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Originally Posted by SenorKeeed
1) I don't get why you think this is important? He doesn't think that the meddling is necessarily important and wanted to establish that first. And as you say by implication that his response is 100% good, he's right that Russian meddling isn't necessarily important, that its importance is something that has to be proven and demonstrated
You should know just as well as ikes just how bad it looks when someone asks you a yes or no question. If the answer is "yes, but", that's one thing. But if it's "well first I need to establish what the question is and what yes or no could mean" blah blah blah everyone ****ing knows that you know what the answer is, you just don't want to say it because it'll expose you.
Thus, what Risen did to Greenwald.
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2) It doesn't make it through because Greenwald actually doesn't think that there is any compelling evidence available right now that the Russian meddling is important. So given that belief it would be super weird for Greenwald to include, what, some sort of caveat in each of his articles saying "hey it's possible Russia worked with Trump during the election but there's no evidence for that right now". Of course Greenwald isn't going to do that. And when you say people are confused, I don't think you mean you're confused. You seem to understand where he's coming from. And agree with much of it? But you're saying that dumb people are confused? Sure, they often are.
What? Son you're slipping back to ole Confederacy defending Klan avatar days with this ****. Remember when you said you weren't aware of the content of Greenwald's appearances on Carlson until yesterday? That shoulda set off that "oh maybe it's not opinion sharing time for me then" red light.
People who don't encounter Greenwald's more moderate statements will be lead to believe that Greenwald thinks Russia is a hoax with no evidence. This is readily apparent from reading his twitter mentions which inevitably devolve into Russiagate fan fiction vs. Breitbart reader flame wars.
Risen was generous on this point. It's pretty clear Greenwald isn't just being a bad communicator on this, he's openly disingenuous. He's ikesing.