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Glenn Greenwald on truth and fiction in the MSM’s coverage of the Capitol Riot....
Posted on 2/17/21 at 4:27 pm
Posted on 2/17/21 at 4:27 pm
Shocking scene from the path of wanton destruction left in the aftermath of the Capitol Riot!
The False and Exaggerated Claims Still Being Spread About the Capitol Riot: Insisting on factual accuracy does not make one an apologist for the protesters. False reporting is never justified, especially to inflate threat and fear levels.
What took place at the Capitol on January 6 was undoubtedly a politically motivated riot. As such, it should not be controversial to regard it as a dangerous episode. Any time force or violence is introduced into what ought to be the peaceful resolution of political conflicts, it should be lamented and condemned.
But none of that justifies lying about what happened that day, especially by the news media. Condemning that riot does not allow, let alone require, echoing false claims in order to render the event more menacing and serious than it actually was. There is no circumstance or motive that justifies the dissemination of false claims by journalists. The more consequential the event, the less justified, and more harmful, serial journalistic falsehoods are.
Yet this is exactly what has happened, and continues to happen, since that riot almost seven weeks ago. And anyone who tries to correct these falsehoods is instantly attacked with the cynical accusation that if you want only truthful reporting about what happened, then you’re trying to “minimize” what happened and are likely an apologist for if not a full-fledged supporter of the protesters themselves.
One of the most significant of these falsehoods was the tale — endorsed over and over without any caveats by the media for more than a month — that Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick was murdered by the pro-Trump mob when they beat him to death with a fire extinguisher. That claim was first published by The New York Times on January 8 in an article headlined “Capitol Police Officer Dies From Injuries in Pro-Trump Rampage.” It cited “two [anonymous] law enforcement officials” to claim that Sicknick died “with the mob rampaging through the halls of Congress” and after he “was struck with a fire extinguisher.”
A second New York Times article from later that day — bearing the more dramatic headline: “He Dreamed of Being a Police Officer, Then Was Killed by a Pro-Trump Mob” — elaborated on that story:
After publication of these two articles, this horrifying story about a pro-Trump mob beating a police officer to death with a fire extinguisher was repeated over and over, by multiple journalists on television, in print, and on social media. It became arguably the single most-emphasized and known story of this event, and understandably so — it was a savage and barbaric act that resulted in the harrowing killing by a pro-Trump mob of a young Capitol police officer.
It took on such importance for a clear reason: Sicknick’s death was the only example the media had of the pro-Trump mob deliberately killing anyone. In a January 11 article detailing the five people who died on the day of the Capitol protest, the New York Times again told the Sicknick story: “Law enforcement officials said he had been ‘physically engaging with protesters’ and was struck in the head with a fire extinguisher.”
But none of the other four deaths were at the hands of the protesters: the only other person killed with deliberate violence was a pro-Trump protester, Ashli Babbitt, unarmed when shot in the neck by a police officer at close range. The other three deaths were all pro-Trump protesters: Kevin Greeson, who died of a heart attack outside the Capitol; Benjamin Philips, 50, “the founder of a pro-Trump website called Trumparoo,” who died of a stroke that day; and Rosanne Boyland, a fanatical Trump supporter whom the Times says was inadvertently “killed in a crush of fellow rioters during their attempt to fight through a police line.”
This is why the fire extinguisher story became so vital to those intent on depicting these events in the most violent and menacing light possible. Without Sicknick having his skull bashed in with a fire extinguisher, there were no deaths that day that could be attributed to deliberate violence by pro-Trump protesters.....
This post was edited on 2/17/21 at 6:47 pm
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Posted on 2/17/21 at 4:40 pm to Toomer Deplorable
Oddly enough, none of the neverTrumpers and Bidenites who hoisted this death as an example of the wanton lawlessness of the Capitol riots have retracted their harsh words based on the lies the press told.
They love lying. They are liars. They live on untruths.
They love lying. They are liars. They live on untruths.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 4:53 pm to the808bass
Excellent article. I’ve become a huge fan of Glenn Greewald.
