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The Intercept's treatment of Reality Winner under his editorship, and his refusal to take the blame for it is one good reason - https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/real...

His embrace (and defence) of right wing ideologues like Tucker Carlson is another https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN1bp7jSBY0

His embrace of politicised conspiracy theories is another https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/greenwald-int...

His leaking of Chelsea Mannings private chat logs is another https://www.salon.com/2022/08/08/what-happened-to-glenn-gree...

The guy seems to have moved from a progressive, anti-authoritarian civil rights campaigner, to a populist self promoting zealot.

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Glenn Greenwald was always aligned with the libertarian right, the progressive gloss was one imposed by people reporting on his actions.

He has definitely moved into Right wing circles after the Democratic backlash to Snowden/wikileaks/etc. in the aftermath of the Podesra, etc. leaks.

The reality winner stuff is disingenuous, most of this was messed up by the people who pushed Greenwald out, you can read more about this elsewhere.

Look, the guy is complicated, but he has made valuable contributions. He exposes corruption & public-private collusion. There is clearly a lot of smoke around the Hunter Biden stuff. I don’t agree that it is the biggest deal, but I can see why that level of governmental intervention into the private matters of presidential family might interest civil liberties reporters and that does not make it a “conspiracy” (the WaPo has a 7 year old history of calling inconvenient truths conspiracy at this point).

> Glenn Greenwald was always aligned with the libertarian right, the progressive gloss was one imposed by people reporting on his actions.

This is false. The progressives loved him when he was a fierce opponent to the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is non aligned, non partisan, which of course, the left qualifies as "right wing". His principles didn't change, only that the left became more cultish and extreme.

To me, it appears that Glenn Greenwald is calling out the politicization/weaponization of trans rights by powerful political and corporate interests. This is where he finds a common footing with the fringe right and gives pause to people in the institutional left, which may rely on these interests for funding.

Please. Read through his twitter. ZERO pushback on the mountain of bullshit coming from people like Tucker and Trump, ZERO pushback on pretty much everything Russia is doing. He has vastly different standards for the RNC and DNC. Not a peep about election denial becoming a mainstream conspiracy theory in the GOP - but don't worry, no shortage of Russiagate complaints. I can only assume that he believes that as a counterweight to MSNBC (?) he can just completely ignore these, but in reality it makes him come off as a hack.

Look at this: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1666559102527389699. Tucker is a "US elite" by any reasonable definition (except if you're using it as generic right-wing boogeyman)... in that case why not mention Tucker claims, with no evidence, that Ukraine destroyed the dam?

That's not entirely true. He was always a liberal, until the "more liberal" political party became obsessed with Big Tech censorship, war, and identity politics. As a result, the mainstream media throw him under the bus, because he doesn't fit in conveniently with the party line, kind of like RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard.

I really don't understand this framing of liberals as becoming pro-war. The opposite of pro-war is not nonresistance, in the same way the opposite of pro-murder wouldn't be anti-self-defense. There is no inconsistency in being against the invasion of Iraq and being against the invasion of Ukraine.

Schrödinger Glenn Greenwald is - at the same time - right wing and yet single-handedly helped Lula to get out of prison and to win the election.

I don't think Greenwald is right wing, at all.

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