Greenwald and Snowden SLAMMED at Oscars 2015

[uhnope]

[vt_native]

1. Well,

I used to like NPH.

[Enrique]

2. wow

how satisfying that must have been for you. It must have made it all worthwhile.

[djean111]

3. Oh, yeah, a slam from the asshole who jeered at a woman who, less than a minute or so before,

had mentioned her son committed suicide. Said it took balls to wear that dress.
NPH seemed to have a lot of tasteless misfires last night.
I don't think being "slammed" by NPH means diddly squat, really.

[Thinkingabout]

4. Guess more truth is exposed, perhaps in the future the rest of the truth will be forth coming.

The US will continue without Snowden living here.

[RufusTFirefly]

5. That barb filled a much needed gap in the ceremonies

I trust you'll be adding it to your own personal highlight reel.

[RufusTFirefly]

6. Snowden to Neil Patrick Harris: I Laughed at Your Oscar Joke About Me

"To be honest, I laughed at NPH," Snowden wrote, using the common abbreviation to refer to the three-name entertainer. "I don't think it was meant as a political statement, but even if it was, that's not so bad. My perspective is if you're not willing to be called a few names to help out your country, you don't care enough."

Touché!

[zeemike]

7. It may have been intended as a slam against Snowden

But it is really a comment about the US, who violated the constitution and when someone blew the whistle on them the government forced him to flee.
Now who is the bad buy here?...the one who had to flee or the one who made them flee?

Perspective is the thing. And if you are a my country right or wrong kind of person you blame the victim and ignore the wrong.

[uhnope]

8. Perspective is the thing

If you are a USA-always-wrong kind of person then you glorify Snowden and ignore the facts

[zeemike]

10. Well I am not a binary thinker.

And my guess is that Snowden is not either...I reject the with us or against meme.

[uhnope]

11. I don't think Snowden is a binary thinker. I don't know what he is except

an obvious liar and attention-seeker. The rest is a mystery. Why anyone would proceed the way he did is just bizarre. Proclaim your fight for freedom and then run to China and Russia? He's got a few screws loose, it seems

[zeemike]

12. And I think that anyone who can't see why he did it has a few screws loose too

But you don't know him but pronounce him a liar and an attention seeker?
Strange that.

[uhnope]

13. I don't "know him." Do you? But I've read many of his words and analyses of his "revelations"

that show him to be a liar. His actions show him to be an obvious attention seeker.

Any questions?

[zeemike]

14. No questions, you have told me all I need to hear.

You have opinions that square with NSA...but not the constitution.

[uhnope]

15. very binary-thinking of you

[wildbilln864]

27. yet true! n/t

[drynberg]

24. Ed Snowden is a hero, that had to escape a very long jail sentence for telling the truth.

[Demit]

19. "If you are a USA-always-wrong kind of person"?

That seems to establish your perspective as being USA-always-right.

[markpkessinger]

23. You said it!

That's the kind of statement one expect to encounter in Freeperville, not here!

[YOHABLO]

9. It was more of a slam towards NSA and those who would incarcerate Snowden if he returned to the U.S.

[marym625]

17. That's a slam?

Ok. If you say so.

Notice the applause for Greenwald, Snowden and Poitras was greater than for NPH.

I am very happy it won. An excellent documentary by a fabulous journalist about a real American hero.

[freshwest]

18. Actors.

[uhnope]

20. !!!!! Good point! Greenwald and Poitras are actors too. nt

[freshwest]

21. Breathless. Very Hollywood.

[markpkessinger]

22. It was in appallingly poor taste . . .

. . . the word 'treason' has been thrown about wildly and irresponsibly with respect to Snowden. Treason, under U.S. law is defined -- very narrowly in ONE place: Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution:

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

Whatever question of legality surrounds Snowden's actions, it in NO WAY amounts to treason (which is why he wasn't charged with it). Making light or joking about a capital crime is about as funny and tasteful as making light of serial murder. And frankly, anyone who thinks joking about such a thing is appropriate is just sick, IMO.

[Laughing Mirror]

26. Anything for a joke

It is easy to imagine the writer of that line beaming with pride being able to come up with that very clever play on words, using Snowden as the subject and treason as the punch line. So now all that people watching that will ever remember is Snowden not there because of treason. The Snowden treason link is now associated in their minds.

Clever way to propagate the propaganda. Doesn't matter that it's a lie. All the better if it gets a laugh.

[uhnope]

29. LUF

[wildbilln864]

28. desperate much!?

[markpkessinger]

30. +1