Increasingly, I find myself wondering why anyone takes Glenn Greenwald seriously anymore. The complaints we see from Greenwald when he starts in about embarrassing stories take on an attitude of surrealism. Example:
…our broken, petty media’s “coverage” of this “story” was so intense and endless that far more Americans were aware of it than they are of some of the most politically important facts:
Buried in the new Fox News poll is a startling number that doesn’t reflect terribly well on the priorities of our political media:From the new Fox poll of registered voters:
32. Do you happen to know which presidential candidate has been in the news recently for paying four hundred dollars for a haircut?
Edwards 44% Hillary 2% Obama 1% Other 1% Don’t know 53%
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Oh, come on, Glenn, get your much abused backside off that moralistic throne of yours, and try… just TRY to look at this with even a little objectivity.
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The wider impression left by that vid, and of course, the $400 haircuts, is that here is someone who ain’t goin’ ‘coon huntin’ any time soon. He is among the richest of the pampered rich. It puts lie to his whole “poor commiseration tour”, for example. And frankly, that’s your real objection, here.
It also fairly raises the question if he has the guts to do what needs to be done with Islamo-Facism. (Of course, that he, along with the rest of the hard left… like Greenwald… favor “cut and run” doesn’t help that perception, either.)
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Rail on Ann Coulter if it makes you feel better, but the fact is that Edwards’ own actions… some of which were caught on tape and set to music, called his manhood into question long before she gave voice to it. In that case, she was merely a reflector of sentiment that was already there. That he has defenders like Greewald… well…. (Snicker)…
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Of course Greenwald would have all that silenced. All in the name of ‘informing the public” of course.
And need I really point out that Greenwald himself is no stranger exploiting the hell out of stories that are embarrassing to those who oppose liberal democrats?
As an example, the David Vitter thing.
Fairness and honesty from Greenwald? Who ya kidding? I think he lacks the ability. I see no evidence whatever that he’s made the attempt to be fair about such things.
A quick and dirty search on Google reveals 174,000 hits. Granted, he didn’t write most of these, most some came from others in the far left-O-sphere. However, that would seem to exemplify the point that when given a chance, to capitalize on embarrassing stories, he’s one of the idiots at the head of the Lynch mob. Greenwald therefore, in my view, doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
Of course, I’m willing to be convinced, and I promise, it’s not hard to do. Let’s see Greenwald denounce the opportunistic attacks on Vitter, including his own. Let’s see him call for an investigation into who used Pat Moynihan’s office phone to call the service Vitter’s name got attached to, for example. It’s on the list, you know. Let Greenwald call for an investigation as to why the server which contained that list mysteriously went down.. and STAYED down… after Vitter’s name hit the paper as being on that list. If he were nearly as skeptical about Democrats as he were about republicans (their names, and all that) he’d suggest that the server went down to protect Democrats. Let him admit, that the largest amount of heat that was being generated on the Vitter thing, are the same ones that defended Bill Clinton for a far more grievous wrong.
Somehow, I don’t think his concern for fairness extends quite so far. And I doubt he ever will. As such I find it difficult to give him any credibility whatever. He hasn’t earned it.
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