defend the indefensible: glenn fucking greenwald

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?

no one likes thomas friedman

Barack Hussein Obama likes Thomas Friedman.

BHO also likes David Brooks. An NPR liberal, that Barry.

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

yeah but he can move!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5RD9BhcCo

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

Kinsley's arguably more smug than Greenwald, and a lesser journalist too

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.

also margaret sullivan isn't the times book review editor

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.

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.

would've assigned rahul sagar, in 89 maybe try to get moynihan, whose jock kinsley has been dreaming of carrying for over 30 years

also margaret sullivan isn't the times book review editor

― 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.

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)

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

now now it's not like greenwald defends child molesters

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/the-establishment-critique-of-edward-snowden-and-glenn-greenwald/371678/

James Clapper and Keith Alexander don't exactly have wonderful personalities

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"

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/06/06/encouraging-words-dean-baquet-weasel-words-james-clapper/

ugh, the worst, right

why the FUCK do i find out about this today? PR, people?

http://www.haymarketbooks.org/event/4116

That was announced months ago. He's also speaking in Chicago this weekend.

where was my alert, Tarfumes, lots of things happen months from now and that's a bleedin' decade for me

Get on the Haymarket mailing list! That's how I found out.

i used to work for H4ymark3t, so no thx

huh! didn't know this

lol http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/08/04/business/media/inside-glenn-greenwalds-mountaintop-home-office.html

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

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

lol

leave it to gg to give away the game

dogs and husbands -- that's all life is

Thursday Style section came early this week...

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/08/04/business/04CARRjp3/04CARRjp3-articleLarge.jpg

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.

im going to that to citizens arrest glenn

MISTER GREENWALD STOP

IN THE NAME OF THE LAW

"just kidding"

YOUR BLOG CANT PROTECT YOU HERE

IN BROOKLYN

ON THE THIRD FLOOR

please be wearing sunglasses when u do this

don't forget to witness lag∞n's arrest of GG tonight on the 3rd floor

well glenn i guess you wont be posting anymore

http://i.imgur.com/2Ph8aJw.gif

updates

ahaha

no arrests were made

http://bedfordandbowery.com/2014/10/scahill-greenwald-and-poitras-on-obama-isis-and-new-snowden-doc-citizen-four/

i was detained at the border and all my thumb drives were removed from their ziploc bag

^^^ sexx talk

http://inthesetimes.com/article/17403/reports_from_inside_first_look_media_suggest_that_maybe_silicon_valley_shou