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Better?
doggone Polk for some reason! The thing that matters here is that he SAID he got a Polk, after he first SAID he got a Peabody! Not that he actually got it--OR a crackerjack prize, either.
You're just going to have to get over that, ok? Really!
Or keep carping on it like it matters; so we can see YOUR words!
Would you feel better if I shouted from the rooftops "Bill O'Reilly SAID he got a Polk...just sayin'?"
Does that float your boat? Help you with your happy dance? Make you feel like you've won a point? Will that soothe your number/punctuation sputtering? Will it calm your sad fixation on Big Bill and get you back on the topic of this thread-which is, let's see, about the thesis that GG is a lousy activist, and more of one of those than a journalist? Or will you continue to do anything OTHER than discuss that key point?
It's just the internet--settle down, now.
Sweet comparison, though.
Who Coulda' Known? That's amazing. What's your favorite Glenn Greenwald article that you could reference to trash him as Libertarian. That "Awakening Moment" when you saw his TRUE LIBERTARIAN FLAGS WAVING?
It would be interesting to know when you "turned" on him...because you found him out?
Got the Link? 
But... but... he has nothing to do with them!!! 
http://www.cato-unbound.org/contributors/glenn-greenwald
http://www.cato-unbound.org/search/results/Glenn%2BGreenwald
He went on the CATO payroll as far back as 2008--by his own admission:
And actually, he expressed his admiration for them even earlier than that:
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116253/edward-snowden-glenn-greenwald-julian-assange-what-they-believe
Greenwald had identified a vehicle for a political realignment: the presidential candidacy of the old libertarian warhorse Ron Paul. In November 2007, Greenwald called Paul “as vigilant a defender of America’s constitutional freedoms ... as any national figure in some time.” He acknowledged that “there is at least something in Paul’s worldview for most people to strongly dislike, even hate,” and he described Paul as “an anti-abortion extremist” and “near the far end” of the right’s stance on immigration policy. Still, he believed Paul to be a rare truth-teller, prepared to buck a corrupt bipartisan consensus....After Paul dropped out of the presidential race in June 2008, Greenwald wrote articles tepidly supporting the Obama campaign, emphasizing the “vitally important” task of defeating John McCain. (Paul had gone on to endorse the racist theocrat Chuck Baldwin of the Constitutional Party.) But he also sought to advance the realignment he had described to Cato. Greenwald appeared in February 2008 as a keynote speaker at Cato’s “Annual Benefactor Summit,” a conference of high-rolling donors in Las Vegas. Later that year, he appeared at a conference sponsored by the right-wing free-market libertarian Future of Freedom Foundation. In 2008, Greenwald joined with the anti-conservative Firedoglake.com founder Jane Hamsher to back the Accountability Now/Strangebedfellows PAC, with an assist from some of Ron Paul’s fund-raisers.
...In 2010, Greenwald began attacking the Obama administration from the left on a variety of domestic issues, attacking Wall Street corruption, opposing cuts to Social Security and Medicare, and decrying inequality. Yet even as he insisted on his left liberalism, he remained a steadfast promoter of Ron Paul—“far and away the most anti-war, anti-Surveillance-State, anti-crony-capitalism, and anti-drug-war presidential candidate in either party.” (After Paul’s son, then senatorial candidate Rand Paul, questioned the Civil Rights Act, Greenwald agreed with criticism that the remark was “wacky,” but insisted that the real “crazies” in American politics were mainstream Democrats and Republicans.) In a debate with The Nation columnist Katha Pollitt, Greenwald justified how progressives could back Ron Paul over Obama. How his vaunted allies would govern over issues that he professes to hold dear—Social Security, Medicare, economic inequality, gay rights—is a subject he has not addressed.
So, I guess by his own words we shall know him!
These comments from a labor-centric blogger are instructive--and well worth reading, as GG gets personal:
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2012/06/my-challenge-to-glenn-greenwald
Never mind that Greenwald has long standing ties to the Koch-funded Cato Institute (he’s going to claim that he only wrote 2 articles for them but as Exiled points out that’s “utterly absurd”)
Never mind that Greenwald has been openly identified in the press as representing “the libertarian Cato Institute” when quoted in articles. See also here.
Never mind that Greenwald was a keynote speaker at a Cato Benefit Sponsors Event.
Never mind that Greenwald was Ron Paul-curious, a man who would be the most anti-union president since at least Grover Cleveland, if not in U.S. history.
Never mind that Greenwald has spoken to college libertarian groups where he suggested the possibility of a coalition between progressives and Paulites for a Gary Johnson presidential run.
Never mind that Greenwald defended the Citizens United decision...
