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Originally Posted by ecriture d'adulte
I thought for a while that Greenwald’s crapiness was due to hurt feelings over the fact that tons of liberals shrugged off the NSA spying story but he wrote that awful immigration blog post before all that stuff. So I think he’s just naturally susceptible to a lot of right wing derp.
imo this and the being a libertarian earlier in life are way bigger knocks against GG than anything he's done in the last year or two.
not gonna try and respond to everything, esp given the only defenders ITT are me and the forum's resident punchbag, but those Cohen tweets are fine, that Chait article is dumb and bad, like him ('almost nobody attributes Clinton’s loss entirely to Russian interference.' lol ok dude, sure) and Greenwald has done actually lasting important work in journalism, which pretty much none of his media detractors have, so I'm inclined to give him some room to be an ******* or contrarian or whatever.
also
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Originally Posted by ChrisV
He doesn't write things critical of people who everyone else is already critical of because it doesn't get him off, essentially.
because what purpose does it serve to tell people the same **** they hear absolutely everywhere else?
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This is nothing new, he's always been like this. It's just that under Democratic rule, his claim to be a speaker of truth to power seemed more plausible.
yeah, my man never wrote anything during the Bush era. he just popped up out of nowhere in 2008 right? never criticised anyone for starting illegal wars and torturing people. it's not like...the entire reason anyone knows he is or anything. jesus come on dude