Glenn Greenwald’s Mitt Romney Surrogacy

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95. No one's saying don't criticize President Obama

Even President Obama has asked us to criticize him and hold us to account

But there's a difference between constructive criticism and the kind of criticism that Greenwald tends to engage in, which is intellectually dishonest, misleading criticisms that distort the facts and give a false impression of what's going on. Greenwald is not helping to keep these issues alive -most of the time he's being intellectually dishonest and promoting dubious arguments and, in doing so, he's misleading his readers and giving them a false impression about this President and what his administration has done

I don't begrudge him his right to do this in a free society. But when he engages in dubious mistruth and intellectual dishonesty, we also have a right to call him out on it and question what his motives are in promoting such fiction while masquerading as a progressive voice. And we also have to question what impact his misleading conduct will have on influencing people who take him at face value and to let them know the real story. And this is part of what this article is trying to do