Posted on 10/31/2022 7:19:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald said Sunday that there was a very simple reason that members of his chosen profession seemed unwilling to question the narrative surrounding the alleged attack on Paul Pelosi — namely the possibility that asking questions could put their careers at risk.
Greenwald laid out his theory in a Twitter thread, saying that it didn’t even matter whether or not the prevailing narrative — that the person who was arrested at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) was a far-right conspiracy theorist and election denier — was true. The point, he said, was that it couldn’t be questioned.
“It’s very possible that the instantly formed media narrative — Paul Pelosi’s attacker was a MAGA fanatic who broke in to murder Nancy — will be proven true. But right now there are so many glaring doubts and holes in that story that it just takes common sense to question this,” Greenwald began.
“It’s genuinely alarming how conditioned so much of the U.S. population is to equate skepticism toward the pronouncements of media corporations with mental illness: ‘If you don’t instantly accept what Wolf Blitzer and Andrea Mitchell claim, then you’re a crazy conspiracy theorist.'”
Greenwald went on to explain that even journalists who had questions about the prevailing narrative — on any topic — often felt as though they couldn’t say anything without risking their jobs or even their entire careers.
“It’s so crucial to understand the dynamic dominating journalism. Few journalists have career security,” Greenwald continued. “Imagine you’re a young journalist at a big media corporation. You know if you ask these questions, Twitter will explode and it can ruin your career.”
He then shared a tweet from Steve Krakauer that included just a few of the questions he thought media ought to be asking.
“Why wasn’t there signs of forced entry at Pelosi home?”
“Who was 3rd person who opened door for police?”
“Why was Pelosi holding hammer and attack only happened after police arrived?”
“Where is bodycam/security footage?”
“Why isn’t the press asking these questions?”
“This happened during Russiagate,” Greenwald added, saying that he had gotten a number of messages from journalists who worked for larger media corporations — and they had expressed their thanks that he was willing to question the narrative because they couldn’t do it.
“One Twitter mob against them for questioning Dem narrative (see @DashaBurns or @BoKnowNews) can be career-ending,” he said.
Greenwald said that he believed many journalists saw the “glaring questions and evidentiary holes” in the story that had been pushed so far regarding Pelosi, but especially in the last days before the midterm election, the narrative was even more important than usual. “Why stick their heads up, provoke a liberal Twitter mob, and be branded?” he asked. “That’s the climate.”
“Police investigating the Paul Pelosi attack continue to state they *do not know the motive.* Yet liberal “thought leaders” like @HillaryClinton and @jimmykimmel have decreed that not only is the motive known to them, but only insane or malicious people would question them,” Greenwald continued.
Greenwald went on to say that he wasn’t ready to ascribe any motives because he didn’t feel that he’d seen enough evidence to do so, adding, “The preferred narrative may end up right but most of it is based on massaged-by-CNN anonymous claims.”
He then listed the questions he’d like to see answered before claiming he understood exactly what went down in the Pelosi’s home:
“How someone broke into the home of one of the richest and most powerful families without setting off an alarm?”
“How Paul Pelosi could call 9/11 in the middle of this?”
“Who is the ‘unknown’ person who opened the door for the police?”
“Where is the video?”
Oh come on Glenn, you are better than that. There is literally zero verified evidence he's MAGA, and a raft full open evidence he's a crazed leftist as only California can produce. I'm annoyed at the dishonesty of the media on this case, but mostly I'm just open-jawed at the sheer driveling stupid and anti-reality of it.
My GUESS is that he was Paul Pelosi's Homo Lover and they had a "Lover's Quarrel".
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Is it possible the Pelosi attack could have been staged, a fake “hate crime,” like the one involving Jussie Smollett?
If it was, Paul wasn't given the memo. Most likely scenario remains faggotry gone wild.
Here is a link to the audio of Pelosi calling 911 for those who haven’t yet heard it:
https://rumble.com/v1qhen2-police-audio-of-sfpds-welfare-check-call-about-paul-pelosi.html
No, because the narrative (such as CNN claiming David the gay hooker was saying "Where is Nancy?", and that cops got there so fast they could see him start to hit Paul Pelosi with the hammer, then just busted right in and stopped him immediately) was concocted ad hoc, instead of in advance.
We want the call that Paul made from the bathroom. This is the one of dispatch talking about David being a friend.
If it’s been released it’s been ‘edited’ to fit the liberal story line. Same with body cams ...
Then again it’s possible since San Francisco’s a democrat crime ridden hellhole — maybe the liberal narrative about a man breaking in - wearing underwear and carrying a hammer he doesn’t use until police arrive - is true.
It’s possible.
The question now is will he be back out on the street before Paul is out of the hospital - like he would be if he had done the same to a common citizen.
The answer to the questions will never be given. The fix is already in. His lawyer, a public defender, has said that t
he will be requesting mental evaluation of his client. That will be accepted by the judge and he will go to the funny farm, never to be heard from again. Of course that means that the 911 call, security video, body cams and statements/reports from the arresting/responding officers will be sealed.
Questions I have:
1. How did the suspect know where Pelosy lives?
2. How did he get there?
3. How was he dressed prior to arriving at the house? (a security guard next door claims he saw him wearing black clothes and carrying black back pack. May be true, but unconfirmed).
4. Was he let into the house, since the “breaking” of the patio glass door appears to show glass breaking/falling outside?
5. If he was let in, who let him in? If he broke in as “reported”, why wasn’t an alarm triggered?
6. How did he come to be only wearing his underwear?
7. Why did PP know his name and call him a friend?
8. Who opened the front door for the officers if, when it opened, they saw PP and David both holding the hammer and, as reported, David had his hand on the hammer and his other hand on PP’s free hand, restraining it?
9. Was the alarm system on?
Etc., etc.
Yes, you are sadly right. We will never know the real answers to the questions we all have. The left will continue to feed my distrust of them. They don’t want dialogue. They want to say what they want and then tell us to shut up.
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