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[Cali_Democrat]

1. I agree. Just come home Snowden and put an end to this.

Being an international fugitive is never a good thing.

[Egalitarian Thug]

2. Look! Your shoelace is untied!

[randome]

3. Is it that anyone who disagrees with you is a corporate shill?

It's interesting how Snowden/Greenwald have gathered supporters/detractors from such diverse corners.

Ellsberg likes Snowden. Bernstein does not. Carl Hayes likes him. Melissa-Harris Perry does not.

The subject is complicated if one bases one's opinion on already designated heroes. Some heroes get thrown under the bus, some gain in stature.

It's a mix all around.
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[randome]

10. Wasn't saying that. I was taking issue with your characterization of MHP as "MicroSoftNBC's".

You implied that she was a corporate shill, which I think is unfair. My assumption was that your implication is because she disagrees with you on some level.

Correct me if I'm wrong.
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[randome]

15. Didn't Microsoft recently divest themselves of MSNBC?

Actually, that occurred in 2005. They recently divested themselves of MSNBC.com, the web outlet.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/companies/story/2012-07-16/MSNBC-and-microsoft-part-ways/56246728/1

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[dogknob]

14. The leash is so short you can see it in the shot. n/t

I know people hate being reminded that duh TeeVee told 'em how to think, but...

[DevonRex]

25. That's the nicest thing I've seen said about people who don't

like what Snowden has done - even after Greenwald revealed he had stolen information that could inflict "grave harm" to the United States. And after Dear Spiegel revealed he had given them information that could endanger the lives of NSA workers.

[SugarShack]

5. So her job mean more even if she has to spew the propaganda!

Learn to live on air....mostly. Then you can make better decisions.

[dsc]

6. Manning was a celebrity

and look at what happened to him.

[The Link]

7. She is horrible.

I miss Ed, Cenk and Keith.

[LittleBlue]

8. She is one of the worst talking heads on TV

Spouting brainless nonsense when I used to watch MSNBC. She is one of the reasons I quit watching cable news, and if ratings are anything to go by, I'm not the only one.

She always struck me as someone desperate to be seen as an intellectual.

[The Link]

11. desperate to be seen as an intellectual

Perfect description.

[AtomicKitten]

16. She's a professor of political science at Tulane University.

Prior to that, she was an associate professor of politics and African-American studies at Princeton University from 2006 to 2010 and taught political science at the University of Chicago from 1999 to 2005.

Y'all may disagree with her, but attempts to demean her intelligence are really unseemly.

[randome]

17. Agree. I don't particularly like her style but she is one smart woman.

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[AtomicKitten]

18. she is one smart cookie as is Rachel

[KurtNYC]

9. Perhaps she doesn't read the news. n/t

[Cleita]

12. I like Melissa, but if she believes this, she's living in

cuckoo land. Like Harry Reid keeps making deals with Mitch McConnell, hoping this time he'll keep his word, this is hoping that this time they will change their practices because they are being watched. Once the public starts focusing on the next shiny object and away from Snowden, the kid gloves will come off. Then it will be move over Bradley Manning, you are about to meet the enhanced interrogators.

[marions ghost]

22. Agree, Melissa's good on a lot of things

but on this point, she's naive.

[reusrename]

23. Cuckoo land is right.

And he would certainly be gagged.

[shawn703]

19. Snowden said he's torture-proof anyway

So what's he afraid of?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3275112

[Douglas Carpenter]

20. again someone coming from the "My President right or wrong" frame. If Bush or any Republican were

President Melissa Harris-Perry would be singing the praises of the great heroic man of conscience - Edward Snowden.

[Waiting For Everyman]

21. I'm sure the system will be as fair to Snowden as it was to Trayvon.

Is that reassuring?

That's like saying black teenage boys don't have to worry if they're out alone in Florida, we are satisfied that they "won't be mistreated". As to celebrity being a guarantee, did the high profile of the Florida case ensure that all was fair and right?

Get it now, Melissa?

[avebury]

24. Does she think that he is crazy?

He has every reason to believe that he would be mistreated if he returned to the US.

[itsrobert]

26. Microsoft is no longer involved with MSNBC

they have left the partnership

In case you didn't know.