defend the indefensible: glenn fucking greenwald

that line is funnier than anything jon stewart might say tonight

You're not alone.

welp greenwald is owning us all the last couple days

carrying us around in one of his many pockets

Glenn Greenwald ‏@ggreenwald 58s
I wish English language were broader so I could express my simultaneous contempt & mockery for the investigation threats emanating from DC

ha hes still not a very good writer tho

http://twitter.yfrog.com/z/4jg2jrj

The bird/key logo is pretty terrible too

don't really get the complaints about his writing, he's not mencken or anything but i can think of like a dozen prominent bloggers who are much worse stylists

Glenn Greenwald ‏@ggreenwald 58s
I wish English language were broader so I could express my simultaneous contempt & mockery for the investigation threats emanating from DC

yes, it's the fault of the english language

Spyware built in from the first grunts.

The next Zeitgeist movie is gonna be so dope

Will Saletan: BOW YOUR HEADS!

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2013/06/stop_the_nsa_surveillance_hysteria_the_government_s_scrutiny_of_verizon.html

@BarackObama 25m

"In a country where we expect free wifi with our coffee, why shouldn't we have it in our schools?" —President Obama in North Carolina today

GOOD TIMING

he said "Chill"!

More good timing:

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113399/nsa-collecting-verizon-records-why-internet-companies-fight-back

My privacy is safe with Google. They do not collect data about me or share it with others.

^^ plz repeat until believed

http://s1.dmcdn.net/a5cU/526x297-iik.jpg

"My name is Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht."

NY Times!

So he lives in Brazil

he wears cargo shorts too

Maybe you should post that photo one more time

“The N.S.A. is kind of the crown jewel in government secrecy. I expect them to react even more extremely,” Mr. Greenwald said in a telephone interview. He said that he had been advised by lawyer friends that “he should be worried,” but he had decided that “what I am doing is exactly what the Constitution is about and I am not worried about it.”

Seems a little paranoid

hahahaha

he's clearly hoping the government goes after him

"oh plz not the briar patch!"

Jesus Christ Mordy

is there any doubt? i'm sure he'd love to confront the US government head on and in the public eye.

you're right mordy, what a ridiculous person

the opposite of silly i'd think. such a confrontation would be very good from his pov.

*obama drone strikes glenn greenwald's brazilian sex mansion, leaving only a charred pair of cargo shorts*

[glenn greenwald in Macklemore - thrift sthop voice] This is fucking awesome

lol

i'm sure any government response won't involve dropping a drone on glenn, and i don't think that's what he's expecting. he's probably expecting some legal action ala manning or assange.

more likely some kind of sex crimes charge

if you can't imagine why he'd want to get involved in a public legal battle w/ the united states government i think you don't really get glenn greenwald

ya if he goes to jail he'll be a national celebrity / reddit martyr etc

Guys, only Mordy "gets" Glenn Greenwald

what if waterface were gleen greenwald

The only way Gleen Gleenwald is going to jail is if the fashion police arrest him for his corgi shorts.

walderface

i don't really "get" waterface - does it have a point?

waterface is a personification of all the bile and assholishness on ilx over the last decade, if everyone just started being nice to each other waterface would just disappear

nah man you can't pin him down. he's a slippery one, that waterface.

Being at the center of a debate is a comfortable place for Mr. Greenwald, 46, who came to mainstream journalism through his own blog, which he started in 2005. Before that he was a lawyer, including working 18 months at the high-powered New York firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where he represented large corporate clients.

What was the thread where I defended the appointment of former "corporate lawyers" to regulatory positions and said that I knew big firm lawyers who were further left than any of my other friends, and I got mocked for it?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/07/whistleblowers-and-leak-investigations

I think I'm nice!

I'm just a truth teller

you are the darkness inside of all of us

I am Shiva, destroyer of words

you are a weak version of a tired archetype but it's cool to have you on board

Thank you, Spiral!

he's probably expecting some legal action ala manning or assange.

― Mordy , Friday, June 7, 2013 10:18 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ok you undersand that manning already is going to be in jail for decades and if he's convicted on the other charges he could be in jail for life.

so no i don't think greenwald would 'welcome' this?