Glenn Greenwald is a left wing journalist with a conscience and a sense of fair play and freedom of expression that would put many self-described conservatives to shame.
He’s no fan of the reinstated neoliberal order and takes particular umbrage at the leftist media’s attempt to prop up that system by controlling the flow of information.
In the weeks before the election, Facebook & Twitter united to block authentic reporting about the Bidens from the NY Post and other outlets.
Most journalists *cheered* this brute suppression of journalism – because their claimed belief in press freedoms is fraudulent.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 26, 2021
He appeared on FNC Monday night, on “Tucker Carlson Tonight”, and made his points.
Greenwald: “Well, the through line for everything that just talked about, Tucker, is that the Democratic Party, which now controls the House, the Senate and the White House genuinely believes they have a monopoly on objective truth. They believe they’re the party of science and rationality, and that the only way to disagree with them is if you’re either a deranged conspiracy theorist or a seditionist, somebody who is engaged in criminal conduct or terrorism.
And therefore, they genuinely believe, it’s not a show. It’s not a pretext. They all have convinced one another through this echo chamber that they’ve created, essentially, the entire media except this network, which is why they want to shut it down, that if you disagree with their orthodoxies and their consensus, you are a threat and a danger.
And it’s so ironic they spent four years claiming they are fighting fascism and authoritarianism, and what are they trying to do now? They’re trying to harness corporate and monopoly power to silence everyone who disagrees with them, the very hallmark, the epitome of the fascism they claim to be fighting, but which in reality they embody.
It’s like they are — it’s like they are envious of Putin in that he’s managed to consolidate the power that they wish they could wield and are trying to wield now.
Tucker, they genuinely want everyone who disagrees with them silenced. I know it sounds like hyperbole if you don’t pay attention constantly to the news. And it’s not just random people who are saying it, it is leading members of the Democratic Party, they’re going to have partners in the Republican Party as well.
They want to exploit their power to regulate corporations and monopolies to — they’re saying it outright. They’re saying, we now control and regulate your industry and we demand that you stop using your advertising money for this network that criticizes us, the party in control. Now, if that isn’t authoritarianism, what is?
They want to shut everybody off the internet. They destroyed an entire social media platform. They just took it off of the internet, because they instructed Silicon Valley monopolies that it was their obligation to remove it. It is very chilling. You really can’t overstate how bloodthirsty they are and the control that they’re trying to exert over our discourse.” The man speaks wisely.
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