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@GregTSargent
Jun 8, 2022 • 6 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
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The Fox News blackout of the 1/6 hearings shows that Republicans benefit from a huge propaganda apparatus that hermetically seals off the GOP electorate from damaging truths. Meanwhile, right wing disinfo pollutes bothsides MSM coverage, helping GOP more:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
"If there is one last human being in DC who clung to the idea that Fox is a center-right journalistic institution with opinion at night, this should be the end of that."

I talked to @danpfeiffer about Fox's 1/6 propaganda and how it will influence MSM:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
@danpfeiffer "Roger Ailes was a political ad maker. He had this insight that if Fox was a pseudo news organization, it would have greater influence on what other news organizations covered."

@danpfeiffer on how we got to this point. Right wing ref-gaming is central:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
@danpfeiffer An interesting exchange: The younger generation of Dems like @ChrisMurphyCT, @brianschatz and @MalloryMcMorrow all grasp the value of making noise, of having big, viral moments.

The current Dem leadership came of age in a different media universe:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
@danpfeiffer @ChrisMurphyCT @brianschatz @MalloryMcMorrow Finally, I asked @danpfeiffer what his answers are to both the Dems' information problem and the intra-party "wokeness" debate:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
@danpfeiffer @ChrisMurphyCT @brianschatz @MalloryMcMorrow Numerous news organizations are describing the coming Fox/GOP disinformation push as "counter-programming" the 1/6 hearings.

Stop doing this. It puts rank propaganda on a plane of equivalence with legitimate congressional fact finding:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…

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May 1
Fox News propaganda about Trump's trial has taken on some serious North Korea vibes: It absurdly portrays him as exerting total mastery over the proceedings and even depicts his dozing off as an act of heroic defiance.

This is MAGA cult stuff. 1/

Link:
newrepublic.com/article/181138…
Trump has been posting video of Fox personalities gushing about what a huge winner the trial has been for him. But privately, NYT reports, he's raging at his lead lawyer, which suggests he doesn't actually think things are going too well for him. 2/

newrepublic.com/article/181138…

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One Fox News personality even tried to push the idea that Trump's trial is good for him because it means he can't do rallies, denying the media an opportunity to "twist Trump's words."

Trump is Owning The Media and the media doesn't even know it! 3/

newrepublic.com/article/181138…

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Apr 27
NEWS --> Prominent conservative Michael Luttig excoriates the right wing SCOTUS justices as "radical," predicting that in the 1/6 case, they'll protect Trump entirely.

“I now believe that it is unlikely Trump will ever be tried," Luttig tells me.

Link:
newrepublic.com/article/181059…
Also in our interview: Michael Luttig, who has strong conservative credentials, is harshly critical of the lines of questioning from Samuel Alito and the other right wing justices.

Luttig says a grant of immunity would "license all future presidents to commit crimes against the United States while in office with impunity."

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Michael Luttig predicts that either a delay will enable Trump to cancel Jack Smith's 1/6 prosecution if he wins the election, or that SCOTUS will grant Trump immunity so he never even gets tried.

newrepublic.com/article/181059…


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Apr 23
Liz Cheney just said something deeply troubling: If SCOTUS delays immunity ruling, voters might be denied critical info about Trump's conduct while the mob raged, which Jack Smith has. That would reward Trump allies for their coverup.

New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/180896…
Jack Smith has testimony from top Trump advisers about how Trump acted *during the attack* that the 1/6 committee could not get. SCOTUS delay could keep that buried.

In this piece, a senior 1/6 committee staffer explains what this means. Deeply sobering:

newrepublic.com/article/180896…

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Those who deny that 1/6 was an insurrection rely heavily on severing Trump's incitement of the mob from the procedural coup. But Jack Smith likely has evidence showing they are one and the same story. It would be scandalous if *that* remains buried.

newrepublic.com/article/180896…

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Apr 19
Important but overlooked: Mike Johnson explicitly says he's acting on Ukraine because believes what our intel agencies say about the awful consequences of abandoning it.

That's a striking rebuke to MAGA's lies about the "deep state" and the war. 1/

Link:
newrepublic.com/article/180808…
“I really do believe the intel and the briefings that we’ve gotten,” Mike Johnson said, noting that Ukraine aid will stop Putin from expanding his conquest later.

Remarkably, he's saying that on these matters, the "deep state" is telling the truth. 2/

newrepublic.com/article/180808…

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Marjorie Taylor Greene recently said Biden/pro-Ukraine Rs are "tools of the foreign war loving deep state."

This sort of thing is why some senior Rs admit parts of the GOP are under Russian influence (h/t @juliaioffe). Johnson rebuked that MTG lie. 3/

newrepublic.com/article/180808…

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Apr 13
Remarkable: By my count, at least a dozen GOP incumbents or prominent candidates in competitive House races are election deniers, were involved in 1/6, or voted against Biden electors.

New piece from me on the deep election-denial sickness in the GOP:
newrepublic.com/article/180690…
Kevin McCarthy's craven pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago in 2021 was a fateful moment, showing that the GOP would make the construction of a massive historical lie about 1/6 central to its identity. This mostly failed politically, but the GOP is sticking with it.

newrepublic.com/article/180690…

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When Mike Johnson worshipped at the Mar-a-Lago shrine yesterday, it was really about reassuring Trump that the House GOP remains fully committed to his 1/6 mythmaking.

"Election integrity"? The biggest threat to our elections is Trump and his movement.

newrepublic.com/article/180690…

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Apr 11
Steve Bannon just wrecked one of Trump's biggest lies about Biden. Bannon said MAGA will poach lefty voters from Biden by highlighting record oil production under him.

But that flatly contradicts Trump's claims about Biden's energy policies. 1/

Link:
newrepublic.com/article/180617…
Bannon said:

“No Republican knows that oil production under Biden is higher than ever. But Jill Stein’s people do."

This wrecks Trump's lie that Biden’s green policies have destroyed our “energy independence."

This is how MAGA info-wars work. 2/

newrepublic.com/article/180617…

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Trump says Biden's policies are hollowing out the heartland. But green energy production is *rebuilding* the manufacturing base.

“The US is producing more oil and gas than ever," @JesseJenkins says, noting that Bannon exposed Trump's "crock of lies." 3/

newrepublic.com/article/180617…

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