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> Greenwald sometimes lets his politics get the better of him Sometimes? That's his whole raison d'etre. He's a political campaigner in all but name. One ma
by tome 10y ago
> Greenwald sometimes lets his politics get the better of him
Sometimes? That's his whole raison d'etre. He's a political campaigner in all but name. One may or may not like his politics, but let's not pretend that he's a dispassionate observer.
- webwanderings 10y agoThere's nothing wrong with that. I'll let Will McAvoy of Newsroom (Aaron Sorkin) answer that for you. Take a look at one of the first season's episodes.
- tome 10y agoI didn't say there was anything wrong with it. I'm just expressing surprise that someone seemed to think that Greenwald wasn't always extremely political.
- icebraining 10y ago"Let's not pretend" implies it's a purposeful deceit, not a mistake.
- tome 10y agoWhy does it need to be deceit? People can be a bit short sighted when it comes to proponents of their own particular ideology. I neither suggested that conistonwater was lying, nor that there's anything wrong with Greenwald being an activist, just that we should openly acknowledge the latter.
- icebraining 10y agoI'm just saying what your wording implies. "Pretend" means they are trying to "make it appear that something is the case when in fact it is not."
- timv 10y agoWhen my kids pretend to do things, they are under no illusions that anyone believes it to be true. When we say that people pretend something is true, we're usually implying that they're choosing to believe in their own myth, not that they're trying to deceive others.