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
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.
― 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
no arrests were made
http://bedfordandbowery.com/2014/10/scahill-greenwald-and-poitras-on-obama-isis-and-new-snowden-doc-citizen-four/
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 October 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
i was detained at the border and all my thumb drives were removed from their ziploc bag
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 October 2014 15:20 (nine years ago) link
^^^ sexx talk
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 October 2014 15:21 (nine years ago) link
http://inthesetimes.com/article/17403/reports_from_inside_first_look_media_suggest_that_maybe_silicon_valley_shou
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
intercept still goin
Betsy Reed @betsyreed2 4h4 hours agoI will miss The Nation, which I will always love, but I could not be more excited to be joining @the_intercept
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:48 (nine years ago) link
Has his readership decreased since leaving the guardian? Never hear about him anymore but that might just be because being outraged at the nsa isn't trendy now
― Treeship, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
dunno prob, smaller platform, also big layoff
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
I assumed his readers, at least, would follow him. I used to be a fan in college but was annoyed by his alwaysalreadyoutraged/exasperated tone, which in 2014 seems like the only writing style that still exists
― Treeship, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
sure hes got hardcore readers but if ur writing for a big org like the guardian ppl just see yr stuff too
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
i used to read him on blogspot btw og greenwald
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
I started reading with salon. Thats when i first really became aware of commenters
― Treeship, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
og greenwald
― lag∞n, Friday, December 5, 2014 12:57 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
is this a weed name yet
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 5 December 2014 21:00 (nine years ago) link
annoyed by his alwaysalreadyoutraged/exasperated tone, which in 2014 seems like the only writing style that still exists― Treeship, Friday, December 5, 2014 8:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Treeship, Friday, December 5, 2014 8:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is otm
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 6 December 2014 23:34 (nine years ago) link
I have to say, one of the benefits of Tuesday, despite all my frustrations with the process, is that it has prevented anybody from denying that America tortured — and not just in the three cases of waterboarding. It actually has been a disinfectant of that central lie. I mean, for a long time, that was the debate; it wasn’t “Is torture good?” it was “These things aren’t torture!” Dick Cheney described [waterboarding] as dunking people’s head into water.
What was really annoying for those of us who were actually [covering] this is that the waterboarding was almost the least of it. It was the easiest case to call torture because there was a whole body of law calling waterboarding torture; but [the larger issue] was the entire regiment of techniques that they were using that clearly constituted torture — not on dozens or even hundreds but thousands of people, and not just at Guantánamo but around the world. It was a systematic regime of torture, and I think yesterday’s report has prevented that from being denied any longer.
And that’s why people like Nicolle Wallace and others are now resorting either to “Yes, we tortured, and we should have!” (which I think is a healthy thing to force them to say) or “Yes, we tortured, and we shouldn’t have, but we’re still the greatest thing ever to exist.”
http://www.salon.com/2014/12/11/exclusive_corrupt_toxic_and_sociopathic_glenn_greenwald_unloads_on_torture_cia_and_washingtons_rotten_soul/
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
corrupt_toxic_and_sociopathic_glenn_greenwald
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link