Thread by @ggreenwald

Two of the most vocal and unhinged advocates of the first War on Terror - @JonahDispatch and @stephenfhayes - just quit Fox News (where nobody knew they worked) in protest over Tucker Carlson warning of the dangers of the new War on Terror and questioning FBI involvement in 1/6.

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1462555929833095173

Goldberg was the classic chickenhawk: weak men who feel tough by sending other families' kids to war. Along with @JeffreyGoldberg, Hayes was the leading liar claiming Saddam had an alliance with Al Qaeda. Now they're viewed by liberals as the noble Men of Conscience quitting Fox.

Goldberg and Hayes are barely on Fox, yet the media is heralding this spectacle as some brave elevation of patriotism over party.

It does actually show a split on the right over militarism and worship of the security state. Like most neocons, Goldberg/Hayes are with CIA & Dems.

It's not a coincidence that almost every major advocate of the Iraq War and War on Terror working in politics and media in 2002/3 became leading champions of the Russiagate fraud, and now champion the new domestic War on Terror, based in the hysteria that 1/6 was an Insurrection.

To the extent there's political realignment, this episode illustrates it: who worships the security state (FBI/CIA/DOJ) and who distrusts them; who craves greater surveillance and prosecutorial powers that defined the first War on Terror.

I know what side I'm on: the same side.

The kind of "dissident" Republicans now worshiped by liberals -- Goldberg, Hayes, Liz Cheney, Bill Kristol, etc. etc. -- hate the new GOP because they want it be more like the Bush/Cheney GOP that led the War on Terror. They say it explicitly. That's why neocons are with Dems.

Liberals now believe that if you dislike Jonah and Stephen Hayes and Liz Cheney and CIA/FBI -- and side with their critics -- it makes you a fascist. That's the degradation of American liberalism. They worship authoritarianism in the name of stopping it:

https://twitter.com/RealBlue75/status/1462780733974589447

The Judy Miller of the Steele Dossier - the journalist most responsible for enriching himself by spreading an outright fraud (and who, needless to say, is still fully welcomed in liberal circles) -- also thinks criticizing neocons makes you a fascist:

https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/1462778996580569099

Along with numerous journalists, I spent a decade reporting on and warning about the role of FBI in stoking and engineering terror plots as part of the first War on Terror.

If you do that now, liberals say you're a fascist for questioning the FBI:

theintercept.com/2015/02/26/fbi…

For the What-Happened-to-You??? crowd, here's what I wrote about Jonah Goldberg in 2006. Sounds quite identical to what I say and think about him and this latest melodrama of his today. WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?

glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/01/nation…

Here's what happens when you stop blindly and uncritically believing the propagandists in the liberal corporate media and instead go to the primary evidence and judge for yourself: just like how so many realized they were lied to when they actually watched the Rittenhouse trial.