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In reply to the discussion: Greenwald and the Right Wing Media Have the Same Obama Smear--(Using Media Matters.) [View all]The Magistrate
(95,241 posts)Greenwald, when all is said and done, is a right libertarian, and now is being paid by a right libertarian billionaire.
Disparaging and damaging government, discrediting government and collective effort, is the goal. For the purpose of making government seem less legitimate and less functional, it does not matter if the attack is mounted from a left direction or a right direction. Discrediting government for a left audience is, in fact, the growth area for the endeavor, since on the right, the work has been pretty well done. What is important is to get younger people, whose commitment to fairness, to equal rights and social justice, to be as disdainful of government as any elderly tea-bagger.
This is what Greenwald has signed on to do, and to be fair, it is not like he has changed his spots to do it; like Tom Delay, he is paid now to do what he would do on his own for free, and simply gets a better living and a more widely circulated platform on which to do it.