Thread by @emptywheel

I think reporting on Marge's celebration of a bunch of people who attacked cops on Friday has been unfortunately poor.

Start with this: She chose to visit Jan6ers who are not only better off than many other detainees in US, but are better off than other Jan6ers.

Most notably, Jan6ers in DC jails have access to tablets to make their own defense easier. Indeed, Judge McFadden, easily the judge predisposed to the Jan6ers, made that point just days ago.

wusa9.com/article/news/n…

The other thing is that the press has not (yet) made Marge own the kind of thugs she is celebrating.

I did a post on the record of some of the. This is the GOP applauding assaults on cops. Nothing more, nothing less.

https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1639232117522456576

Marge quite literally is celebrating people with a history of "terroristic threats," one who made credible threats against two of her colleagues, another who just recently engaged in an armed stand-off with cops.

This is what the GOP values.

Take this NYT piece on the visit, written by NYT's congressional reporter, not @alanfeuer (ALL of NYT's other reporters assigned to cover Jan6 cover almost exclusively Trump related events, which ... should tell you something).

nytimes.com/2023/03/25/us/…

It takes @lukebroadwater 15 ¶¶ of both-sides bullshit before he mentions -- 61 words total -- that the people Marge is celebrating are cop assailants.

But even there, it's horrible reporting.

First, YOU'RE A JOURNALIST. You shouldn't need to rely on @thomasjoscelyn to tell you who is in the DC jail, and you sure as hell don't need to suggest this is some partisan comment.

As a JOURNALIST you could even look at the detention memos which reveals their criminal history

That's bc Broadwater apparently DIDN'T even read Joscelyn beyond the 2nd ¶--and this is an error that really needs to be corrected--Nine of these people are already guilty.

This is not a both-sides thing. It is objectively unbelievable that 12 GOPers celebrated cop assailants.

This is the kind of thing that @lukebroadwater decided to both-sides: a dozen MoCs lionizing the guys who attacked their workplace, 18 of them violently.