Smearmaster Greenwald's smear campaign against George W. Bush

[Douglas Carpenter]

AS they say - haters are going to hate and smearers are going to smear. Greenwald did not begin his smear career with President Obama - he was doing it way back before Obama came to the White House. It seems that he thinks that just because someone is in powerful position - that they are supposed to be criticized - Imagine that!~!

2008 Bill Moyer interview with Glenn Greenwald about the George W. Bush legacy

http://billmoyers.com/content/glenn-greenwald-on-the-george-w-bush-administration-and-the-rule-of-law/

He also wrote three books about the George W. Bush Administration; The New York Times-bestsellers How Would A Patriot Act? (2006) and Tragic Legacy (2007), and his 2008 release, Great American Hypocrites.

[sabrina 1]

1. I wouldn't worry about the desperate attempts to silence him. Greenwald was and is one of the

liberal blogosphere's most respected journalists.

I am of the opinion that the HB Gary bid for a contract to smear him when he began writing about Bank Corruption, specifically BOA, exposed by Anonymous, was given to someone else.

Did you ever read the emails in which they discussed HOW to smear him? Disgusting garbage, and back then he was not even that well known. It should scare people to death to know that they hire 'Security Contractors' to SMEAR Liberal Bloggers, most especially the ones who have the courage to tell the truth.

I'd love to know who got the contract this time. But there WAS supposed to be an investigation in Congress over that entire episode. So far it hasn't happened.

Smearing journalists only makes people angry. Even people who don't know them or agree with them always, are prompted to defend them because most intelligent people understand the threat to this democracy that the smearing and attempts to silence journalists would be.

The more I see the smears the more I am hoping Anonymous will strike again and reveal which of our Security Contractors are doing it this time.

[grasswire]

2. the interview with Moyers was interesting.

Thanks.

[Demeter]

3. Excuse me, are you trying to drum up sympathy for "W" HERE?

and furthermore, to do it by trying to smear Greenwald?

I could have sworn I was logged into DU, but let me check...

[Douglas Carpenter]

5. EXACTLY - I love George W.Bush and I hate Greenwald

[Electric Monk]

6. I get your sense of humor. I hope a jury does too, if some douchebag alerts on you. nt

[Douglas Carpenter]

7. is it really necessary to always use the

tag? - please don't tell me that there are people here who are more or less in agreement with my position who can possibly be that thick - I would prefer to believe that progressives are a little bit more clever than that. I would prefer to believe that liberals and progressive are a little bit more switched on than the right-wing nuts - but sometimes - when I see some comments here on this forum -l I am forced to reconsider by liberal elitist assumptions

[hobbit709]

16. There are many here who are sarchasm challenged.

[Hissyspit]

10. No.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4429065

[Fumesucker]

4. I think it's time for Greenwald to publish Volume II of Great American Hypocrites n/t

[DeSwiss]

8. K&R

[Rex]

9. Yeah this thread will be ignored by the Usual Suspects.

Much easier for them to think he loved Bush. Helps with their narrative.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

27. Ironically they support a lot of Bush's policies.....

And their continuation by Obama.

[uponit7771]

11. lol... this is .. lol.. While the rats were jumping ship of fuckin course its easy to bash Bush...

... but this wasn't Greenwalds position WHILE everyone was going giddy of Bush in a flight suite!!!

Obama, on the other hand, while it was politically the wrong thing to do was doing the moral right thing in speaking out against Bush's war.

Greenwald?

not so much

FUCK SnowGlen, traitorous...and at the LEAST careless bastards

[Douglas Carpenter]

12. AMEN! it was nobodies business what the government was doing in secret under Bush and it is nobodies

business what the government is doing in secret under Obama!! ANYONE - ANYONE who tries to tell the public is traitorous scum!!

If you criticize the government - the terrorist have already won!

[uponit7771]

14. Cept Snowglen didn't "try" to tell the public just about governments actions.. snowglen defenders

..like to leave that little tidbit out of the story.

This look like a shakedown from the beginning...

Now SnowGlen look even more hypocritical; they think the public should see everything because it should be part of the discussion of whether or not the spy agencies are going to far but a jury of SnowGlens pears shouldn't be able to see if these two bastards broke any laws...

They're full of shit

[Bluenorthwest]

18. A jury of pears? What a sight to see!

The name calling voids any argument you might have. The fact that you misspell 'peers' in a rush to type insulting semi homophobic insults is amusing.

[uponit7771]

21. ..and then they spell cheKk you... a common wingerish deflection

[Fumesucker]

13. Gad! Those liberal ideologues are disgusting

Greenwald should be ashamed of himself for bashing a great leader like Commander Codpiece.

[Doctor_J]

15. you mean he's not a racist????

He really just doesn't like abusive government??? Oh shit! I wonder if the BOG will stop bombing all of the threads with Greenwald in the subject line.

[Bluenorthwest]

19. Along with Francis, Greenwald provides the dog whistles they love!

The anti gay subtext is fat and saucy.

[GoneFishin]

17. K & R

[AverageJoe90]

20. You know what they say about broken clocks, D.C. =) nt

[Agony]

22. K+R eom

[ananda]

23. Um.. the only truth about GWB is smeary.

That's just the way it is.

[Douglas Carpenter]

24. another

[Douglas Carpenter]

25. one

[MannyGoldstein]

26. Greenwald knew. He #%^*ing knew.

He knew we'd have a Democratic president one day, and he'd need to look "impartial" when he attacked that president. So he and Ron Paul wrote those books with the close cooperation of Queen Elizabeth and Vladimir Putin.

Won't Liberals ever learn?