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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Profile by Ian Parker @ NewYorker.com for Sept. 3 print issue, online now
A leftist journalist’s bruising crusade against establishment Democrats—and their Russia obsession.
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Matthew Yglesias put an excerpt on Twitter which concerns Greenwald's & Yglesias' use of Twitter:
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/28/2018 - 4:28am
Here's my choice of excerpts:
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/28/2018 - 4:31am
The take home message on Greenwald’s skepticism about Russian intervention in the 2016 election (in a discussion with the author)
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 08/28/2018 - 8:25am
Socialism for Dummies - like real, bizarroland dummies. Was going to post it on its own, but seems to fit in here, including George Will's takedown of Libertarians (an on-again/off-again Greenwald romance), and a number of other vaunted niches of strange thought.
Greenwald's biggest problem is simply he thinks he's smarter than everyone else, and he's only marginally superior. The other contrivances - Russian/et al is more complex.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 08/28/2018 - 8:25am
No need to read if call it "an obsession" - fuck them, get real, it happened and it's happening - huge impactful historical news, not hallucination nor fanaticism.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 08/28/2018 - 1:03pm
After having some hours to let thoughts sink in overall what I am most amazed about is that he has such a large loyal and fervent fan base that fights on social media for his honor, even though the persona is screechy, obnoxious, preachy, humorless, loud-and-proud gay. Brand Outrage in Dear Leader form sells, looking back now it seems all along he is a precursor warning sign of Trumpism. So many try so hard to dissect Trump fans, sturm and drang about white working class whatever. It could be just something more like at the start of the blogosphere age, a lot of people start looking for a dear leader to put everything in an ideological package for them so they know where to focus their "mad as hell not going to take it anymore" outrage? Even if it is idiosyncratic and not a rational ideology. And they become loyal followers. No coincidence that Greenwald felt after a while that the Wikileaks paradigm was not a good fit because it didn't "curate"? He is an authoritarian libertarian!
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/28/2018 - 3:50pm
p.s. one of the most interesting trivia bits in the article is that he basically proudly lays claim to the invention of the "deep state" meme.
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/28/2018 - 3:51pm