What *did* Greenwald mean by ‘people like Chuck Schumer?’

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  March 12th at 05:59 PM  | 

Which is what I’d mean by that; but Greenwald’s a member of the Online Left, so that sort of thing wouldn’t bug him when it comes to a reliable Democrat. None the less, Dan Riehl noted that Greenwald isn’t happy about the sudden cratering of Chas Freeman’s career: Isn’t it rather obvious that at some point, there will be a substantial and understandable backlash as | Read More »

Greenwald, Sullivan’s faux-outrage over rendition.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 9th at 10:45 PM  | 

The quote is from Spider Robinson’s short story “Unnatural Causes” (found in his first Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon story collection, known as, well, Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon), and we’ll be revisiting it in a moment. But first: pro-torture pro-Obama bloggers Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Sullivan have decided that they are very unhappy about Obama’s decision to maintain the Bush administration’s policy of “asserting a broad “state secrets” | Read More »