Category Archives: Glenn Greenwald’s Carnival of Fisking

Dissonance Control in Political Paranoia

(photo: companyink) After writing about the Ronpaulist fear mongering of Jordan Page, and then reading Lance’s splendid post on the latest contheorist pandering of Glenn Greenwald, a common insight has reoccurred to me: the absurd amount of cognitive dissonance conditional … Continue reading

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A Paranoid on Paranoia-Last updated 1:06 CST

After 9/11 itself, the anthrax attacks were probably the most consequential event of the Bush presidency. One could make a persuasive case that they were actually more consequential. You could? The 9/11 attacks were obviously traumatic for the country, but … Continue reading

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Henke on Greenwald

If this blog is about one thing, it’s fisking Glenn Greenwald, and a libertarian examination of the world. Two things, if this blog is about two things, it’s fisking Glenn Greenwald, and a libertarian examination of the world, and a … Continue reading

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It Couldn’t Happen To A Nicer Tyrant

I’m sure you are all well informed on the Spitzer chronicles by now. If not, crawl through the Memeorandum links to inform yourself (get a cup of coffee or other preferred beverage, because it will take awhile). I just wanted … Continue reading

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Lightweight Punditry

The inscrutable and vainglorious Boi from Brazil weighs in to explain why Republicans find Obama’s candidacy “scary”: Conservatives love to claim that Obama supporters have excess reverence for their candidate and see him as some sort of transcendent messiah figure. … Continue reading

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The Glenn Greenwald Carnival of Fisking has some new entries

First, let us all go and see Eric Scheie delve into the sock drawer and how the moth eaten brain now, amongst all the other charges, believes Glenn Reynolds is a racist! The puppy blending, mass murder and nuclear holocaust … Continue reading

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Grinchwald’s Stocking Stuffer

It shouldn’t surprise me the lengths that Greenwald will go to distort what people say in order to lambaste his enemies, but his Christmas offering really takes the figgy pudding. Mike Huckabee’s Christmas ad — like everything Huckabee does — … Continue reading

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A new Submission!

To Glenn Greenwald’s Carnival of Fisking. Courtesy of Dan Collins you can amuse yourself here. Hat tip: Frequent commenter, ChrisB.

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“Constitutional Scholar” Follies

Noted constitutional scholar, conspiracy theorist, sock puppet and all around frustrated guy, Glenn Greenwald, has a melt down over the spinelessness of the Democratic majority. Not to disagree with him, I agree they are spineless, but this little diatribe is … Continue reading

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More Greenwaldean Nonsense

It’s almost too easy. McQ ably tackles Greenwald’s attempt to play dumb as to how Judge Mukasey could be confirmed by the Senate without having to face a Democratic filibuster. Every time Congressional Democrats failed this year to stop the … Continue reading

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The Politics of Bad Faith II

I have been meaning to address the issue of Sullivan and other’s latest attack on Glenn Reynold’s. I intended it to be a follow up to The Politics of Bad Faith, and I may still have more to say on … Continue reading

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News Brief, Happy Belated Power Bottom Appreciation Day Edition

Cross-posted on The Conjecturer Defense & The War Infamous mercenary Tim Spicer, who runs the infamous paramilitary organization Aegis (née Sandline) might take over Blackwater’s contract. This is because all State Department convoys are being placed under DoD command, and … Continue reading

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Footwear Follies — A Continuing Saga

The hits just keep on rollin’. It seems that the Boi from Brazil (you know the one who wrote that outstanding bestseller “How Would A Patriot Act?” — apparently they move to another country) has noticed little ole us in … Continue reading

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Oy – of mice and men

How can anyone read Glenn Greenwald prattling on about how picked on he feels by the VRWC?? And remain so slavishly loyal to him as to defend his own behavior. If his point is the supposed politicization of the military, … Continue reading

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Poor, Poor Pitifull Me

Gleenwald sure is going to a lot of trouble to play the victim… His latest update on the possibility that a member of the US Military is not treating him with all the respect due to a member of the … Continue reading

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The Great Sock Puppet is hunting IP’s- We have been noticed by the Greenwald fan club! Updated 10:30 PM CST 10/29

I was over at Patterico’s this evening and what do I see? I swear I’m not making this up: If you are well-versed in analyzing IP addresses, email headers and the like, please email me (GGreenwald@salon.com). If you don’t get … Continue reading

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Unfounded Belief versus Tin Foil Hats

Glenn Greenwald is shocked, shocked I tell you, that: The NYT/CBS poll yesterday revealed that 40% of Republicans in this country — 40% — still believe that Saddam personally planned the 9/11 attacks. Heh, well unfounded beliefs run all over … Continue reading

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The Crucifixion of Petraeus

McQ beat me to it on the campaign to discredit General Petraeus as an Bush administration hack. This is doubly ironic considering Petraeus’ long standing and cogent criticism of the way the war was being fought. A man so devoted … Continue reading

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A Study in Pettiness

Take up your arms, sons and daughters We will arise from the bunkers By land, by sea, by dirigible We’ll leave our tracks untraceable now – Sons and Daughters, The Decemberists I see that our dear friend Mona is once … Continue reading

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A New Submission to the Greenwald Carnival of Fisking

Instapundit readers welcome! If you haven’t been here in a while look around. New format, additional authors, feeds to other great sites. Tons of stuff. Poke around and drop us a line. ——————————————————————————————————————— From one of the great practitioners of … Continue reading

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New addition to the Greenwald Carnival of Fisking

And it is from me, and this post is it. A while back Cliff May asked a question: I noticed Rangel uses what has become a frequent talking point of the left: that in the last election the voters sent … Continue reading

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Don’t Trust National Journalists???

Hmmm, I think someone needs to look in the mirror, considering that, with a regular gig at a nationwide e-magazine, someone became a “national journalist.” In response to my central point — that a story of this magnitude and potential … Continue reading

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The Cancer Within (UPDATED)

Via Patterico I see that the bad news visited upon Tony Snow is generating an unexceptional response at HuffPo: I hear about Tony Snow and say to myself, well, stand up every day, lie to the American people at the … Continue reading

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New Submissions for our ongoing Glenn Greenwald Carnival

I am adding them to our archives. First From Jeff GoldStein (who has a number of posts that I will need to track down unless he were to generously do the research for me?) we have: Greenwald(s):  “We are not … Continue reading

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Ann Coulter and Little Greenwald’s Footballs: Revised as a Carnival of Fisking -New Submissions 3:45 PM CST, March 4th

Cassandra at Villainous Company (hat tip McQ) has pointed out the ever present hypocrisy and mendaciousness of Glenn Greenwald and hits a point I have made several times in the last few hours, which is that he and Ann Coulter … Continue reading

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