New letters have arrived: See Updates
About two and half hours ago, I published this blog post about Dr. David M. House and my choice for anonymity.
At 10:47 (on May 29th), this email arrived, demonstrating nicely exactly why I
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See Updates at bottom There I was, out enjoying some well deserved sunshine on a lovely South Florida Memorial Day weekend, when, against my better judgment, I happened to peek at my Twitter timeline appearing on my ever-present Android mobile phone. Prominently littering my stream were many tweets from one David M. House (aka @axiarch), I get asked a lot why I persist in relentlessly calling on serious journalists to investigate the outrageous hyperbole and egregiously distorted facts about accused Wikileaks source, Bradley Manning. Well, perhaps we now have a good example of why it mattered so much to me. It seems that a famous story about Gitmo torture deaths As some know, I have strenuous disagreements with Glenn Greenwald. But they are usually less on the issues than on tactics. While I think his criticism of executive overreach are consistent, they are also overblown and nearly hysterical at times. And his tendency to viciously attack and berate his critics in attempts to intimidate them Finally… A real journalist steps up to knit together the many questions about the Manning story that you probably won't be reading at Firedoglake and Salon.com. But now, thanks to this post, we may finally see some from the rest of the stenographic media. Emphasis on "may." I'm pleased that some of the work that my friends Meet Mike Gogulski The video below was made by him. And who is he? Why, he's a close associate of one @DavidMHouse, the "friend of friends" of Bradley Manning, who provided the sole "eyewitness" account of Bradley Manning's "deteriorating" condition, using words he was quite obviously coached to use by someone, perhaps Dr. About this post What follows was extracted from an 8700 word essay that I wrote yesterday, entitled: On Jane Hamsher And Our Fact-Free Media: It’s Not Just For Fox News Anymore. That too-lengthy screed tried to explain a number of ethical fails that explain Jane Hamsher's Twitter attacks on me, after I had criticized About this post What follows was extracted from an 8700 word essay that I wrote yesterday, entitled: On Jane Hamsher And Our Fact-Free Media: It’s Not Just For Fox News Anymore. That too-lengthy screed tried to explain a number of ethical fails that explain Jane Hamsher's Twitter attacks on me, after I had criticized As you may have heard… I wrote a blog post last week… and Jane Hamsher, founder and lead blogger at Firedoglake.com (FDL), and often considered to be a leading progressive voice got rather upset with me. It was a level of anger that led her to make a rather ugly spectacle of herself, and one Yesterday, I became another in a distinguished line of critics openly Twitter-flamed by the illustrious Salon.com blogger, Glenn Greenwald. He took time out from the glorious weather in his home town of Rio de janeiro to hector me publicly for posting this tweet on Twitter. It was addressed to one of my Twitter followers, |
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