Thread by @ggreenwald

CNN's "news story" on the Taibbi reporting has to be read to be believed. It reads like the rantings of any #Resistance maniac. Any conservative who thinks CNN changed because they fired a couple blatant Dems (while keeping @Acosta) is fooling themselves:

edition.cnn.com/2022/12/02/tec…

One of the worst parts of CNN's article is it cites the "belief" of Twitter execs and "former intelligence officials" that the Biden docs were "a Russian hack-and-leak operation" without mentioning that this ... was a lie, a lie repeated by CNN. Twitter knew it had no evidence.

The NYT article on @mtaibbi's story is not great. Still, if you put it next to the CNN rant, you'll see immediately how CNN (like NBC) has a horde of "reporters" who are identical to DNC operatives and #Resistance fanatics and "report" like them:

nytimes.com/2022/12/04/bus…

Even if CNN's "news story" were just an op-ed written by one of the media's most loyal DNC partisans - say, @ThePlumLineGS or @joshtpm - it would still be outrageous given its recitation of the lie that the Biden docs could've been Russian. That it's a "news story" says it all.

Remember: CNN -- over and over right before the 2020 election -- repeated the lie that the Biden docs were "Russian disinformation." As usual, they put on ex-Security State agents: like career liar James Clapper. How can they not mention it was a lie????

https://twitter.com/cnn/status/1317307227963678721

Just consider this to understand what CNN is:

In 2013, James Clapper, as Obama's top intelligence official, blatantly lied to the Senate about NSA programs which, months later, we exposed.

CNN saw that and said: "let's hire him for the news." #EvenSlate

slate.com/news-and-polit…