That the White House violently cleared Lafayette Park at Trump's behest was treated as unquestioned truth by most corporate media. Today it was revealed as a falsehood.
Whatever you may think of Trump, it is shocking how easily the corporate media along with Big Tech manipulated the outcome of the election by publishing lies about one candidate while suppressing truthful stories about the other. This should be of concern to all thinking people.
And later, when President Trump was ushered into Capitol's bunker by SS, media laughed. The violent mob forced this country's President into his bunker. That wasn't an insurrection and threat to Democracy, it was a mockable event. Utterly contemptible assholes.
So the same media that ignored the Wuhan Virology lab was dishonest about Trump? Shocked. We are all learning that we no longer have a press that serves any function beyond propaganda.
First of all, they weren't peacefully protesting. Burning a church used to be the most vile, hateful thing you could do in America until BLM and Antifa did it. This is further evidence that the MSM woke up every morning and did everything they could to spread negative hate for Trump and positive propaganda for the left. Any rational person still denying that has their head up their ass.
i'm comfortable with not trusting corporate media, but who can i trust? is it okay to trust the word of Glenn? he seems to have the utmost integrity and holds himself to high standards professionally, but i'm just a guy who used to take much of corporate media at its word. aside from reading his material(and he is just one individual in this big world), how can one seek out information that doesn't have the stain of corporate media?
i think a lot of disagreement with Glenn comes from a place of cognitive dissonance. it's hard to reckon with the reality that your reality may be ONLY that- yours. the information within these articles is comparable is wildly informative but it is only available here, so how can i evaluate what i'm being told? clearly that's necessary, this article is proof. how does Glenn collect his information? connections as a journalist, sure, but surely connections can't be the only way? how can i begin to evaluate these claims and these narratives in a similar way without having to rely on Glenn to spoon feed it to me?
Around the time of this event, I called a brother, a committed Trump-hater, to talk about "things in general." He immediately brought up this event, and he was beyond livid. Trump had deliberately endangered the lives of peaceful demonstrators simply to massage his own ego. Trump was the worst human being imaginable. Having watched some video (NOT on CNN) of the "peaceful" demonstrators hurling frozen bottles *after* being warned not to, I took a more nuanced view. I urged "caution if your only source is CNN," and told him he needed to watch Fox and read online forums.
A week later we spoke again and he had grown even more angry. The truth had been confirmed by the fact checkers!
I love reading this stuff Glenn, but I did know the answer already. I've yet to test a negative media narrative about Trump that proved to be fully accurate, so I stopped wasting my time. I can predict that there are major falsehoods well enough to not bother.
"By any means necessary" certainly seems to be the depressingly accurate summary of what the media did to remove Trump from office. I voted for Obama in 2008, but felt that he did a terrible job and voted for Romney in 2012. (Talk about regret...) After sitting out the 2016 election, I voted for Trump in 2020, because I thought he did an very good job in the face of the most vicious and dishonest treatment by the media.
What the media did over the past 4 years is fully documented online by Sharyl Attkisson, and is truly disgusting. Read her list -- it is truly scary. Almost as scary as a walk through downtown Minneapolis, where 1500+ buildings were damaged and 137 of them completely destroyed, with virtually no coverage by the media. On the other hand, on 01/06 we had one building lightly damaged, and no end of (often innaccurate) coverage.
Perhaps worth mentioning that many Secret Service Agents and Security Officers were injured in the riot that attempted to breach White House barricades and forced the President and his family to be moved to a bunker. That riot, while studiously ignored, was in kind to the January 6th riot which gets so much press.
"[T]hey have nobody but themselves to blame for the utter collapse in trust and faith on the part of the public, which has rightfully concluded they cannot and should not be believed."
Perhaps the best last sentence summation of an article ever written. How can any thinking person ever believe these clowns again. I'm almost surprised a few of them acknowledged they got it wrong. But will any acknowledge WHY they got it wrong. Were their original stories based upon any FACTS, or just conjecture that fit with their view of the world? They're damned lucky you don't have to have a license to practice journalism, as the disbarments would be taking a heavy toll.
For a few years I quietly thought that perhaps I was being too cynical and even a little snide in dismissing mainstream media as little more than propaganda organs. More recently, I've reached a high degree of certainty on the matter, and this odorous episode is yet another confirming example.
The patrician left aka progressives, who constitute basically the entirety of corporate media, no longer practice journalism. They're merely a pr team for their fellow progressives and their goals (and thus the progressive-dominated Democratic Party). They know that fake stories like this would swing the election their way, and their plan worked.
Progressives are essentially the equivalent of country club Republicans of 50 and 60 years ago, a status-obsessed group of upper crust people and people who aren't upper crust but aspire to be. Both those Republicans of old and contemporary progressives are hostile to working class interests and aesthetics. Anyone seeking to flood our working class with imported, illegal labor is definitely not pro working class. Don't believe me? Just look at quotes from Bernie Sanders in 2015 articulating exactly what I just said. The big difference? Most of progressives' ideas are fairly radical and they seek total control of society.
Whatever you may think of Trump, it is shocking how easily the corporate media along with Big Tech manipulated the outcome of the election by publishing lies about one candidate while suppressing truthful stories about the other. This should be of concern to all thinking people.
