Greenwald: Fake News About The 1/6 Capitol Hill Riot / Non-Insurrection

(1) It wasn't an "insurrection," (2) Officer Sicknick was not killed by the rioters, (3) zip tie guy was with his mom, and picked the zip ties up off of a table so that the police couldn't use them--there were no "capture-kill" teams.

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   At what point do we stop believing this bullshit? I'm embarrassed to have given any credence to any of these claims. This is how the MSM operates: slime and retreat. It blasts out progressive-left propaganda, then quietly retracts it. Which mean: it has virtually the same effect on the low-information left as never retracting it at all. Once its nefarious work is done, it is just either allowed to fade away, or is retracted without fanfare. 

   It's not that I think the right is so much more virtuous--though, well, currently it actually is. But the progressive left has near-absolute cultural / "messaging" power. It has control of the elite institutions, including the conduits of information. It has an enormous amount of control over what can and can't be said even via conduits that circumvent mass media--Twitter and whatnot. Power corrupts, etc. The absence of prominent pushback amplifies the innate crazy of almost anyone. It's worse for the left because they have enthusiastically embraced political correctness--the politicization of truth and the subordination of evidence to politics. This minimizes the other main source of pushback against at least the craziest ideas: cognitive dissonance. Those who embrace political correctness accept principles that help them brush aside the pangs of epistemic conscience.

   And don't forget my favorite meta-component of this whole, gigantic epistemic shitshow: there's no such thing as political correctness!