Thread by @ggreenwald

Questions About the FBI's Role in 1/6 Are Mocked Because the FBI Shapes Liberal Corporate Media

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The FBI has been manufacturing and directing terror plots and criminal rings for decades. But now, reverence for security state agencies reigns.

Look at the FBI cartoons these liberal media corporations employ to mock any suggestion FBI may be dishonest or less than scrupulous:

It is confirmed fact that the FBI has infiltrated at least some if not all of the key groups they allege plotted the 1/6 Capitol riot.

It is infinitely more rational to believe they had informants embedded in these groups than to smugly mock the suggestion that they did not.

What's particularly galling about the liberal defense of FBI -- "oh, don't be so conspiratorial and weird as to wonder if the FBI might have manufactured and used informants to direct terror plots -- is that we know they did this, repeatedly, throughout the first War on Terror.

What's really happening is clear. During the Trump years, reverence among liberals for the FBI & CIA skyrocketed. Liberal media outlets like HuffPost are virtual FBI outposts, working for them to find their suspects. So any maligning of the FBI is met with anger and disgust.

Mock all you want. Use ad hominem fallacies against those doing the reporting and raising these questions (they're white nationalists!). Anyone rational will demand answers to these questions. Anyone who tries to delegitimize them is a propagandist for the security state.

But this is liberal media culture: no questioning the FBI. No demanding evidence before the security state's claims are believed. Trust in the FBI and CIA operatives who dominates large media corporations. But these questions still demand answers:

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Here's a popular journalist among the online left, making the same key point that Revolver News and Fox made in raising these questions. Maybe since he's saying it, the CNN/NBC/WPost axis can start to think about it instead of smugly mocking it:

https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1405961863188320267

This is an actual quote from CNN's @ChrisCuomo when purporting to debunk questions about FBI's role in the 1/6 riot:

"Let's talk about what is true, and not true, in this scenario. Former FBI Director Andrew McCabe....What's the reality here?"

This is the news you're consuming.

Literally nothing makes liberals angrier -- especially their (ahem) journalists -- more than suggestions than perhaps the FBI is being less than truthful or their actions less than scrupulous.

That's why they love the outlets that employ all the FBI operatives. Just see this:

When you work for a news outlet that has an almost entirely liberal/Democratic audience -- which is true of NYT, WP, NPR, CNN, MSNBC -- and you're reporting on an agency that 80% of Democrats revere (FBI), obviously the only thing you can do when someone maligns them is mock it.

How can you honestly report on questions about the ethics or truthfulness of the FBI or CIA when you look around you and see that the media corporation that pays your bills and mortgage has hired all of the leaders of those agencies? You're trapped, required to protect them.

FBI and CIA used to control large US media corporations clandestinely. Now they do it in the open. The TV stars who work for them don't think there's anything odd about saying: "now, to get the truth, we turn to my colleague, the ex FBI/CIA Director. Tell us what we should know."

This is liberal TV 👆. The corporate execs programming for a liberal audience do this because they know liberals eat this shit up. They know they've been trained to see CIA/FBI operatives as oracles of Truth, so that's who they hire. Those mocking FBI's role have this mentality.

When it comes to understanding what did and did not happen on 1/6, these are the outlets -- filled with former FBI and CIA agents on their payroll -- that you should absolutely trust. Look how reliable they are:

I'll be on Fox at the top of the hour, 8 pm ET, talking about this article and the reason liberals and their journalists are so protective of the FBI (as polls show, both the FBI and CIA are very popular among the vast majority of liberals: just a fact):

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I just got to talk about the CIA's pernicious Operation Mockingbird for the first time on American television, I believe, ever. You'll never guess where I got to do that.

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The amazing thing is that Operation Mockingbird -- the clandestine CIA plot to shape US media coverage to manipulate Americans -- would now be completely gratuitous, since now they just do it right in the open by placing their operatives in the newsrooms of corporate outlets.