{"id":1389773,"date":"2022-03-19T10:46:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T14:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1389773"},"modified":"2022-03-19T15:00:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T19:00:46","slug":"thats-our-reality-glenn-greenwald-blows-up-medias-collusion-to-shield-hunter-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thats-our-reality-glenn-greenwald-blows-up-medias-collusion-to-shield-hunter-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018That\u2019s Our Reality\u2019: Glenn Greenwald Blows Up Media\u2019s Collusion To Shield Hunter Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthats-our-reality-glenn-greenwald-blows-up-medias-collusion-to-shield-hunter-biden%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1389773&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1151882442.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald laid into corporate media in a Twitter thread on Saturday morning, detailing how government officials and media outlets had effectively colluded to protect President Joe Biden\u2019s embattled son Hunter \u2014 particularly during the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Greenwald ultimately <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/it-flipped-overnight-glenn-greenwald-points-to-the-one-moment-that-changed-the-pandemic-and-destroyed-trust-in-media\/\">left The Intercept<\/a>, the outlet he cofounded, when he was asked to sanitize an article he was writing about then-candidate Joe Biden, his son Hunter, and their past dealings with both China and Ukraine \u2014 and he argued Saturday that multiple media outlets had been drawn into the coordinated effort to protect the Bidens.<\/p>\n<p>His comments come in the wake of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/16\/us\/politics\/hunter-biden-tax-bill-investigation.html\">report<\/a> from The New York Times \u2014 which, in addition to confirming that Hunter Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/i-think-were-done-here-jen-psaki-clearly-loses-patience-with-hunter-biden-questions\/\">remains under a federal investigation<\/a>, let slip that the emails found on the laptop he reportedly abandoned at a Delaware repair shop were, in fact, authentic.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>People familiar with the investigation said prosecutors had examined emails between Mr. Biden, Mr. Archer and others about Burisma and other foreign business activity. Those emails were obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop. The email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The New York Post\u2019s Miranda Devine, author of \u201cThe Laptop From Hell,\u201d noted that none of the senior ex-intelligence officials \u2014 who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/reminder-these-50-intelligence-officers-claimed-without-evidence-that-new-york-posts-hunter-biden-story-was-russian-disinformation\">swore<\/a> that reports about Hunter Biden were nothing more than \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-doj-fbi-confirm-hunter-biden-laptop-is-not-part-of-russian-disinformation-campaign\/\">Russian disinformation<\/a>\u201d \u2014 were willing to walk back their statements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Spies who lie: The <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">@nypost\u00a0<\/span><span>contacted the senior ex-intelligence officials who signed the shameful 2020 letter declaring Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop and its emails we ran were Russian disinformation. Not one apologized. Most refused to comment. A few like James Clapper doubled down,\u201d she tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Spies who lie: The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nypost<\/a> contacted the senior ex-intelligence officials who signed the shameful 2020 letter declaring Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop and its emails we ran were Russian disinformation. Not one apologized. Most refused to comment. A few like James Clapper doubled down <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EVYBXun02K\">pic.twitter.com\/EVYBXun02K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mirandadevine\/status\/1505149477891489796?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">It\u2019s unfortunate that the <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">@NYPost\u00a0<\/span><span>is one of the few large US outlets willing to hold accountable the cretins in the US security state for the lies they told about the Biden emails being \u2018Russian disinformation\u2019 \u2013 designed to manipulate the 2020 election \u2013 but that\u2019s our reality,\u201d Greenwald responded.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s unfortunate that the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NYPost<\/a> is one of the few large US outlets willing to hold accountable the cretins in the US security state for the lies they told about the Biden emails being &#8220;Russian disinformation&#8221; \u2013 designed to manipulate the 2020 election \u2013 but that&#8217;s our reality: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u7ZXJlejMG\">https:\/\/t.co\/u7ZXJlejMG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1505167870656925701?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThese \u2018former intelligence officials\u2019 \u2013 trained career disinformation agents, who were supposed to manipulate other countries\u2019 politics, not the US\u2019s \u2013 have the same contempt for the public as the media outlets they command: refuse to admit their lies,\u201d Greenwald continued.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to share a link to a podcast that he said outlined the situation in greater detail \u2014 and effectively indicted his former outlet, The Intercept, for its role in furthering the narrative.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here&#8217;s a great breakdown from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vanguard_pod?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@vanguard_pod<\/a> \u2014 one of the best and most honest left-wing shows on the internet \u2014 about the role played by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theintercept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@theintercept<\/a>&#8216;s editors in spreading the CIA&#8217;s &#8220;Russian disinformation&#8221; line, and how <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheYoungTurks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheYoungTurks<\/a> supported them:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TzsEZQ6qtn\">https:\/\/t.co\/TzsEZQ6qtn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1505168914820616194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But in addition to the ex-intelligence officials not apologizing or walking back their assertions, Greenwald noted that the media outlets that had run with the \u201cRussian disinformation\u201d narrative were not in a hurry to to concede their own involvement in spreading \u201cthe CIA lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd, just by the way, it\u2019s been 48 hours since the outlet they regard as \u2018The Paper of Record\u2019 stated they authenticated the emails in the Hunter Biden archive about Joe\u2019s activities. Not a single media outlet that spread the CIA lie has acknowledged it or retracted their lies,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1505169531710410753\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the time CIA got huge numbers of corporate outlets to spread its lie that the Biden laptop was \u2018Russian disinformation,\u2019 actual reporters at the WPost warned Biden constantly maligns incriminating reports as \u2018Russian disinformation\u2019 with no evidence,\u201d Greenwald continued, going on to note that one of the few reporters at the NYT who had \u201creally explored how Biden\u2019s actions in Ukraine benefitted Burisma as it paid Hunter $50k\/month\u201d was a woman named Iuliia Mendel \u2014 who later became press secretary to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">One interesting historical note: The co-author of the first NYT article, from 2019, that really explored how Biden&#8217;s actions in Ukraine benefitted Burisma as it paid Hunter $50k\/month was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IuliiaMendel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IuliiaMendel<\/a>, who 1 month later became Zelensky&#8217;s Press Secretary.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jRZrJzgueg\">https:\/\/t.co\/jRZrJzgueg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1505217926021926915?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Greenwald wrapped up his thread by pointing out Ukraine\u2019s efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/01\/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446\">undermine former President Donald Trump<\/a> during the 2016 election, followed by a video of Congressman Adam Schiff with CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, both of whom appeared eager to parrot the narrative.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cHere\u2019s the worst pathological liar in the US Congress bar none, <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">@AdamSchiff<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">, repeating, in Oct 2020, the CIA lie to Wolf that the emails from the Biden laptop were \u2018Russian disinformation\u2019 (Blitzer and CNN also affirmed this lie on their own of course),\u201d Greenwald tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here&#8217;s the worst pathological liar in the US Congress bar none, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchiff?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AdamSchiff<\/a>, repeating, in Oct 2020, the CIA lie to Wolf that the emails from the Biden laptop were &#8220;Russian disinformation&#8221; (Blitzer and CNN also affirmed this lie on their own of course):<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dF5maKszGK\">pic.twitter.com\/dF5maKszGK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1505219225140535298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald laid into corporate media in a Twitter thread on Saturday morning, detailing how government officials and media outlets had effectively colluded to protect President Joe Biden\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1389773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}