defend the indefensible: glenn fucking greenwald

GG has voiced plenty of opinions that i disagree with but i can think of no scenario, literally none, in which any of those opinions had a noticeable effect on the outcome of the 2016 election

Ok, but by that standard his new reporting isn't that important anyway, because Bolsanaro is mostly being defeated by his own idiocy. It's a pretty pathetic excuse that Greenwald helping Russians elect Trump probably didn't turn the election. It was a stupid thing to do anyway, and pretty obviously stupid at the moment.

And the only reason they did it was that they thought Clinton was sure to be elected anyway. Publishing a private persons emails which had been hacked by Russian intelligence was straightforwardly indefensible from a leftist website concerned with privacy. But, y'know, he was probably going to be chief of staff?

both the inputs and outputs of our social lives are so highly mediated that alleging (let alone proving) any actor's level of causation is a not always a best eval. you can fall back to "reasonable duty of care" sort of shit. who wants that. people want to ~know~ who did what.

(then suddenly youre gavrilo princip and this car pulls around the corner with an assload of hillary's emails and that shit needs to be distributed.)

just retweeting the controversy

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ELi3ravX0AcBAmB.jpg

christ

He is so fucking pathetic

And mega butthurt

"i assume mollie didn't make it up."

safe assumption about a federalist writer and fox news contributor

He’s so far past the point of absurdity it pains me that ppl I respect still take him seriously

Do they?

how many columns do you think glenn has written in his career where he's hysterically castigated a writer for "commenting on" a reported story that turned out not to be true? 100? 300?

ppl's inability to just admit they fucked up is an epidemic

why would you expect (one of the biggest right wing hacks out there) to just make things up?

Greenwarg will have a crisis of faith and go on CNN about how he trusted his sources and how he was had by bad actors

I hope his head falls off #tmbg

Won't happen

Gronn Greenwarg

I know his head won't fall off. Geez.

So you admit that you SHAMELESSLY and RECKLESSLY posted a SPURIOUS hope for an event that you KNEW had NO POSSIBILITY of ever happening, and arrogantly expected it to go totally UNCHALLENGED, probably due to your vast and unreported connections to FBI, CIA, NSA, NSC, and their media stooges!

Haha

the crimes of greenwald

xp sorry N but it had to be said

Listen, I know Greenwald is a controversial guy but I think one thing we can all agree on is that when he speaks Portuguese he sounds like Tiny Fuppets and that is a good thing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/world/americas/glenn-greenwald-brazil-cybercrimes.html

the cybercrimes of greenwald

authentically a good time to defend glenn greenwald, shit is fucked in brazil and getting fuckeder

Just came to post this. Whatever one thinks of him, he is sticking his neck out to expose a horrible regime. I hope he, his husband, and especially his children get through this safely.

and their dogs

Sure. But the kids especially. I heard greenwald on a poscast talk about how the extraordinarily homophobic bolsonaro regime uses them as a talking point—you know, calling for the state to “investigate” their parenting. That was the impetus behind the televised “fistfight” a few months ago. Very frightening.

the comments on today's lawyersgunsandmoney post about this are predictably disgusting

those smart commenters are at it again I see

To argue that he's done good work and been disgusting too requires no smarts.

internet commenters are sociopaths

A journalist appearing on Tucker Carlson in 2019 will warp even the most sympathetic liberal listener.

Like I've written many times, I've quoted thousands of his words and between 2005-2009 there was no better chronicler of the Bush administration's malfeasance. He was occasionally good on Obama's extralegal killings too. He's among the five reasons to quit reading Twitter, though.

having scanned said comments,

To argue that he's done good work and been disgusting too requires no smarts.

maybe not, but having a sense of perspective does

i don't think the kind of ppl whose response to this is basically "good, he deserves it, he's a fascist too" were ever particularly sympathetic to greenwald's writing or his focus on civil liberties. i don't think they have much love for snowden either.

This is getting off-topic. Greenwald is a gay man with a family living in a country with a head of state as awful as Trump, and despite his reporting on the evil of Bolsanaro he appears on Tucker Carlson railing against Dems' Russia obsession and to throw a blanket on ways to prosecute him. But for fuck's sake to be charged for crimes by Brazil's government is no excuse to crow.

prosecute him = Trump

you don't have to agree with like or respect a journalist to believe journalists should not be imprisoned for reporting on powerful people

otm

To argue that he's done good work and been disgusting too requires no smarts.

so, like Obama

The Bernie Sanders campaign was the only one to respond to my request for comment about Brazil's decision to prosecute Glenn Greenwald. The Biden, Warren, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Yang, and Steyer campaigns did not.

Make of that what you will.https://t.co/2YX98x4On9

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) January 22, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB26jj0jrjc

this is disturbing. i was uncomfortable with 'russiagate' at first, but tried to keep an open mind. but it does seem now like it was an enormous ruse that completely deflected real, political opposition to trump in favor of a fantasy that he was a manchurian candidate. also, to make it even worse, the thing that motivated the intelligence officials that started this wasn't fear of trump's authoritarianism but rather their concern that he wouldn't be hawkish enough. something similar could happen to a left wing candidate and it was starting to -- the washington post, for a while, was floating some intelligence that russia preffered bernie to the other candidates.

whatever you think of flynn, (i think he is an authoritarian, islamophbic ghoul), and whatever you think of trump, this is a very, very bad look for the 'resistance.'

the most absurd part of this is that trump eventually did 'collude' with a foreign power -- ukraine! and he was impeached for that! so it was all completely for nothing.

I'm going to look for a two hour long video to post in rebuttal

i just don't understand why the opposition to trump had to hinge on RUSSIA.

he was obviously guilty of all manner of crimes, from campaign finance violations (proven, cohen is in prison) to tax fraud, likely on an epic scale. the dossier stuff was so clownish.

you know what really sucks is how western leftists (& certain non-leftists inexplicably respected by the worst of the left) respond to this xenophobic reheated cold war bs by reflexively defending the russian state, its imperialism, its fascist propaganda, etc to the extent that pointing out those things would get me called a neocon or neolib in certain circles

might seem like a non issue in the US compared to annoying russiagate libs tho. which is the problem

on what earth would any ilxor listen to glenn greenwald teeter between unhinged and self-righteous for nearly two hours?

reflexive defense of the russian state is bad. same thing is true of relfexive defense of china, etc

i'm not a greenwald fan, really, but i don't think he is unhinged here. the russia saga was insane and a huge waste of time and energy.