Glenn Greenwald

From the best immature mudslinger in the business:

I don't read biased uninformed drivel so I'm a little late to the game.

But a friend who understands how my business works and knows a little something about my 20 plus years in it sent me the link to your ramblings.

Well John according to recent polls more people get their news from the internet than they do your station. That means your are insignificant to a majority of the people. Nice to see you take it so well though.

Read the entire thing at Glenn's blog.

Glenn Greenwald has all the disguising details. I think most important is this part:

Let's just describe very factually and dispassionately what has happened here. Congress -- led by Senators, such as Jay Rockefeller, who have received huge payments from the telecom industry, and by privatized intelligence pioneer Mike McConnell, former Chairman of the secretive intelligence industry association that has been demanding telecom amnesty -- is going to intervene directly in the pending lawsuits against AT&T and other telecoms and declare them the winners on the ground that they did nothing wrong. Because of their vast ties to the telecoms, neither Rockefeller nor McConnell could ever appropriately serve as an actual judge in those lawsuits.

The telecom companies have been losing their court battles over this, so the Senate is willing to hamper our judicial system by intervening. Is Rockefeller going forward with this to protect his checkbook? If that is the case then his ass needs rode out of Senate faster than Duke Cunningham and Tom Delay.

If this country wants any hope of surviving then it is time for our elected leaders to listen to the people and not the corporations. It is sad to watch these Republicans and Democrats destroy what was once the greatest country this planet has seen.

Glenn Greenwald has torn apart the smear attack against our troops, which was launched by FOX news analyst David Hunt. The entire thing deserves a good reading, because this is a far more brazen attack than any Move On ad. Hunt is targeting the generals, and as the resolutions passed by the House and Senate tell us - if you attack the general you also attack the troops.

So will we have yet another resolution denouncing Hunt and FOX news for this attack? As we hear more about these attacks, it shows Barbara Boxer's resolution denouncing "any attack" was the more appropriate approach for the Senate.

There is a catch-22 on these resolutions though. Every member of House and Senate must vote exactly the same on the new resolution condemning Rush, as well as one condemning FOX (if there is one). That includes Obama not voting. Democrats who voted against the MoveOn ad must vote against any other resolutions of this nature. If they fail to then it shows a definitive sense of hypocrisy.

Personally I feel that the Senate should never have voted on the MoveOn resolution. They are sworn to help uphold the Constitution, and this was an attempt to silence the freedom of speech that makes our country great. Times have changed over the past couple of weeks though and some politicians greedy for political cover decided to open Pandora's box. The Move On resolution set a precedent and now it must be followed.

The more our Congress follows these idiotic decisions, the closer we get to needing another constitutional convention. If you are for the war or not, you should be ashamed of the fact our Congress spends time debating what we say instead of debating what can change our country for the better.