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In reply to the discussion: Glenn Greenwald defends Republicans trying to sabotage Iran negotiations. [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)He tried to deny it when The Exiled pointed it out, but all you have to do is go to the CATO website and google him--you'll get pages and pages. He appears at any event they tell him to appear at, he was on a stipend for a couple of years writing that "one little paper" that he justified, he shows up at their fundraisers as their dancing bear, they tout him, they OWN him. He's once again showing up to be the featured speaker at this bought-and-paid-for-by-Koch event, he'll take his paycheck from them, and he'll say what they tell him to say. His association with them isn't occasional or accidental--he's on the payroll.
I'm betting that little adventure with Omidyar isn't working out so he's back to the trough for a payday. How long can he continue to milk the Snowden trove to rumble the naive liberals? Instead of "raising the alarm" about issues of privacy, all he's really done is (to riff on an old vaudeville act), bit by bit, inch by inch, step by step, SLOWLY he's turned us to a ho-hum tolerance of the very thing he claims that he decries. We all now simply assume that we're being spied on, tracked, GPS'd, watched by our tee vees, put a bit of duct tape on the camera of the laptop, figure our phones can hear our every wrod, assume our purchases are written down in a little file...it doesn't matter anymore if it is true, or not, his "drip, drip, drip" method of Big Reveals hasn't gotten the "OMG OMG OMG" reaction, instead, it's gotten the "BFD" treatment.
Who knows, maybe that was the point?