.MaddowBlog: Pretending to be outraged, Republicans are rejecting White House nominees over mean tweets. Where were these concerns during the Trump era?
By any sensible measure, Emory professor Deborah Lipstadt, President Joe Biden's nominee to serve as the U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, is an excellent choice., Lipstadt's record leaves little doubt about her qualifications: The scholar has, among other things, published several books on anti-Semitism and advised the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
And yet, Senate Republicans have refused to let her nomination advance — not because of her qualifications, but because Lipstadt Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee tasked with evaluating her nomination.Republicans angling to stymie President Joe Biden's tech and telecom agenda are turning to an increasingly familiar tactic — dredging up his nominees' mean tweets.
Gigi Sohn, the White House's choice to serve on the Federal Communications Commission, has published tweets critical of media outlets aligned with Republican politics, describing Fox News, for example, as being"
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