Michael C Moynihan

@mcmoynihan59k followers

The Fifth Column podcast. The Moynihan Report. Ex-Vice on HBO / Vice News Tonight. Ex-Daily Beast. Various other things. ETH: 0xe06F55Addf1948e58959ffA3C3D92567

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#	Date	Post	↓ Outlier	Views	Likes	Reposts	Bookmarks
1	Jul 29, '24	The New York Times concludes that Venezuela was destroyed by “brutal capitalism.” Unreal.	185×	2.3M	9.2k	1.6k	667
2	Feb 13, '22	Hilarious that CNN laughs at a rando Canadian ridiculously comparing Canada to Nazi Germany yet had a piece leading its website this morning comparing Joe Rogan to the Rwandan geno	28.3×	0	9.4k	1.8k	134
3	Jul 27, '22	Pretty stunning Time/CNN poll from 1997. Wonder what these figures would be today...	22.3×	0	6.6k	1.3k	588
4	Oct 30, '23	View post on X	21.7×	266k	1.4k	190	70
5	Apr 5, '20	Shelter in place, Brooklyn! Unless it’s sunny and warm. Then let’s all meet at the park.	17.2×	0	3.1k	906	46
6	Apr 21, '24	In 2007, Tucker bailed on emceeing a Ron Paul rally mid-event because it was crawling with people wanting to debate the collapse of building seven	16.5×	201k	671	113	94
7	Nov 14, '24	In his Fauci book, RFK reveals himself to be an AIDS conspiracist too. He repeatedly quotes "AIDS activist" Christine Maggiori, never mentioning that she was HIV+, believed HIV h	14.5×	178k	1.3k	435	191
8	Feb 6, '19	So...Jill Abramson's book has finally hit bookstore shelves. A few weeks ago, reading a galley copy, I noticed an egregious error about my colleague @adrs. She tweeted it out, a sh	13.5×	0	3k	878	144
9	Sep 20, '19	People are getting sick (and some dying) from bootleg THC vapes…so Walmart has heroically responded by ending sales of legit nicotine vapes, thus creating space for a new bootl	12.8×	0	4k	1k	23
10	Feb 9, '22	Look, the Rogan debate couldn't possibly get any dum...holy shit please tell me the Washington Post opinion page got hacked by Cozy Bear	10.5×	0	3.9k	435	64
11	Jan 21, '24	🎉🎉🎉	8.7×	107k	753	161	35
12	Oct 11, '23	You were horrified by…the headlines? Because not all the babies were beheaded??	8.1×	99k	767	116	10
13	Feb 6, '19	The book ends with a final wag of the finger, reminding me that my colleagues apparently don’t possess “the expertise to compete on the biggest news stories.” If Abramson is the ar	6.9×	0	2.7k	251	10
14	May 5, '19	I actually feel kind of sorry for these people	6.8×	0	2.3k	273	44
15	Nov 5, '24	Truly deranged	6.6×	80k	1k	86	43
16	Feb 24, '22	Imagine watching this grotesque invasion unfold, seeing the devastating human/geopolitical consequences, and thinking, "man, this really reminds me of January 6th." And then saying	6.3×	0	2.2k	358	33
17	Apr 5, '20	No fucks given	6.2×	0	1.4k	383	16
18	Apr 13, '20	I really have to move out of this stupid neighborhood. Imagine posting this video and thinking it makes you look like a civil rights hero staring down Bull Connor: "Don't know who	5.8×	0	1.6k	171	53
19	Sep 4, '24	People pointing out I was wrong prove that I was right	5.3×	65k	761	40	6
20	Sep 4, '24	Crank opinion of a crank "historian" undermined by a community note that mistakes the Einsatzgruppen for the Einsatzstaffel, a Croatian volksdeutsch unit of the SS	5.2×	64k	413	43	24
21	Feb 6, '19	All three chapters on Vice were clotted with mistakes. Lots of them. The truth promised in Merchants of Truth was often not true. While trying to corroborate certain claims, I no	5.2×	0	1.4k	349	17
22	Sep 14, '24	Invading your country, stealing your property, harvesting your kidneys...Quite a definition of the free market in Tim Snyder's forthcoming book "On Freedom." As Buckley said about	5.0×	61k	424	42	50
23	Jul 28, '23	The Vice Guide to Going Bankrupt	4.9×	59k	354	40	7
24	Jun 5, '20	How about immediately fire them, wait 15 seconds, and arrest them for assault?	4.8×	0	1.7k	272	5
