Glenn Greenwald’s article (The
Histrionics and Melodrama Around 1/6 Are Laughable, but They Serve Several Key
Purposes: As Kamala Harris compares 1/6 to 9/11 and Nancy Pelosi introduces the
cast of Hamilton to sing about democracy, today’s inanity should not obscure
its dangers.”) is extracted at Instapundit:
The number of people killed by
pro-Trump supporters at the January 6 Capitol riot is equal to the number of
pro-Trump supporters who brandished guns or knives inside the Capitol. That is
the same number as the total of Americans who — after a full year of a
Democrat-led DOJ conducting what is heralded as “the most expansive federal law
enforcement investigation in US history” — have been charged with inciting
insurrection, sedition, treason or conspiracy to overthrow the government as a
result of that riot one year ago. Coincidentally, it is the same number as
Americans who ended up being criminally charged by the Mueller probe of
conspiring with Russia over the 2016 election, and the number of wounds — grave
or light — which AOC, who finally emerged at night to assure an on-edge nation
that she was “okay” while waiting in an office building away from the riot at
the rotunda, sustained on that solemn day.
That number is zero. But just as
these rather crucial facts do not prevent the dominant wing of the U.S.
corporate media and Democratic Party leaders from continuing to insist that
Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory was illegitimate due to his collusion with
the Kremlin, it also does not prevent January 6 from being widely described in
those same circles as an Insurrection, an attempted coup, an event as
traumatizing as Pearl Harbor (2,403 dead) or the 9/11 attack (2,977 dead), and
as the gravest attack on American democracy since the mid-19th Century Civil
War (750,000 dead). The Huffington Post’s White House reporter S.V. Date said
that it was wrong to compare 1/6 to 9/11, because the former — the three-hour
riot at the Capitol — was “1,000 percent worse.”
Indeed, when it comes to melodrama,
histrionics, and exploitation of fear levels from the 1/6 riot, there has never
been any apparent limit. And today — the one-year anniversary of that
three-hour riot — there is no apparent end in sight. Too many political and
media elites are far too vested in this maximalist narrative for them to
relinquish it voluntarily.
The orgy of psychodrama today was
so much worse and more pathetic than I expected — and I expected it to be
extremely bad and pathetic . . . .
Full article is here via Instapundit.
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