Eric Boehlert: Can the media Both Sides an insurrection? They're gonna try
https://pressrun.media/p/can-the-media-both-sides-an-insurrectionCan the media Both Sides an insurrection? They’re gonna try
Downplaying GOP coverup
Eric Boehlert
1 hr ago
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But the press is doing its best to portray the investigation as a partisan event, featuring sniping from Both Sides. (A feud!) “Jan. 6 Select Committee to Open Investigation Amid Political Chaos and Controversy,” read a Washington Post headline on Sunday, insisting a “cloud” hung over the proceedings.
“What terrible, inaccurate framing,” tweeted Cornell University professor of American history Larry Glickman. “The story is not the supposed “cloud” but that the GOP has done everything possible to stonewall an investigation. Stop obfuscating GOP responsibility.”
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CNN’s Chris Cillizza threw up his hands, announcing the House select committee’s final report was already useless because Pelosi wouldn’t allow two pro-insurrection Republicans to serve on the panel. (Should the 9/11 Commission have included 9/11 Truthers on the panel?)
In truth, the GOP pullout means the crucial inquiry will be free from internal attempts to derail, delay, and obfuscate by the members hand-picked by McCarthy to expressly prevent a clear accounting. If journalists cared about the investigation itself instead of they shallow optics surrounding it, they wouldn’t have been so distraught by the news Republicans wanted out.
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In an effort to push the Both Sides narrative and to give credence to the GOP’s phony outrage, the press also overlooked a key fact. In May, Republicans in the U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly not to support the creation of an elite, independent Jan. 6 commission, akin to the one that delved into the 9/11 attacks. In blocking the common-sense move by the Senate to sponsor a truly bipartisan investigation, Republicans knew that Pelosi and Democrats would then create a House select committee, and they knew Pelosi would have final say over which Republicans served. None of that was a surprise.
By ignoring that key context though, the press perpetuated GOP rhetoric that Pelosi had “stunned” members.
Republicans are trying to cover-up the origins and blame for some of the most dangerous political violence in this country’s history, and the media are helping.
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They always put forth the same skewed narrative. The corporate owned media refuses to take responsibility for their role in skewing public opinion towards Repuke talking points. The bald facts are, both sides don't! The facts speak for themselves. And, in the case of the February 6th insurrection, they they are spreading Qanon manufactured lies about what really happened. 
The media personalities who pull down six figure incomes can't dare speak the truth because they would be instantly fired. We need to reinsate the Fairness Doctrine. Enough with the propaganda and the horribly false "both sides " lies.
Kicking for visibility. We need to keep talking about how the 'both siderism ' of the mainstream media has enabled the spread of fanatical talking points which ultimately led to the January 6th insurrection. 
