Glen Greenwald is Putin’s useful idiot
To recap: U.S. intelligence agencies have confirmed that Putin’s regime interfered in the U.S. election (to destroy Clinton) – and held onto some of what they found (ro blackmail Trump). It’s been in all the papers.
I comment on it on Twitter.
Then: Putin leaks hacked Democrat emails to instal Trump. Now: Putin saves hacked Republican emails to control Trump. #uspoli
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 10, 2016
I see the online Glen Greenwald, once a journalist but now a shill for every anti-Clinton cause, furiously defending Putin’s covert campaign. So I remark on what I think of him now.
@ggreenwald is an apologist for crimes committed on democracy. Follow him no more. .
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 10, 2016
The former journalist notices and responds with this:
LOL. Anyone who would like evidence for accusations is “an apologist for crimes” who must be ignored. #StillWithHer https://t.co/BmuL1mlzkr
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 10, 2016
I respond:
To validate your earlier advocacy on behalf of Snowden et al., you later became wilfully blind to Putin’s manipulations. Sad, actually. https://t.co/W7HRmyHqmv
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 10, 2016
So, Greenwald then comes up with this:
@kinsellawarren You’re like those evil imbeciles who, in 2002, smeared those wanting evidence of WMDs as being Saddam apologists.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 10, 2016
Tellingly, a Canadian extremist who I blocked long ago becomes one of Greenwald’s sources in this Twitter exchange. She tells him I ran a campaign against Rob Ford. Here’s what he says next about Yours Truly:
@karengeier @kinsellawarren LOL. That’s who that is? The guy who managed to run a losing campaign to Rob Ford? That’s awesome.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 10, 2016
This is kind of typical of the tire fire that is now Glen Greenwald’s journalism. To wit: (a) I didn’t run anyone’s campaign against Rob Ford and (b) Rob Ford wasn’t even on the ballot in the campaign Greenwald is referring to. Greenwald, as is so often the case, makes a couple big factual errors. So, I say:
Kind of typical of your journalism these days. I didn’t run anyone’s campaign. And Rob Ford wasn’t even a candidate for mayor in 2014. https://t.co/eS7Ak2Bio9
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 10, 2016
He doesn’t know what to say about his errors, apparently.
So, I return to his “evil imbecile” insult.
It was an illegal war & many like me always said so. I don’t recall or care what position you had. But evil imbeciles is a good band name. https://t.co/m5uA2Kn1g9
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 10, 2016
Anyway. Various trolls came into it after that, I got bored, and I had to let the dogs out.
There’s a point to all of this: Glen Greenwald, and those like him, became micro-celebrities by promoting their heroes Snowden, Assange, et al. They came to despise the Obama-Clinton folks for their objections to the law-breaking of Snowden, Assange et al. And, in the depths of their hatred, they became (like the Republican Party) apologists for Vladimir Putin, who (we now know) was running the whole show back in Moscow, and laughing his ass off.
The point: American democracy has been compromised, and Donald Trump is to blame for that. And American journalism has been compromised, too – and Glen Greenwald and his ilk are to blame for that.