Pope Francis is the only world leader who seems prepared to denounce war.
Whatever happened to the language of peace?
My latest "American Affairs" column in the new issue of The
@newstatesman
.
This is a Big Tech information coup. This is digital civil war.
I, an editor at The New York Post, one of the nation’s largest papers by circulation, can’t post one of our own stories that details corruption by a major-party presidential candidate, Biden.
Early 2020: *changes avatar to a masked selfie.*
Mid 2020: *changes avatar to BLM raised fist*
2021: *changes avatar to boast of being vaxxed*
Early 2022: *changes avatar to STAND WITH UKRAINE*
*All along, considers himself a highly independent thinker*
This is a Big Tech information coup. This is digital civil war.
I, an editor at The New York Post, one of the nation’s largest papers by circulation, can’t post one of our own stories that details corruption by a major-party presidential candidate, Biden.
I've worked in mainstream media for a decade. I used to see NYT/WaPo/network stories and generally assume they were basically true, even if the outlets made mistakes from time to time (we're all human).
Now I think, "What kind of bullshit are these ideologues pulling on me now?"
For five years, the credentialed morons warned that Trump was a foreign catastrophe waiting to happen. None of the prophecies came to pass.
Seven months in, Biden, his veep and press secretary are AWOL, while WH photos dox CIA stations and Afghans drop from fleeing US craft.
It's OK. The Post has weathered the vicissitudes of more than two centuries of American history. We will endure this, too. But those of our colleagues elsewhere keeping silent now best hope *they* never run afoul of the Narrative.
This was the tweet I sent as the (then) op-ed editor of the New York Post on the day our Hunter Files story was banned.
In light of
@mtaibbi
’s latest: A hearty F-you to all the MSM blue-checks who sided with privatized censorship rather than with America’s oldest daily newspaper
This is a Big Tech information coup. This is digital civil war.
I, an editor at The New York Post, one of the nation’s largest papers by circulation, can’t post one of our own stories that details corruption by a major-party presidential candidate, Biden.
It’s now been four days since The Post dropped the first Hunter Files story, and neither Joe nor Hunter has disputed a single material fact.
The easiest thing they could do is to say, “That laptop isn’t ours, Hunter didn’t send/receive those e-mails.”
Yet they haven’t done that
Twitter is censoring us — again.
This is what I — an editor at America’s oldest continuously published newspaper, founded by Alexander Hamilton — get when I try to post our follow-up story on Hunter’s financial shenanigans with the Chinese regime.
Anonymously sourced newsroom-malcontent gossip aside, no one has managed to puncture our reporting on the Hunter Files. No one.
Neither Hunter nor Joe denies the drive is real.
Neither denies the inculpating e-mails.
The forgery charge is laughable.
Business owners in Buffalo, NY demand “health inspector” leave private property. “Go get a warrant.”
People have had enough of the
#COVID19
tyranny curbing their life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
It’s particularly rich that The New York Times has fixated on the “unverified” excuse, since it has spent much of the Trump era offering supposed dirt from anonymous sources — which, by definition, makes the info unverifiable.
Our editorial.
This is what totalitarianism looks like in our century: not men in darkened cells driving screws under the fingernails of dissidents, but tech dweebs removing from vast swaths of the Internet a damaging exposé on their preferred candidate.
My column.
Tell me this doesn’t enrage you:
Ayatollah Khamenei — the anti-American and anti-Semitic leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran — gets to tweet freely.
The NYPost — America’s oldest continuously published newspaper, founded by Alexander Hamilton — is shut out of the platform.
If you didn't unequivocally condemn the summer's riots --- e.g., in The Bronx, where a black police officer was run over by a "protesting" thug, and his body flew like a rag doll --- then you have no business condemning the anarchy on Capitol Hill.
More solidly sourced and corroborated with hard evidence than the whole mountain of “collusion” stories of the past four years — and yet most of our colleagues at other journalistic institutions are either studiously ignoring or trying to discredit us. Shame.
Neither Biden nor Pelosi reckoned with an uncomfortable fact: Slain Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknich was a Trump supporter.
Far from sharing the views of the
#Resistance
, he had written letters to his congressman opposing Trump’s impeachment.
The New York Post endorses President Trump for a second term: no dumb new wars, record jobs growth and higher working-class wages (pre-global pandemic), listening to the working class on trade and immigration.
To recap:
1. We never posted hacked material.
2. If reporting has to be approved by subject of the story, all journalism becomes p.r.
3.
@jack
and Zuck testified under oath that neither has ANY evidence this was hacked material.
