Interview · moment 11 of 23
Media Hypocrisy on Press Freedom and Assange
from #259 - Independence Day with Glenn Greenwald | The Tim Dillon Show · #259
2 min
Guest
Greenwald argues mainstream journalists who postured as press-freedom defenders over Trump's mean tweets ignore the actual prosecution threat against Assange out of professional jealousy, since Assange broke more real stories than they did.
- American journalists who spent five years defending press freedom ignored Biden's prosecution of Julian Assange instead of protesting it.
- Tim identifies professional jealousy as the real reason: Assange broke more major stories than all corporate media drones combined.
- Assange's existence exposes what mainstream journalists actually are, which is why the CIA and FBI target him but not Wolf Blitzer or Jim Acosta.
- Politicians like AOC, Bernie Sanders, and Marjorie Taylor Greene represent the actual threat to power.
- Tim speculates Taylor Greene might have an autoimmune disorder but finds her entertaining and supports middle-aged women getting a little flighty and offensive.
- Gay culture shifted from fun to moralism, with activists now pushing library programs instead of living freely.
- Tim says it's not his job to help children in libraries understand their identity, and he doesn't want that responsibility.
Julian AssangeMarjorie Taylor GreeneJim AcostaWolf BlitzerBernie SandersAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez