He's always been like that. One of his early stints was writing denialism of chemical attacks by Assad for Grayzone.
And when people pointed out that his source Seymour Hersh later turned out to have lied, he just told them to move on and refused to retract the disinfo.
Building credibility and doing good work and having principles is hard and not particularly lucrative. Being a mouthpiece for the right is guaranteed bucks. Everyone in the right wing media is a failed something. So they just switch to easy mode.
Because if you're an "independent journalist" and you want to make money you have a few options, go corporate to CNN/MSNBC, work on the payroll of some state media for a geopolitical adversary, or become a useful idiot for the fascists.
I'm saying sike on their behalf, or someone's, cus his hair looks so different in this from usual that I'm already suspicious. When did he become, like, salt and pepper gray? And lose some weight, looks like ...
He’s always been a pile of shit. Many of us involved in Syria circles had a row with him years ago when he did apologetics for Fascist Assad, and his response about chemical weapons use was “who cares?” He’s a grifting piece of shit who goes where the money takes him.
