This is not a story about jihad, and yet it is. This story, along with stories about how Leftist Soros-funded groups bought favorable coverage of the Iran deal and the Muslim migrant inundation, and also bought hit pieces on foes of jihad terror, sheds light on what the mainstream media really is: a propaganda organ for the Left and the Democratic Party in particular, not in any sense a genuine source of news.
This story explains why no mainstream media outlet ever covers foes of jihad terror favorably or give them a fair hearing, or ever notes the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ links to Hamas, or the Southern Poverty Law Center’s vicious bias and hard-Left agenda, but treats both as if they were objective, respected and respectable sources of information. It gives an insight into what might be motivating “journalists” such as Andrew Kaczynski, Christopher Massie, Scott Shane, Christiane Amanpour, Bob Smietana, Niraj Warikoo, Kari Huus, Dave Weigel, Lisa Wangsness, Anne Barnard, Michael Kruse and so very many others. Clearly they aren’t remotely honest reporters; are they bought and paid for shills for the dominant political perspective?
Will Politico fire Thrush? Of course not. If they did, they’d have to fire the rest of their staff, and all the other mainstream media outlets would have to as well.
“Politico Reporter Sends Story To Hillary Aide For Approval, Admits He’s A ‘Hack,’” by Alex Pfeiffer, Daily Caller, October 17, 2016:
A Politico reporter has been caught sending his journalism to Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman for approval.
In an April 30, 2015 email, released Monday by WikiLeaks, Politico’s chief political correspondent Glenn Thrush asked John Podesta to approve his writing pre-publication. Thrush begged Podesta not to tell anyone he had shared the copy and referred to himself as “a hack” in the email exchange.
“No worries Because I have become a hack I will send u the whole section that pertains to u,” Thrush wrote to Podesta. “Please don’t share or tell anyone I did this Tell me if I fucked up anything.”…

Buford says
He looks some figure off of Saturday Night Live
Snell says
Which is also run by the left,….
Allan says
It figures that he would. SNL cast members are basically just jesters who are expected to work as transmission belts, too, like Thrush, from time to time.
Quaker Lady says
Uh, yeah, Thrush, you did f*** up something–your integrity as a journalist, actually. Pathetic.
Steve K says
There is no such thing as integrity in mainstream journalism any longer. There is no legal profession more dishonerable.
JDS says
The MSM no longer. Or have they ever. Did any real news reporting to protect the ….people….what I thought the media should always have done. Write or tell the story and let the people …decide…… What a joke the MSM is….
Praeceptor Maximus says
An advice.
The Left operates on collectivism; the Right operates on individualism. If Hillary wins there needs to be a Revolution in America which means that the right has to adopt collectivism so it can mobilize itself into one body. So, all you patriotic Americans, hold on to your guns, don’t let Hillary take them away from you; and start organizing yourselves into a mighty resistance group of no less than one million per capital city. All of you need to familiarize yourselves with military operations, so you need to have people with military backgrounds in your groups. You need to operate under the radar so you cannot use either the Internet or mobile phones. If you have computer experts in your midst, the government has got its own experts to track you down. You have to do it the old fashion way. These are just a few suggestions. Anyone interested, I have more ideas. But a revolution is the only means of dislodging both the corrupt establishment and the mainstream media. Nothing short of an uprising will save America and the western civilization.
carpediadem says
You wouldn’t need a revolution had you mobilised voters against Obama.
Praeceptor Maximus says
carpediadem
You are absolutely right. The problem is that the whole establishment in America is corrupt. It is corruption that is destroying America. America, just like Rome, is disintegrating from within. And the people who support this corrupt system are beyond redemption. Look at them now! They are supporting Hillary and no matter what facts are released about her crimes, her supporters aren’t listening. To criticize Obama then or now is considered racist. I really cannot see any other way but a revolution to fix this broken system. Though, in reality I cannot see that happening either. Future looks very bleak if Hillary gets elected. America will become a dictatorship. You can already see its seeds being sown. CNN telling people reading Wikileaks is illegal. My head spins when I think of this.
Rev g says
Yep. My wife today expressed wishes that we could retire and move north to our cottage in the sticks, the corruption doesn’t permeate as deeply there.
Not nearly as many women in ninja suits either.
The corruption has dropped attempts at disguise of late. It is blatant.
Rev g says
Mobilize? LoL. Nothing was stopping it. First, he is ineligible, his father not being a citizen (ever). Then we add in media complicity and toss in a little voter fraud, it was a shoe-in.