25	Feb 6, '19	The following examples from the final book—not the galley—are only from the Vice chapters (I didn’t check the others). So let’s begin...Here is Abramson on Gavin McInnes (whom she	4.7×	0	1.4k	276	28
26	Jul 1, '24	This is absolutely deranged	4.5×	56k	442	38	13
27	Apr 27, '22	If you’re concerned Musk will allow unfettered lying, misinformation, name calling, and libel on this platform, maybe it's best not to make this point when...engaging in that *exac	4.4×	0	1.5k	257	23
28	Jul 26, '20	Telling a German Jew to learn the history of Nazism...while also not understanding the difference between the SA and Gestapo! (Note: unlike the Gestapo, the Nuremberg tribunal stup	4.2×	0	1.5k	226	34
29	Jul 31, '20	Oh. My. Lord.	4.1×	0	1.3k	217	27
30	Feb 13, '22	@neontaster The piece manages to be much worse than the headline. Like Jan 6? Try the Rwandan genocide!	4.0×	0	1.5k	131	11
31	May 16, '20	This headline isn’t getting along with this subhead	3.9×	0	1.4k	209	17
32	Jun 9, '20	Trying to anticipate how the slobbering sycophants defend this indefensible conspiracy theory	3.8×	0	1.3k	176	1
33	Feb 6, '19	Here Abramson--in a treatise on journalistic ethics--copies a passage from...the Columbia Journalism Review	3.8×	0	1.2k	251	12
34	Nov 8, '19	I drank for 8 hours in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Almost everyone I met loved Trump. And also drunk. And my liver almost gave out. We filmed it.	3.7×	0	849	151	83
35	Jan 27, '19	Sometimes I like Twitter	3.6×	0	1.2k	235	10
36	Feb 6, '19	This passage, on former Vice News editor Jason Mojica, is lifted from a 2010 Time Out magazine piece, with small modifications:	3.4×	0	1.1k	208	8
37	Nov 6, '21	In case you hadn’t noticed, everyone has gone completely insane	3.4×	0	1.3k	129	23
38	Jan 28, '20	The use of the verb "corrected" here is terrifying	3.4×	0	1.3k	126	12
39	Apr 7, '25	View post on X	3.2×	40k	387	43	15
40	Jul 1, '22	I love cultural appropriation	3.1×	0	1.1k	126	48
41	May 2, '25	"We encourage intellectuals to go among the masses, to go to factories and villages...Our state personnel, writers, artists, teachers and scientific research workers should seize e	2.9×	35k	495	118	39
42	Jun 19, '19	Who’s going to break it to the brilliant historian (and Holocaust survivor) Saul Friedländer that he has to brush up on his history?	2.8×	0	930	197	12
43	Jun 26, '20	NYT wants to correct the historical record, lamenting that Valerie Solanis’s “daring” arguments for “cutting up men” were overshadowed by that one time she tried to murder a man	2.8×	0	861	182	18
44	Nov 9, '21	“Go home parasites!” - Melinda Byerley, chief diversity officer at the Oswald Mosley Institute	2.8×	0	662	248	17
45	Feb 25, '22	The heroes of Snake Island	2.7×	0	975	150	11
46	Feb 6, '19	This paragraph can be sourced to two places: a masters thesis and a 2013 New Yorker piece by Lizzie Widdicombe	2.7×	0	930	178	8
47	May 30, '19	The previously unblemished legacy of Josef Stalin now challenged by this long-overlooked and long-overdue #metoo episode. Indeed, it was the Katyn of relationships. Glad you're rec	2.6×	0	899	163	8
48	Feb 27, '19	I usually hate “imagine if Obama did X” tweets but...imagine the conservative response if Obama praised two communist dictatorships in one tweet...	2.6×	0	791	145	4
49	Jun 5, '20	Wait, what?	2.4×	0	828	114	25
50	May 16, '21	Equality at last: I dreamed of the day when narrow-minded oafs stopped banning gay people from participating in parades and were replaced with broad-minded activists banning people	2.4×	0	769	144	19
51	Apr 17, '20	Everything about this piece is awful. But did no editor notice that the single verifiable social media post cited...is from a fake Twitter account with zero followers?	2.3×	0	763	143	12
52	Sep 10, '19	It’s not complicated	2.2×	0	762	138	3
53	Oct 24, '19	I too am a type-1 diabetic. And good god, would you people lighten the fuck up	2.1×	0	791	82	14
