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In reply to the discussion: In 2012 the US had a $7 million bounty on the guy Greenwald is claiming Obama invented two weeks ago [View all]DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)I don't know if you consider me to be one of those people who hates Obama. Fact of the matter is I do not. I get very angry at the President, and I think he should have done lots of core things differently. But I don't hate him. Make of it what you will.
To me, the larger point is the part about sacrificing one's own moral or ethical code in an attempt to score points and make people believe things they know not to be true. I know there are some on DU who have lied about the President in order to make him look bad. Fuck those people. They're trash. To be perfectly clear, I don't think very many people at DU have done such a thing (aside from the obvious newbie trolls). Anyone else who has is not an honorable person and has no place here.
There is, of course, another side to this coin, and that's the people who lie about Glenn Greenwald (and Snowden too, but he hasn't appeared in this thread). There are lots of us who are solid liberals who really appreciate the work Glenn Greenwald does. He doesn't enjoy the same "protections" on DU that the President does, and so people call him a piece of shit, a libertarian, a liar, and all manner of other things. This is attempted character assassination. This is shameful behavior.
I value the truth above anything else at DU, and those who traffic in untruths, whether about the President or about a good journalist, are beneath contempt. I'd rather listen to my 1%er boss tell the greedy, selfish truth about the world as he sees it than to listen to someone on the left knowingly try to spin untruths.
I believe your post brought up a valid point; thanks for making it.