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With the ouster of Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney from her leadership position, it seems that former President Trump’s iron grip on the GOP is only getting stronger. Now, over 100 Republicans are joining an effort to create a third party if the GOP doesn’t change course.
Jennifer Rubin, MSNBC Contributor and Washington Post Opinion Writer, Elise Jordan, MSNBC Political Analyst, Contributor to Time Magazine, and a former aide to the Bush/Cheney White House and State Departments, and Meghan Milloy, founder and Executive Director of Republican Women for Progress.” Join American Voices with Alicia Menendez to discuss what the GOP has to offer to women.May 16, 2021
Glenn Greenwald
DEGENERATE JOURNALISM
Journalists with major outlets know they spread a false, retracted story about the FBI and Giuliani but refuse to remove it, because their real job is spreading disinformation.
Rudy Giuliani appeared before the Michigan House Oversight Committee in Lansing, Michigan on December 2, 2020 (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP) (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)
One of the primary plagues of corporate journalism, which I have documented more times than I can count, just reared its ugly head again to deceive millions of people with fake news. When one large news outlet publishes a false story based on whispers from anonymous security state agents with the CIA or FBI, other news outlets quickly purport that they have “independently confirmed” the false story, in order to bolster its credibility (
One of the primary plagues of corporate journalism, which I have documented more times than I can count, just reared its ugly head again to deceive millions of people with fake news. When one large news outlet publishes a false story based on whispers from anonymous security state agents with the CIA or FBI, other news outlets quickly purport that they have “independently confirmed” the false story, in order to bolster its credibility (
oh, it must be true since other outlets have also confirmed it).
This is an obvious scam they have not “independently confirmed” anything but rather merely acted as servants to the same lying security state agents who planted the original false story but they do it over and over, creating the deceitful perception that a fake story has been confirmed” by multiple outlets, thus bolstering its credibility in the public mind. It was the favored tactic for spreading debunked Russiagate frauds and is still used. One of the most vivid exampl
Gov. Andrew Cuomo s warning that unvaccinated people could kill their grandma s and more round out today s top media headlines.
MSNBC s Nicolle Wallace was on the receiving end of intense criticism Monday for perpetuating the lie that Rudy Giuliani received an FBI briefing notifying him that he was the target of a Russian disinformation campaign.
The former Republican strategist was slammed by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald following the retractions by various major news outlets of their false reporting that Giuliani received the briefing. As usual, the MSNBC program of Nicolle Wallace who has magically transformed from a disinformation agent for the Bush/Cheney White House into an identical disinformation agent but now for the DNC was one of the leaders in spreading this lie, Greenwald wrote in his Monday newsletter, which gave a scathing rebuke to corporate news outlets for spreading the false story.