Posted on 02/10/2022 9:49:13 AM PST by JV3MRC
Media leftists never waste an opportunity to spin one of their disgraced allies as some kind of hero. Even when there’s demonstrable proof they’ve done wrong. Anti-Chevron activist and disbarred eco-extremist lawyer Steve Donziger is no exception.
Donziger was convicted of fabricating evidence and engaging in “corrupt” practices to win a legal case against a major oil company. Still, many in the media have gone to bat for him. Outlets like The Hill, Democracy Now!, Axios, Bloomberg News and The Nation painted him as an environmental hero victimized by Big Oil interests. Bloomberg, in particular, fawned how “videos tagged #freedonziger have been viewed more than 700,000 times on TikTok.”
A pro-Donziger propaganda piece by Guardian US columnist Erin Brockovich didn’t mince words: “This lawyer should be world-famous for his battle with Chevron – but he’s in jail.” Rather than treating him for the legal pariah he is, liberal media outlets have done everything but christen Donziger as the martyred Protector of Gaia throughout the legal saga in past months. But as The Wall Street Journal argued, Donziger’s antics amounted to “The Legal Fraud of the Century.”
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
I knew the lawyers for the oil companies would be dirty SOBs.
What surprised me, is when our lawyers started working for the oil companies.
Lawyers…..money, money, money, money
You might want to try reading the article before commenting.
Would that make my lawyers give me the huge sums of money they received for betraying us?
[snip] Donziger was convicted of fabricating evidence and engaging in “corrupt” practices to win a legal case against a major oil company. ... Outlets like The Hill, Democracy Now!, Axios, Bloomberg News and The Nation painted him as an environmental hero victimized by Big Oil interests... A pro-Donziger propaganda piece by Guardian US columnist Erin Brockovich didn’t mince words: “This lawyer should be world-famous for his battle with Chevron – but he’s in jail.” Rather than treating him for the legal pariah he is, liberal media outlets have done everything but christen Donziger as the martyred Protector of Gaia throughout the legal saga in past months. [/snip]
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