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In reply to the discussion: MSNBC Host Joy Reid Wrote Numerous Anti-Gay Articles on Her Old Blog [View all]JHan
(10,173 posts)where if you disagree with Glenn, normal journalistic standards don't apply to you. Glenn dislikes Joy, because she's been reporting on Russian meddling in the election since summer last year. She never indulged in disseminating uncurated data from stolen emails via wikileaks, never engages in false equivocation, and has criticized Bernie Sanders. So that right there means he will make her an issue, even taking this issue to excoriate her despite her apologies, or Governor Crist's acceptance of her apology or Joy's clarity on these issues in the present day. He will try to invalidate her because she doesn't buy into his agenda so she is an enemy.
And it's not too hard to see the same constellation at work here re Trump. He said during the election, he was focused on Clinton because she was going to win and he wants to hold the powerful accountable. Apparently these standards don't apply to Trump.
He can't quit his libertarian impulses, which is why I find it hilarious leftists follow this clown. You just know he loves Trump because Trump is sticking it to "The elites" and , in his mind, bringing "change". And he loves to argue how Hillary was the preferred choice of "the establishment" on the left and right ( the right - except the GOP, the RNC and conservative media) But since some former Republican Government officials endorsed her she was the "establishment choice" across the board. He hates Hillary so his disingenuous framing of her is justified in his mind.
This is a rough synopsis of GLENN:
1) I am Glenn Greenwald and I am the Truth and the Light. A crusader, a truth teller, if you disagree with me you are evil.
2) I focused on Hillary so much I missed the deeply corrupt financial ties between Trump campaign officials and Russian oligarchs. In any case, I don't care because I think America is the only geopolitical power with imperialist imperatives and impulses. And anyway Russia is ruled by a misunderstood anti-gay autocratic oligarchic regime and did not meddle in the election and hey.. look at that squirrel over there called "deep state".
3) I once worked for the libertarian think tank Cato Institute but I'm now judge and jury of who real leftists are and who aren't. I also hate Democrats and think that the party of Corporate Welfare and limited government is no worse than the party of regulatory oversight and Government service.
4) I hate Chelsea Clinton.
It's not hard to see how he became yet another of Putin's dupes.