Glenn Greenwald Praises Russia Today Anchor Who Spoke Out Against Invasion Of Ukraine

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105. I'm not a fan of his AT ALL.

But that's not because I think there's something wrong with him.

I'm not a fan of politically active figures. I do not believe it is a good idea to have warm fuzzies or boaky fits over political figures. I just have absolutely no patience left whatsoever with people who judge what is said depending on who said it. I didn't even particularly despise Bush. I mostly felt sorry for him. It was obvious that he was way out of this depth.

I can't be bothered with people who witter on about Greenwald's supposed failings as a person, I couldn't care LESS. What did he SAY is what interests me, is it true, is it false, what does it mean.

Everybody's wittering on about Putin at the moment and his obvious personality flaws, pfffeh. so what. What did he DO? What was the CONSEQUENCE, why does it MATTER, what will he do NEXT, these are proper questions not look how flabby his pecs are. I poke fun along with everyone else, sure... but I place no value in doing so. It's for fun, not for political analysis. "Ooooooh, he's a NARCISSIST!" It has zero value politically. And it's ACCEPTED as having political currency on this site, which as far as I'm concerned is fucking mess.

I don't hold Greenwald to "standards" of any kind. I have no internal ranking system of political figures against which I could rate him honestly. There are people who say true things and people who say false things. Their pole-dancing girlfriends and/or supposed hypocrisy don't interest me.

I listen to what they SAY and watch what they DO. I don't care about high school level popularity contests.