Glenn Greenwald thread examines the 'instantly formed media narrative' about attack on Paul Pelosi

San Francisco police and other investigators still haven’t yet confirmed a motive in the attack on Paul Pelosi, according to the latest reports:

Scott, the San Francisco police chief, said the attack was not a random act. “This was intentional,” he said.

Police didn’t immediately confirm a motive, but three people with knowledge of the investigation told The Associated Press that the assailant targeted Pelosi’s home.

The FBI and Capitol Police are also part of the joint investigation.

That brings us to Glenn Greenwald’s thread examining the media/Dem narrative compared to police statements and what questions are not being asked:

It's very possible that the instantly formed media narrative — Paul Pelosi's attacker was a MAGA fanatic who broke in to murder Nancy — will be proven true.

But right now there are so many glaring doubts and holes in that story that it just takes common sense to question this.

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 30, 2022

Greenwald sees what’s happened, and it’s that if you don’t automatically agree with the mainstream media hive mind, you’re a wacky 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."

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 30, 2022

If the country had a real media there are many totally fair questions to be asked about the Pelosi story:

It's so crucial to understand the dynamic dominating journalism. Few journalists have career security.

Imagine you're a young journalist at a big media corporation. You know if you ask these questions, Twitter will explode and it can ruin your career:https://t.co/wzF4FwEDgg

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 30, 2022

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. One Twitter mob against them for questioning Dem narrative (see @DashaBurns or @BoKnowsNews) can be career-ending.

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 30, 2022

Many journalists see the glaring questions and evidentiary holes in the Paul Pelsoi narrative. 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.

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 30, 2022

The police don’t yet know a motive, but Dems and many in the media sure do seem to.

Police investigating the Paul Pelosi attack continue to state they *do not know the motive.*

Yet liberal "thought leaders" like @HillaryClinton and @jimmykimmel have decreed that not only is the motive known to them, but only insane or malicious people would question them. pic.twitter.com/g2mmxLG1KF

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 30, 2022

Weird how that works, right?

I don't have theories to affirm about motives because I don't try to convince the public to believe things for which there is no evidence yet. That's called *basic journalism.*

The preferred narrative may end up right but most of it is based on massaged-by-CNN anonymous claims.

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 30, 2022

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 9/11 in the middle of this.

* Who is the "unknown" person who opened the door for the police?

* Where is the video? pic.twitter.com/eaQCjiqycP

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 30, 2022

We won’t hold our breath waiting for many in the press to ask those questions.

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