Permit me to laugh at David Swanson

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286. Swanson is not famous, and from what I read this weekend, Greenwald is a nobody.

Swanson is good democratic activist who is also a member of DU. There are other people here who have have had more public exposure than he has, should they be trashed also in Subject Lines like this? Should ANYONE. I would not support this being done to anyone, public figure or not. This is what has destroyed political discourse.

When Obama was a candidate he went to Daily Kos and posted two Diaries. He was attacked and trashed in both of them and never came back. It was disgusting, just as this is disgusting, just as the Subject lines re Greenwald were disgusting, and this kind of thing comes back to haunt blogs like this.

During the Campaign eg, Obama went to Fox and did an interview with Bill O'Reilly. O'Reilly asked him if he wanted to 'distance himself from Daily Kos' which he described as a loony leftwing site. Obama was in a corner. By then DK had gotten behind him as the nominee but the history was still there. Obama managed with some difficulty not to say anything nice about DK while trying to deflect O'Reilly's statements. I have a feeling Obama probably agreed with O'Reilly after what he witnessed there himself. Unless you are a trusted user there you cannot see those comments, but they are still there, just hidden from non-members. And that's the problem, this stuff never goes away.

No one should be called out like this, no one. I thought we o the 'left' were better than this, but over and over again I am seeing evidence that not only are we not better, we are worse. At least the right don't attack their own. Here on DU that is all that happens lately and people are getting pretty sick and tired of it, except for those who support this for their own petty, personal reasons.