Glenn Greenwald blasts Hillary Clinton: “The ultimate guardian of bipartisan status quo corruption”
Salon
2/23/15
Calling Hillary Clinton “the ultimate guardian” of a broken political system, The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald on Monday lamented that her likely nomination as the Democratic Party’s 2016 presidential candidate will prevent a real debate on issues like National Security Agency spying.
...“When the leadership of both parties join together – as they so often do, despite the myths to the contrary – those issues disappear from mainstream public debate,” Greenwald wrote, noting that President Obama, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, and House Speaker John Boehner joined forces to block legislation killing the NSA’s metadata program after whistleblower Edward Snowden laid bare the scale of the agency’s surveillance operations.
That legislation, Greenwald pointed out, was introduced by Tea Party conservative Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) and liberal stalwart Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), underscoring that the debate boils down more to “insider v. outsider” than Democrats versus Republicans.....
...“That’s why the Dem efforts to hand Hillary Clinton the nomination without contest are so depressing,” Greenwald continued. “She’s the ultimate guardian of bipartisan status quo corruption, and no debate will happen if she’s the nominee against some standard Romney/Bush-type GOP candidate. Some genuine dissenting force is crucial.”...
http://www.salon.com/2015/02/23/glenn_greenwald_blasts_hillary_clinton_the_ultimate_guardian_of_bipartisan_status_quo_corruption/
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How about we begin here, Glenn Greenwald is lying about his politics: he's a right-wing Libertarian who smeared left-wing anti-war protesters in defense of the Iraq war:
[ Note: I backed all this up and spread it around, so there will no disappearing act
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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.
Hardly the stuff of mass demonstrations and popular anti-Bush uprisings, New York Times reports and breathless television correspondents notwithstanding.
In some countries, most notably Venezuela, this vintage left-wing, anti-American fervor is not small, but is predominant, which is what has led that country to be under the repressive thumb of Fidel Castro-copy Hugo Chavez, whose primary interest in attending this Latin American regional summit seems to be to lure Bush and the U.S. into some sort of game of childish taunts rather than doing something constructive to aid his impoverished, unstable country."
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2005/11/reality-of-latin-american-reaction-to.html
Greenwald is also lying about Ron Paul's fake "anti-war" record and his fake "socially liberal street cred because Ton Paul also happens to be a whacked out Christian fundamentalist who doesn't accept the Constitutional principle of church/state separation. First of all, Ron Paul, like almost everyone else, voted for the Authorization to Military Force in the War on Terror. Second: Ron Paul isn't "anti-war, he's anti-Jew as his white supremacist conspiracy theories indicate (and his racist newsletters indicate):
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/11/dark-side-of-paul-phenomenon.html
Ron Paul's actual legislative record tells a horrifically grim tale: http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/11/ron-pauls-record-in-congress.html
Note to our Netroots "progressive" mouthpieces. You would have known all of this had you listened to those of us who told you repeatedly that Libertarian Glenn Greenwald is a lying sack and that Ron Paul is a white supremacist. The enitire point of the fact-challenged NSA "reporting" was the total privatization of the NSA. You should know by now not to listen to Libertarians:
"Another David Koch project, Citizens for a Sound Economy—which launched the effort to repeal Glass-Steagall protections keeping banks from gambling in securities—helped fuel the fight for “free trade,” an unpopular policy in the 1980s."
http://www.thenation.com/article/alec-exposed-koch-connection/
I could go on... but how long do you want this to be? I could write a book at this point. Don't think I don't know that DU is infested with Libertarians So I don't expect you lying sacks to change your tactics, but I do want to ensure that progressives stop falling for far right BS.
He must be bucking to be the Jonah Goldberg of this board.
IMO, he qualifies perfectly (tee hee).
Add to all that, a wonderful saying: "If you have enemies, it means you stood up for something." Clearly Greenwald has enemies... and I, for one, am glad for it. There's enough corporate sycophants in our politics as is... the last thing we need is another one vis-à-vis HRC.
....do NOT try to pin the crappy "despicable attempt to smear someone who is gay" on me, you are WAY off base. You know nothing about my background, family, surroundings, or position on that issue.
Edit - further information:
Greenwald used the fact that the Defense of Marriage Act prevented him from returning to the United States.
However, Attorney General Holder announced four years ago from yesterday, that President Obama considered the DOMA as unconstitutional and directed the Justice Department to stop defending the law in court.
