It's pretty easily explainable, Glem. It's blindingly obvious to anyone with half an ounce of critical thinking skills that the MAGA RW is not 'anti-war', they just see Putin's Russia as a white, Christian authoritarian ally against the Dems (& the West).
Also, I am a serious anti-war/anti-imperialist activist and I am, yet again, caping hard for an imperialist Russia (whom I do NOT support) invading its neighbor. The Dems who say this is wrong? They're actually bloodthirsty Neocons. Let the imperial power invade...for peace!
And lest you think this is a new phenomenon ...nope. Glem has been excusing Russian imperialism (with a non-interventionist mindset) for years now. Even though he's deleted all his old tweets, some of us saved a few.
Here was his reaction to Russia invading Crimea in 2014:
"Oh so you say Russia is invading Crimea? Well what about US uhhh also invading Ukraine or something idk. Russia innocent."
Not one of these guys can even bring themselves to say, "It would be bad if Russia invaded its neighbor (again)" before doing the 'US bad' routine. Can't even do the bare minimum. Just skip right past the actual invasion (I'm anti-war, btw).
At some point when you follow a person for a while & you see a pattern of defending literally every single thing X person/X country does (whether it's through direct apologia or attacking all their enemies), it doesn't take a stmt of 'support' to see what your actual angle is.
You can light your hair on fire every time someone calls out the obvious ("I DO NOT SUPPORT TRUMP/PUTIN, FUCK YOUUU") but when you can't even bring yourself to do the most lay-up criticism (ie. invading your neighbor is bad) it's clear that you just might support them.
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Sigh. It's seemingly ever fcking day where a distorted, context-less RW clip goes super-viral, getting shared by both LWers & RWers alike. It's depressing as hell to see it happen over & over again. This site is just a magnet for dishonesty & it feels quite helpless to stop it.
The context of this clip, which is from 2020 (that's resurfaced as if it was said today) was basically a(n inartful) point about the reach of media today- 'people have cellphones to film things and those images get spread worldwide on social media'.
He was very obviously not saying that George Floyd had more of a worldwide impact than MLK, as the bad faith RW bullshit wants you to believe. But like a few 100 people will see this context & the original has already been RTed like 10,000 times, so *chuckles* everything is cool!
Well TIL that Dan Bongino is one of the investors in the (not a RW outlet) Rumble, which makes a lot more sense why Greenwald, who's on the Rumble gravy train, went so hard defending him in the face of that thorough New Yorker profile.
Imagine how furiously angry Glem would be if some other 'journalist' didn't disclose that they had financial incentive tied to the guy who they were writing about. Why, it's almost as if his 'everyone is corrupted but me, the last true principled man' is utter hogwash.
One of the only moderately humorous parts of 1/6 was watching Greenwald & Tracey's 'the Libs are being hysterical about the threat of violence' narrative get destroyed in real time.
2 minutes later, a brief moment of realization that he goofed up.
"uhh ok I uhh guess it's just a little more energetic now."
And then after a brief quiet he just went righttt back to tone-policing 'the not-a-coup you hysterical libs' narrative (instead of just saying, 'I was wrong'), even as it was taking place in front of everyone's eyes. Such a good little not-a-Trumper.
That's right, when I think of individuals 'most hated by corporate media bc they can't be controlled', I certainly think of Tucker, the #1 show on primetime put on by the Fox Corporation (which does not count as corporate media bc...reasons).
The other 1st guy got a big fat contract from Spotify, which also does not count as 'corporate media' because again....reasons (that I've pulled out of my ass).
This will shock you but there was a time that Glem didn't believe that ratings were the ultimate sign of truthfulness. In fact, just a few yrs ago, Rachel Maddow's high ratings proved that she was pushing deranged conspiracy theories, just like Glenn Beck. Quite the 180.
Wow, these 'independent thinking' Covid contrarians are like so deep. "Pathologizing people who would otherwise have 0 indication that they are sick." aka giving them proper info for their health & the health of others. Just utterly meaningless RW pablum.
"Don't think too much about it", man. What a profound statement.
Anti-anti-Covid precautions but absolutely too cowardly to say it b/c he thinks it maintains some plausible deniability (just like when he pretended not to be a Trump supporter).
Again, there is absolutely no universe where it makes political sense for Biden & the Dems to want to continue on with the pandemic. It's literally the opposite of what's in their political interests. But b/c Glenn always just talks out of his ass, it's just a given.