{"id":1457875,"date":"2022-04-29T09:59:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T13:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1457875"},"modified":"2022-04-29T09:59:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T13:59:39","slug":"trying-to-intentionally-tank-for-the-number-one-pick-in-the-draft-conservatives-rip-bidens-disinformation-governance-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trying-to-intentionally-tank-for-the-number-one-pick-in-the-draft-conservatives-rip-bidens-disinformation-governance-board\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Trying To Intentionally Tank For The Number One Pick In The Draft\u2019: Conservatives Rip Biden\u2019s \u2018Disinformation Governance Board\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrying-to-intentionally-tank-for-the-number-one-pick-in-the-draft-conservatives-rip-bidens-disinformation-governance-board%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1457875&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1240316134.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>After the Biden administration announced that its Department of Homeland Security would create a Disinformation Governance Board, conservatives reacted with fury over the incipient threat to free speech.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of the Disinformation Governance Board by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas came a mere two days after news broke that Elon Musk had purchased Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Republican senators blasted the idea of a Disinformation Governance Board; Florida Senator Marco Rubio (R) released a video on Twitter in which he stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>A lot of people don\u2019t know this yet , but the Department of Homeland Security has just set up a special office that is going to be a speech police. They\u2019re basically going to be focused on misinformation; they announced it yesterday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is under the Department of Homeland Security, so instead of the Department of Homeland Security focused on stopping drugs from coming into America, or securing the border, stopping illegal immigration, they\u2019re not going to be focused on that. They\u2019re focused on policing speech, on making sure that people can\u2019t share information or say things that they decide is misinformation. Guys, it\u2019s time to wake up. If you don\u2019t think these people aren\u2019t coming after free speech, if you don\u2019 think they\u2019re not coming after our freedom, you\u2019d better believe it now.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you didn\u2019t believe these people on the marxist left are coming after your most basic constitutional rights, you better believe it now <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AsB2Jn3aXj\">pic.twitter.com\/AsB2Jn3aXj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcorubio\/status\/1519672533208944640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson (R) issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ronjohnson.senate.gov\/services\/files\/A084441A-EA5C-4B38-B82E-0C83A9CE86CE\">letter<\/a> to Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas, snapping, \u201cThe Biden Administration has not proven itself to be a credible arbiter of \u2018disinformation.\u2019 Instead, it has taken steps to silence information that is unflattering to this Administration under the guise of \u2018disinformation.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that a federal department with approximately 240,000 employees would set up a \u2018Disinformation Governance Board\u2019 to enforce the government\u2019s judgement of what information is allowed in the public square should frighten anyone who values liberty and understands how crucial free speech is in maintaining that liberty,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wispolitics.com\/2022\/u-s-sen-johnson-to-sec-mayorkas-dhs-disinformation-governance-board-executive-director-is-beacon-of-misinformation\/\">told<\/a> The Daily Caller.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) warned, \u201cThis is who the government is trying to put in charge of regulating YOUR speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is who the government is trying to put in charge of regulating YOUR speech. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DEUTJomYKm\">https:\/\/t.co\/DEUTJomYKm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1520015983632691200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/hawley-rips-homeland-security-disinformation-board-policing-free-speech-protecting-border\">fired<\/a>, \u201cI confess, I at first thought this announcement was satire. Surely, no American administration would ever use the power of government to sit in judgment on the First Amendment speech of its own citizens. Sadly, I was mistaken. Rather than protecting our border or the American homeland, you have chosen to make policing Americans\u2019 speech your priority. This new board is most certainly unconstitutional and should be dissolved immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other conservative figures chimed in as well; Chuck Woolery opined, \u201cDemocrats who make their living and hold on to power with misinformation have created the department of Misinformation? So you can know the unvarnished truth. Finally we can trust what we hear,\u00a0 not what you see everyday with your own eyes. Take comfort, this will backfire.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Democrats who make their living and hold on to power with misinformation have created the department of Misinformation? So you can know the unvarnished truth. Finally we can trust what we hear,  not what you see everyday with your own eyes. Take comfort, this will backfire.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Woolery (@chuckwoolery) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chuckwoolery\/status\/1519716003466387467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sports maven Clay Travis, noting the seemingly incessant actions by the Biden administration that have torpedoed President Biden\u2019s his popularity, quipped, \u201cIt feels like the Biden administration is trying to intentionally tank for the number one pick in the draft.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Home run <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nypost<\/a> cover today. It feels like the Biden administration is trying to intentionally tank for the number one pick in the draft. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y1V7SHHS4o\">pic.twitter.com\/Y1V7SHHS4o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClayTravis\/status\/1520013815651393536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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