IRONY! After Smearing Kash Patel, The Atlantic Announces That We Live in Nazi-Occupied France

The sheer magnitude of cognitive dissonance required to be a leftist media hack is truly breathtaking to behold.

As Twitchy readers know, the fiction writers ... err, we mean 'journalists' ... at The Atlantic covered themselves in shame (again) this weekend with a libelous hit piece on FBI Director Kash Patel. As usual, there were no sources behind the smears, just anonymous 'people close to the situation.' It was so predictably bad that Harmeet Dhillon called it out as the last gasp of a dead legacy media. (And, shocker of all shockers, the author was also responsible for equally baseless and defamatory rumors about Brett Kavanaugh.)

It's enough to make people ask, 'What kind of world do we live in where the apparatchik press is free to slander public officials like this with no accountability?'

Welp. This morning, The Atlantic answered that question. Apparently, the world where subversive journos can defame people in government is exactly the world of ... Nazi-occupied France?

“The Sorrow and the Pity,” a four-hour documentary from 1969 about Nazi-occupied France, chronicles the way that many ordinary citizens simply lived their lives as if nothing had changed—and the film is more relevant than ever, @GrahamDavidA argues. https://t.co/BQwtqKIINp
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) April 19, 2026

Yes, of course, it is. Because everyone knows that the Nazis welcomed the French Resistance to smear Hitler and Himmler with groundless rumors and accusations, and never cracked down on that sort of thing.

It begs another question: 'What color is the sky in David Graham's fever-dream world?'

Here is just a brief (and again, all too predictable) sample of Graham's delusional scribblings:

The Nazi occupation required co-opting institutions that had previously been neutral and turning them into tools for repressing dissent ... When President Trump tries to use the National Guard, Marine troops, and agents from Customs and Border Protection or ICE to stifle protests and achieve political goals, he risks the same corruption of institutions created to protect the populace.