Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@frankbumb @olsonkaren48 @nichpic That's 1 question in an hour-long interview, stripped on purpose of its context, which is we had just watched a film with ample documentation of Jones' falsehoods on Sandy Hook and his contrition for it. The only purpose in my making him repeat it would be to appease liberals. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Smackledorf Yes, the British left is 1,000 times better than the US "left." I was, however, referring to people who call themselves leftists and who are generally regarded as such in the UK who refused to appear next to Dempsey even as they engage with vastly worse mainstream Labourites. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@frankbumb @olsonkaren48 @nichpic I have interviewed neocons and others who have done far worse damage than Alex Jones and didn't go into the interview screaming and ranting and calling them names. That's worthless child behavior. I asked them questions I think are interesting and revealing, as I did with Jones. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@elsbet @omalley_an No, because it shows that people like you have no moral standards, and lack the courage to apply these moral judgments to people who have mainstream acceptability. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@ChiuauaTeardrop @omalley_an I'm asking if you if you think Joe Biden, Hillary, David Frum, Jeffrey Goldberg, John Brennan, John Kerry, Nicolle Wallace are "unapologetically evil" and that nobody who is moral should ever talk to, appear with or interview them? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@olsonkaren48 @frankbumb @nichpic Would it be acceptable to you to interview Bill Kristol, or George W. Bush, or Nicolle Wallace, or John Brennan, or David Frum, whose lies and conspiracy theories caused for more damage and destruction than Alex Jones' could have in a million years? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Mikhailovic1 @nichpic As I've explained, I believe a journalist should talk to anyone with public influence; that includes Frum and Tucker. The difference (aside from the fact that Frum worked for Bush writing the Iraq speeches) is Tucker has repented and recanted that worldview. Frum still believes. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Ennuibert Russia spends 1/14 on its military as what the US spends. That's why Obama constantly emphasized that it's madness to regard them as some grave threat when their economy is roughly the size of Italy's. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Jon44444444 That's the US Security State for you. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Billy___Hill You're just a trite neoliberal obsessed with Trump, and who worships Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney. I write about people like you, not for you. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@SparrowOat @quasiasher @thomaschattwill Yes, this has been and continues to be my view: Alex Jones has spewed conspiracy theories no less deranged (though far less harmful) than huge numbers of people employed by and deemed acceptable within large mainstream media corporations. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Mikhailovic1 @nichpic I've had numerous debates with David Frum before. I've never said no when asked. Liz Cheney blocked me on Twitter a couple years ago so it seems like it's she who is eager to avoid interaction, not me. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@frankbumb @nichpic I've always had the view that journalists should speak to and interview anyone of influence and I don't see anything in any of those tweets that negates that view. Did you mean to post others? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@EsotericCD @thomaschattwill No. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@quasiasher @thomaschattwill How am I not an "actual attorney"? I've litigated more defamation cases than you have accomplishments in your life. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@nichpic Oh, I wish you had told me ahead of time which people were on your list of those-that-must-not-be-interviewed, so I could have avoided losing you by cancelling the event. Are David Frum or Liz Cheney also on that list, or would it be OK if interviewed them? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Billy___Hill Remember when Gawker did this? https://t.co/EYqIe8LqNP — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@WeGotOneBich @tarpleyhitt @thomaschattwill 🤷‍♂️ — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@thomaschattwill Honestly, there's probably not much of a legal value to this in part because Gawker has no influence and thus can't harm your reputation, and in part because whether it's bad to be at the premiere is just opinion, but if they refuse to retract the fabrication, there's something. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I wonder which random black man Gawker's @tarpleyhitt or one of her super evolved liberal friends saw at the Austin premiere and thought: "Oh, look, there's @thomaschattwill. Let me go write an entire article based on the falsehood that he was there"? https://t.co/ynBGk4d5g1 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@brehevanbreh They lied and fabricated the entire article since he wasn't at the premiere and never even heard of the film. The whole article is made up. Aren't people like you supposed to care about media frauds? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@kdrum Close to nobody: https://t.co/UHIen57RHD — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@fighturright Yes, there's a huge shortage of American media personalities bravely sitting around talking about how terrible things are in Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and every other official US enemy. If I don't do that, who will? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Jon44444444 Even Obama's former CIA chief and Pentagon chief Leon Panetta has said from the start what is undeniable true: that Ukraine is a proxy war for the US: https://t.co/5J871RHpuO — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @JulienHKK: The greatest evils of this government are bipartisan. And because they are bipartisan, they are ignored by a media that is o… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

How come nobody trusts the liberal wing of the media and harbors nothing but contempt and disgust for it?👇 (And that's to say nothing of the fact that if a premiere had Anderson Cooper, Joe Scarborough, Elizabeth Warren, Katy Tur and Chris Hayes, Gawker would beg for tickets). https://t.co/NQqQQtWXjv — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Gawker ran an entire article based on the premise that Thomas Chatterton Williams attended the premiere of the new Alex Jones documentary in Austin, even putting his name in the headline to prove there were only "losers" there. He was not there and never heard of it. Same Gawker. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

They can't defend Biden's war policy - how can one defend sending to Raytheon and CIA close to the entire *annual* Russian military budget ($65b) as Americans struggle? - but since Dems are united in favor, they can't oppose it, so they just ignore it for easy culture war fights. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Whatever one thinks about the US role in the war in Ukraine, it's one of the most consequential and dangerous US (proxy) wars in decades. Yet most of the left-liberal commentariat, after the first couple weeks of excitement and entertainment wore off, acts as if it doesn't exist. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

There is absolutely an escalated focus on foreign policy by the bipartisan war party in DC -- especially on Russia and China -- but with a few exceptions (Jacobin), there's almost no left-liberal commentary on it because they ignore all issues that can't be framed as Dem v. GOP. — PolitiTweet.org