Is Glenn Greenwald a liar?

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104. Glenn Greenwald defending Bush from us liberal peaceniks...

Glenn Greenwald, Unclaimed Territory:

Friday, November 04, 2005

"The reality of Latin American reaction to Bush"

"George Bush is here in Latin America this week, visiting Brazil and Argentina, and the standard reports of the American media are trying to depict a handful of isolated, juvenile socialist-organized "demonstrations" as some sort of sweeping, popular mass protest against Bush’s visit, thereby suggesting, yet again, that the Administration’s policies are flawed because people in other countries dislike Bush. As usual, the truth is vastly different than what the U.S. media is reporting (see UPDATE below) .

It is true that in this region (as is true for the U.S.), there remains a small, fervent band of left-wing fanatics with crazed enthusiasm for the worn-out, socialist/collectivist policies which have condemned millions upon millions of people throughout Latin America to poverty unimaginable to even the poorest Americans. These putative "mass demonstrations" in Argentina and Brazil are, in reality, nothing more than a few isolated spray-painting incidents of trite pacifist slogans in Brasilia, and a Cindy Sheehan-like "rally" of hard-core Socialists in Argentina led by an obese, Castro-idolozing, retired soccer player who found time away from his decade-old cocaine addiction to show up wearing an oh-so-clever t-shirt showing Bush's name spelled with a swastika."
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2005/11/reality-of-latin-american-reaction-to.html

Confusing, yes? It's not once you realize that Greenwald is a right-wing Libertarian who started playing the "both sides" game for Cato once the water gets too hot. Libertarians are not "anti-war"... Cato operatives wrote the legal justifications for the War on Terror, surveillance, torture, etc. under Bush but changed their tune once public opinion turned against the wars and Bush:
http://www.thenation.com/article/independent-and-principled-behind-cato-myth/

Meanwhile, the Kochs are behind the NSA protests (protesting the laws they themselves helped write?):

"Found: Libertarians' "Lying To Liberals" Guide Book"

"All of that is stunning enough—and something to keep in mind if you find yourself getting all dewy-eyed as you take your place on the bottom of the "strange bedfellows" at the StopWatching.us rally, topped by such rancid libertarian outfits as FreedomWorks, the Kochs’ climate denial front Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Kochs’ new anti-Obamacare Astroturf front Generation Opportunity, Students For Liberty (funded by CIA/NSA contractor Peter Thiel), Ron Paul’s Young Americans For Liberty, the Libertarian Party....

Anyway, just in case "Marketing Libertarianism" hadn't got the rulebook out widely enough, REASON ran a second article later in 1977 headlined 'How To Get Converts Left & Right: Political Cross-Dressing Is The Answer.'"
https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/lying-to-liberals/

In short, the right wants us to hand control back to Republicans...the people who are responsible for the wars and attendant atrocities to begin with. And so far, they've succeeded, except that Obama is still standing in their with his veto pen and they still don't yet have a veto-proof majority in the Senate... until 2016, that is. I don't doubt that the far left will assist them in getting what they want.


By the way, those fact-challenged Obama = Bush talking points were outlined in a Koch/Libertarian Party press release in 2009:
http://www.lp.org/news/press-releases/libertarians-release-top-10-disasters-of-2009-obama-administration



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