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Isn’t a lot of this hatred of Greenwald jealousy-based. The Bestselling book, all the media attention, the overnight blog success, etc? I’d be the first to say
by Thomas_Ellers 13y ago
Isn’t a lot of this hatred of Greenwald jealousy-based. The Bestselling book, all the media attention, the overnight blog success, etc? I’d be the first to say his style can be bombastic and he can be overly aggressive. But nobody denies that he’s very smart, and among liberal bloggers at least, very moderate and rational in his view, and unusually willing to engage debate. So it’s hard to figure out what there could be about me that generates such strong emotions.
- revscat 13y agoThat may be part of the explanation, but I very much doubt it constitutes a significant part. Whenever the omnipotence and/or moral authority of the bureaucracy is challenged the media rushes to its defense. The typical way it does this is to vilify those who raised the objections. See: labor unions, Martin Luther King, jr., Michael Moore, WikiLeaks/Julian Assange, Al Gore, Joe and Valerie Wilson, Thomas Drake, #occupy, Bradley Manning, and now Snowden and Greenwald. I'm sure there are other examples.