GLENN GREENWALD: It's the classic false flag operation and it was spread all day by the very same people who claim constantly that misinformation, disinformation, and fake news are such grave threats that you need to give them the power to censor the internet to stop it.
MSNBC analysts, Democratic party operatives, people who are associated with DNC super PACS like the Lincoln Project. And it's not just that they spread this disinformation on purpose to manipulate the outcome of an election. Obviously, they did that. But they use the exact tactic, which is making it seem like an event comes from one source when in fact it comes from another, that they have essentially tried to prohibit any of us from investigating or inquiring when it comes to January 6th, and the FBI, even though we know for a fact that the FBI, like them now, uses the tactic constantly.
TUCKER CARLSON: I'm so glad you made that point, because it's true, and you have more than a decade of writing about this, but this once again is an example of a political party turning the conversation to the moral quality of its opponents and ignoring the issues. There is a real debate going on in Virginia over to what extent parents should control the school curriculum. They're not engaging in the debate, they're calling the other guy racist. Is there some point in politics we can get to arguing the issues, or is that done?
GLENN GREENWALD: I think from the perspective of the Democratic Party, they realize that if the debate takes place in terms of what are they actually going to do for voters, who it is who funds them, who controls them, who they serve, if the truth about their agenda is actually revealed, they're going to lose elections.
That is the lesson they learned in 2016. The lesson they took from that is not to "revise our ideology and make sure we are doing things for people so they will vote for us." It was, "let's call everybody as many names as we can and destroy the reputations so they are too afraid to challenge us. We will call them Kremlin agents, white nationalists, racists."
And this is the most important part that happened today, I think. The Democratic Party believes that it "owns" race, that it owns the discourse around race, that it owns the accusations of racism. They believe they have become such good people, primarily white liberals who engineered this today, that racism is now their little toy, their little weapon that they get to exploit and play with any time they want. It is not a serious issue for them. They have no serious convictions about it, it is just something they use for fun to destroy anybody's reputation who opposes them and today provided the most vivid example of how they do that.