Glenn Greenwald Tells Russians Liberals Are Blaming Them As Excuse for Clinton

[TomCADem]

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 Intercept’s 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 Greenwald’s 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 wasn’t anything wrong with our country, it was this other foreign country over there that was to blame. And that’s 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 that’s why there became this obsession with the Russian government.”

This also happens to be President Trump’s 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]

1. Fuck him! Fuck the Intercept! Fuck Stein!

And fuck all of their followers.

[Cha]

2. glenn greenwald is a FUCKING Russian TOADY

and a FUCKING IDIOT.

[dalton99a]

9. +1

[Cha]

12. ..

Link to tweet

[Sophia4]

3. Greenwald needs to read the Complaint against the Russian hackers that was

filed on Friday by the Mueller team.

The facts are very well corroborated and very detailed.

[JI7]

6. greenwald doesn't care about the facts

[JI7]

4. he is a Putin Troll

[RandySF]

5. And Glenn Greenwald loves him some 2018 primary candidates

I'd love to mention some but I not feel like getting banned form DU.

[kcr]

22. They love him back

One of them is having a ball running around campaigning everywhere. She's a piece of work. It's democracy!

[CentralMass]

7. He's an @$$hat.

[Lint Head]

8. Greenwald should be removed from Twitter. He spreads fake news and Russian propaganda.

[Salviati]

10. Fuck glen greenwald

That is all.

[LuvLoogie]

11. Amy Goodman gives Greenwood a platform to spew his ratfuckery.

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]

13. Yes.. listening to the show today I wondered

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]

14. So, Glenn is now . . .

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]

15. Where are his DU friends? Did they all go to JPR, or are the rest now awakened from their trance?nt

[Hamlette]

16. fuck Glenn Greenwald.

[radical noodle]

17. Ah, in Moscow no less

Perhaps he should just travel the world with Trump.

[still_one]

18. f**k that SOB. That libertarian asshole has been making false equivalences for decades, and it is

about time people see exactly who that troll is.

[Skidmore]

19. Since Greenwald was enmeshed

with Assange/Wikileaks, I wouldn't be surprised if Mueller isn't interested in him.

[Cha]

20. Hey, maybe that's why greenwald is so

anti-Russian investigation.. he's guilty? It's trump's reason.

Skidmore

[pansypoo53219]

21. i knew i smelled GOP on him from the 1st.

[JDC]

23. That is pure hack, nothing more.

[SidDithers]

24. Greenwald. LOL...nt

Sid

[MineralMan]

25. Very few people who were Greenwald fans in 2016 still post here.

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]

26. kick!

[VOX]

27. Greenwald. Snowden. Assange. All dead to me.

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.