Posted on 01/10/2023 5:55:18 AM PST by MtnClimber
MSNBC opinion columnist Zeesham Aleem just penned the latest in what’s become a parade of hit pieces from mainstream outlets directed at me and other independent journalists. Even by the low standards of the genre, “How the populist left has become vulnerable to the populist right” is a humorous standout. It argues that after I spent a month detailing how the FBI, DHS, DOD, CIA and other agencies built a system for mass delivery of censorship requests to firms like Twitter and Facebook, I helped fuel a subculture that “could funnel people from leftism to authoritarianism.”
Here’s a brief list of talking heads at the network now claiming people like me, Glenn Greenwald, Tulsi Gabbard and Jimmy Dore are the ones guilty of funneling audiences to “authoritarianism”:
From top left: Watts, Wallace, Vance, Twitty, Rosenberg, Rangappa, Rhodes, Painter, McCaffrey, Kirschner, Kaytal, Haq, Figliuzzi, Brennan, Bash, McQuade
John Brennan, former Director of the CIA, now senior intelligence analyst at MSNBC
Frank Figliuzzi, formeer Assistant Director of Counterintelligence at the FBI
Asha Rangappa, former Special Agent for the FBI, specializing in counterintelligence
Nicolle Wallace, former Communications Director for George W. Bush
Jeremy Bash, former Chief of Staff of the CIA
Clint Watts, former FBI counterintelligence agent and MSNBC national security analyst
Chuck Rosenberg, former Acting DEA administrator and senior FBI official
Nayyera Haq, former Senior Director of the White House
Richard Painter, former Chief Ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush White House
Neal Kaytal, former Acting Solicitor General of the United States
Ben Rhodes, former National Security Advisor to Barack Obama
Barry McCaffrey, former U.S. Army General and Drug Czar, security analyst for NBC and MSNBC
Stephen Twitty, former Lieutenant General of the U.S. Army
Joyce Vance, former U.S. Attorney
Barbara McQuade, former U.S. Attorney
Glenn Kirschner, former Assistant U.S. Attorney
The right word to describe this brand of gall escapes me. The nerve? The bottle? The damned cheek? Both MSNBC and similarly foundering competitor CNN (which lost 19% and 27% of their audiences, respectively, last year) have been open for years now in their desire to serve as final revolving door destinations for the shadiest conceivable military and security officials....
That is a big enemies list.
The Police State expects to have total control of all aspects of your life. And if you don’t like it, you can be arrested a as a dangerous extremist fomenting Authoritarianism. Canada wants to send Dr. Jordan Peterson to a re-education camp, and that may be necessary here as well, as the Police State deals with domestic terrorists who want to be left alone.
Since when is MSNBC considered mainstream? They are the Soros paid propaganda machine.
Disciples of Marx and Freud evolved the term ‘authoritarianism” to describe, and decry, the traditional human family. That is, families which seek to preserve historical and religious tradition (especially that of Christianity) are a danger to the “progressive society” they espouse. Since parents of such families tend to be rather strict in molding their children in these ways, that process, beginning within the family and extending outward into the community at large, have long ago been labeled “authoritarian”.
So this deconstructive meme is nothing new. It’s just out in the open now.
Good job, Matt. The story is the boss!
Notice we’re getting drips about past stories that were lies.
WaPo Quietly Reports Bombshell Study That Proves Russian Digital Influence in the 2016 Election Was Essentially Nil It was always a nothingburger. Imagine that! by JD Rucker January 9, 2023 in Opinions NOQ Report Is Moving to AmericaFirstReport.com
Trying to claw back credibility? Sorry, Marxist media. Once you lose trust with the people, you must suffer the consequences. Go Broke!
The Democrats seem to be under the misapprehension that their party embodies democracy, that what they say is democratic *is* democratic, by definition. Therefore anything against what they do or propose to do is anti-democracy.
The gall is astounding, but unsurprising.
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