It's absolutely hilarious that there is this massive, bombshell media scandal revealing the highest rated cable news outlet lying to their viewers and the group of dudes who obsessively post about cable news media all have to pretend to ignore it b/c it's the channel they love.
*me, ranting daily about Rachel Maddow/Joy Reid/Nicole Wallace*
THIS IS WHY PEOPLE DISTRUST CABLE NEWS. PROOF THEY'RE LIARS
*revealed under oath that a cable news outlet is lying to all its viewers*
Hey uhh so when's a new Twitter Files coming out? Seen any cute dogs lately?
Taibbi has acknowledged it exactly once. It's just not important enough for him to comment on. He's busy on the next expose- Twitter Files 87: Eric Swalwell requested to have a death threat taken down.
Glenn, who posted at least 30 tweets about Don Lemon calling Nikki Haley 'over the hill' during the same time period, has also acknowledged it exactly once.....by highlighting one article and saying that #actually it proves that Tucker is a bold, truth-teller.
Pay no attention to all those other things. The Liberal Media is lying to you about what those texts say. Take my word for it and just read this one single article. If you just pretend that's the totally of it, I'm totally right.
It's also funny because it seems like new texts/emails come out every few days and they're stuck just having to bury their head in the sand, while still doing the same exact shtick as if none of it is even occurring. North Korea-level "nothing to see here."
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Time to check in and see how Glenn reacted to the incredibly serious Twitter Files hearing and....he is definitely not mad. Actually, he's laughing.
Glenn's been doing this thing as long I've been following him where any person who dares criticize him (or his allies) is just a partisan Dem shill. Back in the Obama years, anyone who criticized his 'reporting was a 'drooling O bot shill'. The only True non-partisan is Glem.
Everyone only hates the Twitter Files because they're partisans, unlike me bla bla bla heard it all a million times before.
There's a triumvirate of shitty "journalist" dudes: Sirota, Glenn and Taibbi who basically all scratch each others back and promote each other and who have one goal: to disingenuously attack Dems. None of them are actual journalists and it drives them insane when people say it.
An actual journalist is concerned with reporting the truth, whether it complies with their narratives or not. These guys are solely concerned with pushing their narratives and don't give a shit whether what they're saying is accurate or truthful.
If you remember, when David (Sirota) got caught pretending to do 'journalism' attacking Beto while he was officially working on the Bernie campaign, he responded by clamming up, refusing to answer any q's on the record and then deleting all of his emails.
It's so funny to watch Glem twist himself into a logical pretzel to praise Mr. Trump.
"Yes, Mr. Trump escalated a whole bunch of wars (which he very honestly promised to do), but that's completely fine b/c he inherited them from his predecessor. Promises made, promises kept!"
Who could forget the constant refrain from the Scahill and Glems from 2008-2016, "drones do not matter because Obama inherited them from his predecessor. Find a new slant, it's not his fault." That was a thing they said all the time.
Also kind of weird to on one hand admit that Mr. Trump promised to escalate all these wars with the constant insistence at the time that he was the anti-war/Peace Man. Ahh well, I guess the only metric that matters is *new* wars.
I just wanted to circle back real quick to Taibbi's insistence that the "fake news" media is refusing to follow-up on his stories. That couldn't be further from the truth In fact, from the very first Twitter Files, journalists have been 'following up' on his work.
If you remember the 1st major 'bombshell' was that the Biden campaign got Twitter to delete tweets from just your Average Joe user. WOW! No context about what the tweets actually were that got removed. And then....
within 30 minutes a reporter (from the super liberal Washington Examiner, no less) actually did follow up and did what Matt certainly could have but didn't bother...he found that the BOMBSHELL censored tweets were actually just non-consensual pics of Hunter's dick.