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Michael C Moynihan
@mcmoynihan
The Fifth Column podcast. Ex-Vice on HBO / Vice News Tonight. Ex-Daily Beast. Various other things.
New York / East EggJoined February 2009
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Michael C Moynihan
@mcmoynihan
Hilarious that CNN laughs at a rando Canadian ridiculously comparing Canada to Nazi Germany yet had a piece leading its website this morning comparing Joe Rogan to the Rwandan genocide
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Tom Elliott
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CNN’s @brianstelter: "What you have seen in Canada is others are fearful of these protesters who are arguing for freedom. Right? Because some of the fringe rhetoric …”
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Michael C Moynihan
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People are getting sick (and some dying) from bootleg *THC* vapes…so Walmart has heroically responded by ending sales of legit *nicotine* vapes, thus creating space for a new bootleg market. Makes total sense.
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The New York Times
@nytimes
Breaking News: Walmart said it would end sales of e-cigarettes at its U.S. stores. It comes amid growing concerns about the health risks of vaping. nyti.ms/30Dn5M5
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Michael C Moynihan
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So...Jill Abramson's book has finally hit bookstore shelves. A few weeks ago, reading a galley copy, I noticed an egregious error about my colleague
@adrs
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Michael C Moynihan
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The book ends with a final wag of the finger, reminding me that my colleagues apparently don’t possess “the expertise to compete on the biggest news stories.” If Abramson is the arbiter of ethics & expertise, I think we’re doing just fine.
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Michael C Moynihan
@mcmoynihan
How about immediately *fire* them, wait 15 seconds, and arrest them for assault?
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The New York Times
@nytimes
2 Buffalo police officers were suspended without pay on Thursday night after a video showed them shoving a 75-year-old protester, who was hospitalized with a head injury, the authorities said nyti.ms/3eRZtuP
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Michael C Moynihan
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Imagine watching this grotesque invasion unfold, seeing the devastating human/geopolitical consequences, and thinking, "man, this really reminds me of January 6th." And then saying so publicly. Over and over.
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Michael C Moynihan
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*All three* chapters on Vice were clotted with mistakes. Lots of them. The truth promised in Merchants of Truth was often not true. While trying to corroborate certain claims, I noticed that it also contained...plagiarized passages.
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Michael C Moynihan
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I really have to move out of this stupid neighborhood. Imagine posting this video and thinking it makes you look like a civil rights hero staring down Bull Connor: "Don't know who he's playin' with, bro."
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Michael C Moynihan
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Telling a German Jew to learn the history of Nazism...while also not understanding the difference between the SA and Gestapo! (Note: unlike the Gestapo, the Nuremberg tribunal stupidly decided to *not* prosecute the SA as a criminal organization)
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Michael C Moynihan
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Trying to anticipate how the slobbering sycophants defend *this* indefensible conspiracy theory
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur. 75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment. @OANN I watched, he fell harder than was pushed. Was aiming scanner. Could be a set up?
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Michael C Moynihan
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If you’re concerned Musk will allow unfettered lying, misinformation, name calling, and libel on this platform, maybe it's best not to make this point when...engaging in that *exact behavior*
mediaite.com
Joy Reid Claims Musk Owning Twitter Shows He 'Misses' Apartheid South Africa: 'He Wants That Back'
Joy Reid shared an elaborate theory Tuesday about what motivated Elon Musk to buy Twitter: he wants to rule over Black people, as he missed apartheid.
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Michael C Moynihan
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Who’s going to break it to the brilliant historian (and Holocaust survivor) Saul Friedländer that he has to brush up on his history? amazon.com/dp/0060930489/
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Also @Liz_Cheney, the fact that you employed the horrifying word “exterminated” here (co-opting the language of the oppressor) tells us that it’s *you* that needs to brush up on your reading. Hope you enjoy defending concentration camps. I won’t back down fighting against them. twitter.com/Liz_Cheney/sta…
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Michael C Moynihan
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NYT wants to correct the historical record, lamenting that Valerie Solanis’s “daring” arguments for “cutting up men” were overshadowed by that *one* time she tried to murder a man
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Michael C Moynihan
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I usually hate “imagine if Obama did X” tweets but...imagine the conservative response if Obama praised *two* communist dictatorships in one tweet...
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Vietnam is thriving like few places on earth. North Korea would be the same, and very quickly, if it would denuclearize. The potential is AWESOME, a great opportunity, like almost none other in history, for my friend Kim Jong Un. We will know fairly soon - Very Interesting!
