Rachel Maddow has aired a segment condemning the new indictment against Julian Assange for 17 alleged violations of the Espionage Act.
"It's not about that. These new charges are trying to prosecute Assange for publishing that stolen, secret material which was obtained by somebody else. And that is a whole different kettle of fish then what he was initially charged with."
Maddow carefully explained to her audience that these new charges have nothing at all to do with the 2016 election or any of the Russiagate nonsense the MSNBC pundit has been devoting her life to, correctly calling what the Trump administration is doing with Assange "a novel legal effort to punch a huge hole in the First Amendment." She tied this in with Trump's common references to the mass media as the "Enemy of the people", finally taking mainstream liberalism into a direct confrontation with Trump's actual war on the press instead of nonsense about his tweeting mean things about Jim Acosta.
This same pundit was just a couple of months ago not just smearing but outright lying about Assange, deceitfully telling her audience that the new legal rings closing around Assange were about his 2016 publications then instructing viewers not to Google anything about it because they'll get computer viruses.
The outlets which have been smearing Assange relentlessly are now finding themselves forced to defend him.
Last month I argued that all journalists everywhere should be defending Assange regardless of how they feel about him, "Out of sheer, garden variety self-interest." And now that's happening, and that's a good thing.
If even virulent narrative managers like Maddow and Orr are vetoing Trump's latest Assange charges, that's a severe disruption in the narrative war against WikiLeaks.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-25/professional-assange-smearers-finally-realize-his-fate-tied-theirs
"It's not about that. These new charges are trying to prosecute Assange for publishing that stolen, secret material which was obtained by somebody else. And that is a whole different kettle of fish then what he was initially charged with."
Maddow carefully explained to her audience that these new charges have nothing at all to do with the 2016 election or any of the Russiagate nonsense the MSNBC pundit has been devoting her life to, correctly calling what the Trump administration is doing with Assange "a novel legal effort to punch a huge hole in the First Amendment." She tied this in with Trump's common references to the mass media as the "Enemy of the people", finally taking mainstream liberalism into a direct confrontation with Trump's actual war on the press instead of nonsense about his tweeting mean things about Jim Acosta.
This same pundit was just a couple of months ago not just smearing but outright lying about Assange, deceitfully telling her audience that the new legal rings closing around Assange were about his 2016 publications then instructing viewers not to Google anything about it because they'll get computer viruses.
The outlets which have been smearing Assange relentlessly are now finding themselves forced to defend him.
Last month I argued that all journalists everywhere should be defending Assange regardless of how they feel about him, "Out of sheer, garden variety self-interest." And now that's happening, and that's a good thing.
If even virulent narrative managers like Maddow and Orr are vetoing Trump's latest Assange charges, that's a severe disruption in the narrative war against WikiLeaks.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-25/professional-assange-smearers-finally-realize-his-fate-tied-theirs
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