I don't know if this was Mandark's point but my takeaway, beyond "lol greenwald," is how ironic it is that someone so wrong about perhaps the biggest foreign policy issue of our lifetime is now a sanctimonious anti-imperialist who questions the sincerity of those who dare change their position/views (see: Clinton). Hate to pull a Jack Remington and bring up Clinton, who I'm not a fan of, but yea.
reminds me of the Young Turks guy who was once a sexist conservative.
I honestly don’t begrudge Greenwald his prior support of the Iraq invasion, his takedown of illegal immigrants, his early support of Assange and Wikileaks, or his hagiography of Manning and Snowden. A lot of people held this views at the time, and the facts as we knew them at that time were not what they are today.
What I do take issue with, is that he cannot admit that he supported the Iraq War, and that he has built a career on berating people for having the exact same journey on the issue that he did.
In 2018, it’s now clear that Wikileaks (with Assange) are not the “biggest supporters of truth and transparency in our time” , but rather an organization that has tried and continues to, try to shape the news based on what it tells people and withholds, as well as coordinating with elements it is aligned to to influence their behavior to enhance its own narrative. Largely, the Deep State was actually right, on her Wikileaks was not “just a place to leak stuff that was performing purely journalistic functions”. That went out the window as soon as it was clear that Wikileaks was actively trying to get Trump to raise controversy about the election outcome, whether true or not.
Similarly, while Manning is somewhat admirable in a sense, she is also laughably unqualified for the Senate. Pointing this out is not a deep state attack on transsexual people. It is just a fact.
I don’t know whether Manning, Snowden, Assange, or the RT journalists are “Russian agents”. In fact, I think at least some of them are more like Russian dupes. People that are prone to put a finger in the eye of America out of sheer pettiness, deeply held beliefs, or semi-craziness, and Putin has decided to give these people a platform and magnify their voice for his own purposes.
Perhaps no individual journalist on RT is a Russian agent, but you can look at their front page and see the anti-American agenda between the lines.
That said, Abby Martin is hot as fuck, even if she is a 9/11 truther.
