Share this page!

Glenn Greenwald Profile picture
Twitter logo
14 Feb, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Is there any evidence at all that this statement from President Biden is true? Does it matter?

On the left: @CNN, Feb. 2

On the right, @propublica, Jan. 8
Amazing: the NYT just quietly appended this so-called "update" - which is really a correction if not a retraction - to its Jan 8 article about Officer Sicknick's death.

This is the article that caused the media to spend a full month spreading the false "fire extinguisher" tale:
The NYT is withdrawing its original story in the slimiest and least informative way -- no Editors' Note, no explanation of how it got this wrong -- because it knows its readers (Dems) don't care about the truth. They liked the fire extinguisher story:

nytimes.com/2021/01/08/us/…
If you think that's hyperbole about how Dems think - that they desperately want to be fed politically pleasing Fake News - check the rage under any tweet of mine (including these) that points out that original story was 100% false & nobody knows how or why Sicknick actually died.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @ggreenwald

Glenn Greenwald Profile picture
15 Feb
There are increasing bipartisan demands that the Department of Homeland Security - controversially created after 9/11 and that has been the source of many civil liberties assaults - now be directed primarily to domestic threats.

washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Tom Ridge, the first Bush/Cheney DHS Secretary, makes a cameo appearance urging that it be unleashed domestically. Also, his notorious color codes have been re-activated in a slightly less adolescent form and are now being used to flag domestic threats.
Leftist activist who dislikes Trump and Biden was arrested by the FBI after they decided that his social media posts show he was on a “path toward radicalization.” The magistrate agreed, ordering him held without bail.

washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02…
Read 5 tweets
Glenn Greenwald Profile picture
15 Feb
So many of these types of dramas are driven overwhelmingly by dynamics of class, yet those are rarely highlighted because it's not in the interests of those who control the discourse to highlight them.

People who went to $60k/year prep schools so often play a starring role:
And by "falsely," @lhfang obviously wasn't suggesting that the extremely rich teenager who was McNeil's primary accuser conveyed his statements inaccurately -- although McNeil suggests that -- but he was expressing his view that these statements don't make McNeil a racist.
The interaction between class, newsrooms and journalist unions was discussed last week by @aaronsibarium. Beyond the data he cites, this absolutely tracks my own knowledge of who is in these newsrooms as well as how The Intercept's Union functioned.

freebeacon.com/media/union-or… Image
Read 4 tweets
Glenn Greenwald Profile picture
15 Feb
The description by @benyt of the NYT’s current model & future trajectory — “beholden to the views of left-leaning subscribers” that “may yet push it into a narrower and more left-wing political lane”: a US version of the Guardian — seems true & important.

nytimes.com/2021/02/14/bus… Image
Most corporate media — for both ideological and financial reasons — has become an indistinguishable mass of liberal orthodoxies, incapable and unwilling to publish much that challenges let alone offends standard establishment liberal sensibilities.
I don't understand the controversy around @benyt's observation that the NYT is "more beholden to the views of left-leaning subscribers" & that will worsen.

The NYT is overwhelmingly read by Dems. That's who pays the subscriptions. People at the paper know this & hire accordingly Image
Read 4 tweets
Glenn Greenwald Profile picture
12 Feb
The Lincoln Project, Facing Multiple Scandals, is Accused by its Own Co-Founder of Likely Criminality

greenwald.substack.com/p/the-lincoln-…
Liberals heralded this group of life-long scammers, sleaze merchants and con artists as noble men of conscience, enabling them to fleece and deceive the public.
It is difficult to imagine a scenario under which @ProjectLincoln and those who participated in this breach did not violate federal law, which is presumably why Conway, a careful and accomplished litigator, barely caveated his accusation against this notoriously litigious group:
Read 10 tweets
Glenn Greenwald Profile picture
12 Feb
Compare the flamboyant vow publicly made on Inauguration Day by Biden to the very different reality just three weeks later:

Read 4 tweets
Glenn Greenwald Profile picture
12 Feb
CNN put Andrew Cuomo on their airwaves repeatedly with his brother so that the Governor could be heralded -- by his own brother, a CNN host -- as the Brave, Honest Leader that the country needed. Meanwhile:
While Gov. Cuomo was concealing COVID data and causing massive deaths in nursing homes, this is what Democratic Party journalists were saying on TV in praising and heralding Cuomo. Just watch and decide for yourself if they deserve your trust (video compiled by @DailyCaller):
Apologies - compiled by @newsbusters
Read 5 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @ggreenwald has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @ggreenwald!

Read all threads by @ggreenwald