defend the indefensible: glenn fucking greenwald

You don't have any arguments, do you. Just ad hominem, not particularly clever ad hominem.

it's that time where I quote myself for levity

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, August 4, 2014 8:58 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dude works it for his perceived audience

Brazil is the world's 5th largest country in size and population. I think I'm missing the joke.

I love the way Mordy keeps doubling down on the stupid long after his little gee-ha-ha-had on Greenwald has utterly gone wrong-side-of-history.

plenty of people find GG to be a shitty journalist, an asshole, and a self-promoting sack'o'shit but yeah, let's let history judge

Oh no, the dreaded "plenty of people". They should probably pool their resources. Or maybe they should pee in a pool.

he'd prob say the same if he lived in Tuvalu xxp

Undoubtedly I'm a troll for pointing out that you have to go speculative with that claim.

xp instead of "plenty of people" I should have said "me and my buddies"

Fair enough.

mordy, there's plenty to criticize about GG, but that thinkpiece you posted is really dumb. stop posting dumb thinkpieces. :(

as if there are smart thinkpieces

i'll leave you to start your own glenn greenwald thread and stay off mine.

Mordy occupying the thread

he'd prob say the same if he lived in Tuvalu xxp

― valleys of your mind (mh), Sunday, January 18, 2015 10:16 PM (Yesterday)

i'd be more surprised if the US govt weren't spying on brazil than if they were

as if there are smart thinkpieces

― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Sunday, January 18, 2015 10:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

once upon a blue moon...

http://gawker.com/reporter-fabricated-quotes-invented-sources-at-the-int-1756672849

there's not an intercept thread, figured this was the best place. yikes

It's the editor's fault p.s. i have cancer.

yikes, apparently the journalist sent out emails impersonating his own boss?

weirdly, this scenario kind of resonated with me as a teacher. sometimes students will get themselves in a heap of trouble and then blame some unspecified medical condition or family emergency for it, long after the fact.

Why is this in a thread about Glenn Greenwald?

there's not an intercept thread, figured this was the best place. yikes

― k3vin k., Wednesday, February 3, 2016 4:02 PM (2 hours ago)

ha ha I just discovered that one of my posts in this thread was quoted in an academic book:

https://books.google.com/books?id=ed9GAwAAQBAJ&pg=PR22&lpg=PR22&dq=digital+rhetoric+and+global+literacies&source=bl&ots=5DnuAhyso3&sig=2JadX9qlxk0Xoy7XcJx_BN8dvjw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwipztatkOLKAhWG2RoKHeK2C6UQ6AEIPjAF#v=onepage&q=digital%20rhetoric%20and%20global%20literacies&f=false

THEY ARE WATCHING US

maybe this will work:

https://books.google.com/books?id=ed9GAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA300&lpg=PA300&dq=president+keyes+i+love+music&source=bl&ots=5DnuAhuli2&sig=DB7JVVtRb3WdkLMY8wl3gf-qCiQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_9cHP_uHKAhWD5BoKHT-5CtgQ6AEIQTAJ#v=onepage&q=president%20keyes%20i%20love%20music&f=false

wow lol

not sure if the author knew I was doing an interpolation of the famous Karl Rove (?) quote

you, always with the arch theorizing.

DISEMBODIED EXHIBITIONISM (President Keyes)

memoir title suggestion

I don't regularly read him or The Intercept and hadn't even realized he was based in Brazil. I thought this was a pretty good and fair-minded piece:

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/24/glenn_greenwald_brazils_democracy_is_under

Yep. The article is linked in that Democracy Now story

yes, i heard that on the radio yesterday.

G.G. is very smart and i like what he has to say, but i have to admit i can barely stand his iteration of the valley-girl whine/vocal fry. he sounds like cher horowitz with a lisp. :(

this guy is pretty much a trump partisan at this point

Trump's a fascist. Trump is Hitler. Trump is setting up camps. "Nothing is more disgusting" than people who throw things in protest.Glenn Greenwald added,
Claire McCaskill @clairecmc
Nothing is more unAmerican than protesters who are not peaceful. Disgusting.
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that was unreadable, but basically his imperial know-it-all-itness is getting fucking tiring. no critique of trump is complete without a stab at the democrats. all concerns about an openly nationalist candidate promising a radical break with tradition must be countered with an accusation of "hypocrisy" and "hysteria." he just sucks. this act is tired.

i'm not his biggest fan in the world but that's not true

he's criticizing democrats for being alarmist in rhetoric *while also* being timid in action.

you say trump is the beginning of a fascist wave sweeping the country? then don't chide scuffles in the streets as "unamerican"

sorry treesh, yer bananas

Glenn Greenwald Retweeted
Zaid Jilani ‏@ZaidJilani 2h2 hours ago

Donald Trump preaches angry nationalism, while practicing Goldman Sachs capitalism https://interc.pt/2jxKryX by yours truly

the Dem leaders' incompetence and inability to critique Trump's gold-plated elitism gave us this day, i'm fine w/ saying fuck them every 5 minutes

lol i think he just deleted a tweet. it said something like "C.I.A. didn't forget to give Trump a gift for his inauguration day," and linked to this NYT story: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/us/politics/trump-russia-associates-investigation.html

i guess he realized pretty quickly that protecting the sanctity of Trump's inauguration day probably didn't fit the brand

oh nm it's still up:
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/822439520780029952

more worried about Yehuda Glick and Netanyahu than Russia

xo

so scary the US moving the embassy to west jerusalem

Greenwald's smug tone is totally wrong for this moment. He just shruggingly says "the corrupt deep state is at war with the new fascist president, just like them huh" *rolls eyes* as if that is 1.) normal and 2.) the most plausible answer to the multiple links between Trump and the Kremlin. It's as if those things couldn't possible be connected to Trump's Putinesque desire for a fractured Europe and an end to NATO.

Like, maybe too much is being made of coincidences -- maybe the CIA is framing Trump or something -- but wouldn't that also be a fucking weird thing to be happening?

it is interesting that the settler colonial state is a scarier prospect to world peace than the country killing more ppl in syria than the entire history of the israeli/arab conflict and who most recently annexed a chunk of another actually existing country

I feel like part of what motivated Greenwald is protecting the Wikileaks brand

so scary the US moving the embassy to west jerusalem

you bet it is, genius, plus a Likud maniac blessing DT in D.C. yesterday as "king of the United States"

*moves bookmark*

yes why is it so scary exactly? why shouldn't the capital be in west jerusalem? bc not even west jerusalem should be a part of israel?

shouldn't it be in*

Greenwald spent most of the last month of the race between Clinton and Trump disseminating Russian hacks attacking Clinton. He's been extremely defensive ever since.

Glick told The Intercept that many in Israel didn’t feel like Obama was willing to consider their point of view. “Can you imagine the president of France saying, ‘Listen I don’t think it’s a good idea that Washington should be your capital. Maybe Orlando!'”

(The residents of Washington, D.C. may be without full voting rights but they are not militarily occupied or denied citizenship like the Palestinians in East Jerusalem.)

“Jerusalem is the capital of Israel whether you like it or you don’t,” he concluded.

https://theintercept.com/2017/01/19/israeli-lawmakers-celebrate-the-new-king-of-the-united-states-with-evangelicals/

http://www.btselem.org/topic/jerusalem