Rick Wilson Responds to Greenwald's Kremlin Connection

[Wwcd]

Link to tweet

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. "McCarthyite" is the correct English spelling.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/mccarthyite

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Yes, correct. I do not get the gist of this OP, then.

[kcr]

5. Yeah, that's always how I've heard and seen it.

I hate to take Greenwald's side on anything but is name was McCarthy, not McCarth.

[Wwcd]

6. Well then either way is spelled correct. I see.

I will Re-title my headline but keep the posting since it shows what a kremlin hack Greenwald is.

THANKS for the FYI


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...best reply to tendentions, inflammatory, and libelous reporting is usually silence. But Hyland so unfairly over-indulged his love of (Joe) McCarthite innuendo and scurrilousness that a further look at the fullest dimensions of the Center for International Affairs seems justified...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Greenwald is a pro-Putin hack but his misspelling of "McCarthyite" is irrelevant to that fact.

[Wwcd]

8. Indeed, as pointed out in the above tweets from Rick Wilson

Malcom Nance, Howard Dean, Countercheckist & Robert Shrum called out Greenwald as he should be.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. Now I understand why Matt Taibi left the Intercept after only a few weeks.

When the Intercept was first created, it promised to be a fact finding hard hitting news operation, looking for good political writers. Taibi left Rolling Stone to join, but after only a short while announced return to Rolling Stone.

I had read some of the reports at the site, one day ran across something Greenwald wrote that seemed tailor made for the right. It happened again, several times, then I figured it out.

Disappointing.

[NewJeffCT]

3. McCarthite?

I've never heard that term before.

I've heard McCarthyism before many times, but never McCarthite nor McCarthyite. I would actually choose McCarthyite over McCarthite as well based on McCarthyism.

[woodsprite]

4. I would disagree. The senator's name was McCarthy, not McCarth.

Why would English drop a syllable of someone's last name? If it's Russians spelling it "McCarthyite" vs Americans spelling it "McCarthite", then I'm of the opinion that the Russian spelling is the correct one.

The correct English would be "McCarthyism", "McCarthyite", "McCarthyist" according to the Oxford Dictionary.

[gratuitous]

10. First Dershowitz, now Greenwald

Both of them looking for shade under the McCarthy umbrella. But, strangely enough, both men are still working under their own names, still getting paid in full for whatever it is they do, and neither is being hauled before a hostile congressional committee and forced to betray their friends and colleagues or face jail for contempt of Congress.

For all their intellectual posturing, Dershowitz and Greenwald sure seem to be remarkably fragile chaps. Maybe they should look to those Thai boys for inspiration on how to face adversity like adults.