KATHLALEENA says
I’m with you every step of the way.Good advice to all WE THE PEOPLE
gravenimage says
We have a democratic system–it is just that not enough good people are running for office, or even bothering to vote.
Rev g says
Goebbels wished he had such enthusiastic complicity.
Sam says
So how do you win the war against Islam if your President and the media are in bed together along with muslim brotherhood members. Soon they will close or censor conservative sites like JW. Academia is already a communist pool.
Trump may slow down the enemy if he can get elected as it is geting more doubtful as we get closer to elections.
God help us!
boakai ngombu says
don’t forget DHS, the clones of Ms Valerie and the MB plants
blackcat mendoza says
Just another useful idiot Presstitute, a dispensable Puppet on a String
August West says
Will they fire him?
No.
Reuters BBC and CNN are not even carrying the story.
Interestingly they are all talking about billy bush leaving NBC.
My guess is that this clown is going to get a pulitzer prize.
Not a word about wiki leaks either.
Lots of news about how successful the campaign in Mosul is.
Nobody cares that the news is nothing but leftist propaganda.
I heard on NPR that the high school graduation rate is up to 83%. Things are awesome.
My advice would be to avoid stories like this on JW. Keep your brand focused.
Richard Price says
I hope that Donald wins, because he is the last chance to change the course of self destruction this country seems to be following. If we are foolish enough to elect a megalomaniac to the presidency, we will get everything we then deserve and the founding fathers will be “spinning in their graves”. For me the sad choice is to probably get out before things turn ugly in the next couple of years. Israel is a place I can claim citizenship along with my American citizenship and we will decide on that option if Hillary is elected. It is almost unbelievable to me, at my age, to think about how much this country has changed from the time I was born. I was a trial lawyer for 33 years before retiring and to watch what has already been done by Obama and the Clinton’s to completely corrupt the Department of Justice, the FBI, the IRS, the State Department is frightening. The rule of law seems to have almost disappeared and almost been replaced by an imperial presidency. Hillary will just finish the process if given the chance and don’t forget her “dream” of a border less country of 600 million for the western hemisphere to replace the U.s and all of the other countries there. Of course she sees herself as the leader for this new country she wants to create if given the chance.
Benedict says
So are the live show channels, full of leftist ideology, it is sickening
gavinwca says
Journalists scumbag, poster boy. What a disgrace to the already corrupt profession.
Angemon says
Shouldn’t surprise anyone taking a cursory look at the media, really.
Florida Jim says
I have been calling him a hack for years now he admits it! I also so call Maher, Redford, Di Nero, Fallon, the entire CBS old-folks home, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, State Department and FBI all should be checked for senility.
duh_swami says
Politico should fire this guy for seeking higher authority for approval…
Carolyne says
Journalism used to be a noble profession. Disseminate the news to people who otherwise would not have access to it. But in the US at least, it has become a mouthpiece for the Democrat party and more recently for Hillary Clinton in blatant disregard for the truth. It tries with all its might to shut down anything which might expose the corruption which has infiltrated the government and is at this moment engaging in a vain attempt to destroy Donald Trump with made up stories of sexual assault which ae being discredited one by one by witnesses.
Under Hillary Clinton, the media will not be allowed to exercise its First Amendment rights because her Supreme Court will do away with the First Amendment. On the other hand it won’t bother them too much because they already to a great extent print or say only what she and her minions have approved so not much will change for them. But for us common folk, the peons, we will be restricted as to what we can say and certainly nothing which would indicate that Hillary Clinton is not the second coming Our Federal government is already corrupt but you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Mark A says
Politico is an advocacy website, not a journalism or news website.
It should be treated as such.
Unfortunately, so many in the mainstream media behave like this guy that many people have completely lost faith in the mainstream media and no longer consume its’ products, a fact that is reflected in declining newspaper sales, declining viewer numbers and ratings for “news” programs and falling advertising revenue.
Karen says
Wow, what a classy guy.
Ernest Hemmingway, Edward R Murrow, Damon Runyon, Glenn … Thrush??
gravenimage says
Of course, there have always been shills for evil–Walter Duranty whitewashed the horrors of Stalinism for years at the New York Times.
Karen says
Good point! And Glenn rightly labels himself a hack and joins their company!
gravenimage says
Politico’s Glenn Thrush sends story to Hillary aide for approval, admits he’s a “hack”
………………..
Whatever happened to journalistic integrity?
Rev g says
William Randolph Hearst?