What is not par for the course is a prominent blogger not only condoning a disparaging comment about the president and rape, but reiterating that it is a valid point to make.
Healthy debate on substance is always important. “All had to do was apologize,” said Gandy.ĭisagreements with the administration for drone attacks that kill innocent civilians, the detainment of terror suspects, and the prison at Guantanamo Bay remaining open are par for the course. For the first black president to be disparaged in this way is wholly unacceptable. And there are certainly racial overtones to the comment, considering the historic narrative of black men being sexually aggressive and even accused rapists in the Jim Crow south.
“Leveraging rape in that manner is unconscionable,” Gandy told theGrio. When twitter exploded in attacks on Greenwald for making a “rape joke,” instead of apologizing for the comment, Greenwald doubled down, tweeting that the reference to rape was not a metaphor and in fact Obama supporters would defend the president in the face of “ANY evil: assassinations, child-killings: EVEN rape violent crime like rape.” In a particularly heated exchange on Twitter Saturday night, a blogger named “DrDawg” tweeted about Gandy: “Obama could rape a nun live on NBC and you’d say we weren’t seeing what we were seeing.” In response, Greenwald chimed in, “No – she’d say it was justified noble – that he only did it to teach us about the evils of rape.” drone attacks in Pakistan) has been ongoing and frequently gets lively between Greenwald and his supporters, and pro-Obama bloggers like Imani Gandy, of and Balloon Juice (Gandy also contributes to theGrio.) Greenwald has been one of the loudest and harshest critics of the Obama administration, and while not actually a liberal or an Obama supporter, he is frequently identified as a blogger who is “disappointed with President Obama” over what he sees as serious violations of civil liberties. There is the added possibility that the potentially unconstitutional provisions related to detention will be challenged in court where they could even be struck down by Chief Justice John Roberts and company. The potential encroachment on civil liberties justifiably wrangled many, and President Obama even signaled his discontent with the provisions in a signing statement attached to the legislation, insisting that the detention provisions would not apply to Americans. In the current NDAA, there is an objectionable provision which allows for the indefinite detention of terrorism suspects, which civil liberties advocates fear could apply to American citizens. soldiers’ salaries, funds equipment for troops overseas, buys ammunition, and also pays our military contractors abroad. The annual NDAA is the essential piece of legislation that pays U.S. Unfortunately, that was the approach taken by blogger Glenn Greenwald over the weekend, while expressing his outrage over President Obama signing the National Defense Authorization Act. Saying those supporters would condone the president “raping a nun on live TV” not being among them. Greenwald eloquently puts an appropriate context to the battle.There are certainly ways to disagree with Obama administration policies without ad hominem attacks on Barack Obama the man or those who chose to support him. The upside benefits to on-line freedom, debate, discussion and the first real effort to stop internet censorship are well worth supporting.
Elon Musk’s phase of pushing back against speech and internet control is more recent, and as a result has left many people wondering about it.Īs Greenwald notes, there really isn’t a downside for people who are trying to break the totalitarian and monopoly control systems on the internet. There are many people still uncertain about how this will all roll out, and Musk has been favorable to Big Govt in his two most famous endeavors, Tesla and SpaceX. Greenwald does a good job encapsulating the essential support most feel for the Musk effort. In this segment Greenwald gives his perspective on the motives of Elon Musk purchasing Twitter.
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Solid Take from Glenn Greenwald on Elon Musk Motives and Purchase of Twitter.įox News’ Tucker Carlson previewed a discussion with Glenn Greenwald that will appear in full tomorrow on Fox Nation.
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