54	Jan 16, '20	So Bernie Sanders is a “ruling-class” sexist with “cardiac issues" for forcefully denying he made a sexist comment. And he’s super sexist for his “stock male move” of trying to sha	2.1×	0	607	128	6
55	Feb 6, '19	There’s plenty more--enormous factual errors, other cribbed passages, single or unsourced claims--but this should give a sense.	2.0×	0	786	95	3
56	Feb 6, '19	This example is from one source--the New Yorker again--though the two sentences are separated by a page.	2.0×	0	721	119	6
57	Jan 29, '20	I watched a full episode of the Lou Dobbs show for the first time today. And it was so crazy that I felt compelled to distill the greatest bits into a tidy two-minute clip:	2.0×	0	495	74	58
58	Feb 6, '19	There’s lesser stuff too; still problematic. At various points in Merchants of Truth, rather than toil in the archives, reading old issues of the magazine or watching old Vice vide	1.9×	0	693	123	5
59	Sep 27, '18	This is making me want to get blackout drunk and forget any of this happened	1.9×	0	729	87	1
60	Sep 27, '19	Also: this very well might be the dumbest tweet in the history of this dumb website. And it’s from the President of the United States. (Weird capitalizations, of course; hilarious	1.9×	0	583	109	4
61	Sep 10, '19	Re: Mugabe’s “complicated legacy” headline. This is the preferred locution when eulogizing dead scumbags who imprisoned and brutalized their own people, but also assured credulous	1.9×	0	521	172	9
62	Mar 6, '20	Still available from Hachette Book Group: the autobiography of Joey, a "gripping" account of a mafia serial killer who copped to 38 murders. You'll be wowed by "the frank intellige	1.8×	0	559	148	6
63	Jun 1, '20	Doesn’t JR understand that this kid smashed his car windows on his behalf?	1.8×	0	653	96	16
64	Feb 4, '22	The Daily Beast with a pretty big scoop: cop in small NJ town isn't a fan of President Biden	1.7×	0	652	58	3
65	Jan 6, '22	Two historical events with a combined death toll of 5,380 people	1.7×	0	445	52	7
66	Jan 23, '19	The revolution collapses: Instagram takes away Maduro's blue checkmark	1.7×	0	455	127	0
67	Jan 18, '21	From America's sweethearts Joe and Mika (who were such Trump sycophants in 2016 that, when he won the NH primary, he thanked them for being "supporters"): a demand the govt "shutdo	1.6×	0	478	90	15
68	Jul 14, '21	They must be angry that they beat the pandemic #SOSCubaLibre	1.6×	0	488	124	4
69	May 23, '22	Arresting people for "lying" on television is not, in fact, "absolutely right" nor is it "spot on." Rather strange that journalists don't understand this.	1.6×	0	474	85	16
70	Aug 26, '18	A perfectly incoherent non-tribute from Sarah Palin, who should be thanking Sen. McCain for enabling her short career as a know-nothing pundit and reality show grifter #inherentlyn	1.6×	0	425	106	1
71	Nov 23, '18	Impressive that this is both completely incoherent and completely wrong	1.6×	0	425	26	2
72	Feb 25, '21	Imagine the cash rewards and endless prayers when they find out the dog walker was shot in the chest!!!	1.6×	0	498	95	9
73	Dec 10, '19	At times like these it’s worth resurfacing the greatest footnote of all time	1.5×	0	493	87	19
74	Oct 8, '18	Correction: A previous tweet suggested that Stalin’s gulags were a sort of Russian Burning Man. After consulting 85 years of Soviet historiography, we now realize that this tweet w	1.5×	0	503	115	0
75	Oct 2, '18	This pointless “Megyn Kelly tweeted something I disagree with” piece makes more sense when you realize the author (and editors) mixed up Deborah Ramirez and Julie Swetnick	1.4×	0	372	137	5
76	Jan 13, '20	The best thing about this completely incoherent attack on @rickygervais and @JeremyClarkson is the Guardian's accompanying illustration: apparently they're are both America-loving	1.4×	0	490	69	6