He seeks the truth.
I wish he would address the two police officers that committed suicide.
Why would not one, but two police officers commit suicide after or during this event?
He seeks the truth.
I wish he would address the two police officers that committed suicide.
Why would not one, but two police officers commit suicide after or during this event?
Posted on 2/17/21 at 5:04 pm to Toomer Deplorable
Good article and brave enough for comments which seem to have the usual results.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 6:22 pm to Toomer Deplorable
Bump for the evening crowd.
This is another great piece by Greenwald.
This is another great piece by Greenwald.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 6:25 pm to Toomer Deplorable
Google “insurrection” and “Capitol” and you will see they are settled on their narrative. They have no intention of telling the truth.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 6:55 pm to TerryDawg03
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This is another great piece by Greenwald.
Along with Matt Taibbi, Greenwald is the last of a nearly extinct breed: an honest left-of-center journalist.
Matt Taibbi: Biden inauguration coverage shows why so many distrust the mainstream media....
....The coverage of Biden’s inauguration, another celebration of those attitudes, was an almost perfect mathematical inverse of late-stage Donald Trump reporting, a monument to groveling sycophancy.
John Heileman at MSNBC compared Biden’s speech to Abe Lincoln’s second inaugural, and suggested that the sight of “the Clintons, the Bushes and the Obamas” gathered for the event was like “the Marvel superheroes all back in one place” (this was not the first post-election Avengers comparison to be heard on cable). Rachel Maddow talked about going through “ half a box of Kleenex ” as she watched the proceedings. Chris Wallace on Fox said Biden’s lumbering speech was “the best inaugural address I ever heard,” John Kennedy’s “Ask Not” speech included. The joyful tone was set the night before by CNN’s David Challen, who said lights along the Washington Mall were like “extensions of Joe Biden’s arms embracing America.”
As these neo-Soviet ministrations spread across the airwaves, an opposite storyline was discarded. From the Capitol riot on, we’d been warned about a sequel act of violence by Trump supporters. On Jan. 11, ABC reported that an internal FBI memo had “received information about an unidentified armed group” planning a “huge uprising” if efforts were made to remove Donald Trump via the 25th Amendment, while protesters were planning to “storm” capitols in “all 50 states.”
We were shown how 25,000 National Guard troops were deployed to protect the capital, with attendant subplots about an unusual effort to politically screen those guardsmen. “While we have no intelligence indicating an insider threat,” Defence Secretary Chris Miller said, “we are leaving no stone unturned in securing the capital.”
Beyond the 50-state threat, what if Trump just wouldn’t leave? That was the subject of countless stories across all four years of the Trump experience, with Vanity Fair’s No One Knows How to Get Trump to Leave In January being a typical example. It speculated that the Secret Service might have to pull an old landlord’s trick:
The Secret Service “could also simply do the equivalent of changing the locks: ‘When the staff leaves on Jan. 19, don’t let them back into the complex the next day,’ an ex-agent said. ‘He can’t do anything without his staff.’ ”
Should we worry about martial law? Before the inauguration, USA Today and multiple other outlets wondered what would happen if Trump invoked the Insurrection Act , especially after the CEO of My Pillow, Michael Lindell, was spotted entering the White House with a document full of notes that apparently contained suggestions for invoking military rule.
On inauguration day these stories melted away in silence. Donald Trump and his wife Melania ditched the White House more or less without event, unless one counts the unauthorized use of Village People hit “YMCA” as an exit tune.....
This post was edited on 2/17/21 at 6:58 pm
Posted on 2/17/21 at 6:57 pm to the808bass
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They love lying. They are liars. They live on untruths.
Their entire world is built on lies and misinformation.
Posted on 2/18/21 at 6:54 am to CDawson
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Their entire world is built on lies and misinformation.
Posted on 2/18/21 at 8:51 am to Toomer Deplorable
Definitely subscribe to his substack if you haven't already.
Posted on 2/18/21 at 8:57 am to Toomer Deplorable
Chuck Norris wears Glenn Greenwald pajamas.
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