As anyone who fellows Glenn knows, it gets incredibly tiring keeping up with all his casual, constant lies/half-truths/dishonesty. In fact, even though it seems like I post about him constantly, I probably passed on tweeting out like 5-7 instances just this past week alone.
But permit me to share a perfect example of his casual dishonesty, since it's currently his header image.
So Glenn's fav. narrative is that the Dems just lovee the CIA/FBI and that explains all of their behavior. And he constantly posts this one chart (or at least this snippet)
So Glenn's fav. narrative is that the Dems just lovee the CIA/FBI and that explains all of their behavior. And he constantly posts this one chart (or at least this snippet)
He loves it so much that he even made it his header (which is extremely weird, but I guess not as weird as the picture of Liz Cheney that used to be there).
He posts it constantly as a 'trump card' for his world-view. Here's him a month ago stating these #s matter of factly.
He posts it constantly as a 'trump card' for his world-view. Here's him a month ago stating these #s matter of factly.
But when you look closer at this data that he loves to cite, you notice, hey this is over 3 years old. Strange. There's no way that this is the most up to date data on this 'pivotal' narrative-supporting claim Glem constantly points to.
So I looked it up and surprise! Of course there is a more recent version of this pew survey. Still out of date but its the most recent they have polled this same question. And as you can see, the partisan gaps are much less stark (& in the case of the CIA, almost non-existent).
So why would Glem cite this one piece of out-of-date data, that confirms his priors (so much so that he made it his header image) and quote it matter-of-factly to own the libs, instead of the more up to date numbers that don't provide such an easy narrative?
It's a mystery.
It's a mystery.
TL;DR- @ggreenwald purposely uses old data to disingenuously support his narrative. Cites it constantly, including on Tucker but purposely ignores more accurate, up to date data that does not easily confirm his priors. As a real journalist does.
(sorry, thought this was included in the infographic but the 'up to date' data is from Sept 2019 vs. Glenn's constantly cited data which is from Feb. 2018)
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