Glenn Greenwald on Gloria Borger

Glenn Greenwald figured out Gloria Borger a long time ago. Borger is the CNN reporter/ hit woman who failed to take out Ron Paul last night, and who is married to the biggest insider in the intestines of Washington DC . Greenwald  tweeted this in May 2009:

Gloria Borger: "when Rove speaks, the political class pays attention- usually with good reason" http://tinyurl.com/m623f4 -explains a lot

Who Hates Ron Paul the Most and Why?

Here's Glenn Greenwald's view:

Ron Paul is hated most by neocons and the extremists who have controlled the GOP for the last decade: because he threatens their dogma.

The Scam of Contrived Neutrality and Objective Expertise

by Glenn Greenwald

The fact-checking site PolitiFact serves a valuable purpose when it actually performs its stated function: to “help you find the truth in American politics” by “fact-check[íng] statements” from political and media figures. But it undermines its own credibility when it purports to resolve subjective disputes of political opinion under the guise of objective expertise. That’s precisely what it did yesterday in this incredibly sloppy and often factually false analysis of Ron Paul’s condemnation of the new AUMF and detention authorities embedded in the pending Levin/McCain bill. What matters here more than PolitiFact‘s obvious, specific errors is the reason they were led to such error: namely, reliance on supposedly neutral, ideology-free “experts” who are anything but that.

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(htBobMurphy)