defend the indefensible: glenn fucking greenwald

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G4LXzA6PezQ/TpnXosoh0CI/AAAAAAAAACM/v1_-8N10W_U/s1600/DEAL-WITH-IT.jpg

Hmmm the title of that thread is "Israel TO WORLD: 'Suck it!'" not "Israel, suck it!" but OK.

i distinctly remember mcnulty listening in to the actual calls

that was herc and prez!

@ggreenwald: I'll be on with Anderson Cooper tonight discussing the various disclosures, along with . . . Ari Fleischer.

hah

david simon can suck it

Greenwald's local roots.

panicked libertarians and liberals and Obama-haters

sort of thought simon was above this tbh

there are some cheap shots in there but also some good points? idk i thought it was interesting

simon isnt really above anything, his shows are real good but as an essayist he p belligerent and awful

the belligerent parts of that were so funny tho

david simon can suck it

― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Friday, June 7, 2013 7:37 PM

OTM x10

considering the many year existence of the israel suck it thread, i think you guys can deal w/ the title of this thread

shit, I forgot that GG practiced apartheid and wholesale slaughter.

Glenn Greenwald ‏@ggreenwald 8m
Dear NYT: no matter how often you call us "British site," it won't stop being factually false. Rise up above those petty resentments.

emptywheel ‏@emptywheel 5m
@ggreenwald But you're still a loner. Admit it.

Glenn Greenwald ‏@ggreenwald 2m
@emptywheel Will you be my friend, Marcy?

lol

David Simon is the rich man's Buzz Bissinger.

Calling the Guardian a "British news site" is hilariously petty coming from the NYT

http://twitter.com/edwardsnowden

"Yes, I could be rendered by the CIA. I could have people come after me. Or any of the third-party partners. They work closely with a number of other nations. Or they could pay off the Triads. Any of their agents or assets," he said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance

This guy hiding out in HK really underscores how fucked we are.

True.

I wonder if he is still in HK though? The interview was taped three days ago, he might have moved?

He's in Hong Kong. He's living a Zevon song.

send bloggers, guns and money

so snowden peaced out

disappear or disappeared?

#teamedward

Hayes Brown ‏@HayesBrown 5m
Rep. Peter King just blatantly called for @ggreenwald's arrest on Fox News. Amazing.

Greenwald cohort seem to possess a belief that only the rich or privileged can be evil, and a weird almost autistic inability to recognize cultural or ideological (non-economic) fascism.
OTOH, fuck Rep. Peter King.

you're right, focusing on your area of expertise as a writer clearly means an 'autistic' lack of interest in anything else

Weird almost autistic inability to read a sentence?

Which Greenwald cohort? Snowden? Where does he (or whichever "cohort" you are talking about) express views as you suggest? Can you flesh out your varying types of fascism argument?

Maybe I missed something upthread.

Cohort is a plural, curmudgeon.

Ah, it is. So who's in this group?

What are you talking about MV? What other types of fascism?

Sorry i see now curmudgeon's covered those questions

Greenwald cohort seem to possess a belief that only the rich or privileged can be evil, and a weird almost autistic inability to recognize cultural or ideological (non-economic) fascism.

so sick of people calling Greenwald autistic.

Islamofascism, d00ds. Ever think about THAT, u aspie fux?

― MV

i remember a while back a bunch of prominent liberal bloggers decided that greenwald was obviously a libertarian because he 'never wrote about labor issues.'

i think there are certain writers who do write as if they are the only writer you read but idk if glenn greenwald is one. he's, yknow, a channel.

i guess no good writer would write that way.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/14/glenn-greenwald-reader-profile-interactive#615

what the hell

sad libs

in 10 years the front page of the nyt will be nothing but crowdsourced mad libs

Glenn Greenwald, a dominant hero for the Guardian, whose writing has been described as erotic, revealed orgasmic new information regarding the NSA and its surveillance programs last week.

- A humble student from Michigan

this is the saddest media thing I've ever seen, and last week I saw this: a thread for local TV news insanity

we have a thread for the guardian. load all messages for ten years of increasing disillusionment.

I think he is a bad writer but I agree with most of the points he makes.

― Michigan seems like a dream to me now (Treeship), Tuesday, May 21, 2013 12:41 PMBookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

^^He went from lawyer to blogger to journalist without ever really having an editor.

^^^ tagline of Greenwald biopic

GG is a fine writer imo, i'd take his dogged earnestness over a dozen jaded quipsters like alex pareene any day

i.f. stone was not a great stylist either, yknow

As a lover of both, not a good comparison.

pareene could stand to ditch the bloggy voice (this goes for almost everyone who blogs) but he's always a good read