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In reply to the discussion: 'Frequently Told Lies' about Glenn Greenwald, by Glenn Greenwald. [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)quote him since at the time of his political awakening, way back in the early Bush years, he was an unknown private citizen. Without his decision to speak about what prompted him to spend the next several years slamming Bush and his polices in his own book, none of the smear mongers would even have known about it.
I always wondered why anyone would think that attacking someone for being voluntarily honest would somehow work to discredit them?? Can you explain that thinking?
It hasn't worked that way, even when the Right Wing morons attempted to use it against him during the Bush years. It had the opposite effect actually. causing people to admire his honesty and not think too kindly about the attempt to use that honesty against him.
When did we start thinking that honesty is a negative?
Re Ron Paul, one of the premier Liberal blogs Daily Kos, had in its mission statement, not sure if it's still there, that Left leaning Libertarians were welcome on the forum and specifically named Ron Paul as one Republican who opposed the war at the time.
Not sure why Ron Paul is such an issue, when we have Republicans like Clapper and Comey a very Conservative Republican, among others who actually supported Bush's wars etc in positions of power in a Democratic Administration.
When this President appoints Republican Paul to his cabinet, I will have something to say about it, as I have about all the others we threw out of power, for what thought was good reason.