'Liberal' Media, Top Dems Celebrate Julian Assange's Persecution

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Apr. 11, 2019

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The so-called "liberal" media is ecstatic over the arrest and potential extradition of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange.

Here's MSNBC's resident deep state agent Malcolm Nance:

NBC News made the decision to hire a team of former military & intelligence officials to "report" & "analyze" the news - starting with the highly compromised ex-CIA DIrector now on its payroll - and as a result the have full-on fascists & authoritarians saying things like this: pic.twitter.com/d3jm10ut4a
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 11, 2019

MSNBC's Chris Hayes:

Hold on, currently writing a one act play set in a federal prison with Assange and Avenatti as cellmates.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) April 11, 2019

Salon's Amanda Marcotte:

Is Assange ends up in an American prison, put there by the administration he worked so hard to install, I admit I will enjoy a dark cackle at the irony.
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) April 11, 2019

NeverTrumper and CNN contributor Rick Wilson:

That bitch Assange can't take a collar. Should have walked out like a man, head high. https://t.co/v3J26XbnCx
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) April 11, 2019

The Independent's Ashley Cowburn:

Looks like Ashley Cowburn, political correspondent at the Independent, deleted his brutal tweet on Assange. We thought that might happen... pic.twitter.com/A5vg3lJ1Iz
— Media Lens (@medialens) April 11, 2019

Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins:

The Ecuadorian Embassy's cleaners breath a sigh of relief as they get their broom cupboard back.
— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) April 11, 2019

Tortoise's Chris Cook (formerly with BBC Newsnight/The Financial Times):

Justice for Uncle Albert. https://t.co/pL17kwPJQO pic.twitter.com/X07UKdv711
— Chris Cook (@xtophercook) April 11, 2019

Top Democrat Mark Warner:

Whatever Julian Assange's intentions were for WikiLeaks, what hefs become is a direct participant in Russian efforts to weaken the West and undermine American security. I hope British courts will quickly transfer him to U.S. custody so he can finally get the justice he deserves.
— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) April 11, 2019

The Center for American Progress's Neera Tanden:

There are many cultists on this site, but the Assange cultists are the worst. Assange was the agent of a proto fascist state, Russia, to undermine democracy. That is fascist behavior. Anyone on the left should abhor what he did. Not celebrate it.
— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) April 11, 2019

Former Clinton staffer Claude Taylor, who now runs the anti-Trump Mad Dog PAC:

It’s a great day! Not quite great enough for Julian to be clutching Roger Stone’s pic. It’s Gore Vidal. https://t.co/0DGFhC1xFO
— Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) April 11, 2019

Former Democrat congressional candidate Pam Keith:

Assange is NOT a whistleblower!! He is a publisher of whatever he likes for the reasons he likes. He was also a knowing conspirator with Russia to attack an election. F THAT six ways to Sunday!!
— Pam Keith (@PamKeithFL) April 11, 2019

Louise Mensch:

Therefs something glorious about Russian state TV Ruptly being forced to cover Julian Assange bein dragged, visibly resisting arrest, from the Ecuadorean Embassy https://t.co/kYgvsuKXZM
— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) April 11, 2019

Trump-hating "conservative" Ben Sasse:

This arrest is good news for freedom-loving people. Julian Assange has long been a wicked tool of Vladimir Putin and the Russian intelligence services. He deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison.https://t.co/LJAQeKhrj6 https://t.co/LQpoOoTv1y
— Ben Sasse (@BenSasse) April 11, 2019

You can know someone by their enemies.

No. Democrats are craven authoritarians who want to see Assange imprisoned for one reason & one reason only, even if it means uniting with the Trump Admin: because he published documents that reflected poorly on Hillary Clinton, which they regard as a crime worthy of prison. https://t.co/tOBMuQiz1F
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 11, 2019

Cannot adequately express my burning contempt for media hacks and Twitter charlatans who spent 3 years pretending to care about Trump's attacks on press freedoms -- by which they mostly meant his sarcastic quips to Jim Acosta -- but cheer the arrest of Assange. Disgusting frauds
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 11, 2019

The journalistic activity for which Assange has been indicted led to the exposure of extreme war crimes in Iraq: the very war that Donald Trump ran a victorious presidential campaign in opposition to. Now the Trump DOJ does the bidding of his GOP predecessor, George W. Bush
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 11, 2019

Assange looks like a prisoner of war. pic.twitter.com/4AptTDAS8L
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) April 11, 2019

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