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24 Jan, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Times fires editor for having political views
And of course it was Greenwald who first amplified the "offending" tweet, because be can't fathom anyone having a sense of relief about the candidate he preferred being defeated
It wasn't even a pro-Biden tweet, it was a pro-peaceful transition of power tweet! How can you possibly cave to this bad faith bullshit
For people who didn't see it, this is the anodyne tweet that caused Greenwald to absolutely lose his shit, leading to an editor getting harassed by Glenn's fellow Trump supporters and fired by her cowardly bosses:
Needless to say Glenn preemptively complaining about coverage being insufficiently adversarial is textbook protesting-too-much

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As Chotiner suggests, a big problem is that people defending the "Overton Window" don't seem to understand what the theory is. Advocating to move policy in your direction per se isn't the "Overton Window," unless your stated endpoint is DELIBERATELY crazy and unrealistic
The core fallacy of the Overton Window is its implicit assumption that in politics the other side has to meet you halfway and can't just walk away, and the problem in most cases is that this transparently false
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