Journalists afraid to question Paul Pelosi narrative, says award-winning journalist
Award-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald Sunday explained why media reporters are afraid to question the established version of events surrounding Friday morning’s attack on Paul Pelosi, which is fraught with unsolved riddles.
According to reports, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband called 911 around 2:30 AM Saturday to report an intruder who Pelosi told police was his “friend” and identified as “David”. When police arrived, they were let in by “an unknown person” and found Pelosi and suspect David DePape, both in their underwear, struggling over a hammer. DePape wrested the hammer from Pelosi and struck him with it before being hauled away by police.
The Democratic power axis involving the Biden administration, mainstream media and Hollywood elite, have been trying to pin the incident on Republicans, even though police still have not established any political motive.
But despite being painted by the media as a member of the Far-Right, DePape is a registered Green Party member whose house is adorned with the rainbow flag and a Black Lives Matter sign.
Many are also questioning how an underwear-clad “Castro-supporting nudist” was able to slip past the neighborhood’s security guards and cameras and then slip past the security cameras, brick wall and other protective measures surrounding the Pelosis' San Francisco home.
Others are questioning why there are no signs of forced entry at the Pelosi mansion, who the “unknown person” was who opened the door for police, why Pelosi was holding a hammer, why the attack only happened after the police arrived, and why bodycam and security footage have not been released.
But none of these questions are being asked by mainstream media journalists, and Glenn Greenwald says he knows why.
“Many journalists see the glaring questions and evidentiary holes in the Paul Pelosi narrative,” The Intercept co-founder wrote in a Twitter thread. “But they also know how important that narrative is to Dems right before the mid-terms. So why stick their heads up, provoke a liberal Twitter mob, and be branded? That's the climate.”
Greenwald mentioned how the police investigation is not only being ignored, but establishment figures have decided the motive on their own.
“Police investigating the Paul Pelosi attack continue to state they *do not know the motive.* Yet liberal ‘thought leaders’ like [Hillary Clinton] and [Jimmy Kimmel] have decreed that not only is the motive known to them, but only insane or malicious people would question them,” the author continued.
He added that this isn’t the first time journalists have questions about a set narrative but are afraid to ask them.
“This happened often during Russiagate: I got texts/DMs/emails from younger journalists inside big media corporations thanking me for being skeptical. They couldn't,” he said. “One Twitter mob against them for questioning Dem narrative (see [Dasha Burns] or [Bo Erickson]) can be career-ending.”
Dasha Burns is an NBC News reporter who recently gained an exclusive interview with Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman, whose communication has been severely handicapped by a stroke he suffered last year. Burns remarked that “it wasn’t clear he was understanding our conversation,” in response to which Fetterman’s wife demanded Burns apologize and “suffer the consequences.”
Bo Erickson, a CBS reporter, also faced the wrath of the ruling class for asking questions. Days before the 2020 presidential election, when Erickson dared to ask Joe Biden about the New York Post’s bombshell exposé on Hunter Biden, Biden snapped, “I know you’d ask it. I have no response, it’s another smear campaign, right up your alley, those are the questions you always ask.” The next month, Erickson shouted out a question to Biden asking if he would urge teachers’ unions to bring children back to classrooms. “Why are you the only guy that always shouts out questions?” Biden berated the journalist.
Greenwald added that in the current McCarthyite climate, anyone who questions the narrative is accused of being a “conspiracy theorist”.
“It's genuinely alarming how conditioned so much of the US population is to equate skepticism toward the pronouncements of media corporations with mental illness: ‘If you don't instantly accept what Wolf Blitzer and Andrea Mitchell claim, then you're a crazy conspiracy theorist.’”
The attorney-journalist also listed his own questions about the Pelosi affair:
“I'd like to know:
* How someone broke into the home of one of the richest and most powerful families without setting off an alarm.
* How Paul Pelosi could call 911 in the middle of this.
* Who is the ‘unknown’ person who opened the door for the police?
* Where is the video?”
Greenwald added that he is curious about why a member of the Far-Right displays Far-Left sentiments in front of his house.
