Originally published at: This video of Glenn Greenwald fawning over Alex Jones is a stronger emetic than syrup of ipecac | Boing Boing
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Did he mean soul cooking?
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Disgusting? Yes.
Shocking? No…
How many times has Greenwald been on frozen-dinner-scion Tucker Carlson’s show now?
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Essential background on Glenn Greenwald:
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It’s kind of wild how Greenwald was basically able to style himself as a heroic progressive who was willing to speak truth to power during the GW Bush administration considering that Greenwald himself was an early supporter of Bush’s disastrous invasion of Iraq.
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This is a fascinating story.
The name “Rudy Stanko” popped out at me… Seems likely that it’s the very same “gentleman” named in this BB post:
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He knows nothing about life in the US today. He hasn’t lived here through the ascendancy of the white “Christian” nationalists.
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(acknowledging fully that Bolsonaro is his own specific brand of completely jacked up bad)
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It’s that kind of willful ignorance that allows him to be a kapo. It’s only a matter of time before he starts working with Thiel (if he hasn’t already).
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Oddly enough, Bolsonaro is one fascist Greenwald doesn’t stan.
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Huh… o… kay…
Trying understand here whether Greenwald’s cool with or somehow has made personal peace with dangerous crazy political bullshit as long as it’s not happening to him or affecting him.
Because the minute he appears with Alex Jones, or on anything involved with Alex Jones, I have less than zero confidence in anything Greenwald has to say. Yes, yes, even if Greenwald himself is getting targeted by Bolsonaro.
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Hey man, we all make mistakes.
My willingness to read Greenwald’s earliest journalism pieces evaporated when he started making [IMO] the same mistakes over and over.
(sorry for more nauseating material but since Frauenfelder set the tone in the header, maybe it’s ok to post here:)
WTF?
Am I missing something(s) here?
At what point did Greenwald irrevocably jump the shark? Asking this seriously. He got a Pulitzer. Now he’s like five kinds of hack.
Thanks in advance for anyone here on this bbs willing to unpack the timeline of Greenwald’s decline as a journalist.
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grammar
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From the first article:
“I think the vision is, you know, you have this kind of right-wing populism, which really is socialism, that says we should close our borders, not allow unconstrained immigration, and then take better care of our own working-class people and not allow this kind of transnational, global, corporatist elite to take everything for themselves under the guise of neoliberalism.”
That’s called NazBol, and NazBols are just as punchable as Nazis are.
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I think so…
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Worse than that, it’s fake NazBol. They don’t espouse any policies, zero, that “take care” of workers.
As was pointed out recently, it’s all tax cuts and hatred.
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I don’t think the real NazBol do either, they only seem to believe that Stalin would have been better if he was more like Hitler. Neither leader was good for workers rights.
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Greenwald reminds me of Naomi Wolf.
Wonder what it is that sends people on the “journalist to whackadoodle” path.
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I hope the grieving parents sue Greenwald, too.
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Greenwald, once respected, keeps falling lower and lower. What an utter disappointment.
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