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limpyhobbler

(8,244 posts) Wed Jun 12, 2013, 06:26 PM Jun 2013

Big Brother Loves the Smearing of Snowden, Greenwald

By Matthew Rothschild, June 12, 2013

And so now the smearing begins. John Boehner calls Edward Snowden a “traitor.” Sen. Dianne Feinstein chimed in, agreeing that he committed treason.

Fox News analyst Ralph Peters took it a step further, saying Snowden should be executed for it.

Then there’s all the snooty, Ivy League sniping that Snowden was a high school dropout and had to get a GED, as if everyone who ever has trouble in high school is an idiot and somehow disqualified from doing intelligent and worthwhile work.

The smearing hasn’t stopped with Snowden. It’s all over Glenn Greenwald, too.
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complete piece: http://www.progressive.org/smearing-of-snowden-greenwald

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Big Brother Loves the Smearing of Snowden, Greenwald (Original Post) limpyhobbler Jun 2013 OP

Big Brother doesn't like TRANSPARENCY. blkmusclmachine Jun 2013 #1

And my personal favorite from the Washington Post - "a cross-dressing Little Red Riding Hood" Catherina Jun 2013 #2

pfffft. Thumbsdown to those assholes. boilerbabe Jun 2013 #3

DU is filled with folks who do that. Greenwald gets it too, they try to claim that Bluenorthwest Jun 2013 #4

20 years ago they probably could have used it to discredit him. limpyhobbler Jun 2013 #5

Amazing that people don't get it that when they attack geek tragedy Jun 2013 #7

think for yourself creon Jun 2013 #6

blkmusclmachine

(16,149 posts)

1. Big Brother doesn't like TRANSPARENCY.

Reply to limpyhobbler (Original post)

Wed Jun 12, 2013, 06:29 PM

Jun 2013

Ever.

Catherina

(35,568 posts)

2. And my personal favorite from the Washington Post - "a cross-dressing Little Red Riding Hood"

Reply to limpyhobbler (Original post)

Thu Jun 13, 2013, 01:01 AM

Jun 2013

Washington Post's Richard Cohen, a longtime fan of government secrecy... Cohen snidely calls Edward Snowden a "cross-dressing Little Red Riding Hood" who will be forgotten by history. Snowden lacks the natural manliness of Richard Cohen.

http://gawker.com/the-vain-media-cynics-of-the-nsa-story-512575457

boilerbabe

(2,214 posts)

3. pfffft. Thumbsdown to those assholes.

Reply to limpyhobbler (Original post)

Thu Jun 13, 2013, 02:04 AM

Jun 2013

and i am referring to the jerks with the homophobic slurs.

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)

4. DU is filled with folks who do that. Greenwald gets it too, they try to claim that

Reply to boilerbabe (Reply #3)

Thu Jun 13, 2013, 09:06 AM

Jun 2013

LGBT DUer are in some tin foil conspiracy with them, because all gay people know each other and all. They post long threads 'Did you know he's gay!!! Yes! And so are some people on DU!!!!'
I don't really like Greenwald much, but I can't stand those who attack him for who he is and they can all go straight to hell.

limpyhobbler

(8,244 posts)

5. 20 years ago they probably could have used it to discredit him.

Reply to Bluenorthwest (Reply #4)

Thu Jun 13, 2013, 11:59 AM

Jun 2013

It's a lot harder now, thank goodness.

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)

7. Amazing that people don't get it that when they attack

Reply to Bluenorthwest (Reply #4)

Thu Jun 13, 2013, 04:23 PM

Jun 2013

someone they don't like by invoking the fact that they're GLBT, or black, or a woman, or a Jew or Muslim, that is an attack on everyone else who's GLBT, or black etc etc.

Just takes a little irritation for the veneer of "of course I abhor bigotry" to get rubbed off.

creon

(1,183 posts)

6. think for yourself

Reply to limpyhobbler (Original post)

Thu Jun 13, 2013, 03:24 PM

Jun 2013

Personally, I do not care what 'big brother' says.
I will learn what I can, and come to my own conclusions.

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