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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGlenn Greenwald Tells Russians Liberals Are Blaming Them As Excuse for Clinton
There is definitely a market for liberals, as well as conservatives, who are willing to sell out the U.S., though I have never considered Greenwald to be a liberal, and always wondered why he was referenced so often on DU.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/glenn-greenwald-tells-russia-liberals-are-scapegoating-them.html
In his recent appearance at a panel on fake news in Moscow, the Intercepts Glenn Greenwald described his bold iconoclastic policy of speaking truth to power, and then proceeded to repeat an absurd lie told by the leader of the American government. In Greenwalds telling, the notion that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election came about as a desperate way for media elites to explain why their preferred candidate, Hillary Clinton, did not prevail.
The American political system needed an explanation about why something like that could happen, and why they got it so wrong, began Greenwald. One of the explanations about why it happened was the favorite tactic of governments, which was to say, it wasnt anything wrong with our country, it was this other foreign country over there that was to blame. And thats a major reason why fingers continue to be pointed at the Russian government.
Greenwald was very clear about his belief that the whole theory of Russian involvement was a postelection exercise in blame-shifting: Excuses were needed, villains were required, people needed to point fingers at someone other than themselves for this very shocking event, and thats why there became this obsession with the Russian government.
This also happens to be President Trumps theory of the case. Democrats needed an excuse, he argues, so rather than admit Crooked Hillary was a terrible candidate, they concocted the notion that Russia helped Trump win.
RandySF
(57,661 posts)And fuck all of their followers.
Cha
(295,929 posts)and a FUCKING IDIOT.
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)filed on Friday by the Mueller team.
The facts are very well corroborated and very detailed.
JI7
(89,182 posts)JI7
(89,182 posts)RandySF
(57,661 posts)I'd love to mention some but I not feel like getting banned form DU.
kcr
(15,300 posts)One of them is having a ball running around campaigning everywhere. She's a piece of work. It's democracy!
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Salviati
(6,002 posts)That is all.
LuvLoogie
(6,855 posts)He was on Democracy Now radio program, tonight. She tried giving him the last word, but ran out of time. He wants to "move on" from the 2016 election as a reason to shore up cyber security. He wants to make it about nuclear proliferation and global warming, because both sides.
DownFromTheMountain
(226 posts)Why Greenwald was so frantic and why I cannot understand any f-ing thing he puts forth.."Jeffersonian" pretentions or not. I keep smelling rat. Pick a side. Like Woody said..Brother, whose side are you on?
peggysue2
(10,811 posts)the official mouthpiece in Russia for the Trumpster.
Good to know.
Btw, is he on vacation in Moscow or has decided to stay permanently???
Hekate
(90,202 posts)Hamlette
(15,394 posts)radical noodle
(7,990 posts)Perhaps he should just travel the world with Trump.
still_one
(91,965 posts)about time people see exactly who that troll is.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)with Assange/Wikileaks, I wouldn't be surprised if Mueller isn't interested in him.
Cha
(295,929 posts)anti-Russian investigation.. he's guilty? It's trump's reason.
Skidmore
pansypoo53219
(20,906 posts)JDC
(10,084 posts)SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)That should be explanation enough, I think. They've moved to a different discussion venue.
Glenn Greenwald is not our friend. He never was.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)As conservatives used to say in the 1960s, if these guys all love Russia so much, they can move there.
The irony is so thick you could spread it on toast.