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by snicksnak 1910 days ago
Pretty wild list of misrepresentations you have there, your points about Greenwald are downright slanderous.

> Greenwald More Recently has been on shows of hard right people like Tucker Carlson

He goes on his show because the other outlets are not interested in his topics and therefor won't have him on, probably because they are too busy spouting conspiracy theories about russia. He always says this: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-greenwald-defends-going-on...

> Intercept because they refused to publish conspiracy theories about Joe Biden right before the 2020 election

That's a news worthy story, especially because they did not deny it, which is basically admitting it. They censored the whole story and even lock the new york post out of their twitter account for reporting on it.

> Here he basically says January 6 was a bunch of peaceful protestors misrepresented as violent,

That's not what the article is about, it's about how the media pushed fake news about the event, most egregiously the death of the officer.

> And here he is suggesting vote counting misconducts

again that's not what the article is about, it's about the US inability to count the votes, which takes literally months.

> And here he says you know who the "actual fascist" are? Facebook and Joe Biden

I disagree, He just points out that how the Silicon Valley - Biden/Harris axis will pursue down the path of censorship. I think this was a correct analysis, just watch friday's hearing.

> "don't trust the mainstream media, Trump is amazing"

the former is true, the latter couldn't be further from the truth.

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He selectively reports and focuses on things that support a conclusion that Trump is amazing, the rise of fascism is real but it's actually from groups like liberals and the CDC, and anything telling you otherwise is a liar.

For instance, he focuses on where the guy got the zip ties but totally ignores the constructed gallows on the lawn or that a guy in military fatigues literally broke into the capitol.

He focuses on the fire hydrant event but totally ignores all the pipe bombs

He's selectively painting a narrative. It's called apologetics.

People have been doing it for centuries. Here's an article from counterpunch https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/30/what-happened-to-gle...

He's super excited about essentially a form of right wing National Socialism, literally what Nazi meant. I'm not kidding https://www.mediaite.com/politics/glenn-greenwald-describes-... ... He thinks it's j-kewl awesome.

He could be reporting anything but it's constantly excuses for right wing terrorists and fanning the flames of conspiracies.

He's free to do it but it's quite literally just propaganda dolled up to pretend it's journalism which is why the only news organization paying him these days is Fox News.

Think about that

Greenwald has always had some right wing views, here he is in 2005 https://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2005/12/yelling-racist-a... but now he's all in.

It's a shame but let's not deny reality here. Some people got pilled, even Glen Greenwald. Fascism is pernicious. Look here for an example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave_(experiment) - it's required study in German schools for a reason