4. DNI, FBI and State say no disinformation.
Another HISTORIC breakthrough today! Our two GREAT friends Israel and the Kingdom of Morocco have agreed to full diplomatic relations – a massive breakthrough for peace in the Middle East!
The NY Post — founded by Alexander Hamilton — will continue to chase the truth wherever it takes us. But what happened to us should alarm every American. A very few people can unaccountably shape what you read.
Me in tomorrow’s paper.
OK. We stuck it out in Manhattan through the small-biz-destroying lockdowns; the riots and looting; the masking of our son (at a Catholic school); the neutering of the NYPD; the addicts and street disorder.
Enough. I’ll be on Fox & Friends tomorrow to explain why we’re leaving.
Floridians take all the same COVID precautions New Yorkers do. The difference is that their government has more faith in the public's rationality, and leaders drop measures that don't work and merely compound economic misery.
@karol
reports.
Here’s the story I’ll discuss on Tucker in 10 minutes: Facebook’s censorship team hires at least six Chinese nationals.
That’s right: Chinese computer scientists help Facebook “engineer” your newsfeed and keep out bad stuff like Post reporting on Hunter.
When America’s equivalent of the Red Army Faction brutalizes conservative citizens on the streets of the capital — and does so with total impunity — all the illusions of liberalism collapse.
All the hogwash about neutral procedure gets revealed for what it is: hogwash.
In your charity, please say a prayer for my wife’s cousin Liang, a US Marine who was in Kabul until just this morning and who lost a member of his unit to the cowardly suicide attack at the airport.
This is Mohamed Bzeek. A cancer survivor, he has dedicated his life to fostering profoundly disabled, terminally ill children otherwise left to die alone in the hospital system.
Never forget: Hunter Biden set up a meeting between his father, then the second most powerful man in the world and the Obama administration’s point man on Ukraine, and executives from a shady Ukrainian energy firm that was paying Hunter $83,000 a month.
I'll be on
@foxnewsnight
with
@ShannonBream
at 11:15 to discuss our Hunter story and Big Tech's outrageous censorship of our reporting, which is more solidly sourced than dozens and dozens of anti-Trump stories that collapsed the past few years --- yet never got censored.
The old establishment regime was thoroughly liberal, to be clear. It was the air they breathed.
But you couldn't imagine the old regime straight-up fabricating shit or claiming, as CNN did in a recent news story, that there is no scientific consensus for determining a baby's sex
Yeah, it’s so fake the subjects of the story — Joe and Hunter — won’t come out and deny the authenticity of the e-mails, despite the gravity of the charges.
The people on far right and far left who publicized the obviously bogus
@nypost
story were not dupes. They were accomplices. The story could not have been more obviously fake if it had been wearing dollar-store spectacles and attached plastic mustache.
"As South Africa erupted into chaos, my thoughts turned to America, a great country brought low by the same demented racial politics that set afire my homeland last week."
Rian Malan, the great Afrikaner writer who fought Apartheid, speaks out against CRT
The crazy thing is: I and a number of other conservatives saw this Big Tech coup coming. I had no doubt it was coming. And yet when it came, it was still shocking.
Deut 22: "A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's clothing; for anyone who does such things is an abomination to the LORD, your God."
NYT guest writer: "The ancient Jews were queer, y'all!"
It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen has announced the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle.
To be very clear: A former longtime Democratic staffer, now working at
@Facebook
, is boasting about censoring a reported
@nypost
story damaging to the Democratic candidate for president.
Section 230 reform — now.
While I will intentionally not link to the New York Post, I want be clear that this story is eligible to be fact checked by Facebook's third-party fact checking partners. In the meantime, we are reducing its distribution on our platform.
Fifty former senior intelligence officials signed a letter characterizing the New York Post's Hunter Files reporting as Russian disinfo.
Then, 99 percent of the blue-check media unquestioningly repeated the claim.
Neither the ex-spooks nor the press will face any consequences.
Marxists try to disrupt Mass at Cathedral of our Lady of the Angels. Security, ushers and parishioners said they were not having it.
#cathedral
#Catholic
WATCH: Demonstrators pulled down a statue of Junipero Serra in San Rafael, California as part of an Indigenous Peoples Day protest. The statue of the Catholic saint was taken down after first being painted red.
This is so wild. Facebook/Meta's Manager of Community Development, Jeren A. Miles, was allegedly caught in an amateur child sex sting. YouTube channel "Predator Catchers Indianapolis" live-streamed their interrogation of him. Read my breaking report:
If and when things calm down, God willing, we need a list of all the Western politicos and pundits who called for insane escalatory measures.
