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In reply to the discussion: Glenn Greenwald blasts Hillary Clinton: “The ultimate guardian of bipartisan status quo corruption” [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,714 posts)"All it says is that his work is unassailable, so let's go after him personally."
Well retorted. I too am getting sick of these posters scraping and clawing for any personal quibble they can find to deflect the conversation away from his work or the implications of Snowden's revelations.
They use three methods easy to see:
1. Red Herring...Like this time, But but but but he lives in Brazil! (Snowden lives in Russia fer gawds sake!) We can't possibly take serious anything that is said from outside our borders!
2. Straw Man...Start the argument off by predefining the characters...Greenwald is a pretentious asshole, he just wants fame and fortune, or he is a stone cold Rand Libertarian. I guess they do this to justify their following diatribe which is then colored with some form of: "why would you ever listen to someone like this? Obviously everything someone with this kind of character is not to be trusted"
3. Personality flaws...Anything they can find to paint him as not a perfect human being. Or anything different, like where he lives, his sexual preferences, gawd forbid his is ever snappy to a reporters questions!
The same can be applied to their tired predictable reactions to Snowden, Manning and Assange.