Glenn Greenwald

The Killers Among Us (And Other Weak Arguments for the Senate Health Bill)

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 12.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Howard Dean, Health Reform, Ezra Klein, David Leonhardt, Jane Hamsher, Jonathan Cohn, Glenn Greenwald, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

Have you heard? Progressives who oppose the Senate health bill are the moral equivalent of mass murderers. That argument is actually being made - along with the charge, ironically enough, that they're being too emotional.

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President Obama Loses His Base: He Just Ran Out of Slack

Tom Sullivan | Posted 12.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russ Feingold, Matt Taibbi, Chuck Todd, Glenn Greenwald, Health Care Reform, Josh Marshall, Joe Lieberman, Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News
Tom Sullivan

The media was quick to declare the Obama honeymoon over this summer. Yet supporters exhilarated by Obama's win in November 2008 were still willing to cut him slack. That slack just ran out.

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Jason Linkins

Glenn Greenwald Writes One-Act Play About How The White House Works

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Progressive Caucus, Rahm Emanuel, Glenn Greenwald, Public Option, Congress, Health Care Reform, Barack Obama, Politics News

Greenwald argues, at length, against the notion that the entirety of the failure to reform health care can be laid at the feet of Congressional intransigence.

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Obama's Nobel Address Put Liberal Face On 'Ugly And Decidedly Illiberal Policies,' Glenn Greenwald Says

salon.com | Alex Koppelman | Posted 12.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nobel Peace Prize, Obama Nobel Prize, Obama Nobel Address, Barack Obama, Obama Nobel Peace Prize Speech, Glenn Greenwald, Politics News

Reactions to Obama's Nobel speech yesterday were remarkably consistent across the political spectrum, and there were two points on which virtually eve...

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Hitchens, Greenwald Debate Afghan Surge: 'We're Being Played For Suckers By Pakistani Elite' (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 12.10.2009 | World

Read More: Afghan War, Morning Meeting Dylan Ratigan, Christopher Hitchens, Video, Afghanistan, Glenn Greenwald, KT McFarland, World News

Christopher Hitchens, Glenn Greenwald and KT McFarland were on MSNBC's "Morning Meeting" to discuss President Obama's plan to escalate the war in Afgh...

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Jason Linkins

Dick Cheney's Job Approval Rating: Why Does Anyone Care?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Polls, Approval Ratings, Joe Scarborough, Twitter, Polling, Glenn Greenwald, Dick Cheney, Media News

Might I take a moment to remind everyone that Cheney currently does not have a job? So why should I, or anyone, care about his approval rating? Nancy Pelosi, by contrast, is serving in a non-imaginary capacity.

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Wall Street and the US Government: Where's Jimmy Stewart When We Need Him?

Steven G. Brant | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Tarp, Wall Street Bailout, Barney Frank, Maureen Dowd, Chris Dodd, Dylan Ratigan, Frank Rich, Chris Matthews, Barack Obama, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Glenn Greenwald, Henry Paulson, Jimmy Carter, Timothy Geithner, Jimmy Stewart, Wall Street Bonuses, Ralph Nader, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Politics News
Steven G. Brant

With all the interest in the damage Wall Street has done, activity that's the opposite should draw some attention. But coverage of the corporate social responsibility movement is not yet an idea whose time has come.

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Memo To The Media: Fox News Is Now the Opposition Party

Eric Boehlert | Posted 10.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Politico, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Washington Post, Roger Ailes, Newsweek, Glenn Greenwald, Media News
Eric Boehlert

The press needs to drop its longstanding gentleman's agreement not to write about other news outlets as news players -- not to criticize the competition -- because those rules no longer apply.

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Jason Linkins

Anonymous White House Sources Praise White House In Important Journalistic Scoop

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media

Read More: National Security, Media Criticism, Glenn Greenwald, Unnamed-Sources, Washington Post, Anonymous Sources, Media News

Yesterday, Glenn Greenwald tore apart a piece of stenographic PR that ran in the Washington Post. Titled "Obama Team Says Zazi Case Illustrates Balan...

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Friday Talking Points [95] -- A Call To Action

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Progressives, Al Franken, Chief of Staff, Reform, Alan Grayson, Paul Kirk, Aid of the Party, Emanuel, Midotw, Glenn Greenwald, Nancy Pelosi, Department of Justice, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Health Care, Peter Paul and Mary, Reid, Public Option, Democrat, House Progressives, Congress, Mary Travers, Democrats, Barack Obama, Ted Kennedy, Acorn, Progressive, Constitution, Mddotw, Rahm Emanuel, Party, Health, Blue Dogs, Harry Reid, Republicans, Senate, Healthcare, President Obama, David Kris, Sherrod Brown, Obama, Democratic, Democratic Party, Friday Talking Points, Fourth Amendment, Republican, Paul Wellstone, Pelosi, Defense Contractor, Co-Op, Baucus, Typewriter, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Rahm, Representative Grayson, Trigger, Time for All Good Men, House, Franken, Rahmbo, Surreal, Fraud, Chris Weigant, Max Baucus, Kris, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The progressives and Blue Dogs are going to have a showdown. It is going to culminate not in statements to the press (or the lack thereof), not in some whispered whip count, but rather in a very public vote.

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Jason Linkins

ABC News' Tapper Advances "Defund ACORN" Story

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Politics News, Acorn Bill, Darrell Issa, U.S. Congress, Glenn Greenwald, Congressional Oversight, Jake Tapper, Media News, Acorn, Alan Grayson, Anti-Acorn Bill, Media Criticism, Media News

Earlier this week, our own Ryan Grim reported on the incredibly true story of how Congress, in its zealous race to shower ACORN with digestive leaving...

