He thought you might. He's counting on it.

Not Glenn. Never that.

Fame and recognition, but certainly not base economic interests. No. Not Mr. Greenwald. His motives are pure self agrandisement, I am certain. Pure and simple. He is, after all, an honorable libertarian.

of his efforts. That, of course, is something that you would never do.

Or do we just keep getting stuff each time John Kerry takes another trip?

maximum personal benefit. Right, Glenn, right.

Nothing to see there.

Enough said?

Attention grabber. Prima dona.

I don't like him much. And I don't give a fuck what he's done. I don't have to like the guy. In fact, I think he sucks.

As a liberal, I certainly do not like his libertarian politics.

Those things are enough for me.

Frankly, I think he's a douche.

It's true.
Add that to his 'Look at me!' Syndrome, and you get one hot mess.
Some people just rub me the wrong way.

Timing is of the essence...

nt.

Seeking attention is SOP.

Nothing wrong with that.

Seek attention for our point of view.

It's really sad that some of us are jealous because others are better at it than we are.

Have you found me out? Perhaps not. I am only MineralMan, an anonymous DUer.

There's often a lot of ego wrapped up in online personas, sometimes along with some even less savory personality characteristics.

I'd be surprised if your ego was any less likely to bask in adulation than my own, you know who writes your words as much as I know who writes mine.

So you're not anonymous.

No, I am not anonymous, as you have discovered. I am, however, insignificant, as I have discovered.

He just had a major interview and civil liberties activists and writers refer to him regularly. Including Greenwald.

Gasp! Never has any journalist been ambitious! 111!!!

the profession is lost.

Glenn Greenwald is the first?

And the downfall of journalism?


Really?! You can't possibly be this naive?

Very common.

Celebrity to make money about their writing?

Since clearly you object to writers doing what they have to to make money in this day and age?

Why single out one journo over the others who are "bringing journalism down"? This is a principled stand you've taken before?

Or just this journo?

Or more specifically, just because you hate this story?

If its because you hate this story then come clean that you are just trying to shoot the messenger

Really? Are you British or Australian?

You just can't teach that move folks. You gotta be born with it.

Classic Gold.

You are among those I thought were TRYING to make Greenwald, rather than the NSA, the story.

Whose name leads the title?

Maybe it's just me, but I find myself a way lot more concerned about what the NSA is doing. Privacy rights, etc. "Silly me", sorts of things, ya know. Moreover, were I not concerned with the NSA's activity, I wouldn't be as cranky about "SnowGlen" as some appear to be.

But, like I said, that's just me.

BTW, you put GGs name in the title of the OP. Maybe instead of posting GGs name on DU, all you NSA-apologists should just get a GG poster to hang on the wall and throw darts at it. Might calm the nerves and help with the hyper-ventilating. Worth a shot.

It's not the same. The life of Greenwald is not being reported these two last days. The spying is. You exaggerate when he said he became the story. He might be the story to you and others who dislike him, but that doesn't generalize into everyone.

You don't seem to care much for openness or honesty. I'm glad this information has come out.

and I've been posting to show that. The reaction I get is enough to consider not spending any more time here. Which is probably the idea, so I will

And since it's being trickled there's no certainty that the data contained within is being portrayed honestly.

Clapper will appear before Congress and clear up any misunderstanding.

Just relax.

Odd, 'cause your side condemned wikileaks for doing exactly that. Oh wait, I get it. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

these people read like a cheap dime store novel.

Yeah, so did I.

Binary the world is not.

that said no to nuclear energy. In much the same way we must say no to opportunists like Mr. Greenwald.

thus avoiding damage caused by the withering criticism of DU armchair pundits.

Je m'amuse, seulement.

I admire that in someone more than I admire those who don't, those who fail to understand that we need to hold those in office accountable.

Such is your choice.

I think some can't stand the thought of another anonymous person like them suddenly acquiring immense significance.

It's. Just. Not. Fair.

Immense significance, eh? Wow!

It seems that our close allies aren't happy that we've been tapping their leader's phones.

How would we react if the Germans were caught tspping Obama's phone?

Otherwise, it would die the usual death of being overwhelmed by advertising.

“News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.” Lord Northcliffe

have to give him credit along with Laura Poitras for managing this along with Guardian. I won't give much credit to WaPo who also got the documents because without the Guardian they probably would have sat on the releases.

It didn't have an impact until the full dump got released (due to idiotic security culture), and the entire world could go over it all at once as opposed to bits here and bits there.

Meanwhile the Russian files are still secret and the Bank of America files were never released.

I wish there were another dozen as ambitious and effective at getting the story out.

Just a reminder.

The OP should have been titled: Mineral Man Drops Glenn Greenwald's Name on DU - Gets Attention

Let's see. A journalist trying to promote his new news website.

To continue the repetition - this is news?

Snowden will not be forgotten. But, let's face it, without Greenwald, Snowden's name wouldn't even be known. Maybe he wishes that were the case now, but that's another issue.

He has to make it be a real issue. Wikileaks / Collateral Damage / Cablegate led to the Arab Spring. The Snowden files have been a dud.

He's just a snake oil salesman of another kind.

That's all just snake oil? I'm assuming you are saying either none of that happened or that you are totally cool with it?

That's an odd position to take. I would be interested in hearing more.

I might mix a little bit of something in there worth more than dirt just to be able to say its in there. On balance most of his stuff is crap, sorry.