Gleen Greenwalds to MSNBC Host: Sure, We Defend Edward Snowden Reflexively, Just Like MSNBC Promotes, Defends, and Glorifies Obama and the Democratic Party "Close to 24 Hours a Day"

He does have a point.

Asked if his vigorous defense of Snowden suggests he's "crossed a line" from journalist to advocate, he responded:

“Every journalist has an agenda. We’re on MSNBC now, where close to 24 hours a day the agenda of President Obama and the Democratic Party are promoted, defended, glorified, the agenda of the Republican Party is undermined. That doesn’t mean the people who appear on MSNBC aren’t journalists, they are.”

He said that every journalist has a “viewpoint” and he doesn’t hide the fact that he finds Snowden’s decision to expose the NSA’s surveillance programs “heroic.”

I think the point is not so much about MSNBC and what happens here,” Welker said in defense of her employer, “but more that sometimes when you talk about Edward Snowden you do defend him, and some people wonder if that crosses a line.”

“Sure, I do defend him just like people on MSNBC defend President Obama and his officials and Democratic Party leaders 24 hours a day.” When Welker pushed back that “not everyone on MSNBC does that 24 hours a day,” Greenwald conceded that it’s “not everybody, but a lot of people do.”

Video at the link.

Joy Reid, an Obama-loving MSNBC HappyParrot (TM), immediately got all butthurt that the Greenwalds Clan had offered an accurate observation about her network. And soon after, she got snippy that Mediaite had merely reported her previous snippiness.

Andrew Kirell quotes a previous criticism of MSNBC by the Greenwalds Combine...

One finds more vibrant political debate in the average conference room of the DNC than one does on Bashir’s show. It’s a staple of cable news that regular access to the show depends on one’s eagerness to agree with the host as much as possible, but Bashir lowers this dynamic to never-before-seen depths, where one is obligated not only to flatter all his views but he himself. Almost every segment is like watching parrots in a pet shop compete over who can more faithfully mimic the other. It’s really quite creepy.

At the bottom of that post, Kirell demonstrates the "creepy" tendency of MSNBC guests to parrot whatever it is their host just claimed in a video supercut called "That's Absolutely Right, Martin [Bashir]." Among the parrots caught happily re-chirping Bashir's nonsense is MSNBC guest Joy Reid.

Meanwhile, another MSNBC idiot claimed that Christians' love for Jesus was "homoerotic." He then said he himself wasn't suggesting that, after he himself just suggested it.

And, Open Thread, unless there's some big news coming up. I'm half-daying it. It's kind of a gyp when Christmas falls on a Wednesday.

posted by Ace at 06:02 PM

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