The Snowdon Controversy on DU

[Number23]

50. K&R I've been saying that for a while. That DU needs to drop this subject altogether

because anyone interested in the story and not a bunch of BS will be drowned out.

This is a very complex issue and this place is so damned one-sided it's ridiculous. There has not been ONE story/article that questions Snowden on the home page of this web site despite the fact that nearly half of Americans (INCLUDING DEMOCRATS) are disturbed by what he's done. And the fact that the "charge" here is as usual being lead by a group of posters that have accused the Obama administration of coordinating attacks on Occupy protestors without a shred of credible proof and of proposing any second now to cut SS and other myriad BS just takes the cake.

I heard about Snowden's interview on the Guardian web site from the BBC and ABC (Australian Broadcasting Company) which is a news org constantly accused of being too left wing. Both BBC and ABC paint a completely different picture from what you see here. The reporter on the ABC said that the online interview was "intense" and "theatrical" but he also noted that Snowden was very vague on things he'd bragged about before and straight out fabricated other things (ie his claim that the US government has accused him of treason when that has not yet happened). He noted (rightfully) that Snowden's credibility is the only thing he has right now and he may have compromised that with his interview. But sure enough, you come to DU and everyone's acting as though the man is going to be canonized any day now.

Some of these folks really need to get out of the echo chamber. And the fact that most of these folks are the same ones that accuse Obama supporters of being "swooners" and "apologists" as they plug their ears against anything less than glowing said about Snowden is just an extra bit of delicious irony.