Thread by @ggreenwald

Can anyone imagine a US corporate journalist screaming at Biden: "Why do you fear Assange so much?"

Always easy to condemn the acts of the governments your country tells you to see as Enemy. Much harder - and way more meaningful - to challenge your own government's repression.

https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1405124334549704705

My government's imprisonment of dissidents, journalists and whistleblowers is better than that enemy government's imprisonment of dissidents, journalists and whistleblowers.

Just like the assassinations and poisonings of my country's intelligence agencies are better than theirs.

If a news organization hiring the former Director of the CIA to shape the news and constantly heap praise on the power, strength and wisdom of the Noble Leader isn't State TV, what is?

It's astonishing on days like this to see how fully trained US corporate journalists are to get angry at what US Enemies do, without ever having it enter their brain that their own government and its allies do the same.

They have a 6th-grade civics-level understanding of the US

It's also funny how performatively brave they think they're being by strutting before the cameras and condemning the foreign governments which the US Government has directed them to hate, with righteous condemnations they'd never dream of making of their own government.

It takes bravery to stand up to the governments and other institutions that have power over you. That's when it matters.

It takes no bravery to denounce governments that are powerless over you and that your leaders have told you that you should hate. That's just obedience.