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JCanete

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7. This is hardly the Democrat's biggest issue. I may disagree with Greenwald's
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 11:41 AM
Feb 2017

black-and-white assessment of Obama's human right's record abroad while fighting terrorism, but I appreciate that someone reports on it and has an opinion. Deaths of foreign civilians aren't exactly the kind of thing our main-stream media gives a shit about, and certainly not the far most right wing of it, no matter which party is in charge.

That said, I understand your beef about false equivalency from the left. Greenwald has to know that Trump is going to have a devastating impact on foreign policy, and will almost certainly ignore international laws as he stacks up bodies and further destabilizes the world.

I still think, for the sake of Democracy, there has to be room to criticize both though, and the reach of left leaning journalism in this nation is just not that far. It's impact is at the margins. Our vitriol over that small impact compared to that of the corporate media, which delivered us Trump by pounding on emails and refusing to make this man the laughing stock he is, is in my opinion, misappropriated.

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