
distress.
Paxton
was
apparently
quicker
on
the
draw
dropping
a
demand
for
data
on
MMFA,
which
was
met
with
a
motion
for
a
temporary
restraining
order
filed
in
federal
court
in
DC.
But
Andy
Bailey
isn’t
going
to
wait
for
some
coastal
elite
judge
to
tell
him
what
to
do, no
sir!
Instead,
he
filed
his
subpoena
on
MMFA
simultaneously
with
the
petition
to
enforce
it
in
the
Circuit
Court
of
Cole
County.
So
on
Monday,
March
25,
he
demanded
the
names,
addresses,
and
banking
information
of
every
MMFA
donor
in
Missouri.
And
at
the
very
same
time,
he
marched
into
court
and
asked
a
state
judge
to
issue
a
compliance
order
before
MMFA
could
seek
a
TRO
from
a
federal
court.
18.
The
return
date
to
produce
all
requested
documentation
and
information
and
submit
the
Certification
of
Compliance
to
the
Attorney
General’s
Office
is
no
later
than
10:00
a.m.
April
15,
2024.19.
Media
Matters
has
expressed
its
intent
not
to
comply
with
CIDs
like
this
one.20.
For
example,
the
State
of
Texas
served
on
Media
Matters
a
virtually
identical
civil
investigative
demand
in
December
of
2023,
which
Media
Matters
refused
to
comply
with
and
instead
filed
a
lawsuit
to
block
compliance
and
disclosure
of
information
and
materials.
See
Exhibit
3
(Texas
CID);
Exhibit
4
(Media
Matters
complaint);
see
generally
Media
Matters
for
America,
et
al.
v.
Paxton,
1:24-cv-00147-APM
(United
States
District
Court
for
the
District
of
Columbia).
MMFA
isn’t
even
out
of
compliance
with
the
subpoena,
which
has
a
return
date
of
April
15.
Nevertheless,
Bailey
insists
that
“Media
Matters
has
failed
or
will
fail
to
comply
… as
it
has
expressed
that
it
will
not
comply
with
similar
investigative
demands,”
and
thus
he’s
entitled
to
an
immediate
enforcement
order.
The
petition
is
otherwise
barely
passable
as
performance
art:
Media
Matters,
a
self-styled
not-for-profit
“progressive
research
and
information
center,”
envisions
itself
monitoring,
analyzing,
and
correcting
“conservative
misinformation”
in
the
U.S.
media.
In
fact,
this
description
falls
far
short
of
reality
for
this
political
activist
organization.
Instead,
rather
than
passively
“monitoring,”
Media
Matters
has
used
fraud
to
solicit
donations
from
Missourians
in
order
to
trick
advertisers
into
removing
their
advertisements
from
X,
formerly
Twitter,
one
of
the
last
platforms
dedicated
to
free
speech
in
America.Media
Matters
has
pursued
an
activist
agenda
in
its
attempt
to
destroy
X,
because
they
cannot
control
it.
And
because
they
cannot
control
it,
or
the
free
speech
platform
it
provides
to
Missourians
to
express
their
own
viewpoints
in
the
public
square,
the
radical
“progressives”
at
Media
Matters
have
resorted
to
fraud
to,
as
Benjamin
Franklin
once
said,
mark
X
“for
the
odium
of
the
public,
as
an
enemy
to
the
liberty
of
the
press.”
Missourians
will
not
be
manipulated
by
“progressive”
activists
masquerading
as
news
outlets,
and
they
will
not
be
defrauded
in
the
process.
Well
…
those
are
all
words.
They
don’t
have
anything
to
do
with
the
law
or
due
process,
but
they
do
demonstrate
AG
Bailey’s
red
meat
bona
fides
and
suck
up
to
Elon
Musk.
So,
job
well
done,
sir.
Nailed
it!
Liz
Dye lives
in
Baltimore
where
she
produces
the
Law
and
Chaos substack and podcast.