defend the indefensible: glenn fucking greenwald

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

intercept still goin

Betsy Reed ‏@betsyreed2 4h4 hours ago
I will miss The Nation, which I will always love, but I could not be more excited to be joining @the_intercept

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

dunno prob, smaller platform, also big layoff

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

sure hes got hardcore readers but if ur writing for a big org like the guardian ppl just see yr stuff too

i used to read him on blogspot btw og greenwald

I started reading with salon. Thats when i first really became aware of commenters

og greenwald

― lag∞n, Friday, December 5, 2014 12:57 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is this a weed name yet

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

this is otm

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/

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Glenn Greenwald ‏@ggreenwald 14m14 minutes ago
Over the last decade, some of the worst human rights abuses in Cuba have taken place at this dungeon called .... "Guantanamo".

LOL

the entire regiment of techniques

GET 1 (ONE) PROOFREADER.

it was a verbal interview

Unless GG very clearly pronounced the "t," I assume that whoever transcribed it introduced the error bc they didn't know the difference. This is why everything needs proofreaders.