Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Maybe they were avid readers of Joy Reid's Obama-era blog and that's where they got these ideas from. Since everyone who strays in any way from establishment DNC orthodoxy must be smeared, I guess it's not surprising to see MSNBC labeling Black Republicans as bigots: — PolitiTweet.org

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@nickjfl It's an extremely simple concept, explained explicitly: 1) Political and media elites watch these shows obsessively; the public doesn't care. 2) Major media conglomerates have the resources to shove information down people's throats even if they don't want or trust the content. — PolitiTweet.org

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@derJamesJackson Yep - just me, Trump and those obscure news outlets called the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times and the Columbia Review of Journalism. Other than that: nobody cares. https://t.co/L99eddjOKQ — PolitiTweet.org

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As a reminder: WSJ, Jan. 12, 2022 (six weeks before Russian invasion): U.S. Inflation Hit 7% in December, Fastest Pace Since 1982 Consumer price rise exceeded 6% year over year for third straight month https://t.co/AhM9eYEAhg — PolitiTweet.org

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Democrats blamed their 2016 loss on Putin and Russia. Democrats under Trump blamed social unrest and distrust of them and their media outlets on Putin and Russia. And now Democrats and their media allies will blame this extraordinary development on Putin and Russia. — PolitiTweet.org

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That doesn't mean these networks have zero influence. They are part of huge corporate conglomerates that can blast the content with major online and offline megaphones. Political/media elites still watch. But the public appetite for these 2 partisan DNC liberal networks is gone. — PolitiTweet.org

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The one time CNN has historically thrived is wartime. Yet they're back to their paltry, humiliating pre-war numbers: barely a half-million *total viewers* in prime-time. These are dying networks. Nobody has interest. Their solution - let's make people pay to watch! - is just sad. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Even with a major war ongoing, the continued disappearance of MSNBC and CNN's audience is extreme and rapid. The number of viewers under 55 watching MSBNC's prime-time shows is barely 100k or less. These are mid-level YouTube numbers. https://t.co/agrrwSLTe5 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Here's @RBReich in the Guardian today warning of the grave dangers of Elon Musk's free speech views. He frames it as billionaire control of the internet. But that's what we have *now*: tech oligarchs dictating what can and can't be said on the internet: https://t.co/G50aOoXYL5 — PolitiTweet.org

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@MW988 Could you cite to a couple examples -- or even just one -- where I expressed support for Putin's invasion of Ukraine? I can cite to many where I said the opposite, including here. So where are your examples? https://t.co/MGnkB4f9wF — PolitiTweet.org

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@MW988 How do you navigate the basic tasks of the day with a brain that functions with such simple binaries and illogical cognitive outcomes? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@aitche_ @EnergyCynic How many examples do you need? https://t.co/iirfdvemxT https://t.co/sDcM7GHfLV — PolitiTweet.org

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♫♬ Memories May be beautiful and yet What's too painful to remember We simply to choose to forget...♫♬ — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The widely reported pervasive fear among the Twitter workforce that Elon Musk may endanger or even end their systemic censorship regime illustrates how central of a tactic internet censorship has become for US liberalism. Information control is vital to their worldview. — PolitiTweet.org

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The vast majority of claims and beliefs about Ukraine come from one of two sources: 1) corporate media using the anonymous "US officials said" framework to disseminate unverified claims; 2) think tank "scholars" funded by Western governments. Watch for it and you'll see. — PolitiTweet.org

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The closed propaganda system in the West surrounding this war is so absolute that it has led millions, probably tens of millions, of Westerners to revere people and groups who - for the last decade: until Feb. 24 - were widely described in Western media as deeply menacing Nazis. https://t.co/0tWI0ijkhf — PolitiTweet.org

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Apparently, if you elevate a self-professed "brother in arms" of a neo-Nazi battalion into a Western celebrity, treat him as a journalist, and hand him major media platforms, he'll use it to train Westerners to revere the glory and nobility of neo-Nazis. All glory to Azov!✊ — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Mediaite: Yale Researcher Thwarts Attempted Brian Stelter Dunk on Fox News By Calling Out CNN for 'Partisan Coverage Filtering' https:/… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JerryDunleavy: October 23, 2020. The strategy by many in media & Biden campaign was to claim Hunter Biden emails were Russian disinfo.… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TVietor08: Jared Kushner is as corrupt as it gets. He helped the Saudi Crown prince cover up the murder of a journalist and got a $2 bi… — PolitiTweet.org

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Easily one of my top 5 favorite tweets of 2022: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Also, Sean Hannity is one of the loudest, most aggressive, and most passionate supporters of Ukraine and of heavy US involvement in the war on the side of Ukraine. So if a requirement now for being "pro-American" is favoring military support for Ukraine, then shouldn't he count? — PolitiTweet.org

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@GilletteLucy I didn't start writing or speaking about politics until late 2005. The debate over the Iraq War took place in 2002 and 2003. The invasion occurred in March, 2003. During that debate, Friedman was one of the most vocal and influential defenders of the invasion of Iraq. — PolitiTweet.org

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It's easy to overuse Freudian analysis and symbology. But if someone is excitingly justifying a horrific war by saying we needed to "take out a very big stick" and tell Iraqis: "suck on this," it's virtually impossible to avoid the clear meaning, and a conclusion he's psychotic. — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's Friedman's full answer. It was from May, 2003. Charlie Rose asked Friedman -- one of America's most strident war advocates -- whether, given everything that was known, including the likely WMD fraud, he still believed the Iraq War was justified: https://t.co/LSJC6BJ1OA — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/dsqOuRQ6Gs — PolitiTweet.org

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@brockm You're very stupid, I see. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

That could partially explain why, according to a recent poll, more supporters of the leftist Mélencon would vote for LePen in a run-off than Macron (though a plurality would abstain): https://t.co/mqd6OhldZp This is part of the political scramble in the West many refuse to see. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

On key economic policy debates -- such as raising the retirement age and pension reform -- Marine LePen, for the second consecutive election -- is running to the left of both Macron and, arguably, the Socialists and even Greens (though not Mélenchon). 🤷‍♂️ https://t.co/i83uGKqgDq — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Also, one must have a pretty huge amount of free time on their hands and a barren life bereft of anything interesting or weighty to spend this much time and energy launching a multi-pronged crusade because your hotel fitness center shows a channel you don't like. — PolitiTweet.org