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quick thread on how NYT has toasted McConnell's supposed genius for being able to orchestrated a sham impeachment trial.
right after acquittal a team of NYT reporters rushed into a detail what a "master" tactician McConnell was bc he was able to keep GOP from allowing actual trial with witnesses.
nytimes.com/2020/02/06/us/…
Largely ignored is the fact that any stranger off street could have done what McConnell did, which is to urge Republicans to act w/o any honor or ethics. This is a party that's corrupt to its core, but NYT doesn't want to acknowledge that so they pretend, OMG McConnell is amazing
The next day, the NYT followed that up w/ another McConnell puff piece, the entire premise was the GOP loves him. That was the "news" hook. The puff piece included not one quote from a critic assailing the Soviet show trial that McConnell just sponsored.
nytimes.com/2020/02/07/us/…
this is a key reason why the GOP has become so radical and corrupt—bc elite institutions like NYT toast the GOP for acting radical and corrupt.
my column on all this; pressrun.substack.com/p/new-york-tim…
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a thread abt our rule-of-law crisis and what years of the media normalizing Trump's radical behavior means to a democracy; pressrun.substack.com/p/trump-unleas…
this week's WH interference in Roger Stone's sentencing is likely the most blatantly obvious (i.e. public!) act of political corruption in the history of the DOJ. Our AG now acts as Trump's mafia consigliere —his fixer.
If this were any foreign country and a nation's top law enforcement official engaged in blatantly corrupt behavior, the American press corps would loudly call out the corruption as dangerous and anti-democratic.
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it’s a complete charade
if it’s not a charade, DOJ will ask judge to give Stone 100+ months....that will never happen.

these people lie like you and I breath. watch whet why do not what they say
also, Barr’s a crummy actor
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this is awful and untrue; politico.com/news/magazine/…
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the central example used in article is literally invented
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