defend the indefensible: glenn fucking greenwald

So Sully knows how to run a country and start a war eh

^my thoughts exactly

xp Oh great, what splendid company to be in.

David Simon weighs in - "bullshit" apparently

http://davidsimon.com/we-are-shocked-shocked/

Allow for a comparable example, dating to the early 1980s in a place called Baltimore, Maryland.

There, city detectives once began to suspect that major traffickers were using a combination of public pay phones and digital pagers to communicate their business. And they took their suspicions to a judge and obtained court orders — not to monitor any particular suspect, but to instead cull the dialed numbers from the thousands and thousands of calls made to and from certain city pay phones.

...All of that — even in the less fevered, pre-Patriot Act days of yore — was entirely legal. Why?

Because they aren’t listening to the calls.

i distinctly remember mcnulty listening in to the actual calls

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

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.