defend the indefensible: glenn fucking greenwald

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

actually i really like pareene, he's not the best example, just the first one that popped to mind.

How much do you want to bet that before the summer is out we'll be saying stuff like "Wow, you'd think Greenwald would've known to not take his car down a canyon at night. SMH I guess he really liked to live on the edge."

hmmmmmm nope

Richard Clarke, the former chief counter-terrorism adviser on the National Security Council, believes that Hasting’s death may have been the result of a cyberattack on his car.

http://www.ibtimes.com/michael-hastings-car-hacking-theory-latest-attempt-explain-suspicious-death-richard-clarke-says#

do you guys even think Obama knows who michael hastings is

Sure. He reads Andrew Sullivan.

oh no buzzfeed is turning against me I guess I have to kill some people

maybe the white house should start an animated gif department to counter buzzfeed's gaining influence, also then they won't have to kill so many journalists

when the us govt wants to get rid of a journalist it doesnt kill him it tries to leverage access w/ other papers and influential ppl to discredit him and prevent him from getting a job. and maybe he kills himself later or something, but it doesnt matter.

when it wants to kill a us citizen it connects him with terrorism and sends a drone in

it doesnt... hack... his car. i mean the sort of willful disregard of the actually weirdly open and transparent workings of power here, which hastings himself had mentioned in the past!

like, if someone said, the MOB took him out, i might buy that?

without even knowing hastings it seems p clear that the poor guy was strung out and paranoid in the final weeks of his life, not hard to end up crashing your car at 4am in a state of mind like that

i suppose you could arrange a kind of aaron swartz style path of causation. but the fbi wasnt investigating him.

max is only saying this so he doesn't get killed

max u better check the firewall on yr kick scooter

that being said i guarantee you obama knows who hastings is. hastings is the reason he fired mcchrystal!

Max this is exactly what the government wants you to think, that it won't go down like this. Think abt it.