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In reply to the discussion: Raw Story apologizes to Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill [View all]stupidicus
(2,570 posts)76. As they should have
key to it is this
But most of the insults I get related to politics come because I dont support individual candidates with either my reporting or my opinion writing, and because I feel really quite free to criticize even the ones who come the closest to my own personal politics as our democratic process allows. In that, Glenn Greenwald and I have something in common.
Goodness and Greenwald knows Im hardly in agreement with every position hes taken, but I will absolutely defend his right to take those positions without being subject to the kind of stupid, reductionist criticism we on the left all decried during the Bush years.
in other words, many lefties act like the Bushbots they use to criticise if not condemn for that kinda behavior. ANd it's not just the dehumanizing, etc rhetoric across the political/ideological divide that's at issue here, it's the intra-ideological stuff, because GG is a lefty as far as I can tell. They wanna give him the same treatment the rightwingnuts have their dissenters like Frum, Bartlett, and now, likely Jeb Bush as well. "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism" for me, but not for thee, is the manure they are spreading.
It's what underlies all the "be quiet, you're endangering BHO"s reelection chances!" BS, like the many criticisms of him of this kind aren't common knowledge, and to criticize him is gonna unduly influence the ignorant or something.
It isn't the criticisms or the criticizers that that are responsible for the divisions of the election-threatening kind they whine about, but rather the things criticized and the treatment the criticizers get from the Obamabots for choosing to air the grievances as opposed to pretending he isn't occasionally naked. They make it "either support everything he does or else" thing, or expect the treatment the likes of GG and other vociferous critics have recieved.
So protest votes (meaning not voting, as opposed to going with the MUtt) can and likely will arise not just due to the lack of support for everything BHO has done or because some of them are unacceptable, but also because the "enemy-like" status on a personal level, the Obamabots attempt to make one feel like.
They are imo, short-sighted knuckleheads, just like the Bushbots that came before them. That's why I have no use for them, not because we have disagreements about BHO's policy pursuits, etc. They'd better hope that the anger they inject into others with this kinda garbage isn't taken out on BHO in Nov, because that would be their participating in realizing a "self-fulfilling prophecy".
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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