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In reply to the discussion: Raw Story apologizes to Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)1. Excellent that kind of garbage doesn't belong on any credible blog.
To Greenwald and Scahill, whose reputations were maligned by a person who used the platform of Raw Story in ways it was not intended and with whom I personally take issue, I have privately apologized. This is my public one. It is my belief that reasonable people at every point on the political spectrum can look at the same set of facts and draw different and even sometimes equally valid conclusions about policy issues, politicians and the political system, and that those disagreements need not and should not descend into unsupportable, hyperbolic personal attacks intended to silence those with whom we disagree.
It really is shameful to see the personal attacks on writers who are doing the job journalists are supposed to do, the childish, baseless attacks.
All it does is demonstrate an inability to prove them wrong and elevates them above the fray.
Good for Raw Story for apologizing.
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Someone corrected you earlier. Here is a blue link to it - possibly for your edification...
xocet
Feb 2014
#82
What? Referring to GG as "High Lord Douchenozzle" isn't the sort of...
WorseBeforeBetter
Jun 2012
#30
I don't think this is the kind of 'fame' anyone wants. When you act like a deranged person online
sabrina 1
Jun 2012
#43
They probably wanted to give some attention to minority blogs. But the minority blogosphere is huge
sabrina 1
Jun 2012
#54
just to have a justice who reveres the Constitution would be a good start.
nashville_brook
Jun 2012
#38
...aaaaaand...folks heaping on Greenwald need to know that he's going to push back. as is his right.
nashville_brook
Jun 2012
#39
And what makes you think he doesn't? He's pretty tough and I laugh when I see people try to take him
sabrina 1
Jun 2012
#47
No politician is worth abandoning principle. It's been fucking embarrassing to witness.
whatchamacallit
Jun 2012
#23
There is a large cross over between the freeperish anti gay types and the anti Greenwald activists
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2012
#40
ABL's Twitter comments are among the most irrational & nasty I've ever seen.
DirkGently
Jun 2012
#44