Letters to the Editor
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I like it.
What a bizarre comment... Glad you appreciate Glenn's work but
Greenwald!
I have been a member of Salon for years now, and all I can say is that Glenn Greenwald is the best political analyst/journalist that I know of. This guy is a relentless stud.
(Some unsolicited advice: Keep it up, dude, but have someone around you (a trusted reader) who helps you keep your tone civil. In the long run, you will far more effective and respected if you do so.)
-- deucey
Where has his tone ever been uncivil?
You, like many American, have this idealized, almost child like, antiquated idea of civility and it is no mystery why. It keeps you from opening your mouth when you should to the benefit of those who would prefer you remain silent.
George Washington's Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour In Company and Conversation were the exercises of a 16 year old schoolboy in 18th century colonial America.
http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/manners/rules2.cfm
They are of no value to anyone today except those who would prefer you sit down and shut up. Washington engaged in drinking, profanity, dancing, card playing and wenching like any good colonial American back then or typical Amercian today.
If he were here today he would be swearing up a storm and kicking asses and taking names, starting with the incompetent fucks in the White House, most of the press and media and the useless trolls who haunt blogs like this.
http://www.fathom.com/course/10701018/index.html
Grow the fuck up, already.
-- L.W.M
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And no doubt, Thomas Jefferson would have already beat the living shit out of Deadeye ;-)
Old TJ had a bit of a temper, I hear.
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Getting a grip, Steven.
Hey Iokannan, get a grip. I can tell by your post (and your archived comments) that you either “are” Glenn Greenwald or someone who sleeps with him.
Grip gotten, but for the record I'm neither Glenn nor his partner.
Setting aside your obvious resentment,
Not resentment; fatigue. Simple, all-too-human fatigue with all this madness.
Apologies for any offense caused.
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@ Tone in DC
Glad you liked that.
Glenn has never been uncivil to my knowledge, nor would I characterize what he does as ever approaching a "screed" as omooex suggested. Steven Rockford said he only read and agreed 100% with Glenn, Floyd, and Silber. I don't read Floyd but I would. He's a good writer. Silber, on the other hand, is a good example of an uncivil and hysterical drama and angst screed generator as I've ever seen. I can't stomach him. Glenn's training and years of practice in legal writing, as opposed to other forms, are something he must work to overcome to some extent but they also serves him well in this new endeavor, in my humble opinion.
Jose Canseco?
OK I have to ask, what does an irresponsible former baseball player have to do with the price of rice?
-- shooter242
Rice? Fuck rice. Try schadenfreude. You could be next, Shooter.
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GG: Has NBC or Williams responded yet?
What is the status of your request for an interview with Williams or an NBC spokesflack?
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Williams' Orwellian response
Reminds me of something Orwell wrote:
The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies-all this is indispensably necessary.
--George Orwell, 1984
Mark