Glenn Greenwald is Under the Impression Democrats 'Hate' Tulsi Gabbard Because She's a...

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Glenn Greenwald is Under the Impression Democrats ‘Hate’ Tulsi Gabbard Because She’s a ‘Critical Thinker’

by Aidan McLaughlin | Jan 15th, 2019, 8:27 am

“I’m not a supporter of Congresswoman Gabbard’s candidacy,” Glenn Greenwald declared at the start of his Fox News interview with Tucker Carlson on whether the Hawaii congresswoman and 2020 candidate is being “unfairly attacked.”

“There are some really legitimate and serious concerns that I have that have been raised by the real left, not the Democratic Party liberals,” Greenwald said of Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI). He listed them: “her support for the war on terror, her affinity for Hindu nationalism in India, her affection for some really terrible dictators.”

Those do seem bad! Praising the “courage” of dictators like Sisi certainly raises a few red flags. But while those are apparently serious concerns for Greenwald, he continued that they are not the reasons why Gabbard is being unfairly smeared by the Democratic apparatus.

“What’s really going on,” Greenwald told the Fox News audience, is that “Democrats hate her” for two other reasons. (1) She supported Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton in 2016 and (2) “She’s been questioning a lot of Washington orthodoxy,” including the impulse for regime change.

“She deviates from a lot of the Washington consensus, she’s hard to put into a liberal or a conservative, a right wing or a left wing box, and that’s what Washington really hates the most are people who are kind of independent minded and critical thinkers,” he explained.

Greenwald’s contention that Washington hates Gabbard because she’s a critical thinker is interesting, but that’s not usually what her detractors point to when they criticize her.

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[hlthe2b]

1. Well, she has need to be (a critical thinker) to explain her past positions. She best "get on that"

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. Hey Greenwald

Go die

[themaguffin]

3. I'm so tired of him.

[still_one]

4. I wonder if Glenn Greenwald enjoys Brazil under Bolsonaro? The nice thing about Greenwald is there

is no ambiguity where he is coming from now, and he has found his audience on fox news

[TSheehan]

10. Good for him.

[still_one]

12. I guess things must be quiet over at JPR.

[Hekate]

13. Seriously

What the hell kind of comment was that?

[still_one]

16. I guess someone doesn't like President Obama, and is a big fan Greenwald. That speaks volumes to me

[Hekate]

14. I would trust Obama over GG any day. Greenwald is no friend of democracy.

Welcome to DU, cosac78. Enjoy your stay.

[still_one]

17. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

[haele]

9. He'll probably head down to one of the 'guays when it gets too difficult for him.

Bolsonaro will eventually go after him and his friends - once the dictator's grip is complete.

Then Greenwald will go haring off to a safe haven, still spouting his self-delusional authoritarian loving Randriod crap, pretending his "pragmatic wisdom" and denigration of the compromises required for real Democracy is a major part of what leads to the rise of dictators like Bolsonaro.

Haele

[harumph]

5. ha ha ha aha ha ha

Jeez - this guy. He's run out of material.

[TSheehan]

8. Nah, he's got plenty of material. Material that Snowden stole for him, Assange, and Putin.

That makes him not only annoying, but rather dangerous too, at least potentially. He's caught up in this.

[TSheehan]

7. Glenn Greenwald is incredibly annoying and a disingenuous concern troll AT BEST.

At this rate he'll be openly endorsing Trump for reelection in 2020.

[MineralMan]

11. Glenn Greenwald speaking on Fox News?

And we're reading that here for what reason, exactly?

Why is Glenn Greenwald's opinion on Tulsu Gabbard of interest to DUers in any way?

[yardwork]

15. Lol.