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Michael C Moynihan
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Everything about this piece is awful. But did no editor notice that the single verifiable social media post cited...is from a fake Twitter account with zero followers?
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Mother Jones
@MotherJones
There's another epidemic spreading right now: White guys on social media who suddenly have become infectious disease experts. bit.ly/2KeE1CY
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Michael C Moynihan
@mcmoynihan
Equality at last: I dreamed of the day when narrow-minded oafs stopped banning gay people from participating in parades and were replaced with broad-minded activists banning people from *gay pride* parades
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Michael C Moynihan
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Also: this very well might be the dumbest tweet in the history of this dumb website. And it’s from the President of the United States. (Weird capitalizations, of course; hilarious misspellings; unfamiliarity with basic punctuation; general incoherence; bizarre phrasing; etc)
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
To show you how dishonest the LameStream Media is, I used the word Liddle’, not Liddle, in discribing Corrupt Congressman Liddle’ Adam Schiff. Low ratings @CNN purposely took the hyphen out and said I spelled the word little wrong. A small but never ending situation with CNN!
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Michael C Moynihan
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Still available from Hachette Book Group: the autobiography of Joey, a "gripping" account of a mafia serial killer who copped to 38 murders. You'll be wowed by "the frank intelligence of" the author! hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david-f
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Publishers Weekly
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BREAKING: In a statement, Hachette Book Group has announced that it will not publish Woody Allen’s memoir 'A Propos of Nothing, originally scheduled for sale in April 2020, and will return all rights to the author. Our story is forthcoming.
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Michael C Moynihan
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Re: Mugabe’s “complicated legacy” headline. This is the preferred locution when eulogizing dead scumbags who imprisoned and brutalized their own people, but also assured credulous intellectuals that they were reliably ”anti-imperialist”
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Michael C Moynihan
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I watched a full episode of the Lou Dobbs show for the first time today. And it was so crazy that I felt compelled to distill the greatest bits into a tidy two-minute clip:
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Michael C Moynihan
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“THEY HAVE A REAL DEMOCRACY,” the Pink Floyd person shouted, not realizing that they don’t even have a fake democracy
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Roger Waters ✊
@rogerwaters
A note from Roger: THIS IS TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STOP THIS LATEST USG INSANITY, LEAVE THE VENEZUELAN PEOPLE ALONE. THEY HAVE A REAL DEMOCRACY, STOP TRYING TO DESTROY IT SO THE 1% CAN PLUNDER THEIR OIL. US HANDS OFF #VENEZUELA! #NICOLASMADURO #STOPTRUMPSCOUPINVENEZUELA
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Michael C Moynihan
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Simon and Schuster stupidly paid a million dollars for this disastrous book. If these obvious examples of plagiarism aren’t enough and they require more examples of egregious mistakes and secondary source...ummm...cribbing, I’ll happily provide them.
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Max Tani
@maxwelltani
Statement from Simon & Schuster on Jill Abramson's book: "If upon further examination changes or attributions are deemed necessary we stand ready to work with the author in making those revisions."
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Michael C Moynihan
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Imagine the cash rewards and endless prayers when they find out the dog walker was *shot in the chest*!!!
If you have any left over praying time...
Thankfully it doesn’t feel like someone shot one of his kids
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Also shot!
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Michael C Moynihan
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Can’t imagine a *ton* of undecided voters swinging to Biden after seeing a two-time former CPUSA vice-presidential candidate on Russian state television
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Ilhan Omar
@IlhanMN
I am voting for Biden, because a vote for Biden is one for ourselves. Trump’s American isn’t inclusive and doesn’t see it as “our” country. For the sake of progress, for sanity and our democracy we must all come together and vote for a better tomorrow. twitter.com/Deandre_Jamaal
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Michael C Moynihan
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From America's sweethearts Joe and Mika (who were such Trump sycophants in 2016 that, when he won the NH primary, he thanked them for being "supporters"): a demand the govt "shutdown" Facebook because it has “destroyed this country” and “destroyed democracies across the globe”
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Michael C Moynihan
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Just so I've got this straight: Trump is thanking Rachel Maddow, praising Bill de Blasio, "impressed" by John Kerry, has "much respect" for Xi Jinping, and thinks Thomas Massie should be expelled from the Republican Party
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Michael C Moynihan
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This is pathetic. 80-plus (!) student groups protest pro-Palestinian activists Roger Waters and Linda Sarsour speaking on the UMass campus, because certain students at my alma mater might “suffer irreparable harm” hearing opinions they disagree with
democracynow.org
Roger Waters & Linda Sarsour Event on Backlash Against Pro-Palestinian Voices Faces Lawsuit, Protest
The founder of Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, is at the center of a growing controversy over free speech on college campuses. Waters is scheduled to speak on a panel titled 'Not Backing Down: Israel, Free...
