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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,185 posts)
Mon Apr 22, 2019, 08:25 PM Apr 2019

Greenwald calls media reaction to Mueller report 'genuinely stunning'

Journalist Glenn Greenwald told Hill.TV's "Rising" on Monday that the news media's response to the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report is "genuinely stunning," accusing the press of continuing to promote the "conspiracy" that President Trump's campaign conspired with Russia in 2016.

“I find that genuinely stunning as somebody who’s been a pretty harsh media critic for more than a decade," Greenwald, co-founding editor at The Intercept, told hosts Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton. "My bar for their behavior is, I think, rather low, and yet they somehow descended beneath it.

“The reality is that for three years there has been a conspiracy theory that has dominated our political and media discourse, which is that Donald Trump conspired with Russia over the 2016 election and that he’s an agent of the Russian government along with many of his associates," he continued.

“In the Mueller report in one section after the next said either they couldn’t establish that or there was no evidence for it, and yet they’re acting as though it said exactly the opposite, that this conspiracy theory was demonstrated and proven and vindicated," he said. "They're living in some bizarre fantasy land because they’re worried that admitting that they got this story wrong will damage their credibility."

“Pretending they got it right is just worsening the problem," he added.

https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/439989-greenwald-says-media-reaction-to-mueller-report-is-genuinely-stunning

Hey Greenwald, go fuck yourself.

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Greenwald calls media reaction to Mueller report 'genuinely stunning' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2019 OP
I don't think anyone cares what he thinks. Laurian Apr 2019 #1
But Dems and other progressives often read and post from his publication, The Intercept. pnwmom Apr 2019 #2
If anyone needs proof of how far right The Hill is, see the OP. LonePirate Apr 2019 #3
Rec on Greenwald, go fuck yourself. nt Xipe Totec Apr 2019 #4
Always good to hear from an authority on a topic, in this case "low bar". UTUSN Apr 2019 #5

pnwmom

(108,991 posts)
2. But Dems and other progressives often read and post from his publication, The Intercept.
Mon Apr 22, 2019, 08:31 PM
Apr 2019

He uses it to draw progressives in -- but he's a libertarian and a Snowden supporter.

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