Further, the United States Supreme Court in 2013 declared the DOMA unconstitutional.
Greenwald's reason (aka "excuse"
for not living in the United States hasn't existed in practice for four years, and hasn't existed in law for almost two years.
Trying to use his bogus reason for not living in the US (even while he continually takes pot shots at the country of HIS citizenship) to accuse me of a "despicable attempt to smear someone who is gay" is even more despicable.
us Liberals who are capable of absorbing more than the one line sentences his Fox educated followers are unable to do, and whose eyes are likely to glaze over after the fifth word in a sentence!
Clinton, in his opinion, was 'long-winded' not 'terse' or 'pithy' like him! 
You listen to Bill O'Reilly? Golly!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026272319#post89
89. That's Bill O'Reilly's favorite word, 'pithy', describing how 'terse' he is as compared to Liberals
Another for your list. Use it in good health:
You have no idea the laughs we had over that thread!
Sometimes things are just too easy!
Never figured it out, did you?
against a Democrat - on DEMOCRATIC Underground - and won't hold him to the same strict standard they hold both President Obama and Secretary Clinton. It's NUTZ. 
How do they expect us to read anything they say - even when justified - against Secretary Clinton without a pound of salt??
Can't you tell? Learn to speak tea bag. Read their BS Tea Party/Libertarian blogs and websites, sign up for their email lists, and you'll get the hang of it in no time. That way when you see them using the talking points/lingo put out by the Koch network, you'll not mistake them for liberals.
After 7 years I'm fluent in teabag I can pick them out of a lineup at a thousand paces... blindfolded
who supplies the bread and butter, too!
OOOOOH, Walmart!!
You'll need to "guess" better than that. Hell, Walmart was decades before a certain progressive 'firebrand' last voted Republican (and even though I've never voted for a Republican, I got over that "transgression" and voted for the firebrand in question).
If you've got to go back that far, you've not got anything.
Wall Street gives money to both sides. And the other team's haul makes Dem pickings look lean. Dems from NY tend to do a little better than from some other states, but their take is anemic compared to the GOP. Nice try, no cigar.
GG has made MILLIONS off ES. He schlepped a book about him, he has a piece of that film, and he has all that Guardian dough. The Koch money is pure pay for play--he's going to show up at a conservative organization funded by Koch, run by that nutty Allen West, at a lecture series named after a pro-lynching racist, and he's going to speak to, and be applauded by, a bunch of insane conservatives who are slightly to the right of Attila the Hun. This is a matter of record, and it is not the first time he's done it. He and the Koch lads go back a long, long way (see CATO Institute--put his name in their search engine and you'll get pages of hits). It's not a marriage of convenience. It's an ideological love match. He thinks like they do, and he gives them what they want--for this, they pay him. Quite well, most likely.
We provide sources:
http://postonpolitics.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2014/11/07/allen-west-leaving-florida-to-head-dallas-based-think-tank/
http://www.ncpa.org/events/glenn-greenwald
I wanted so badly for him to run for POTUS, then so disheartened when he lost hist Senate seat, but it wasn't unexpected. Russ Feingold threatened TPTB's precious Golden Goose aka the National Security State, (which just keeps laying more and more golden eggs vis a vis Homeland Security).
Greenwald is spot on.. 
Where do you come up with this garbage?
But keep doing what you are doing, it is most likely the reason for Greenwald's unprecedented success as a journalist.
Put it this way, when I see comments that have zero basis in fact, aimed at a journalist, a politician or any public figure, I assume that who ever is uttering them, is not the side I want to be on.
So, yes, keep up the good work!
Which is particularly remarkable when you consider the really complimentary things he's had to say about RON PAUL over the years. RON PAUL.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg with that man, his shiny new honorary Oscar notwithstanding.
In a sense, he already has:
Glenn Greenwald Responds to Widespread Lies About Him
It's pretty obvious why there's a concerted effort to smear Greenwald. His messages are deeply unsettling and difficult to refute. What's less clear is how many of these attackers are true believers and how many are simply parroting propaganda because they're too lazy (or too afraid) to do their own digging.
Nice.
you know, getting her hands dirty
...and dupes the same people.
I see nothing there but commentary on the US political landscape, and a whole lot of 'guilt by association'.
Still, it's interesting to see that the word 'emoprog' has somehow lived on in some circles.
It seems to me that you simply don't like criticism of the Democratic Party, and equate that with active support of it's stated opposition. More of that 'with us or against us' mentality.
