glenn greenwald

Been reading this massive New Yorker article about Glenn Greenwald, so I just want to note some stuff down. I definitely agree with what he has to say about the Trump-Russia thing, because a lot of this hysteria over Russian interference stinks of people trying to absolve the US of responsibility... like at the end of the day an overwhelming amount of Americans voted Trump, especially college-educated middle-class white people. It's like this outcry over the ICE separation of families that calls it "un-American", when based on history that's actually the most American thing there is. But both Gabriel (to whom I sent the article) and I agree that Greenwald has some pretty serious anger control issues, easily revealed in the way he talks about small family conflicts ("I wanted to drown them in the pool"). Although he's extremely intelligent and strikingly observant, he often gets angry and goes on a reckless rant that hyperbolises and generalises, which is directly broadcast to his audiences without even going through an editor, and which he is too proud to retract or modify once he has calmed down. This not only makes him come off as aggressive, confrontational, and irrational, thus discrediting the actually interesting and thought-provoking things he has to say, but also leads to misunderstanding of facts.