Glenn Greenwald: Democrats Need to ‘Stop Calling Everybody a Putin Stooge’
Journalist Glenn Greenwald appeared on MSNBC today to keep making his argument that more skepticism is needed in the discussion about Russian hacking––a skepticism that he doesn’t think Democrats are responding to that well.
He told Ari Melber that all we have so far on Russian hacking is “circumstantial evidence” from intelligence agencies who have not been hesitant to spread disinformation before.
Greenwald said all the talk of Russia before the election was just a political tactic, because “fear is a really potent weapon.”
As he indicated on Fox News earlier this week, Greenwald isn’t completely dismissing the idea that Russia was involved in hacking, he’s just asking for evidence to back that claim up.
At one point Melber brought up tweets from Howard Dean about Greenwald’s publication The Intercept:
That's been the case for a while. we just didn't see it. https://t.co/msItWPnoL3
— Howard Dean (@GovHowardDean) December 21, 2016
Would be interesting to find out if the intercept gets money from Russia or Iran https://t.co/A6ym7Qkx6y
— Howard Dean (@GovHowardDean) December 21, 2016
Greenwald responded by saying Dean sounds like “the love child of J. Edgar Hoover and Roy Cohn.”
He expressed his astonishment at the tactics Democrats are going to and said, “I’m hoping that Democrats stop calling everybody a Putin stooge.”
And just to make his point clear, he singled out some of the responses he got to the segment:
Hard to overstate how many Democrats now think and speak like this https://t.co/S7ItK7HpWO
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 21, 2016
Are you now or have you ever been…..? #UniteBlue https://t.co/sGuUOtTdaD
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 21, 2016
MSNBC viewers: one after the next. https://t.co/44Dp3idMF1
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 21, 2016
Watch above, via MSNBC.
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