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Showing Original Post only (View all)Greenwald: Approve or Disapprove? [View all]
Last edited Wed Oct 2, 2013, 12:00 PM - Edit history (4)
As a whole and on balance, have the works of Glenn Greenwald in the last few years been...
ON EDIT: Added "Not of great impact" as an option. (At that point there were 40 votes: 27 "Good" for both, 12 "Bad" for both, 1 pass.)
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Good for the world and Americans? | |
32 (74%) |
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9 (21%) |
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Good for the world but not for Americans? | |
0 (0%) |
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Good for Americans but not for the world? | |
0 (0%) |
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Not of great impact | |
2 (5%) |
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I'm going to reserve judgment until I read Glenn's excoriation of the Right for the shutdown.....
msanthrope
Oct 2013
#2
Yes, he impersonates real journalists. It's hard to absorb since we don't have too many
sabrina 1
Oct 2013
#48
I listened to all of his lectures or book tours before the snowden story broke. Introduced here
xiamiam
Oct 2013
#15
Would America and the world for that matter be debating FISA's mass collection of metadata
Uncle Joe
Oct 2013
#24
I never said you were anti-Greenwald, I simply asked your opinion as to whether you believe
Uncle Joe
Oct 2013
#26
No, I didn't, I asked a simple straightforward question and I never implied anything in either of my
Uncle Joe
Oct 2013
#45
Greenwald has an agenda: it is to split voters away from the major parties and get them to vote
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#20
Greenwald is on tape pushing exactly this libertarian organizing tactic in November 2010
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#51
Since you make an unsupported assertion readers would have to read your mind to know
Bluenorthwest
Oct 2013
#84
I've posted links on that dozens of times in recent years. Here are a couple of examples
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#95
Neither: GG is a distraction. He is, in effect, the publisher and if he didn't publish
grantcart
Oct 2013
#23
lol that's pretty funny. You do realize that GG wasn't the 1st contact and he had already leaked
grantcart
Oct 2013
#34
There are a whole lot of assumptions in your comment. Eg, I've seen this phrase
sabrina 1
Oct 2013
#42
Some hate Greenwald so they say GG and characterize anyone who supports him
Bluenorthwest
Oct 2013
#87
I first started reading him because of DUers who attacked him for being gay
Bluenorthwest
Oct 2013
#40
Anyone, who attacked Greenwald for being gay, didn't last long here at DU
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#52
Anyone who wouldn't make absurd claims like "the NSA can watch you as you type"
Recursion
Oct 2013
#58
I don't care who; someone who would have done some basic technical fact-checking on that
Recursion
Oct 2013
#68
LOL DAVID KORN. There's one. For a starter. You've exposed yourself and the reason for your thread.
KittyWampus
Oct 2013
#104
I can come up with a number of better journalists who are actually journalists.
KittyWampus
Oct 2013
#101
Ye shall know them by their insults. They call Greenwald 'GG' now that admins don't let
Bluenorthwest
Oct 2013
#88
Really, is the BOG on this thread in full attack mode? I have been surveying this thread
KittyWampus
Oct 2013
#103
Well, that was when there was no Third Way/DLC, the right wingization of the
sabrina 1
Oct 2013
#109