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In reply to the discussion: The real reason a very loud few are posting hostility toward Glenn Greenwald at DU: [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)know of. He has READERS, WHEN he writes something that is relevant to Democratic values, such as exposing Bush policies that are STILL IN PLACE despite the fact that people elected Democrats to end those criminal policies.
If Glenn were an elected official we would CARE about HIM personally, but we don't, we care that every decent Journalist from him to Matt Taibbi, to Jeremy Scahill and even Moyers, has been attacked, NOT from the Right, but here on this Democratic forum. And as you should be able to see, Democrats will not stand for the silencing, or the attempts to silence journalists.
But you turned it into the old 'followers' routine, intended to insult those who are standing up for this COUNTRY. It isn't working, that should be obvious and for you to continue to try to insult those who are and have been fighting to END these Bush policies for over a decade now, is not going to have the intended result.