THE IRONY OF GLENN GREENWALD CRITICIZING OTHERS FOR NOT BEING FAIR AND OPEN-MINDED: I’ll give this much to Glenn Greenwald: he’s smart, and doesn’t desire to play the role of Democratic Party apparatchik. That, and his far-left outlook, makes him a useful source of criticism for those who are apparatchiks. But when, as in Glenn’s link below, he accuses other journalists of not being fair and open-minded? Well, that’s just a lack of self-awareness. Here he is arguing that pro-Israel sentiment in the U.S. is at least as bad for freedom of speech as Islamist terrorists murdering cartoonists. And I discussed here an occasion when he made ridiculous allegations of racism against John McCain. And here are a couple of other occasions in which I called out Greenwald for rather blatant disregard for the truth. Greenwald is all moral outrage, all the time, and attacks anyone who doesn’t share his idiosyncratic priorities, a group that includes mainstream Democrats. Caveat emptor.