Yeah but that's cos he probably didn't pay for the appropriate media training (in order to seem more real LOL). I find that refreshing and makes him more trustable. Rather have a truth-telling jerk than otherwise.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 00:07 (nine years ago) link
+ if he did a better job keeping his personality out of his journalism probably ppl would be less transfixed by its grotesqueries
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 00:08 (nine years ago) link
haha yeah i'm sure that's why i dislike him, bc he didn't pay for the appropriate media training adam u crack me up bro keep it up man good posting
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 00:09 (nine years ago) link
Sorry i didn't mean that as an attack on you, I meant in general, he gets crap from a lot of places. I just jumped in 10 minutes ago and to be honest I'm just gonna leave cos I didn't realize I was participating in an argument and I'd rather play video games.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
i don't want to defend any of these assholes really. i just think it's more likely that they dislike greenwald for the same reason i do - bc he's such a smug shit.
i have a hard time believing that any of those guys would be bothered by greenwald's 'air of superior piety or morality' if he were just another pundit saying the same things as everyone else. is greenwald more of a jerk than thomas friedman?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 00:21 (nine years ago) link
no one likes thomas friedman
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 00:21 (nine years ago) link
Barack Hussein Obama likes Thomas Friedman.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 00:25 (nine years ago) link
BHO also likes David Brooks. An NPR liberal, that Barry.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 00:26 (nine years ago) link
I'm no Greenwald fanboy but the way those establishment journos express such catty disdain as part of endorsing Kinsley's authoritarian position is embarrassing
as usual Lane is the worst and Gregory is mind-numbingly inane
― anonanon, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 01:16 (nine years ago) link
yeah but he can move!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5RD9BhcCo
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 01:18 (nine years ago) link
http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/publiceditor/2014/05/27/kinsley-greenwald-and-government-secrets/?_php=true,true&_type=blogs,blogs&smid=tw-share&_r=1
NY Times Book review editor is a bit disengenuous here when confronted with criticism
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 16:23 (nine years ago) link
Kinsley's arguably more smug than Greenwald, and a lesser journalist too
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
kinsley's the better journalist (or was rather) but is incredibly more smug. both suffer from a lack of a certain kind of seriousness but greenwald's cynicism is more honorable and possibly more productive than kinsley's ever was.
― balls, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
also margaret sullivan isn't the times book review editor
― balls, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 16:44 (nine years ago) link
I've no problem with whom the NYT picked to review the book – in 1989 I would've assigned Hitchens to write a hatchet job. It's his goddamn opinions.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
this quote is kind of apropos
After dinner, “Larry (Summers) leaned back in his chair and offered me some advice,” Ms. Warren writes. “I had a choice. I could be an insider or I could be an outsider. Outsiders can say whatever they want. But people on the inside don’t listen to them. Insiders, however, get lots of access and a chance to push their ideas. People — powerful people — listen to what they have to say. But insiders also understand one unbreakable rule: They don’t criticize other insiders.
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
would've assigned rahul sagar, in 89 maybe try to get moynihan, whose jock kinsley has been dreaming of carrying for over 30 years
― balls, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
― balls, Wednesday, May 28, 2014 4:44
I know, I was referring to her/the ombudswoman's views versus the editor's. The editor here is pretending not to know of Kinsley's record of expressing disdain for reporters.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
calling ppl 'smug' on this board is fucking hilar
People tend not to like full-throated assholes.
much more the ones who are wrong, which is all that matters
(Kinsley hasn't been a liberal in maybe 35 years, unless you mean of the Chuck Schumer school, calling Israel "she" and shit)
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 17:31 (nine years ago) link
if you had any curiosity about why ppl dislike you, you might find that criticisms of greenwald's odious personality work well for u as well
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
now now it's not like greenwald defends child molesters
― balls, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/the-establishment-critique-of-edward-snowden-and-glenn-greenwald/371678/
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
James Clapper and Keith Alexander don't exactly have wonderful personalities
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 18:13 (nine years ago) link
Digby: "Glenn Greenwald may be the biggest asshole on the planet (he isn't, btw) but to even mention that, much less dwell on it when we are discussing something of such major importance betrays this pathetically provincial (and frankly somewhat adolescent) view of what matters in this world. If a critic cannot rise above his personal pique at an author's personality and see the work through a lens not colored by resentment and bitterness then it's probably best not to start an ilx thread about him"
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/06/06/encouraging-words-dean-baquet-weasel-words-james-clapper/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 June 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
ugh, the worst, right
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 6 June 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
why the FUCK do i find out about this today? PR, people?
http://www.haymarketbooks.org/event/4116
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 11:10 (nine years ago) link
That was announced months ago. He's also speaking in Chicago this weekend.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 13:44 (nine years ago) link
where was my alert, Tarfumes, lots of things happen months from now and that's a bleedin' decade for me
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 16:44 (nine years ago) link
Get on the Haymarket mailing list! That's how I found out.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
i used to work for H4ymark3t, so no thx
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link
huh! didn't know this
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link
lol http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/08/04/business/media/inside-glenn-greenwalds-mountaintop-home-office.html
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 August 2014 11:53 (nine years ago) link
some buddies of mine interviewed greenwald last week and got some interesting answers out of him on the decisions regarding what to publish/withhold
http://emoprog.libsyn.com/episode-20-glenn-greenwald-and-murtaza-hussain
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 4 August 2014 13:53 (nine years ago) link
never got around to posting about this:my friend who has visited brazil a couple times in the last year said that there's a local news roundtable show that greenwald appears on, but he caters his commentary and a lot of it is him strongly implying the united states is very interested in brazil's going-ons and is probably heavily spying on them
― mh, Monday, 4 August 2014 13:58 (nine years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 August 2014 13:59 (nine years ago) link
leave it to gg to give away the game
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Monday, 4 August 2014 14:20 (nine years ago) link
dogs and husbands -- that's all life is
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 August 2014 14:28 (nine years ago) link
Thursday Style section came early this week...
http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/08/04/business/04CARRjp3/04CARRjp3-articleLarge.jpg
― the one where, as balls alludes (Eazy), Monday, 4 August 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
Greenwald, Poitras, Scahill appearing a week from Thurs night (free, no reservations) in Brooklyn.
Nation Books and The Intercept invite you to celebrate the paperback launch of DIRTY WARS by Jeremy Scahill.
With special guests Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, the leading journalists who broke the Edward Snowden story and blew the lid off the NSA's global and domestic surveillance ops.
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. NO RESERVATIONS. FIRST COME-FIRST IN.https://www.facebook.com/events/725774267459266/
Event will be held on the 3rd floor of Mayday Space, located at 214 Starr Street. Take the L train to the Jefferson stop in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link
im going to that to citizens arrest glenn
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link
MISTER GREENWALD STOP
IN THE NAME OF THE LAW
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 20:48 (nine years ago) link
"just kidding"
YOUR BLOG CANT PROTECT YOU HERE
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
IN BROOKLYN
ON THE THIRD FLOOR
please be wearing sunglasses when u do this
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 3 October 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
don't forget to witness lag∞n's arrest of GG tonight on the 3rd floor
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
well glenn i guess you wont be posting anymore
http://i.imgur.com/2Ph8aJw.gif
updates
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
ahaha
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 9 October 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link