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by kristopolous 1910 days ago
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