Hey @CNN: everything about this piece must be changed immediately. You give the impression DOJ has reopened a probe into *Clinton*—when Barr's lackeys confirmed the FBI was *right* to close that case. *This* is a probe into how the *FBI* handled that case. cnn.com/2020/09/24/pol…
PS/ Given that the fraudulent reopening of the Clinton case in October 2016—compelled by illegal extortionate threats by Trump's agents—swung the 2016 election, how dare CNN leave the impression, via image and text, *weeks before the 2020 vote*, that Clinton is under probe again?
PS2/ Here's the first paragraph of Chapter 6 of PROOF OF CORRUPTION. Anyone can readily confirm that John Huber found *nothing* amiss at the Clinton Foundation. If Barr wants to investigate how the FBI handled that case, OK. It has *nothing* to do with Clinton. Shame on you, CNN.
PS3/ Look at the headline: "Prosecutor tapped by Barr to investigate Russia probe is now looking into Clinton Foundation." CNN and the NYT just ran a political commercial for Trump that'll amp up his voters, as now they *wrongly* think the Clinton Foundation is under probe again.
PS4/ Instead of just reporting the news—"Barr Asks Durham to Compare Clinton and Trump Probes for Signs of Bias, Despite Prior Finding By DOJ IG Horowitz That No Such Bias Existed"—@CNN and @nytimes have falsely implied there are new facts to probe in the Clinton Foundation case.
PS5/ If you doubt what a solid CNN/the NYT just did for Trump *when they should be reporting on the Trump coup plot*, imagine the political impact it would've had if Barr had announced "We're investigating Clinton!" But he wouldn't have dared. CNN/the NYT just gave that to Trump.
PS6/ I'm so angry right now. John Huber—*under Barr*—*cleared* the Clinton Foundation. Want to know the first time Huber's name appears in the @nytimes article on Barr having Durham probe *FBI* actions in that case? *The second-to-last paragraph*. This is *terrible* journalism.
PS7/ Now "Clinton Foundation" is trending, everyone *wrongly* thinks Clinton is under investigation again, it's weeks before the 2020 election, these same errors cost Democrats the 2016 election, #TrumpCoupPlot should be everywhere and isn't, and all because the *NYT screwed up*.
PS8/ Meanwhile, anyone who read Proof of Corruption is—once again—ahead of the news, as readers of the Proof series *know* John Huber looked at the Clinton Foundation for years and found *nothing*. Want to know who wants this topic back in the news? You guessed it: the Kremlin.
PS9/ The Kremlin spent years spreading conspiracy theories about the Clinton Foundation, but after Sessions and Barr lackey Huber found *nothing*, the Kremlin thought that gambit was over. But NYT, CNN, and others just did Putin a solid by falsely reporting the issue an open one.
PS10/ All this on a day when the *only* news focused on should have been that Trump is plotting a coup of our government if he loses the election. Instead, we get "trending" what is effectively a Trump-Kremlin infomercial for Trump's re-election. Again: I am *so* angry right now.
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(THREAD) I keep telling you guys Elon is obsessed with me; folks keep doubting it. He reads everything I write and will continue to.
Here he *fails* to reply to the query I *and all U.S. media* have been asking: why isn’t he remotely turning off this Tesla ToS-violative vehicle?
1/ First things first: am I offended Elon called me retarded? Of course not! I’ve already told Elon—here on Twitter—that I’m a metamodernist, so I include any insult he throws at me in both my professional and Twitter bio. It’s gold and I thank him for it. sethabramson.net/bio
2/ Since Elon is—per usual—being deliberately obtuse, per usual because he doesn’t respect anyone’s intelligence but his own and therefore sees fit to insult the intelligence of all of us daily, I’ll try to reiterate for you all (not Elon) what he’s pretending not to understand.
I’ve no opinion on Palmer Luckey—I’m not part of Big Tech and don’t pretend to be—but as a retired journalism professor I’ll agree that major media is broken, especially fact-checking and correction protocols.
I’ll also say that every present alternative is *considerably* worse.
What con men like Elon Musk do is attack major media, then falsely imply there’s a better alternative—and of course the supposed better alternative is a product of theirs they profit from.
In truth, Twitter is mostly an information sewer. It’s far more broken than major media.
But Seth! You attack major media all the time!
Yes—I do.
That’s for two reasons: I’m engaged in a different type of journalism than major media (curatorial journalism), and I *do* act more responsibly regarding corrections than major media does. (Also, I admit my limitations.)
Sorry, can someone explain to me the *non-racist* reason a person would *deliberately mispronounce* the name of the Vice President of the United States?
I got nothing.
I get it—the Drumpfs were ashamed of their heritage, so they created a fake name to use in commerce, aiming to convince rubes they weren’t immigrants. Fine—we can *pretend* his name isn’t Donald Drumpf. But if Kamala has the self-respect to not do like the Drumpfs, why attack it?
My family was Avramovich when we came from Russia. Immigration officials put it down as Abramson, so we became that—similar things happened to other immigrants. The Drumpfs were *ashamed* of who they were, so they created a fake name.
1/ This is a work of curatorial journalism. It features dozens and dozens of links that take readers from a bird’s-eye view to a granulated one and back, offering a clear and coherent and fully sourced narrative that connects all the major-media sources present.
2/ There are individual *sentences* in this report that contain information I know most Americans don’t have. For instance, were you aware that some of Trump’s closest allies and advisers are now telling reporters that Trump is suffering from PTSD? Like literally has a condition?
(📣) Major media refuses to report on this video, which in one shot decimates every false claim Trump plans to make to overturn the 2024 election. He says he—not Democrats—pushed out Biden; says he knows Harris will take over; says that's to his *benefit*.
(PS) Major media *knows* that Donald Trump plans to—as Vanity Fair now reports—claim in November that the Democratic Party pushed out Biden because they planned a surprise attack on him all along, and that Harris being the nominee hurt him. But they *know* this July video exists.
(PS2) So someone *explain* why this plot by Trump isn’t being fact-checked by media. Trump admits the debate caused Biden to become a nonviable candidate, *takes credit* for that, and *celebrates* how much better for him it is that Harris is the nominee. Now he says the opposite.
I think the way Big Dem and especially major media handled the situation was wrong. Things were said about Biden and the race that were untrue. That bothered me as a journalist and small-d democrat. But *yes*—I got wrong what the response to Harris would be, and am glad for that.
I'm thrilled to be wrong when the result is good for the country. I'm fine with being wrong when I can stand by my basis for being so. In July, America saw the worst journalism about a U.S. president we've seen in my lifetime. I do not regret speaking up and being angry about it.
OTOH, I in no way foresaw the strength of the response to Harris. I gladly admit that. I only object to those who imply it is because I have a problem with Harris. I wanted her as the VP for Biden from the jump, and was stunned when her own presidential aspirations stalled early.