Glenn Greenwald tells Megyn Kelly he has been 'formally banned' from MSNBC

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald told Megyn Kelly that he was "formally banned" from MSNBC because of his criticism of the network's coverage of Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election.

"I used to be really good friends with Rachel Maddow," Greenwald told Kelly on the inaugural episode of her new podcast. "Before she got her MSNBC show and was on Air America, I used to go on all the time and we used to bash Democrats from the left as a fraudulent political party."

"She's very, very smart. Same with [MSNBC host Chris Hayes], who's been a longtime friend of mine. I used to go on both of their shows all the time to kind of feed the audience whatever they felt like they wanted them to be fed."

"And then once I became a critic of Russiagate, I basically got banned from the network, because I became a critic of their coverage of it," Greenwald said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/glenn-greenwald-tells-megyn-kelly-he-has-been-formally-banned-from-msnbc/ar-BB19vp2e?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=DELLDHP

Sounds like Glenn's 15 minutes of fame are over.

[smb]

1. Spread BS Propaganda, Get Booted From Reputable News Shows. Whoda Thunk It? nt

[brush]

2. I used to listen to "Air America" during it's brief stint on the air. I don't remember...

Maddow bashing the Democratic party as fraudulent at all.

Greenwald remains full of shit.

[SlogginThroughIt]

15. She didn't.

I listened to her show every day.

You don’t remember it happening because it didn’t

[still_one]

3. You have been banned because you are spreading false information. You "used to be real good friends

with Rachel Maddow?” Who says?

Go to fox where you belong

[lpbk2713]

4. Trying to make some street cred with the mouth breathers.

It's so transparent dropping their names.

[DarthDem]

5. Tots and Pears!

[gratuitous]

6. Maddow IS very, very smart, Glenn

That's how she saw through you. But I feel your pain; who knew that being a self-important blowhard who can't tell the truth would ruin your gig? I guess the producers desperate to fill time have found other, more interesting and truthful people to call?

[Gothmog]

7. Who cares what Greenwald thinks about any issue?

[The Magistrate]

8. Or, In Short, Sir

Once he became a Kremlin asset, witting or otherwise, he lost a good part of his audience.

He does not, and never has, engaged in anything that could be called political commentary. He simply begins with a fixed idea, that all evil and wrong in the world traces to the United States, and therefore whoever is at odds with the United States is on the side of the angels. There was a period, during Bush the Lesser, where this gained him some following among people on the left who mistook his disdain for the United States for principled opposition to its then-current government. Intervening years have made clear what he is really about.

[Thekaspervote]

9. Good!!

[johnnyrocket]

10. Greenwald is a basket case. He's got serious problems.

[Cosmo Blues]

11. I started criticizing him

Because of the shotty way he released Snowdon's stuff. It's one thing to expose wrongdoing, but to put people's lives in danger, and releases that were just meant to embarrass instead of enlighten, is just poor reporting. Democrats have had to compromise and couldn't be as Progressive as they wanted to be because they've only held the whole of government, White House, Senate, and House 4 years out of the last 40

[hunter]

12. Nobody vs. Nobody.

Television news and opinion is worthless.

[pnwmom]

13. " we used to bash Democrats from the left as a fraudulent political party." And here on DU,

a bunch of people were pushing that crap.

I didn't see it from Maddow but saw plenty from libertarian Greenwald. (And libertarians are not to the left of Democrats. Ayn Rand was a founder of libertarianism, and she was anything but progressive.)

[mcar]

14. I'm cool with that