Meanwhile, on the topic of social media giants aiding RW disinformation....checking in on our buddy, Mr. Bold Adversarial Journalist and he is pre-emptively discrediting the Facebook leaks to come b/c 'it's a very obvious scheme'.
The Facebook Defense Force is in full swing.
I mean, the Wikileaks shit was 'a very obvious scheme' to bring down Hillary Clinton & elect Donald Trump. We learned that from Assange's own words.
The Hunter Biden laptop stuff was 'a very obvious scheme' by Rudy Giuliani and the Trump campaign...but that was good, somehow.
All of that was, 'the documents are authentic(ish), so the motives are irrelevant. You're distracting.' But now, because these highly-documented leaks are seen as 'anti-Republican' (also anti his new sugar daddy Peter Thiel), they must be ignored and discredited.
Recent whistleblowers Glenn has attacked & discredited: Alexander Vindman (Trump/Ukraine), Reality Winner (Russian hacking), Frances Heugen & others (Facebook)
"Uhhh hey their own internally reported documents say this about themselves"
"Yeah, well some of those employees are liberal, so they're definitely biased and those documents don't count"
Absolutely pathetic dude.
Real Glem-heads will understand why this is a particularly sad interaction. Lit Thom has been one of Glem's OG reply guys/defenders since the Snowden era. Even a guy like that who's been ride or die for 10+ yrs has no choice but to call out his disingenuous. Wild.
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This man, almost single-handedly made Glem a millionaire, but since Glem is a big pouty baby and they had disagreements (notably that Glem was dead-set on covering up the entire Russia scandal...and also supporting Donald Trump),
so he must be destroyed. Billionaires are EVIL, except for Peter Thiel, who is actually benevolent and really has some good ideas, if you think about it,,,
It's amazing how all of these guys are just full-on, not even slightly veiled, Right Wingers. There was of course no times where Taibbi wrote about the Trump family's audacious, smash-and-grab, corruption. But Hunter's laptop proves that the REAL corrupt family is the Bidens.
BTW, I am a LW journalist and not a Trump supporter.
Won't somebody think of poor, impoverished Steve Bannon.
Satiate the sadistic liberal mob's thirst for retribution.
The thing is, when Glem gets a narrative (in this case, it's a bunch of poor, salt-of-the-earth people who were protesting and then it got a little out of hand and are now being persecuted by Dems), he just doesn't even make an attempt to fit reality into it.
I know it's probably better not to spread this shit, but man...it takes a special kind of psychologically damaged person to make a death 'condolence' statement a self-victimization at their own media coverage. Just truly the most fcked up person alive.
You're the editor of a major political publication. You know that word choices matter. Especially when it comes to headlines. "Missing in action" is clearly a negative connotation to everyone reading, especially when juxtaposed with a 'bad' thing he seemingly should be handling.