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Glenn Greenwald finds the outrage of the media over the possibility that bona fide nut job Terry Jones’s proposed Qur’an burning might lead to “the spilling of blood” to be self-serving, hypocritical, self-righteousness. In particular he points to this clip from Morning Joe which involves Jon Meacham’s cringe-inducing attempt to invoke religious authority and make [...]
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Selective Media Indignation Over Provoking “Blood-Spilling”?
September 11th, 2010 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Politics, Politics 
Tags: Donny Deutsch, Glenn Greenwald, Jon Meacham, Media Criticism, Mike Brzezinski 
No Comments »Cults Of Inerrant Leaders
June 15th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Glenn Greenwald summarizes an atrocity of institutionalized injustice, whereby the executive branch of the United States has the power to abduct and torture innocent people with impunity: The Supreme Court today denied a petition of review from Maher Arar, the Canadian and Syrian citizen who was abducted by the U.S. Government at a stopover at JFK Airport when returning [...]
Posted in Andrew Sullivan, Authoritarianism, Barack Obama, Civil Liberties, Featured, George W. Bush, Law, Law & Politics, Politics, Right Wing Politics Tags: Canada, Glenn Greenwald, Maher Arar, Omnipotence, Superpower, Syria, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Torture, United States Supreme Court No Comments »Who Super-Soaks The Watch Dogs?
June 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Glenn Greenwald rightly excoriates members of the press for frolicking with the members of the White House last weekend: On Friday, CNN’s Ed Henry posted a series of giggly, adolescent updates on his Twitter feed, describing the events that took place at a “beach” party thrown by Joe Biden, at the Vice President’s mansion, for various [...]
Posted in News Discussion, Politics Tags: Ed Henry, Glenn Greenwald, Joe Biden, Marc Ambinder, Media Criticism, Rahm Emanuel, Wolf Blitzer No Comments »The Hard Case Against Perpetual War
November 7th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Salon’s Glenn Greenwald, an uncompromising, non-partisan champion of civil liberties and opponent of U.S. violations of the Geneva Conventions and the Constitution, sat down with Bill Moyers the end of last month and made a sobering case about the self-perpetuating character of war in America. I feel very conflicted personally since even though I opposed [...]
Posted in Barack Obama, Military, News Discussion, Politics, Videos, World Affairs Tags: Afghanistan, Bill Moyers, Civil Liberties, Glenn Greenwald, Left Wing Politics, Peace, Salon.com, War No Comments »Why Barack Obama Does NOT Deserve A Nobel Peace Prize At All
October 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke As I already said, everyone left, right, and center is baffled today by Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize received out of the blue and before he has actually accomplished much of anything of what he had promised from his presidency (as Saturday Night Live compellingly argued). Earlier I made an argument that his election merits the award [...]
Posted in Barack Obama, Politics, World Affairs Tags: Afghanistan, Glenn Greenwald, Nobel Peace Prize, War in Afghanistan No Comments »Obama Backs Off Proposal For Creating Lawful Procedures For Preventive Detention
September 25th, 2009 Daniel Fincke During his May speech on civil liberties at the National Archives in May Obama argued for the idea of creating a legal mechanism for indefinitely detaining people without charges. He said at the time: I know that creating such a system poses unique challenges. . . . But I want to be very clear that our goal [...]
Greenwald: Media Praises Conkrite But Lacks His Integrity
July 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Greenwald is scathing on the media in general and takes the late Tim Russert to be the avatar of all that is wrong with them: Tellingly, his most celebrated and significant moment — Greg Mitchell says “this broadcast would help save many thousands of lives, U.S. and Vietnamese, perhaps even a million” — was when [...]
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