77	May 2, '19	This is pathetic. 80-plus (!) student groups protest pro-Palestinian activists Roger Waters and Linda Sarsour speaking on the UMass campus, because certain students at my alma mate	1.4×	0	365	59	6
78	Sep 27, '19	The headline here is that Bloomberg says China isn’t a dictatorship. Good push back from @MargaretHoover; incoherent, condescending responses from @MikeBloomberg	1.3×	0	395	94	9
79	Jul 18, '19	Our stupid age, perfectly distilled in two tweets	1.3×	0	461	89	4
80	Feb 7, '19	Simon and Schuster stupidly paid a million dollars for this disastrous book. If these obvious examples of plagiarism aren’t enough and they require more examples of egregious mista	1.3×	0	430	91	4
81	Jul 14, '20	Can’t imagine a ton of undecided voters swinging to Biden after seeing a two-time former CPUSA vice-presidential candidate on Russian state television	1.3×	0	421	87	6
82	Jan 29, '21	You didn't think GameStop was just a victory for the little guys on Reddit, did you?	1.3×	0	371	81	8
83	Jul 27, '22	Another surprising archival find: Henry Louis Gates's 1990 contribution to a NYT forum on "multiculturalism," in which he denounces "academic autism" and the "mantra of race-class-	1.3×	0	358	73	47
84	Feb 4, '19	“THEY HAVE A REAL DEMOCRACY,” the Pink Floyd person shouted, not realizing that they don’t even have a fake democracy	1.3×	0	424	79	2
85	May 31, '20	In an increasingly crowded field of idiotic takes from supposedly smart people, this one really stands out	1.2×	0	440	65	5
86	Dec 29, '21	The responses to this idiotic tweet are pretty great	1.2×	0	510	28	3
87	Mar 28, '20	Just so I've got this straight: Trump is thanking Rachel Maddow, praising Bill de Blasio, "impressed" by John Kerry, has "much respect" for Xi Jinping, and thinks Thomas Massie sho	1.2×	0	420	53	3
88	Mar 3, '20	GQ article on Matthews that precipitated his firing says he called Hillary Clinton a “she-devil.” A bit surprising, even for him. It was sourced to Jezebel, who sourced it to Media	1.2×	0	353	70	10
89	Sep 27, '21	In his Ozy piece, @benyt mentions "a magazine-style advertising supplement" the company ran in the NYT. A quote on the cover calls @carloswatson "the best interviewer on TV," attri	1.2×	0	388	43	19
90	Apr 14, '22	We have a winner!	1.1×	0	452	32	0
91	Jan 24, '19	Apparently three million wealthy people have fled Venezuela. And apparently those remaining in the country who clotted the streets of Caracas today are all super rich too.	1.1×	0	363	76	2
92	Nov 16, '18	Because it’s fake	1.1×	0	382	59	1
93	May 24, '19	Is everyone just now realizing that Naomi Wolf is a total crackpot? I thought the FEMA camp/government spying on her teenage daughter stuff was sort of a tip off:	1.1×	0	320	74	10
94	Jan 16, '22	@lou_and_lola101 @AP @kmele @MattWelch Good lord. Imagine some Nazi taking hostages at a black church, demanding the release of Dylan Roof, and the FBI reassuring us that the hosta	1.0×	0	358	68	3
95	Feb 7, '19	the very first example I cite isn’t mentioned in the end notes at all, nor is the Time Out one. The others in different spots. Regardless, *even if you cite it deep in the footnote	1.0×	0	300	74	3
96	Jul 31, '20	Dare I suggest that AOC be rechristened “AO,” thereby neutralizing the extremely colonialist last name “Cortez”?	1.0×	0	398	32	1
97	Apr 17, '19	April Fools is now a full month	0.9×	0	322	57	2
98	May 5, '22	@neontaster If you ever have to tweet “FYI I don’t endorse murdering anyone”…	0.9×	0	368	18	4
99	Feb 13, '20	This is dumb. If you fly a lot—especially out of smaller airports (Burlington) on less-trafficked routes (Burlington go anywhere)—you almost always get bumped up to first class...w	0.9×	0	347	17	2
100	Apr 23, '19	Errrr, that's what Don Lemon was doing: starting a conversation. Now engage in the conversation by, ya know, giving an answer	0.9×	0	322	37	1

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