Lawrence O'Donnell: Edward Snowden's Christmas Message Was 'Wildly Overblown,' 'Provably Untrue'

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180. What I'm saying is that I'm tired of DUers

bashing Greenwald and Snowden for blowing the whistle on corruption. You'd think a bunch of so-called liberals would be happy that someone had the gonads to do something that protects the average American citizen from its own MIC-controlled government. It's obvious - as we've seen with Manning, et al - that going through the "proper" channels DOES NOT WORK, so extraordinary measures were needed to expose this shit.

Instead, we get thread after thread from people like you who seem to think O'Donnell's very Obama-administration kiss-ass explanation is "funny" instead of, well, kiss ass. And MSNBC tends to do that to the point that its beginning to look like the pretzel network (that Faux News does it for Republicans is NO excuse. We should be better). Look, Obama is better than Bush, but he HAS defended and extended many of the policies Bush put in place that I would hope most liberals abhor. If this spying was so necessary, how come it didn't stop the Boston Marathon bombing? Because it's not there to do that - it's there to gather information on the average citizen and use that information to propagandize and manipulate us.

My point regarding the animals is that I find it hard to square half the stupid shit you've spewed about his alleged "ego" against the fact that the the guy is near selfless in his rescue of strays. Usually egotists don't "lower" themselves to picking up dogs out of the gutter or the trash and take them in. Never mind that you missed the point that he blew the whistle on NSA spying.