{"id":1784796,"date":"2022-12-23T09:04:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T14:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1784796"},"modified":"2022-12-23T09:04:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T14:04:53","slug":"2022-man-of-the-year-rahul-ligma-and-daniel-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2022-man-of-the-year-rahul-ligma-and-daniel-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Man Of The Year: Rahul Ligma and Daniel Johnson"},"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\">20<\/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%2F2022-man-of-the-year-rahul-ligma-and-daniel-johnson%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=1784796&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FhoePCRUAAA1WLG_735x515.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Humiliating the press is one of the United States\u2019 greatest traditions. Since the nation\u2019s founding, intelligent and upstanding men have attacked journalists as annoying nerds unconcerned with truth. As Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1807, &#8220;Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So when Rahul Ligma and Daniel Johnson fooled reporters into believing they were real Twitter employees who were fired by <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/the-bird-is-freed-elon-musk-takes-over-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a>, the two cemented their statuses as <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> Men of the Year. Desperate to write sob stories about good liberals losing $300,000 a year salaries, reporters who wrote about the toils of poor Ligma and Johnson were instead revealed as the lazy partisans they are.<\/p>\n<p>The con was ingenious, but not elaborate: The two stood outside Twitter\u2019s San Francisco headquarters carrying cardboard boxes and\u2014according to CNBC&#8217;s Dierdre Bosa\u2014looking &#8220;visibly shaken&#8221; by their dismissals. They identified themselves as &#8220;Rahul Ligma&#8221; and &#8220;Daniel Johnson,&#8221; references to genitalia. We\u2019ll let you Google the rest.<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t take a rocket scientist to figure out what was going on. Ligma, wearing bike shorts and an earth-toned Patagonia jackets and holding a copy of Michelle Obama\u2019s memoir in a cardboard box, said the Obamas wouldn\u2019t have had Musk owned Twitter in 2008. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o5adRpUarXk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">distraught Johnson<\/a> said he had to go home &#8220;to touch base with my husband and wife.&#8221;<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>CNBC, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/28\/pranksters-posing-as-laid-off-twitter-employees-trick-media-outlets\/\">along with reporters<\/a> at Bloomberg and NBC, fell for the bit only to run humiliating corrections later. Their credulousness served as a reminder that reporters are often lazy and stupid and we thank Ligma and Johnson for their public service.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn\u2019t know how he\u2019s going to make payments,&#8221; Bosa wrote in a now-deleted Tweet after falling for the prank.<\/p>\n<p>Ligma and Johnson\u2019s success won them praise from Musk himself\u2014the billionaire even <a href=\"https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/60fe0aa24a8092d0fab4f64c2aa34e7aca051205?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Felonmusk%2Fstatus%2F1592618665933156352&#038;userId=6348687&#038;signature=8606b3c46306c3f2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pretended<\/a> to hire them back.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcoming back Ligma &#038; Johnson! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LEhXV95Njj\">pic.twitter.com\/LEhXV95Njj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1592618665933156352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And of course, the gullible media class fell for that too. Socialist commentator Briahna Joy Gray, a full month after everyone already issued their corrections, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=131DTJRZG0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> the picture of Musk with the two was Musk admitting his mistake.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Although Ligma and Johnson\u2019s true identities remain a mystery, the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> managed to contact them. Sources tell us both men have been preoccupied with tending to their harems and counting money since the prank. Ligma was described by a close associate as &#8220;a beast&#8221; and &#8220;a true force of nature.&#8221; The <em>Free Beacon<\/em> couldn\u2019t agree more.<\/p>\n<p>As for Johnson, he is handling his Man of the Year award with grace. After he was notified of the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/men-of-the-year\/2021-man-of-the-year-dem-who-spent-campaign-cash-at-strip-club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">other<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/men-of-the-year\/2020-man-of-the-year-guy-who-shocked-lib-with-electrified-trump-sign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">great<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/men-of-the-year\/2020-man-of-the-year-the-baboon-who-fled-his-vasectomy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">men<\/a> who have received the honor, Johnson said these were the sort of &#8220;men I\u2019ve looked up to my whole life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be among them, I\u2019m honestly speechless,&#8221; Johnson continued. &#8220;I got here just by carrying a box. Literally anything can happen in America. And you can quote me on that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humiliating the press is one of the United States\u2019 greatest traditions. Since the nation\u2019s founding, intelligent and upstanding men have attacked journalists as annoying nerds unconcerned with truth. As Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1807, &#8220;Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe post 2022 Man Of The Year: Rahul Ligma and Daniel Johnson appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":1784799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[8499,6962,3990,10847,4092,8488,4089,4162,11387,11386,5734],"class_list":["post-1784796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-man","tag-the","tag-3990","tag-and","tag-beacon","tag-daniel","tag-free","tag-johnson","tag-ligma","tag-rahul","tag-year"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1784799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}