Sunday, 15 December 2024

Rumble in the Jungle | Glenn Greenwald on a New York Times hit piece

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“Rumble in the Jungle”. 

The news Jungle, that is.

Where, to the New York Times, a free-speech platform like Rumble is “far-Right”. When in fact, according to Pew Research, it leans Democrat. But it’s not mainstream media, so the Grey Lady hates in it. 

Glenn Greenwald is himself rather far to the left, a socialist even. He’s broken major stories, like Edward Snowden and Julian Assange

In this video — also above — he rips apart the hapless Times reporter who went after Rumble, who claimed it’s a “right wing cesspit”. It’s not. It’s a free speech platform, for anyone, Left, Right or indifferent. If anything it’s more left than right.

Glenn says it’s become a liberal mantra now that censorship is good and free speech is “fascist”. The inverse of what used to be. The Left used to be all Voltaire: “I may disagree with you but o defend your right to say it”. No longer. That’s Right wing! 

I know. I’ve had a liberal friend of mine, one I’ve known for decades, accuse me of being a “free speech advocate”. To her, that’s a pejorative. Imagine! She who reads only The Guardian, and even then, only the headlines!