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Blue_Tires

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8. Seems to me at least that he badly wanted a win-by-proxy

Reply to sabrina 1 (Reply #7)

Wed Dec 18, 2013, 03:48 PM

Dec 2013

and the obvious question is if the award was "a meaningless award from a meaningless magazine", what would Greenwald's response have been had Snowden won?

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Awards they couldn�t accept: The tragic irony of Greenwald, Poitras and Snowden - by Jesselyn Radack [View all] kpete Dec 2013 OP

I'm pretty sure Greenwald could care less about the award Blue_Tires Dec 2013 #1

Not a fan of either but don't you mean Snowden missing out not Greenwald? nt brush Dec 2013 #2

I doubt Greenwald, an intelligent man, ever expected any awards from our propaganda machine. sabrina 1 Dec 2013 #3

I'm just basing that comment on Greenwald's own pissed-off tweets from a week ago... Blue_Tires Dec 2013 #4

We are all 'pissed off' about the phoniness of the Corporate Media and I'm guessing since I haven't sabrina 1 Dec 2013 #5

here you go: Blue_Tires Dec 2013 #6

Thanks, just as I thought. You stated above that HE had been 'snubbed by Time'. sabrina 1 Dec 2013 #7

Seems to me at least that he badly wanted a win-by-proxy Blue_Tires Dec 2013 #8

Well, it seems to me he didn't expect it from Time but if it had happened, I imagine his opinion sabrina 1 Dec 2013 #9