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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
(14,764 posts)But you mirror their hand wringing about the dire consequences of actually informing the public of the lies about citizen wiretapping, especially if it was revealed using not-so-legal methods from a whistleblower. And by extension, the journalist that published his revelations. At the very least you are catering to the same tactics of personal destruction in order to dampen the message as the corp. media.
What "political motivations" can you be distrustful of?. He's a journalist, he's not running for office. Putting aside for a moment the very real human reality of maturing and evolving on political positions, as far as I'm concerned a good journalist should be knowledgeable with all political positions. And they should not have blinders on for just one party ie. Fox News & Repukes. If he agrees with certain platforms of the Libertarians, or of the Democrats, or even of the Republicans...what difference does that make on the credibility of his award winning journalism? This messenger bashing should be, frankly, beneath anyone that cares about transparency, accountability, especially in regards to our elected officials.
Do you agree with stopping spending MIC money on wars of aggression? How about ending the war on drugs? Rand Paul and his father both believe these positions. You too...may be a Paulite! What exactly are YOUR "political motivations" for agreeing with them on this, if you do?
But what do say you to the GG twitter post here, in response to Rand voting to cut funding to the Palestinians: "Rand Paul is a panderer and a fraud"
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/552831600199995392
doesn't sound like he has any kind of exclusive "fealty" to him.