Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@KostjaMarschke @trishanderton The event is the debut of the documentary. I think the documentary, which you haven't seen, is great, just as I thought the director's last film, twf no gf, was. So when they asked if I'd speak at the debut, I said yes. I'm promoting and analyzing a film I think is very good. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@unsafemedicine @LuizPersechini @AWindwardMaroon I speak to and am read by more people now than ever. Unless you think that approval by Wolf Blitzer and Joe Scarborough are the key metrics for relevance - even though nobody watches their shows - my work has more reach than ever. As for "mocking": https://t.co/DOs8ld1frj — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@KostjaMarschke @trishanderton Alex Jones already has a platform regardless of what I do, just like Tucker Carlson has one regardless of what I do. I think Alex Lee Moyers is a great filmmaker and the film is interesting and illuminating to me. That's my motive in deciding what to cover: is it interesting? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@BrianSoundFurey @DropBetweenDime The metrics keep shifting. Now, it's OK to interview extremely evil people, as long as they have sufficient influence. I think Jones has sufficient influence. How about the journalists who interviewed Charles Manson? To me, the film is good and interesting. That's enough for me. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@JoeMom20 @NathanJRobinson You insult people on the internet while cowardly hiding behind a fake screen name. Hard to get lower than that. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@fjordsfjords @NathanJRobinson I just knew so many -- including those who fancy themselves free-thinking radicals -- are captive to institutional decree. I find the film interesting so I said yes. These people would have no problem if I interviewed Cheney, Brennan, etc. because the establishment accepts them. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Regan_Smart @Condor56999467 He's certainly more of one than you, as evidenced by all the Good, Establishment mavens who believe he is on the list of untouchables to interview even while it's fine to interview Dick Cheney, Bill Kristol, John Brennan and a long line of monsters with establishment approval. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Pegg_Finkle @NegDiscountRt That's because I think it's a very good movie, a movie I have seen and you have not. Alex Jones didn't make the film. He's the subject of it. And you have no idea if it praises him, criticizes him, or does anything else. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@lourockqat Not only are you an establishment liberal, but you go around the internet spewing smears of people's character while cowardly hiding behind anonymity. It's hard for me to imagine anything that would have less of an impact on my choices than a person like you. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@BrianSoundFurey @DropBetweenDime Exactly: you think that it would be fine for me to interview Bush, but not Alex Jones, even though Bush has done far more damage in the world than Jones. But Bush has establishment approval, and Jones doesn't, and that's what dictates your thinking. It's not what dictates mine. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@KostjaMarschke @trishanderton So it's OK to interview horrible people who have done even more horrible things than Alex Jones? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@trishanderton Exactly. All of those people have done far more damage than Jones. But because they all have establishment credibility, you think it's acceptable to interview them. Your views are dictated to you by institutions of authority. You're the last kind of person I'm willing to appease. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@JohnDMacCallum He has a platform already. Millions listen to him. And there was a documentary made about him, by a very skillful and talented filmmaker. Examining why that is true is infinitely more interesting to me than people like you. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@ideasbychuck Have you seen the documentary yet? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@calif_liberal I was today invited to appear on her show for tomorrow or Wednesday night. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@The_Real_Veon How do you know what kind of interview it is when it has not yet happened? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@mc_fadzen Among who specifically have I lost my credibility? Because all the metrics I see suggest the opposite. Everyone thinks that those who think like them and their friend constitute the full scope of the universe. There are huge numbers who do not think like you. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@wjmaggos @joinpeertube The platform was chosen by the filmmakers. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@trishanderton Would it be OK for a journalist to interview John Brennan, Dick Cheney, the CNN hosts who spread Russiagate conspiracy theories, Vladimir Putin, Tony Blair, or David Frum? All of those would be OK, right? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@DropBetweenDime Would it be OK if I interviewed George Bush despite his invasion of Iraq, his torture regime, and his kidnapping program, or Barack Obama despite his slaughter of innocent people with drones, destruction of Libya, and protection of bankers who caused the financial crisis? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@JoeFreitag The reason there's so little support for Julian Assange is people because are afraid to have anything to do with anyone establishment figures deem to be gross and crazy. These people would be fine if I interviewed David Frum, Dick Cheney, Kamala Harris or especially Liz Cheney. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@lourockqat Journalists interview people. Alex Jones has been interviewed by NBC News, the BBC, Joe Rogan, and countless other major news outlets around the world. There will never be a day when I refuse to do things or speak to people believe liberals dislike them. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@ownerslament Liberals get very upset if journalists interview people on the forbidden list of liberals, which is basically all non-liberals. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@CommodoreBalzac This one. https://t.co/EYqIe8LqNP — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@JoeFreitag Not one person angry I'm interviewing Alex Jones about this new film would be angry if I interviewed Dick Cheney, Tony Blair, Robert Mueller, Kamala Harris, John Brennan or anyone else with establishment credentials who have done much worse. It's all just about dreary conformity. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@KingKazma711 Bernie Sanders went on Joe Rogan's show. By your reasoning, this now means that Bernie supports and is responsible for all of Rogan's past statements and actions, and that he's "cool" with all the guests Rogan has had on (including Alex Jones). Now do you see your stupidity? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@JamesHinnigan "Left-liberal" is the term I use for the very substantial areas in which establishment liberals and the left converge, such as whether to vote for Biden/Dems, on most social issues (abortion/trans/guns), on the need for Big Tech censorship, on supporting Ukraine, race issues, etc — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@NegDiscountRt Did you know I didn't create Alex Jones, am not the cause of his success and influence, and that a journalist doesn't become responsible for someone's worst acts by interviewing them about a film? Unless you think Wolf Blitzer is guilty of torture and war by interviewing Cheney? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@mhewlettWSJ Yes, the film deals extensively with that. The trailer I posted above includes parts of it. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Condor56999467 I think the question of why - for better or worse -- some people end up as dissidents, why they feel alienated from convention, why some find an audience and resonate with people, are complex and interesting questions, not cheap or easy ones. And I think this filmmaker is great. — PolitiTweet.org