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Michael C Moynihan
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The headline here is that Bloomberg says China *isn’t* a dictatorship. Good push back from
@MargaretHoover
; incoherent, condescending responses from
@MikeBloomberg
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Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
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.@MikeBloomberg tells @FiringLineShow that China's leader is addressing pollution to satisfy constituents & secure his political future. "The Communist Party wants to stay in power in China and they listen to the public," he says.
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Michael C Moynihan
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Two historical events with a combined death toll of 5,380 people
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Sky News
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Vice President Kamala Harris says the January 6 insurrection stand alongside Pearl Harbour and 9/11 as moments in the history of America when the nation's democracy "came under assault". trib.al/zDCRWLt 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Michael C Moynihan
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Apparently three million wealthy people have fled Venezuela. And apparently those remaining in the country who clotted the streets of Caracas today are all super rich too.
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Boots Riley
@BootsRiley
For those that say "talk to a Venezuelan" about the US-backed Coup in Venezuela, understand this: Venezuelans living in the US, and many on twitter, are mostly from wealthier fams. They arent SIMPLY Venezuelan. They have class interests that arent the same as poor Venezuelans.
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Michael C Moynihan
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In his Ozy piece,
@benyt
mentions "a magazine-style advertising supplement" the company ran in the NYT. A quote on the cover calls
@carloswatson
"the best interviewer on TV," attributed to Deadline...which is actually a quote from his own COO *in Deadline.* Amazing.
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Michael C Moynihan
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GQ article on Matthews that precipitated his firing says he called Hillary Clinton a “she-devil.” A bit surprising, even for him. It was sourced to Jezebel, who sourced it to Media Matters, who were...not being very charitable to Matthews
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Michael C Moynihan
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This is dumb. If you fly a lot—especially out of smaller airports (Burlington) on less-trafficked routes (Burlington go anywhere)—you almost always get bumped up to first class...which is basically just a bigger seat and some shitty snacks
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Hank Thomas
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A nervous democratic socialist in first class. #FeelTheBern
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Michael C Moynihan
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Another surprising archival find: Henry Louis Gates's 1990 contribution to a NYT forum on "multiculturalism," in which he denounces "academic autism" and the "mantra of race-class-gender," and laments that academic conferences have become the "Oppression Academy Awards"
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Michael C Moynihan
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the very first example I cite isn’t mentioned in the end notes at all, nor is the Time Out one. The others in different spots. Regardless, *even if you cite it deep in the footnotes,* it’s still plagiarism. This is something the former executive editor of NYT should understand
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Andrew Wimsatt 🖐
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Here is @JillAbramson's response to @mcmoynihan's tweets regarding plagiarized passages in her book from FNC's "The Story with Martha McCallum" (cc @mattwelch @anthonyLfisher @kmele @brianstelter @greggutfeld)
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Michael C Moynihan
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Yeah, that’s not what she said
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Lee Zeldin
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.@RashidaTlaib says the Holocaust gives her “a calming feeling” calling for a 1 state solution putting Jews in the minority & out of power of their own country. This is a heart filled w darkness & how the Holocaust began in 1st place. Listen @ 28 min mark. play.acast.com/s/skullduggery
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Michael C Moynihan
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All these bombs are fake! But if they *are* real, it’s a false flag!
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Frank Gaffney
@frankgaffney
None of the leftists ostensibly targeted for pipe-bombs were actually at serious risk, since security details would be screening their mail. So let’s determine not only who is responsible for these bombs, but whether they were trying to deflect attention from the Left’s mobs.
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Michael C Moynihan
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Also: hard to keep up with when over-the-top Nazi comparisons are grotesque and when they're *just giving you a warning from history, man...* (Answer: In American politics, 98.7% of the time they are grotesque)
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Michael C Moynihan
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"Ask yourself: if Cuban communism is a failed project, why has the Castro regime never held a free election? And why are opposition parties banned? And why has the island lost 20% of its population to emigration?"
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