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What many derided as "Sicknick trutherism" -- the idea that Brian Sicknick, the Capitol police officer who died the day after the Jan. 6 riot, wasn't murdered as initially reported -- is now vindicated by the ME's report. I was among many journalists who were wrong.
Does this vindicate Glenn Greenwald's claim that the media deliberately lied about Sicknick's death? Not quite.
And here's how Greenwald distorts a New York Times story on Sicknick's death. ("Struck with a fire extinguisher" becomes "skull savagely bashed in.")
Meanwhile Greenwald is still praising Revolver News for its Sicknick reportage, without acknowledging its ludicrously sanitized portrayal of the riot.
Incidentally, Tucker Carlson, on whose show Greenwald has appeared to discuss the Sicknick story, is also pushing full-on Jan. 6 apologism, ignoring ample evidence of serious mob violence and injuries to nearly 140 cops.
Has there been bad rhetoric and hypocrisy on this from Democrats and progressives? Sure. That doesn't excuse bad rhetoric and hypocrisy on the right or the maverick left.
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