Since the Intercept is *still* whining about how journalists objected to their abuse of a huge archive of private data on Gab users they got -- claiming we (and me) "lied" -- here's their own description, when begging for donations, of their intentions to target private people:
I'm not on the Intercept's email list (sadly). I learned of this horrific email when an ex-Intercept editor forwarded it to me, furious they were acting like the NSA/FBI: violating privacy, not protecting it.

And here's @mtaibbi on what they're doing:

taibbi.substack.com/p/reporters-on…
It's an ongoing pathology in liberal journalism. They think they can do whatever they want to people: make 20-minute films of their faces, baselessly accuse them of grave crimes, dig through their personal data.

But nobody can criticize *them* because doing so "endangers" them.
I should add that every time The Intercept lies about me, I get gross & threatening emails and tweets. I just don't whine about it when it happens because I understand what real dangers from reporting are, and it's not that.

Nobody will tolerate journalists' double standards.

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19 May
Biden, Reversing Trump, Permits a Key Putin Goal: a New Russian Natural Gas Pipeline to Germany

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That Trump was controlled by Putin and served his agenda was the opposite of reality. First Obama, and now Biden, have accommodated Moscow far more. ImageImage
Obama’s “meekness” when it came to Putin was a common line of attack from both parties and the foreign policy pundit class.

Meanwhile, Trump reversed almost every one of those accommodations toward Moscow, yet the demented conspiracy theory of Trump as Kremlin asset remained.
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For the last year, anyone questioning let alone rejecting CDC/WHO guidance on COVID was vilified as an anti-science crank, to the point of being censored off the internet.

Yet it's now totally common for liberals with no scientific training to go on TV & reject new CDC guidance:
All "consensus" should be subject to questioning and dispute. There's nothing wrong with doing it.

But for most of the COVID pandemic, it wasn't allowed - certainly not culturally, and often at all. It's only allowed now that liberals don't like the new CDC guidance on masks.
If someone like @morningmika or @maddow or whoever wants to keep wearing masks, that is their right. I have no interest in critiquing that choice.

But if you go on TV and keep defending that choice, it is 100% an anti-vax message: you don't believe the vaccine really works.
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It's hard to overstate how severely the audience for MSNBC has collapsed with Trump gone. For the key demographic of 25-54, they barely can get 150,000 to watch even their prime time shows (outside of Maddow). More people watch a YouTube show.

adweek.com/tvnewser/thurs…
CNN's problems are a little different but just as bad. For their prime-time shows, they can barely get 1 million people *total* to watch, including all the old people who make up the vast bulk of cable news watchers for the two liberal networks. Look at this:
Liberal media outlets were dying before Trump came along. He was like some artificial 5-year sugar high that saved all their jobs. But now that he's gone, they're doing as badly as digital liberal media, with *zero* self-critique or attempt to figure out why.
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This isn't some isolated incident of liberal paranoia and bloodthirsty desire to destroy someone's reputation over nothing. It spread among so many Jeopardy alumni because this is the prevailing ethos in liberal culture: on campuses, in newsrooms, in corporations & HR Depts:
Speaking of this sickness and rot at the heart of liberal culture, here's @JamaalBowmanNY candidly admitting he "sometimes regrets" having withdrawn his support for NY Mayoral candidate Scott Stringer based on a single completely unproven accusation:

Credit to Rep. Bowman for acknowledging this, but this is a crazed pathology in liberal culture. They will brand people like Scott Stringer (or whoever) as sexual predators and destroy their reputations for life with zero evidence. It's pernicious.

greenwald.substack.com/p/the-left-con…
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For Republicans who are pro-Israel: you don't need to worry at all about the posture of the US Govt here. Biden for decades has been one of the most pro-Israel politicians in the country & will fully support the Israeli attacks, as Obama did in 2014.

timesofisrael.com/obama-urges-is…
In 2014, Obama did make noise about concerns over the number of civilians being killed in Gaza and was also concerned about a ground invasion, but was still steadfast in his support for Israel. Biden is vastly more pro-Israel with a much longer record.
Here's the person who is in charge (nominally) of the US Government right now. If you're pro-Israel, the absolute last thing you need to worry about is whether the US Govt under him will fully support everything Israel does: with money, tech, weapons, and rhetoric. You're good.
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At some point, journalists are going to need consistent, universally applicable standards that answer this:

Why is it OK to use a billionaire's money to produce a video attacking reporters @Julio_Rosas11 & @VenturaReport, but it's immoral to criticize NYT & Intercept writers?
My view is very clear: any journalist who enters the public discourse and tries to influence political debates is fair game for criticism.

But you can't have a double standard where liberal journalists are sacred & untouchable and only non-liberal journalists can be attacked.
Put another way: if you produce a 20 minute video that has no point but to attack working-class journalists of color who cover a dangerous and violent group that routinely assault reporters, you don't get to whine and self-victimize when people criticize how you did it.
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