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The Torture Report

Jameel Jaffer | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Glenn Greenwald, Freedom of Information Act, Department of Justice, President Bush, Maj. David Frakt, Marcy Wheeler, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Matthew Alexander, Politics News
Jameel Jaffer

Five years after Abu Ghraib, the Defense Department is still withholding photographs showing prisoners being abused at other facilities, as well as interrogation directives used by special forces.

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Jason Linkins

The Unintended Consequences Of The "Defund ACORN" Act

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Politics News, Acorn Bill, U.S. Congress, Media Criticism, Glenn Greenwald, Congressional Oversight, Acorn, Anti-Acorn Bill, Alan Grayson, Media News

The primary rationale -- the only rationale -- behind your representatives' decision in the ACORN matter was to ensure that their electoral hopes don't founder because of a media-driven scandal.

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Jason Linkins

Glenn Greenwald Has Said Kind Things About The Armed Forces, As It Turns Out

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Idiots, Torture, Glenn Greenwald, Bloggers, Joe Klein, Blogging, Media News

Time's Joe Klein levelled a significant and ugly charge: that he had "never seen [Greenwald] write a positive sentence about the US military." But Greenwald has.

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I See Dead People Joe Klein

Sean Carman | Posted 10.17.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Exasperated Diatribes, Joe Klein, Short Fiction, I.F. Stone, Glenn Greenwald, The Health Care Debacle, Comedy News, Athenae, Satire, Comedy News
Sean Carman

"Aren't you the journalist who tirelessly promoted the Iraq War? And defended the Bush Administration's illegal wiretap and detention programs while admitting you knew nothing about them?"

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Jason Linkins

Joe Klein Is Now Warblogging With Critics, Forever

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Joe Klein, Idiots, Blogging, Bloggers, Torture, Glenn Greenwald, Media News

Klein is upset about all the mean things being said about him on the Internet, and the litigation of his hurt feelings is somehow considered news by Time, for reasons passing understanding.

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Joe Klein: Glenn Greenwald "Thoroughly Dishonorable" For Leaking My Off-The-Record Emails

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Journalist Feuds, Joe Klein, Time, Journolist, Salon, Journolist Feuds, Glenn Greenwald, Media News

On Monday, Salon writer Glenn Greenwald published an off-record email exchange on his personal blog, which has since caused a bit of an uproar in the ...

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Vital Lessons from the Health Reform Wars

Peter Daou | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Paul Krugman, Obama, Rightwing Smear Machine, Glenn Greenwald, Health Care, Politics News
Peter Daou

This has been a terrible summer for Democrats. Here are seven key takeaways from the ongoing health care debacle.

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Mike Huckabee Bashes America On Foreign Soil

The Jerusalem Post | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mike Huckabee, Glenn Greenwald, Politics News

Former Arkansas governor and presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee says the US has taken too harsh a stance against Israel on the issue of settlements. ...

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Jason Linkins

Keith Olbermann Playing Viewers For Fools On O'Reilly Truce

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Media Criticism, Glenn Greenwald, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, Fox News, Keith Olbermann, Bill O'Reilly, MSNBC Fox News, Media News

Olbermann will likely survive this episode. Why shouldn't he? He's obviously been a good company man! But his actions in this matter truly insult all of the viewers that look up to him as a non-coward voice in the media.

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Glenn Greenwald: When MSNBC Lets Wolffe Host, They Give "An Hour Every Night To A Corporate Lobbyist"

salon.com | Posted 09.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Lobbyists, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, Glenn Greenwald, Cable News, Keith Olbermann, Countdown, Corporate Lobbyists, Media News

This week, former Newsweek reporter Richard Wolffe was a guest-host on MSNBC's Countdown while Keith Olbermann is on vacation. When Olbermann is ther...

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Glenn Greenwald: Journalists Celebrating Cronkite Ignore What He Did

Salon | Posted 08.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Walter Conkrite, Walter Conkrite Vietnam, Walter Conkrite Glenn Greenwald, Walter Conkrite Death, Glenn Greenwald, Media News

[...] So, too, with the death of Walter Cronkite. Tellingly, his most celebrated and significant moment -- Greg Mitchell says "this broadcast would h...

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Jason Linkins

Chuck Todd And Glenn Greenwald Debate Torture And The Media

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Chuck Todd, Media Criticism, Torture, Glenn Greenwald, Media News

I've been remiss in not following up on the podcast discussion that Salon's Glenn Greenwald and MSNBC's Chuck Todd gave yesterday, that I previewed on...

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Torture, Wiretaps, Lies to Congress: Old Spy Cronies a Drag on Obama's "Look to the Future"

Frank Naif | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Inspector General, Warrantless Wiretapping, John Brennan, Eric Holder, Dick Cheney, Dni, Special Prosecutor, Stephen Kappes, Cia, Glenn Greenwald, Congressional Oversight, Assassination, Leon Panetta, Accountability, Marcy Wheeler, Leon Panetta CIA, Politics News
Frank Naif

Over the past week, a triple-whammy of developing national security stories reminded Americans and the Obama administration that the past is a stubborn thing.

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Jason Linkins

Chuck Todd And Glenn Greenwald To Debate Torture Investigations (And The Rest Of Your Scritti Politti)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Cap and Trade, Carbon Tax, Torture Investigations, Chuck Todd, Media Criticism, Mark Sanford, Sarah Palin, Glenn Greenwald, Torture, Media News

Salon's Glenn Greenwald called out MSNBC's Chuck Todd at great length Wednesday for a segment Todd participated in on Morning Joe in which, per Green...

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