by Mark Crispin Miller, News from Underground:

Tucker Carlson tells Russell Brand exactly how it all went down, while CNN’s Abby Phillip flips out in defense of the official story, which she thinks is true, because “we watched what happened”

Although their function is to put across Big Lies, and then maintain them, “our free press” (by and large) don’t think they’re telling lies. What makes them such dogged champions of those lies, no matter what the counter-evidence, is the intense—that is, fanatical—conviction that the lies are true. Thus “our free press” is a sort of cult, its members’ faith in the Official Story bolstered by their salaries, their status and the fact that everyone around them “thinks” the same. (Nor are they only “liberals” in that cult; Fox News bought “January 6” along with all the other media, as Carlson notes—and so it was with 9/11, and COVID-19.)