I'm getting really sick of the whole "Comrade Eddie" BS from some

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363. The reason I love when people drag this Cato Talking point up is that I KNOW the facts about it. And

the facts only make Greenwald LOOK BETTER. Lol, omg I love this.

It is clear that you HAVE NO CLUE what he DID re the CATO Institute. Because if you did you would NEVER MENTION IT.

This is how we recognize TALKING POINTS. Those using them generally just repeat them without having a clue what they are doing.

I think it's time to write an OP about Greenwald and the Cato Institute again.

I was thrilled with what Greenwald did at the CATO Institute. ALL DEMS should do what he did to that organization.

All real Dems applauded his willingness to take them on when so many are AFRAID OF THEM.

Really you shouldn't have brought this up, it isn't what you think it is. Which is why I am having so much fun watching you dig deeper assuming that you are discrediting him, when in fact you have no clue what he did there.

Re Kos, I despise the man, always have.

I see you agree. Then please explain why he is such a member in good standing of the DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Why do elected Dems post on his blog rather than HERE eg?

You are RIGHT about him, he is a 'former', so he claims, Republican, a homophobe, a Libertarian who welcomed Paul to his blog while he was banning DEMOCRATS.

So why then he is a Democratic insider??

See, you make my point. You are RIGHT about Kos. Tell it to the leadership of the Dem Party. Many of us have tried. They chose HIM to speak for online Dems despite his 'resume' while refusing to allow REAL DEMS to take that position.

Thanks, I love it when the truth comes out, no matter how or why.

List of some of the Dems/Liberals who have written for or spoken at the Cato Institute?

'Liberal Blogger, Dem Party insider: Kos

Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden (speaking about surveillance issues at CATO in January, 2011, speaking again at CATO in July, 2012 about FISA, and favorably citing CATO);

Democratic Rep. Jared Polis (defending CATO as "a leader in fighting to end the war in Afghanistan and Iraq and helping to end the War on Drugs&quot .

the ACLU's Legislative Counsel Michelle Richardson (speaking at the CATO Institute's 2011 event on FISA);
Brown University Professor Glenn Loury (writing for CATO's Unbound);

liberal blogger and Clinton Treasury official Brad DeLong (writing for CATO's Unbound);
Harvard law Professor Lawrence Lessig (writing for CATO's Unbound);

liberal blogger and GWU Professor Henry Farrell (writing for CATO's Unbound); and
Wall Street critic and securities professor William Black (writing for CATO's Unbound).

Now what did Greenwald write about/discuss for Cato?

In 2009 he wrote a report on the success of drug decriminalization in Portugal. Why? He, like most Liberal Dems, opposes the draconian, Reagan Drug War.

in 2010 he had an online debate in which he argued against former Bush officials about the evils of the surveillance state.

Wow, he opposed the Bush criminals and used a Cato platform to do so.

As I said, the 'Cato Talking Point'. Find something, ANYTHING, you can attach the target to that might discredit him/her no matter how disingenuous. Don't go into details, just hurl a few words and hope no one looks beyond that. THAT is how talking points are made.

KUDOS to Greenwald for his work against the Bush gang at CATO and elsewhere.

And THANK YOU for reminding us of committed he has been to oppose BUSH policies, anywhere he can.

I would put that talking away in the old moldy bag of failed talking points it has been relegated to. It only makes Greenwald look GOOD, and I doubt that was your intention.