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In reply to the discussion: The swiftboat like smear machine against Glenn Greenwald goes into high gear. Who's next? [View all]CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)73. +1000. When they "criticize" the President, it's all good.
When the most virulent blogosphere critics of the President are criticized for THEIR views, then OMIGOD!!!! It's a conspiracy against these invaluable Progressive voices!!!
(Never mind their former GOP/Libertarian-loving roots and recent associations. It's the here-and-now Obama bashing that makes them Progressive heroes.)
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Better Believe It
Jan 2012
OP
So we've got one person here happy to endorse rape jokes about the President.
Bolo Boffin
Jan 2012
#42
Read it. DrDawg makes a hideous joke about Obama raping a nun on television...
Bolo Boffin
Jan 2012
#48
Instead of saying, "That was in extremely poor taste, and I will not dignify that with an answer."
Ikonoklast
Jan 2012
#54
I think you demean what Kerry went through when you use that word so lightly.
msanthrope
Jan 2012
#6
LOL. I love it. Random internet comments are a 'swiftboat smear machine' in 'high gear'
RZM
Jan 2012
#8
I'm confused. We're now smearing Lefty posters who are unhappy with Greenwald smearing the Left?!
FarLeftFist
Jan 2012
#13
"over the top mouthpiece who thinks he can turn a buck off the outrage wing of the party."
Renew Deal
Jan 2012
#43
This seems to be the central core of Greenwald's argument at issue:
coalition_unwilling
Jan 2012
#78
Anyone ever who is deemed a heretic or an obstacle, they were ruling on friggin Bill Moyers
TheKentuckian
Jan 2012
#24
So who's the next target? Michael Moore, Uygur, Maher, The Nation, The Progressive, the ACLU?
Better Believe It
Jan 2012
#30
"Greenwald’s smears of Sonia Sotomayor should have been a big red flag to everyone."
Enrique
Jan 2012
#35
Wow!!! Thanks for establishing just how low some people will go to misrepresent Greenwald.
JackRiddler
Jan 2012
#72
So NOT voting for Obama (as Cenk recommends) is actually more productive in
jefferson_dem
Jan 2012
#83
Cenk has not recommended "not voting for Obama" in the general election and you know it.
JackRiddler
Jan 2012
#85
So only a "party-first worldview" could conceivably account for any of the criticism?
Dewey Finn
Jan 2012
#69
Greenwald is an unbalanced extremist, who keeps company with some rightist extremists. nt
bluestate10
Jan 2012
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