Let's talk about Glenn Greenwald [View all]

[johnaries]

As if we haven’t talked about him enough, already! LOL!

Greenwald is a very emotional writer. I mean this in a disparaging way, since many portray him as an objective reporter. He uses very emotional keywords and phrases which does him credit as a persuasive writer, but he cherry-picks and leaves out important facts or twists the facts to dishonestly portray them in order to “prove” a falsified point. Never mind that the point itself is false - as long as he can twist the facts to make his false point appear true and thus achieve his ultimate purpose.

To anyone who has taken Persuasive Writing, OR participated on High School Debate Teams, OR is familiar with Orwellian and/or Rovian techniques AND has any “Google” skills whatsoever can easily see through his writings and realizes that he is not to be taken seriously and obviously has an alternative agenda.

However, what IS his alternative agenda? If this were a criminal investigation, we would have to establish “motive”.

What is his motivation? He is obviously “smearing” a President that the opposition has painted as being so Liberal/Progressive that they maintain he is a Socialist. Yet, Greenwald paints him as “Conservative” and actually claims that many Conservatives were more Liberal than Obama.

Why?

I have found out that Greenwald is Gay, and I know from a lot of posts here at DU that many of the LGBT community here at DU are disenchanted with Obama. I find that interesting, because all of the LGBT community outside of DU strongly - and I mean STRONGLY - support him! I have many friends and co-workers who are LGB ( I had two friends who were T in the past, but we have lost touch as happens so often with friends) and they are appalled at Greenwald’s portrayals of Obama’s policies.

Upon further investigation, I found that was married to a South American man. Wonderful for him! Under current American law, if he were married to a woman, she would automatically be a US citizen. However, because the US doesn’t recognize Same Sex marriage, his Mate is not privy to the same privileges.

This is a violation of Civil Rights! This is absolutely WRONG! It is unConstitutional!

BUT it was so before Obama took office. To BLAME Obama for it is, well, stupid!

To all my LGBT friends, remember that DADT was a victory at the time! Before that, anyone who was just accused of being Gay could be expelled. Obama worked diligently to make sure that LGBTs could serve OPENLY! He not only issued an XO that could easily be repealed by the next POTUS, he worked hard and long and with great PATIENCE to make sure that it was preserved forever IN LAW. He could’ve taken the easy way out and just done an XO - but he didn’t. He worked hard to make sure it was an irrevocable LAW.

Now, as for DOMA. OK, Obama originally said he was for Civil Unions but opposed to “Same-Sex Marriage” because of his religion, but he admitted that his views were “evolving”. He has also admitted since then that he believed that DOMA was a violation of Civil Rights.

Please, pay attention, because this is VERY IMPORTANT. The Justice Department is REQUIRED BY LAW to prosecute laws passed by the Congress. But, when pressed to support DOMA laws, the Obama Administration read INTO THE RECORD that this Administration believed that the DOMA law was unconstitutional and in violation of Civil Rights.

So, Obama is working towards equal rights for all, including LGBT civil rights. Obama is not concerned with “quick fixes” that can be easily over-turned, but with fixing the issue once and for all.

Yet, some people are not satisfied with that. Obama’s crusade would eliminate Greenwald’s concerns once and for all.

It appears that some people would rather have their cake now, and run the risk of losing it forever later.

I don’t have any evidence that this is what drives Greenwald’s vitriol - but nothing else makes sense. Frankly, it makes more sense than any of Greenwald’s accusations which have been all over the place and full of Rovian “spin”.