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In reply to the discussion: Glenn Greenwald Unethically Taped Witnesses While Working for Matt Hale, White Supremacist. [View all]jpgray
(27,831 posts)I don't like Glenn. The guy is self-obsessed even for a blogger, and there is no lack of cases as above where he showed thoroughly poor judgment.
On the wickedness of some policies initiated by Bush and continued by Obama, however, he says much that is true, important, and rarely heard. I wouldn't choose Greenwald as my spokesman for these criticisms, let alone Ron Paul. When either makes a criticism I agree with, my agreement extends just that far. It does not extend to support, promotion, or worship of the person who makes it.
Further, when Obama does something I disagree with strongly, my disagreement extends just that far. It does not extend to my abandoning him in 2012 or to throwing everything of worth he's ever done into a bonfire of political purism.
When will people finally understand that assholes who oppose awful things do not in their opposition make awful things somehow worthy of support?