Giuliani's unhinged Jan. 6 rant shows how Trump's media scam really work

[Nevilledog]

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Greg Sargent
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Rudy Giuliani just unleashed an extraordinarily deranged rant on Newsmax, an alt-narrative in which Democrats are the Real Insurrectionists.

This shows how lopsided the information environment has become in the face of right wing propaganda.

My latest:

washingtonpost.com
Opinion | Giuliani’s unhinged Jan. 6 rant shows how Trump’s media scam really works
How Trump and his allies will try to game media coverage of his insurrection attempt.
9:11 AM · Feb 16, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/16/giuliani-newsmax-rant-jan-6-john-durham/

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https://archive.fo/yXetY

The Jan. 6 select committee issued new subpoenas Tuesday suggesting its investigation is focused on Rudolph W. Giuliani’s central role in trying to help Donald Trump thwart a duly elected government from taking power, to seize a second presidential term for himself illegitimately.

Only hours later, Giuliani scurried into the safe confines of far-right media, where he was granted total free rein to broadcast the deranged alternate narrative that the only Real Insurrectionists who tried to overthrow the government have been Democrats.

This episode neatly illustrates how Trump and his allies will try to manipulate the information environment to help obscure Trump’s misdeeds — and his possible crimes — as the House committee’s work nears completion.

Giuliani’s latest unhinged rantings were delivered on Newsmax on Tuesday night. This came after the committee subpoenaed several figures related to Trump’s effort to get GOP legislatures to appoint sham electors to subvert President Biden’s victory.

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. Anyone from NYC? Does Rudy resemble a NYC rat in that image? Minus the glasses of course.

[EYESORE 9001]

3. Not from NYC, but I recognize a rat when I see one

A cornered one, at that.

[wnylib]

6. Rudy, you dirty rat.

[samsingh]

2. so the Democrats tried to overthrow themselves? And Trump will pardon them?

makes as much sense as accepting that goulini was not playing with himself in the Borat movie and getting ready to sleep with a supposed underage girl.

traitorous slime.

[Biophilic]

4. Wait, I thought I read tht Guiliani had agreed to work with the Jan 6 committee.

This doesn't wound like "working with", but what do I know. Maybe he's throwing the TFG and his people off the scent, so to speak. Historians are going to go nuts deciphering this era.

[smb]

5. Remember When Getting Punked By Borat Was The Most Embarrassing Moment Of His Life?

Now, it isn't even in the top ten....

[wnylib]

7. He spouted the same line over

Ukraine, the "perfect phone call," and Hunter Biden.

When criticized over his part, he said,

"Hey, we're the good guys here."

[Maeve]

8. Somewhere over the past decade or so, Rudy totally lost it

Maybe it was the alcohol, maybe something else, but he is no longer a shadow of what he once was (not that he was ever that much....)