The "Driftglass Was Right All Along" Line Forms On The Left

Glenn Greenwald’s focus on “deep state” depredations has exiled him from MSNBC but has given him a place on Fox News: https://t.co/y5Q2Nffjow pic.twitter.com/QT27JnUBdV

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) August 27, 2018

After Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russians, Glenn Greenwald decided he regarded the indictments as genuine evidence of Russian hacking—the first he’d seen in two years. He told Ian Parker that he was still pondering the best way to announce this publicly: https://t.co/BYoDlEQc9w pic.twitter.com/ZmRTbAGLHj

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) August 27, 2018

Or, as one low-born, bootless blabbermouth once said about Mr. Greenwald's Purity Cult back when daring to say such things in public would get your Liberal card revoked and your readership cut by 1/3...

...once purity itself becomes all you care about -- once  it becomes a distillery race to see who can get to 100% -- the chicken farmers are never far behind:

The main Islamist group in Algeria, the GIA, ended up being led by a Mr. Zouabri, a chicken farmer, who killed everyone who disagreed with him. He issued a final communiqué, declaring that the whole of Algerian society should be killed, with the exception of his tiny remaining band of Islamists. They were the only ones who understood the truth.

And from my perspective, do you know what the saddest sentence in the entire New Yorker article is?

It's this:

 Leading American progressives -- speaking off the record, and apologizing for what they describe as cowardice -- call Greenwald a bully and a troll.

So everybody knew, but nobody said anything, because all the clever dogs on the inside decided to play it safe and lay back in the cut rather than risk the wrath of Spleenwald Horde.

Welly, well, well, well.

Sure doesn't sound much like "leading", especially to someone like me who was out there taking it in the teeth every day for saying true, important and unpopular things about Mr. Greenwald while my so-called allies chose to hide in the hedges and haystacks.

Here's the rest of the paragraph:

One told me that “he makes everything war.” The spouse of one of Greenwald’s friends visualizes him as the angry emoji. On Twitter, he has little use for agree-to-disagree courtesies, or humor: he presses on. More than one tweet has started with “No, you idiot.” He’ll tweet “Go fuck yourself” to a user with twenty or so followers. A few years ago, Greenwald had a Twitter disagreement with Imani Gandy, a legal journalist, who tweets as @AngryBlackLady; another Twitter user, in support of Greenwald, proposed to Gandy that “Obama could rape a nun live on NBC and you’d say we weren’t seeing what we were seeing.” Greenwald replied, “No -- she’d say it was justified & noble -- that he only did it to teach us about the evils of rape.”

And here's another snip, just in case you miss the point:

In the Trump era, Greenwald seems to be most energized when he discovers flaws in Democratic messaging, or in the output of an MSNBC contributor; this summer, he wrote a piece about a single uncorrected error by Malcolm Nance, a former intelligence officer, who had mistakenly said that Jill Stein had a show on RT; Greenwald used the words “lie,” “fabrication,” and “falsehood,” and their variants, twenty times, and proposed that “NBC News and MSNBC have essentially merged with the C.I.A. and intelligence community,” and that “anyone who criticizes the Democratic Party or its leaders is instantly accused of being a Kremlin agent.”

At this point, a lesser man would probably say something like "I fucking told you so".

And as a low-born, bootless blabbermouth, when have I ever pretended to be anything other than a lesser man?

Update:  'Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Lose' is not how I would describe Wonkette's approach to dispassionately deconstructing Mr. Greenwald:

Glenn Greenwald Wants To Be Kinder, Gentler Russian Stooge White Nationalist Fucking Moron 

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