...to unhinged Fox News/Tucker Carlson political jumpoff has been genuinely epic.
Time was, when yours truly would write a post pointing out that Mr. Greenwald, for example, tended to lie rather a lot...
...or was a towering hypocrite, the Spleenwald Horde would immediately descend and make sure that everyone on The Internet knew that ol' driftglass was a neocon, lick-spittle, jackbooted, O-bot servant of Evil. And certainly No True Liberal would ever want to consort with such as me.
Cost me about a third of my meager blog traffic and an appreciable chunk of what came in through my Tip Jar, but you know, if you can't write whatever the fuck you want on your own blog regardless of how many of your "friends" shit on you, what's the point? Might as well be working for CNN.— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 21, 2019
Or desperately attention-whoring at Tucker Carlson's elbow on White Supremacist Teevee.
Honestly, all I ever tried to do was warn you that this was who you were putting on a pedestal and that maybe you should check the ingredients list very carefully before you swallowed it whole.
And now time and events have done their thing, and here we are:
And so it goes.Anyone disliked by MSDNC is a Kremlin agent.— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 21, 2019
I can't count how many times their paid personalities have accused me of this.
It's a McCarthyite sewer. https://t.co/OBKA6mOWS0
And for the record, do I expect an identical wave of childlike confusion and shocked disbelief from the Credulous Left once their new, house-broken Never Trumper BFFs suddenly grow fangs and rip their throats out the minute Trump is out of the way?
Yes.
Yes I do.
The Tip Jar Is Open.
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What I've noticed about Greenwald and his chosen targets is the same thing I've noticed about his fellow disgraced True Leftist icon Matt Taibbi (as well as various, largely forgotten fixtures of the early left-blogosphere) - both of them direct most of their ire toward people they used to work with. In Greenwald's fixation with trashing MSNBC, there's this element of cliquishness that speaks to something other than a good faith disagreement. It's even backed up by Greenwald's envious comments about how MSNBC hosts never invite him on anymore.
I've seen a lot of speculation as to what's passing through Greenwald's mind, as his disintegration has revealed a worldview different than most. In his case, though, I think a big part is just that he feels disrespected. Greenwald is obviously driven by egotism and grandiosity - innate traits of his that were magnified by years of aggrandizement by the press. Take anyone and spend years telling him that he's unique and has done great things no one else dared to do, you'll turn him into an egomaniac, but if he was egotistical and self-righteous to begin with...well, you get what we're looking at.
Greenwald probably believes (in no small part because so many people told him as much) that he was largely responsible for saving the country from George W. Bush. He continued this savior streak for a few years during that time when it was trendy for lefties to bash Obama, but eventually everyone else moved on - they found other causes, other icons, or just lost that taste for the outrage high and learned to appreciate what Obama was doing. In the meantime, of course, Greenwald achieved significant wealth, but that's just not as important to him as adulation. Remember that he nearly lost that sweet oligarch money because he ignored his actual job and spent all his time trying to pick fights on Twitter.
In sum, my own personal hypothesis as to Greenwald's current public behavior is that it's a mixture of spite towards people who betrayed him mixed with that same "see what you made me do" rationalism that allows narcissists to harm those around them without feeling guilt because nothing they do is their fault. My guess is that if all the bloggers and those cable hosts and the like all dropped to their knees and begged the great Glenn Greenwald, Only Consistent Man in Politics, to come back and save them again, he'd have a change of heart. But he'd never be able to function all that well in this political environment because he'd always be soft on Trump - a man with whom he shares that combination of egotism and fragility.
All pseudo-psychological horseshit, I admit, but it explains so much that I can't let it go.
What utter nonsense. I sense something unsaid that is very personal.
Mainstream Establishment Bubble: The Blog Post.
Of late, the YouTube algorithm is filling my suggested videos queue with posts on narcissism. So far, the videos are by credible professional therapists (nothing "down the rabbit hole" quite yet) and what I've seen neatly dovetails with what you wrote.
I missed whatever Taibbi did. Google got me this but that does not seem like sufficient to discredit him to this extent. Help?
"Matt Taibbi deployed a deceptive ellipsis to make it appear that former Director of National Intelligence and virulent Trump critic James Clapper threw President Obama under the bus during a CNN interview about the now “criminal” ( you can deploy that word as you will) investigation being conducted by AG Barr into the oranges(sic) of the probe of Russian interference in the 2016 campaign." https://dailysoundandfury.com/brian-beutler-catches-matt-taibbi-altering-james-clapper-quote-to-try-to-make-obama-look-bad/
I would say that Tulsi and Glenn figure they will have the "left-wing flacks to shield the fake president" niche to themselves. I believe they are pretty much correct. Other people have morals, ethics and honor.
If Gleen works hard, discards playing by the rules enough. Applies himself "strongly".
Gets a tattoo of Trump on his back.
One day, he too can accomplish what Roger Stone has.
It is not in his future to get on of those prized lifetime judge sears. He is notin tight enough with the Federalist Society to get on the judges list.
I mean, not like Mys diaper Dvae Vitter who put out to the Fed. Society just to get even with her Hubby.
Because right wing rewards may work in mysterious ways. But, you really have to be in the club. Not just made to feel that you're in it.
...If you search back through the archives here for "Taibbi", you'll come across a couple of posts detailing where he has jumped wholeheartedly onto the "BothSidesDoIt" gravytrain.
Glenn's still doing good work and you're still being a partisan shill.
The writer Rebecca Solnit has been saying the same thing about Greenwald for a few years and has gotten the same blowback. Congratulations on having the courage to publish what seems obvious to many of us, not to mention withstanding idiotic remarks like "you're still being a partisan shill."
Try listening to Taibbi's podcast. I had to stop.
I personally find Glenn Greenwald annoying, but what he has done in Brazil recently is pretty amazing and important.
Maybe you should have Greenwald on your podcast. Taibbi too.His podcast with Katie Halper. They had a great interview with Max Blumenthal last week. I don't know that he is a fan of Tulsi Gabbard, but he will defend any one who thinks is being wronged from either side of the tracks. I doubt that he is particularly mad about not being invited to MSNBC. The left is pissed at him because he downplays the Russians interfering in our election. I think he is wrong about this. 60 minutes just did a segment about the Russians interfering. Greenwald does not trust the CIA, FBI, NSA and other security agencies and we shouldn't. On the other hand it doesn't mean they are also not trying to keep us safe. Greenwald does go on Democracy Now quite often so he is not being banned there. By the way Sanders got reamed for doing a town hall on Fox. Politicians should not be afraid to go on Fox. At least not the prime time shows. But from clips I have seen of Chris Wallace and Shepherd Smith who is no longer there seems to give their interview subjects a fair shake.
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