Really really "odd" behavior from our political media, where they're practically salivating at writing out of context GOP attack ads, rather than actually informing people of the context of the statement (raising taxes only on people making over $400k).
There's literally no universe where reporting on how epic 'you didn't build that' is going to be, instead of giving the full quote is doing a journalistic service. It just seems like the 'mainstream' political media sees it as their job to launder GOP bad faith talking points.
It's far from the first time. They really do seem to feel like it's their job to 'savvily' (and gleefully) think up GOP attack ads.
All of the political journalists who got 2016 the most wrong, who never once apologized for absolutely blowing the election's biggest story, all fell up with promotions & big book deals (Haberman, Vogel, Linskey, etc).
She was one of the worst. But got promoted to WaPo, because there is no penalty for getting something drastically wrong about Dems. In fact, all your colleagues circle the wagons and praises you for it.
Glenn Greenwald's immediate response to a rise in anti-Asian hate crimes, following a mass shooting that left 8 people dead, is to immediately defend white supremacists because that's who he is. Even by his standards, this is sick.
And it has nothing to do with contrarianism or defending people's 'rights'. Glenn (along with his buddy Tucker) identifies with & sees white supremacists as allies. He always has. It's why he's always defending them. It's why he never, ever has a critical word for them.
And it's why he sees Steve Bannon as a partner in his quest to own the Libs. No one with his stated values would ever do this. But that's because Glenn's stated values are just complete bullshit. None of that is what actually motivates any of his behavior.
"Hey I just want 1 person who's been 'on' the ACA (not sure he really knows what the ACA is but anyways) to tell me their experience"
*everyone responds w examples*
*instantly blocks everyone responding*
Definitely one of the more pathetic showings i've seen on here in a while.
Lest you think it was just me he did this to...
And then he proceeded to have a total meltdown bc again, people answered the question he asked & he didn't like it bc it pierced his narrative bubble.
Has you know who flipped his shit over this or is he still tweeting about Taylor Lorenz & defending his buddy Tucker?
Just pathetic. Not even vaguely interesting. Like a drunk guy sitting on a street corner, rocking back and forth repeating the same thing over & over...for 5 years now. Sad.
Wow, did you see this @ggreenwald? I know you wouldn't want to miss this, as you've staked your extremely good reputation on it, so you will probably want to comment on this. Glenn Greenwald.
His response is going to be something like, "there is STILL no evidence that he was bashed over the head with a fire extinguisher, which has become a liberal piety, further proving that they did not murder him, he just died the next day from natural causes'
OK, sometimes "mistakes" are made. This is a huge one. Will be there be any self-critique?
They've already tried to make "Joe goes home to Delaware" more of a thing than they did Mar A Lago. They fully accepted that "Winter White House" bullshit.
A 1.9T covid relief package should be a huge cause for celebration for anyone who believes that govt should help vulnerable people, especially during covid. But people like Katie have built their entire worldview & podcast incoe stream on "Dems bad", so rather than celebrate,
they're miserable and picking nits about some headline for their patreon viewer-base to get all riled up about because "Lib'rul media bias." Sad.