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In reply to the discussion: Here Comes the Glenn Greenwald Hit Piece [View all]PSPS
(13,593 posts)8. The media (including DU) is in especially full spin/deflection mode today
Outside this bubble, though, it isn't working. Not a day goes by that I don't hear many people make remarks highly critical of this "new reality" they're trying to ram down our throats.
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I'm just saying it stops no one here from criticizing the messengers of critical dissent.
railsback
Jun 2013
#5
Ordinary people are allowed to 'criticize'. We are not talking about 'criticizing'
sabrina 1
Jun 2013
#9
No dilemma for me. I know the difference between right and le, I mean 'right and wrong'.
sabrina 1
Jun 2013
#12
If TPTB had been dismissive of Snowden from day 1, he would have gotten less traction.
grasswire
Jun 2013
#7
I agree. The more they attack both Greenwald and Snowden, the more they advertise what they
sabrina 1
Jun 2013
#10
Same where I am. I haven't met anyone who is not livid about their government spying on them.
sabrina 1
Jun 2013
#13
you're laboring under the delusion that criticism of spying = criticism of obama specifically.
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#18
^^^SATIRE ALERT ^^^^ THE US IS NOT COMING FOR ANYONE AND THAT INCLUDES ASSANGE ^^^^
ucrdem
Jun 2013
#20
I'd love to hear more about the data center but this is not about the data center.
ucrdem
Jun 2013
#22
When ethics isn't on the side of the authoritarians, they bully, smear and spam.
backscatter712
Jun 2013
#37