And later, when President Trump was ushered into Capitol's bunker by SS, media laughed. The violent mob forced this country's President into his bunker. That wasn't an insurrection and threat to Democracy, it was a mockable event. Utterly contemptible assholes.
So the same media that ignored the Wuhan Virology lab was dishonest about Trump? Shocked. We are all learning that we no longer have a press that serves any function beyond propaganda.
First of all, they weren't peacefully protesting. Burning a church used to be the most vile, hateful thing you could do in America until BLM and Antifa did it. This is further evidence that the MSM woke up every morning and did everything they could to spread negative hate for Trump and positive propaganda for the left. Any rational person still denying that has their head up their ass.
i'm comfortable with not trusting corporate media, but who can i trust? is it okay to trust the word of Glenn? he seems to have the utmost integrity and holds himself to high standards professionally, but i'm just a guy who used to take much of corporate media at its word. aside from reading his material(and he is just one individual in this big world), how can one seek out information that doesn't have the stain of corporate media?
i think a lot of disagreement with Glenn comes from a place of cognitive dissonance. it's hard to reckon with the reality that your reality may be ONLY that- yours. the information within these articles is comparable is wildly informative but it is only available here, so how can i evaluate what i'm being told? clearly that's necessary, this article is proof. how does Glenn collect his information? connections as a journalist, sure, but surely connections can't be the only way? how can i begin to evaluate these claims and these narratives in a similar way without having to rely on Glenn to spoon feed it to me?
Around the time of this event, I called a brother, a committed Trump-hater, to talk about "things in general." He immediately brought up this event, and he was beyond livid. Trump had deliberately endangered the lives of peaceful demonstrators simply to massage his own ego. Trump was the worst human being imaginable. Having watched some video (NOT on CNN) of the "peaceful" demonstrators hurling frozen bottles *after* being warned not to, I took a more nuanced view. I urged "caution if your only source is CNN," and told him he needed to watch Fox and read online forums.
A week later we spoke again and he had grown even more angry. The truth had been confirmed by the fact checkers!
Corporate Media is the enemy of the American people-ENEMY!
I love reading this stuff Glenn, but I did know the answer already. I've yet to test a negative media narrative about Trump that proved to be fully accurate, so I stopped wasting my time. I can predict that there are major falsehoods well enough to not bother.
"By any means necessary" certainly seems to be the depressingly accurate summary of what the media did to remove Trump from office. I voted for Obama in 2008, but felt that he did a terrible job and voted for Romney in 2012. (Talk about regret...) After sitting out the 2016 election, I voted for Trump in 2020, because I thought he did an very good job in the face of the most vicious and dishonest treatment by the media.
What the media did over the past 4 years is fully documented online by Sharyl Attkisson, and is truly disgusting. Read her list -- it is truly scary. Almost as scary as a walk through downtown Minneapolis, where 1500+ buildings were damaged and 137 of them completely destroyed, with virtually no coverage by the media. On the other hand, on 01/06 we had one building lightly damaged, and no end of (often innaccurate) coverage.
Perhaps worth mentioning that many Secret Service Agents and Security Officers were injured in the riot that attempted to breach White House barricades and forced the President and his family to be moved to a bunker. That riot, while studiously ignored, was in kind to the January 6th riot which gets so much press.
Always believe the opposite of what fake news “reports.” I believe we’ll see lots of articles like this from you in the coming months. Go Glenn.
Whatever the left is saying about their enemies . . . THEY are doing. They've been projecting for years and morons continue to swallow the bait whole.
Love it. Keep pounding away Glenn. Maybe some minds glued shut will be pried open.
"[T]hey have nobody but themselves to blame for the utter collapse in trust and faith on the part of the public, which has rightfully concluded they cannot and should not be believed."
Perhaps the best last sentence summation of an article ever written. How can any thinking person ever believe these clowns again. I'm almost surprised a few of them acknowledged they got it wrong. But will any acknowledge WHY they got it wrong. Were their original stories based upon any FACTS, or just conjecture that fit with their view of the world? They're damned lucky you don't have to have a license to practice journalism, as the disbarments would be taking a heavy toll.
For a few years I quietly thought that perhaps I was being too cynical and even a little snide in dismissing mainstream media as little more than propaganda organs. More recently, I've reached a high degree of certainty on the matter, and this odorous episode is yet another confirming example.
The patrician left aka progressives, who constitute basically the entirety of corporate media, no longer practice journalism. They're merely a pr team for their fellow progressives and their goals (and thus the progressive-dominated Democratic Party). They know that fake stories like this would swing the election their way, and their plan worked.
Progressives are essentially the equivalent of country club Republicans of 50 and 60 years ago, a status-obsessed group of upper crust people and people who aren't upper crust but aspire to be. Both those Republicans of old and contemporary progressives are hostile to working class interests and aesthetics. Anyone seeking to flood our working class with imported, illegal labor is definitely not pro working class. Don't believe me? Just look at quotes from Bernie Sanders in 2015 articulating exactly what I just said. The big difference? Most of progressives' ideas are fairly radical and they seek total control of society.