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24 Feb, 14 tweets, 8 min read
Pack journalism is when lazy journalists with an agenda send out the same false narrative without any independent reporting or thinking.

@SenRonJohnson read my article into the record. It never said "fake Trump supporters" were behhind the Capitol riot. thefederalist.com/2021/01/14/i-s…
2) Here's a string of pack journalism. Each one of these articles promotes the same falsehood that @SenRonJohnson pushed a "conspiracy theory" about "fake Trump supporters." nydailynews.com/news/politics/…
3) Fake story by @AaronBlake at the Washington Post. Same pack journalism. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
4) Fake story by @MEPFuller in Buzzfeed. Same pack journalism. huffpost.com/entry/ron-john…
5) Fake story by @DavidGoldiner of the NY Daily News winds up in the Seattle Times. seattletimes.com/nation-world/n…
6) Fake tweet by Aaron Rupar of Buzzfeed, with same false story.
7) Fake story by @ChrisCillizza of CNN, who shows that he didn't even read my article about which he opines. cnn.com/2021/02/23/pol…
8) Fake story by the dubious @Haley_Victory of @dcexaminer, using the same false story line. washingtonexaminer.com/news/johnson-a…
9) Fake story by "veteran Democratic wonk" @ed_kilgore in New York mag, citing the Southern Poverty Law Center to slam yours truly. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
10) Ed Kilgore cribbed from @nia_prater who thinks the Southern Poverty Law Center is a credible organization and wrote a similarly fake, misleading item in New York mag. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
11) The Boston Globe's @amandakauf1 and @CPrignano flat-out lie that my article blamed "fake Trump supporters" for the January 6 raid on the Capitol. @SenRonJohnson never made such a claim, either. They didn't read the article they cited. bostonglobe.com/2021/02/23/nat…
12) More false narratives are being cranked out to trash @SenRonJohnson for disrupting the impeachment narrative.

The senator accurately cited my article as saying that I saw four types of provocateurs, only one of which was fake Trump protesters. thefederalist.com/2021/01/14/i-s…
13) I couldn't have been more clear in my @FDRLST article.

From what I saw of the "fake Trump protesters," "that entire afternoon I saw none of them act aggressively or cause any problems."

All the above reports say exactly the opposite. thefederalist.com/2021/01/14/i-s…
Sorry. Wasn't Buzzfeed. It was worse.

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The House leadership just announced that Rep. Barbara Lee will be in charge of the State Department budget.

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This is like putting a Cuban or Russian agent in charge of the US State Department budget.
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1) @TulsiGabbard on anti-terror bill

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Ditto for @SenMarkey, who was a congressman at the time. Markey defended a convicted Soviet spy, yet accused his political opponents of colluding with Russia. rfc.org/sites/default/…
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