The People's View: Glenn Greewald - Creepy

The professional screechers on the puritan "Left" are apparently having some problems with the fact that President Obama and his team was successful in taking out Osama bin Laden. They can't quite figure out a way to discredit the president for doing this, so there's a new approach: go after the people's reaction, caused by the announcement in a very creepy, nasty way. Oh, and bash the president for not getting bin Laden alive. Glenn Greenwald leads the clan.

Did you know that hunting down and killing Osama bin Laden is just like killing an innocent infant baby? Greenwald thinks so. No, I'm not making this crap up. From Greenwald's yesterday's piece of turd:


"It seems telling that hunting someone down and killing them is one of the few things that still produce these feelings of nationalistic unity. I got on an airplane last night before the news of bin Laden's killing was known and had actually intended to make this point with regard to our killing of Gadaffi's son in Libya -- a mere 25 years after President Reagan bombed Libya and killed Gadaffi's infant daughter."

See, Reagan bombed Tripoli, and Gaddafi's infant daughter was killed. Obama authorized an Navy SEAL operation against the compound where Bin Laden was hiding out and the operation actually resulted in the killing of Osama Bin Laden himself. Same thing. Pretty much. More or less. Oh, and I'm sure Mr. Greenwald will soon produce evidence of all the festivities that spontaneously erupted across the United States celebrating specifically the event that an infant was killed. Anytime. I'm sure.

This Glenn Greenwald dude is seriously creepy. Dude's seriously messed up.

The entire article is here....http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2011/05/glenn-greenwald-creepy.html

(sarcasm)

Hardly.

Educate: http://rootedcosmopolitan.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/glenn-greenwald-neither-a-liberal-nor-a-progressive/

The "professional screechers on the puritan left....blah, blah,blah"

I get really tired of hearing this right- wing insults on DU.

Greenwald is Greenwald...I don't care what he is, one way or another.

Politically, he's really more of a Libertarian.

and their obsession with abortion.

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...and I agree with every word of it.

I read this crap you posted from thepeoplesview, and it appears the author of that blog and I read very different Glenn Greenwald columns. "Seriously creepy" is not a compelling argument outside the confines of the 6th Grade and Facebook posts. Clearly, the author was one of those Greenwald described as being 'on the lookout for heretics'. Greenwald's doing just fine, as always, and peoplesview boy needs to just get used to the notion.

Did Greenwald equate killing OBL and killing Gaddafi's daughter? No, but why not claim that he did? It's fun to be fucking stupid, right?

You apparently don't even read the things you post, let alone Glenn's actual piece. A complete illogical smear job.

I'm sure he was impressed with his nominee's debate performance tonight.

But I don't think he cares. He is ego-driven.

This is why he supports the Citizens United decision. Yes, we may agree with him on certain things, but he has never, ever described himself as liberal or a leftist. One of the biggest myths being pushed is that Glenn is a leftist just so that the corporate media can push the narrative that the left hates President Obama.

If anyone finds some quote from Glenn Greenwald in which he identifies himself as a liberal or leftist or a socialist, I would love to see it. If you read his book, he specifically denies being a liberal.

"The Supreme Court yesterday, in a 5-4 decision, declared unconstitutional (on First Amendment grounds) campaign finance regulations which restrict the ability of corporations and unions to use funds from their general treasury for "electioneering" purposes. The case, Citizens United v. FEC, presents some very difficult free speech questions, and I'm deeply ambivalent about the court's ruling. There are several dubious aspects of the majority's opinion (principally its decision to invalidate the entire campaign finance scheme rather than exercising "judicial restraint" through a narrower holding). Beyond that, I believe that corporate influence over our political process is easily one of the top sicknesses afflicting our political culture. But there are also very real First Amendment interests implicated by laws which bar entities from spending money to express political viewpoints.'

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/01/22/citizens_united

That's a real ringing endorsement, lol.

Guess who is for and against Citizens United?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHr0wiobav4

Need a hint? Here is Prof. Lessig:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-lessig/a-principled-and-pure-fir_b_439082.html

Plus he doesn't even have a horse in this race as he doesn't live in the USA

since you chose to use his living in Brazil to make a cheap shot. Greenwald met, and married a Brazilian man. But despite the fact he is legally married to this man he can't bring him here since gays are second class citizens in this country.

whether you agree with him or not, he has stood against torture, stuck up for Wikileaks, stuck up for Bradley Manning.

He has alot of guts and sticks his neck out there without having to use a pseudonym.

Don't be fooled.

that Greenwald wrote. I think Deaniac83 let him off easy! The very first paragraph pissed me off to no end:



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WTF? Greenwald obviously doesn't understand what this means, or why anyone would be celebrating it other than "Nationalistic Bloodlust". And then he sets himself up as a martyr or "heretic" (victim) of anyone who disagrees with him.

Ego.

maybe this person is creeped out by gay people. :shrug:

maybe when Glenn has a real accomplishment to his credit (like taking out America's greatest enemy) he will have the gravitas to toss out baseless criticism. Until then, he is nothing but a useless blow hard.

You could say that about anyone.

Is he anymore lacking in credibility than anyone else who is not a high, elected official who does not have some historical accomplish, to their credit?

Are you saying everyone else who is a journalist or in any other job has no "accomplishments" to their credit?

Not only could we, we SHOULD be. We should be looking at the accomplishments of those that insist on sharing their criticisms. Glenn is like the guy off the street that wonders into a hospital's surgery street and starts critiquing the brain surgeon in the middle of an operation.

Accomplishments matter and goes a long way to determining if a critic's opinions are worth listening to.

By the standard you've outlined, what grounds do you have that render your opinion worthy?

I get it. Only those in power have the right to express an opinion or analysis.

Sounds a lot like 1984....Or at least the GOP's vision for America

Who dont you explain why he is wrong rather than attacking him personally?

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This should be in Editorials and other Articles. Unrec.

Glenn walks alone. Or at least he does in his fantasies.