Several years before the Republican party handed the keys to Donald Trump (because that's how we mark time now apparently) I began a regular feature on this little blog pointing out that Glenn Greenwald, the World's Greatest Journalist, was not, in fact, a man to be trusted.
This was not something that many of my erstwhile allies on the Left wanted to hear, and as a result I was subsequently excommunicated from the Lefty Circle of Trust (I was never really in it to begin with so boo fuckin hoo) and my comment section began to fill up with almost daily with angry droppings by the Spleenwald Purity Horde.
My traffic dropped by about 1/3 as did contributions to this little blog of mine. But I'm a stubborn cuss, and I just kept not shutting up.
This went on for quite a while, getting exponentially weirder and more darkly entertaining as Bolshi Freedom Troll Greenwald spiraled further and further down into the pit of incentiary raving. The quarter of a billion dollars his internet sugar daddy had given him suddenly had strings attached. The internet media company he had started decided that ol' Glenn needed some editorial limits put on his increasingly embarrassing bleatings. Then he was fired from/quit that internet media company because Freedom of Speech. Then, after he went on a towering jeremiad about the cowardice of people who delete their Twitter archives...he deleted his Twitter archives.
As all this was going on, the angry droppings by the Spleenwald Purity Horde got less frequent but progressively more brittle, strident and hysterical.
Then Glenn started showing up as Tucker Carlson's wacky "Liberal" sidekick on his Fox News White Power Hour, and thence on to guest spots on Laura Ingraham's atrocity. And that's when the Spleenwald Purity Horde suddenly took up tatting or fly-fishing or hen-teasing some other activity that didn't involve telling me, "droneglass', what a wrong, stupid, awful, drooling, jackbooted O-bot I was on a daily basis (and how dare a little, nobody blogger like me -- who was clearly motivated solely by jealousy -- impugn the reputation of the World's Greatest Journalist) but also didn't require them to walk back any of their Very Loud Opinions about Greenwald.
And once it became clear that Spleenwald had fully committed himself to making common cause with some of the worst people on right-wing media, I folded the tent on my Greenwald social experiment and moved on to other things. There was nothing more to prove. And yet, every now and then feel a civic obligation to check in with Glenn (who blocked me almost immediately after he nuked his Twitter archive) to see what he's up to. See if there's even a glimmer of anything decent peering out of the husk he has become.
The answer is, nope.
Glenn Greenwald lists his favorite "left-wing" media sources.
— Post-Left Watch (@PostLeftWatch) October 30, 2023
They are Richard Medhurst, Aaron Maté and The Grayzone, and Revolutionary Blackout Network. pic.twitter.com/hbs0nZyNfB
Same guy. Now apparently too garbage even for Fox News, he can be found on a tiny offshoot of Rumble. From the Wikipedia:
Rise of [Rumble] viewership in 2020 has been attributed to Representative Devin Nunes, who accused YouTube of overly censoring his channel. Nunes began posting content on the platform with other prominent conservatives, such as Dinesh D'Souza, Dan Bongino, Sean Hannity, and Representative Jim Jordan, following soon after.
I'm sure there's a lesson in there somewhere.
1 comment:
This brings to mind the rotten SCOTUS decision of Citizens United.
Where 5 republicans on the Supreme Court Ruled like a rabid republican majority in the House full of the latest well paid TEA party which was reported as grass roots origin.
Why citizen united? They ruled that money, currency is free speech and chose that moment with the big winners in the economy who amassed wealth and were bribing and purchasing our government to neglect representing the people.
Money is knot speech. It can be used in media to purchase speech. But free speech requires the exchange of ideas, opinions and ideals. A back and forth with rebottles.
The SCOTUS ignored that what they called money as speech was money purchasing propaganda and used against Americans.
When the bribe calls for them to commit crimes to benefit a political party and judges have been bribed and given life long jobs can excuse these crimes and the bribes to commit crimes becomes a profitable living to live a life of extra substance by selling out what did not belong to them and the people they sold out. Well, they get nothing.
Perhaps we can legislate a supreme court oversight of a citizens panel that has the power to overturn the supreme court. By te time the billionaire catch up to bribing this SCOTUS oversight )Superior SCOTUS oversight) we can change them out or come up with an oversight to the oversight to the oversight of the SCOTUS.
I just know this, Justices Thomas has never come across me in the Wal Mart parking lot as he parks there for free rental space as he travels around to meet with us peons. Why he protects wallowing in the working class pug stie in the mud and all is just so rich .
Why hasn't Justice Thomas asked me to come along with him on Harlan Crows yacht so he can wallow in luxury?
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