These people — and they cut across party lines, hence “uniparty” — should be nowhere near power of or influence.
Our daughter came out as Baby Shark at age 2.
My wife and I affirmed her by amputating her limbs and replacing them with ersatz fleshy fins and a shark tail.
She’s so much happier now.
It’s frustrating to watch people, not least journalists, fall into the same structural information traps we saw play out in:
Iraq
The Arab Spring
The 2015 migrant crisis
And COVID
In each of these cases, there was reassessment and regret afterward. But the lessons don’t stick.
We're now going to see US sanctions --- à la Iraq and Iran --- applied to religious conservatives, economic leftists and others who reject the reigning corporate woke orthodoxy.
Oh, you don't think there are 157 genders? There goes your access to banking!
The thing with US elites is, they aren’t really competent. At all. They’re often just credentialed morons. I will never tire of telling the story of the big-time think-tank director who came to me with a glossy white paper outlining a plan to “transforming the Middle East.” 1/x
In case you missed it, my bombshell report on Facebook’s Orwellian “Hate-Speech Engineering” team: staffed by Chinese nationals with PhDs to censor Americans.
In today’s NYPost.
It’s completely bizarre that Biden is making himself this scarce from now till Election Day.
Someone, please, save this tweet in case Biden loses, and the left and Never Trump start to blame Russia.
Hillary didn’t campaign in key battlegrounds. Biden barely campaigned *at all*.
"Facebook is almost an arm of the Democratic Party — an arm of the far-left wing of the Democratic Party.”
A former Facebook insider dishes on his employer's political culture---and has the screenshots to prove it.
My latest.
Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party thumped the Frankenstein opposition coalition of liberals and neo-Nazis backed by quite literally every element of global liberaldom: from the EU to the prestige press, from the State Department to Mark Freakin' Ruffalo.
Congratulations, Hungary
I will never understand the mental midgetry that leads people to think, “Ah, I’m sitting down and eating, so the virus won’t attack me, but now that I’m standing up, I better mask up.”
A reminder that the Chinese Communist Party unleashed this plague on the world by delaying disclosure and jailing / silencing / disappearing early whistleblowers. We cannot forget this bedrock truth of the 21st century.
.
@camanpour
: I’m ashamed to have to count you an Iranian compatriot. This is a grotesque abuse of history, a horrific, ahistorical equivalence-drawing, a shameful cheapening of the Shoah.
Since twitter has locked out the NYPost for violating rules that no longer stand as rules (but twitter won't revisit past enforcement decisions) the NY Post COULD end this standoff by deleting the tweets that broke the rules (thus unlocking its account) then tweet them out again
Glenn: I can’t overstate how much I admire your integrity and intellectual independence. We’d be honored to have you contribute op-ed columns to The Post on any theme you wish.
My Resignation From The Intercept
The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles.
This has NOTHING to do with The Post’s reporting.
1. Neither Hunter nor Joe has disputed the authenticity of the e-mails or the ownership of the laptop.
2. DNI, DOJ and State say our reporting is NOT Russian disinfo.
3. Hunter’s biz partner has confirmed our China e-mails OTR.
A 64-page document asserting an elaborate conspiracy theory involving Joe Biden's son and business in China, that was later disseminated by close associates of President Trump, appears to be the work of a fake "intelligence firm." (1/8)
#NBCNewsThreads
The New York Post has been doing vigorous reporting for *more than two centuries. This was no exception.
Meanwhile, your upstart site’s lousy, fact-challenged “fact-checking” just led to two pro-life ads being censored by Facebook, and then you had to retract and eat crow.
There is a dramatic difference between
1) verifying, then reporting;
2) dumping, then demanding others disprove
The first practice is journalism. The second practice is partisanship -- or perhaps profiteering.
53% of French oppose going to war if a fellow NATO member is attacked.
60% of Germans likewise.
Ukraine isn’t even a member.
The idea that America should be more zealous for European security than Europeans is pure-grade DC insanity.
Me in WaPo.
That insulting
@Walmart
tweet to a sitting Republican senator (
@HawleyMO
) was perfectly telling: Corporate elites, and the people who do comms/messaging for them, fear and revile the common-good, national-conservative vision Hawley embodies.
Remember when four CNN journos reported that Comey was about to testify that he didn’t assure Trump that he wasn’t under investigation?
That didn’t happen. CNN retracted with egg on its face.
But did Twitter/Facebook censor the story? Nope!