Twosiderism and the MSM vs alleged outside the box stenos

I've used that last phrase elsewhere about people like Aaron Maté, Max Blumenthal, Mark Ames, Jordan Chariton, Yasha Levine, Matt Taibbi, and others.

They're a loose cluster of people who claim to think outside the box of what I call the bipartisan foreign policy establishment here in the U.S.

However, they carry this to an extreme, and that's the twosiderism on their own. Especially on things like China's Uyghur detention camps, they're willing to drink Xi Jinping's bullshit or whatever just because the U.S. foreign policy establishment calls him out for this. (As does most the Western foreign policy establishment.)

Well, beyond two wrongs not making a right, this is not really outside-the-box thinking. Instead, it's creating your own new box.

On things like the New York Post's story about Hunter and Joe Biden, Glenn Greenwald has been a willing member. And, he too is wrong.

Yes, it's Vox, Ezra-land, but Jay Rosen, who is interviewed there by Sean Illing, isn't Ezra Klein.

Rosen just mentions the Post piece in passing as part of a larger issue. And that is that political journalists have for decades more and more treated political reporting as insider baseball. 

Arguably, some of the reactions to the Post piece are just about that. 

And, arguably, some of the stenos' reactions to the MSM reactions to the Post are themselves just about that.

The folks above are claiming to lift the lid off this insider baseball which they claim in the case of the MSM is tied to the bipartisan foreign policy establishment.

Well, on the Biden story, Greenwald was so incensed that not only did he write a story on it, he appeared on racist Tucker Carlson. And "conveniently" refused to mention that the story was SO bad the original Post reporter, Bruce Golding, insisted his byline not be on the piece, and that he or other Post staff — somebody! — leaked to the New York Times.

And, some of these people leave themselves open to credibility challenges otherwise.

Most of them have drunk the Evo Morales Kool-Aid, poured again last week, as documented by me here. And, Kool-Aid it is.

Maté, at least, supplies ever more indirect evidence that he's a Seth Rich conspiracy theorist. 

Most of the people above have drunk, and poured, at least bits of the Tulsi Gabbard Kool-Aid.

And, of course, Greenwald surrendered 90 percent of the Ed Snowden archive to his globalist (sic!) patron and founder of the Intercept.

Greenwald himself is an odd fit outside of attacking the bipartisan foreign policy establishment. He claims not to be a libertarian, but most the other stenos have no problem identifying him as such. Ames and Levine have even attacked him in the past on Exiled.

But, he's a good fit otherwise in peddling the same twosiderism they do.

Besides, I figure it pisses both them and Greenwald off to lump them together.