Tuesday, February 02, 2021

So What's Up With Bolshi Freedom Troll Glenn Greenwald These Days?

Some of you longtime readers might remember back, oh, about 1,000 years ago when I took it upon myself to try to warn my fellow Liberals about what a transparently hypocritical fraud Greenwald was.

That he was little more than a venomous parasite feeding of their credulity.

Lost a lot of readers because of that.  Took the full brunt of the Spleenwald Horde over and over again for expressing these unwelcome ideas.  Got perp-walked out of the Liberal Charmed Circle -- "cancelled",  some might call it -- because I was obviously a [checks notes] drooling, neoliberal, jackbooted Obot fascist who had somehow infiltrated the ranks of respectable Liberals and needed to be discommendated immediately so that the ideological purity of the Liberal Charmed Circle would remain unsullied.

That would be the same Glenn Greenwald who has since gone on to fame as both Tucker Carlson's and Laura Ingraham's wacky sidekick on their respective Fox News White Power Hour programs.

The same Glenn Greenwald, who posted this reaction to AOC being hunted by a mob of violent Republican insurrectionists i the nation's capitol just weeks ago:

Just thought I'd post this for the record.  Because Spleenwald... going on the Scammy Dore show... to bitch that AOC was ruining everything with all of her complaining about her Republican colleagues trying get her killed... is about as deeply fucked-in-the-head as it gets.

Because who knows?  There might come a day when my fellow Liberals once again feel compelled to sink a whole lot of their money and credibility into a deeply sketchy enterprise being run by people who need to bullshit constantly to maintain that enterprise.  And should that ever happen, maybe this time they'll listen to their old Unca Driftglass when he tells them to be very careful about people who talk incessantly about accountability while lying over and over again about their own past because their income and status depends on it.  


And to  read the fine print before striking any bargain with people who harp on the importance of transparency...while attacking and/or blocking anyone who asks them inconvenient questions.  






No Half Measures

2 comments:

Robt said...

Glenn on Tucker's write cartoon power hour.
Where they cancel each other out while being silenced by the Muslim Saudi King who is the largest share holder of his beloved FOX.

Yes, Tucker works for a Muslim.......


Jim said...

I found GG's blog during the Snowden affair and read it for a little while. I stopped pretty quickly because of his tendency to attack anyone who even slightly disagreed with him. David Neiwert has a good description of GG's background with white supremacists https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/20/1859118/-The-Tale-of-the-Pontifex-Maximus-and-His-Lawyer-Glenn-Greenwald-s-strange-far-right-blind-spot

Anyway, I hope that you're doing OK without Twitter and not walking around the house like Trump.

https://twitter.com/marceldirsus/status/1357072746803585026?s=20

I guess that if @bluegal suddenly gets all snarky we'll know.