Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Amber interviews Glenn Greenwald

Amber Milgram recently obtained an exclusive interview of the brilliant legal scholar, author and blogger Glenn Greenwald.

Original here.

Posted by Karl Franz Ochstradt at 10:21 PM

9 comments:

  1. Amusing...

    He called Hugo Chavez a thug once? Ah boy. Last I checked Hugo wasn't ordering the murder of his citizens and spreading war and destruction through two different countries at once like our Mr. Obama. I wonder what that makes our president?

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  2. Actually, he had an extensive exchange with me in which he was arguing how Chavez was evil, a thug, a dictator. And he actually said he "knew" he was right because his Brazilian lover was friends with people who had "suffered" under Chavez's regime. It would have been funny if it wasn't so pitiful. He used his lover's rumors as a primary source of information on what Chavez was like.

    And that's pretty typical of Greenwald's political acumen -- based on bullshit assumptions. His legal analysis skills aren't bad -- they're about equivalent to that of a 2d year law student. The problem is that he lacks the political acumen to put his bland legal analysis into perspective. Usually when he introduces his political acumen, the legal analysis falls flat -- he doesn't understand implementation very well. Maybe he should spend less time seeking out exotic lovers, and more time finding out what politics really looks like in America, in practice.

    If I had to guess, I'd say his Brazilian boyfriend was a capitalist of some sort who was pissed that Chavez was trying to dismantle capitalism. Greenwald actually cited the coup that removed Chavez for a short while as "evidence" that the people hated Chavez. When I told him the coup was manufactured by the CIA, he told me I didn't know what I was talking about.

    Another fine example of Greenwald naivete: he used to whinge and keen about the evil neocons in the Bush-Cheney Admin. I told him he should check out the PNAC's white paper, "Rebuilding America's Defenses," where the neocon agenda was set out in print. He actually had the tiny dog balls to call me a liar, and to say that I was making that up, and that such a paper didn't exist!

    And this was a man with a big following who hung on his every word as an "expert" on federal political matters.

    Fucking hilarious.

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  3. "When I told him the coup was manufactured by the CIA, he told me I didn't know what I was talking about"

    whoa... that's some fairly brazen ignorance there. I just assume all latin american coups against left wing rulers are manufactured by the CIA and I'm sure that's a safe assumption. I wonder where he's been?

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  4. My guess would be he spends his time trying to strategize on how to expand his readership, and that such is more important to him than actually educating people in a meaningful way. When you tell 80% of the truth you can be hailed as an "expert" especially if by omitting the ugly 20% that would alienate good pwoggies and lib-wools.

    The omitted 20%, of course, is the part of the story where the Noble Democrats are shown to be as big a part of the problem as the Evil Rethuglicans. Wee Glennie has always been about "more, better Democrats" and his followers often are likewise.

    I'm guessing his big following has to do with his "legal authority" writing style, in which he writes as if he's doing a brief for submission to a judge who already has said he agrees with Greenwald's client's arguments.

    The problem is that his briefs always have lies-by-omission, and improperly shade what facts they do present, in order to continue the omission's deception.

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  5. Perhaps an obvious point:

    "Galen Greenwood, Marketing and Promotion" on the PRN masthead, that's Glenn Greenwald. In other words, Amber's interview above wasn't the first joke I played on Greenwald. The first one was here:

    http://progrepnow.blogspot.com/2010/01/story-so-far.html

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  6. "extensive exchange"

    link?

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  7. "link?"

    TRANSLATION:

    "I think you're lying, Oxtrot."

    The exchange took place. Why would I make it up?

    If you think Greenwald is bright and insightful, nothing anyone says about him will sway you. He's leading a cult of personality, and you've already had the Flavr-Aid.

    Courageous of you to drive by with a spray of doubt though. Thanks for that.

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  8. Oxtrot, good job on the translation. I think you are lying too.

    The entire web is archived here: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

    Link?

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  9. We are not a sausage factory. We don't sell links.

    What Wee Glennie did with his blog is not my business. What posts and comments are edited out, that's outside my control.

    I'm glad you have such supreme faith in Wee Glennie's superiority that you assume I'm the liar, not him.

    Kudos!

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