Snowden is a snot nosed idiot traitor & Greenwald is smug, friendless know-it-all.

[mhatrw]

Edward Snowden has no honor. He's a naive high school dropout who likes strippers. He's an idiot, and he had no foresight about his idiotic actions. Plus, he's a Commie traitor who planned this all along! The tenth circle of Abu Ghraib would be too good for him! I say we burn him alive on a pile of flash drives to show all other would-be whistle blowers what is in store for them if they try to inform us about what our government is up to.

Glenn Greenwald is even more despicable! Who the hell does he think he is, trying to inform the public of governmental overreach? He has a clear agenda of exposing government malfeasance. He's no journalist; he's a damn advocate for the people! The sound of a few drones above him would wipe that smug, knowing smile right off his smarmy little face!

Michael Hastings was another little douchebag who just couldn't stop sticking his nose where it didn't belong, namely in one place after another far outside the asses of those in power. Thank God he already got what he deserved for speaking truth to power.

Don't ask me what I think of any of the government abuses that any of these guys highlighted. I'm far too furious about their heinous personalities and behavior to have any opinions on that tainted load of old news that nobody really cares about anyway.

[Marrah_G]

1. pretty sure this is satire

sadly, these days it is nearly impossible to know.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. I hope it is satire

[kentuck]

4. Me too.

Otherwise....

[Aerows]

9. I either hate my enemies

or satirize them LOL. Not sure which block this one is hanging around.

[Aerows]

65. Attempts at intimidation

should be expected and thwarted the second they arise. View down thread.

[Skittles]

6. CORRECT

I've seen so much over-the-top idiocy on DU lately I'm convinced it HAS to be trolls

[Aerows]

12. I deserve

an ass-kicking, because I can't tell the difference.

[Skittles]

16. I believe the OP is disgusted with DU's resident non-critical thinkers

yes INDEED

[Aerows]

17. My ass

is too toned for an ass-kicking at present. Can we postpone said ass-kicking?

[Skittles]

94. I WILL KICK TONED AEROWS ASS ON MY SCHEDULE

YES INDEED

[MichiganVote]

27. Wait-we have critical thinkers on DU? Who the hell invited them?

[Aerows]

30. Gate-Crashers

all of them.

[MichiganVote]

33. Its getting so you can't smoke bad cigarettes, drink bowel loosening wine and

randomly philosophize anywhere anymore. Where's a run down, paint peeling city back porch when you need one.

[Aerows]

38. I said Snowden's Mother was a hamster

and his father smelled of elderberries, and no one cared.

[MichiganVote]

47. That's some sorry assed shit.

[Aerows]

48. That was some famous satire.

Monty Python, do you know it?

[MichiganVote]

51. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAy4zULKFDU

One of my fav's. But I like this one best:

[Aerows]

55. Why am I unsurprised

that this will be your choice of Monty Python after you got schooled?

[Aerows]

57. I am trying to be polite

but you haven't got the faintest idea of the whirlpool you are swirling in, do you sir? Or missus? Either way ... I'll restrain my laughter.

[MichiganVote]

58. :) Not a clue.

[Aerows]

60. Clearly :). n/t

[MichiganVote]

66. But then again...

These could be the ancestors of DU...........

[Aerows]

69. You had to resort to youtube for a comeback?

That's just sad.

It's unpleasant to realize that you aren't the brightest star in the sky, as I'm sure you've suddenly realized.

[MichiganVote]

71. Are we fighting? sniff. I'm merely entertained by the thread.

Besides I like utube.

[Aerows]

76. Perhaps you should

refer to the other "tubes.

[silvershadow]

56. +1

[Bluenorthwest]

40. It is hard to tell the difference and has been for a long time

Here's a Golden Oldie from the 'Greenwald is Gay' files...

"I have found out that Greenwald is Gay, and I know from a lot of posts here at DU that many of the LGBT community here at DU are disenchanted with Obama. I find that interesting, because all of the LGBT community outside of DU strongly - and I mean STRONGLY - support him! I have many friends and co-workers who are LGB....."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/100297376

[Aerows]

42. You just don't know

and there is no polite was to say it anymore.

[Aerows]

49. And I wasn't disagreeing with you

it's amazing how the campaign goes on and on to discredit.

[MNBrewer]

73. I read a synopsis of various conspiracy-theory-based smears of Snowden

that suggested that he doesn't actually like pole-dancing strippers... he IS a pole-dancing stripper. His "girlfriend" is really him, in drag. I mean he DID pose for a photographer once, SHIRTLESS and everything!

[Hissyspit]

7. It is.

[Aerows]

22. You really don't know

anymore .

[longship]

3. Yup. Good luck with your post, here.

Not taking sides, but it ought to prove entertaining.

[Aerows]

11. Clearly

his neighbors don't like him.

[truebluegreen]

34. Whoooosch.

[MichiganVote]

5. What does 'liking strippers' have to do with hijacking top secret information

from a private company that has been hired by the NSA to keep said information secret? And then traveling to several countries to what, see a strip show???

[Aerows]

10. Do you like strippers

and keep a lot of boxes in your garage?

[MichiganVote]

13. Not only that but I have 3 laptops at my house, a few cell phones and

I know where my kid's private journal is. But I did graduate from HS/Grad school so they probably won't hire me. The NSA that is.

[Aerows]

14. You over-educated person

you.

I bet you even pet the neighbor's dog, too!

[MichiganVote]

23. Actually although I like dogs I loathe my neighbors dogs.

They're bad tempered, bark at nothing all the time, shit in my yard and expect me to clean up after them. I just turn the garden hose on em' when they come into my yard.

They have a lot in common with Congress. Too bad we can't spray them down too.

[Aerows]

25. Congress

I like your metaphors.

[90-percent]

15. Stripper?

I thought she was a pole dancer? There's a big difference. Pole dancing is bigger than Little League Baseball these days. Kind of like the Tupperware parties of the 21st Century.

We have a simile, we now need a SATIRE simile.

As far as treason goes, I think America should begin with all elected officials that broke their oath to uphold, defend and protect the constitution. Yet another GWB policy Obama has embraced; the Constitution as "nothing but a goddamned piece of paper."

-90% Jimmy

[MichiganVote]

29. Not to denigrate said pole, but isn't pole dancing sorta like stripper light?

[cherokeeprogressive]

18. Psssst. It's Edward.

[ucrdem]

20. .

[mhatrw]

21. Thanks! Now fixed.

I was so fricken angry at these traitorous clowns that I couldn't think or type straight.

[Aerows]

35. Traitorous Clowns

Oh my.

[ucrdem]

19. "speaking truth to power."

Satire fail.

[Aerows]

24. You should know about

FAIL.

[treestar]

26. You may have to deal with the fact it may be self serving

Turns out it may not have been to inform us that we are all being spied on. (We aren't, but that's the doom and gloom scenario assumed). It may have been for personal advantage. Why should anyone who inserts themselves into the limelight like this get a pass?

[Aerows]

28. In the word's of Joe Biden

Here we go again.

[treestar]

87. How dare I argue?

This is a message board. I'm allowed to put my opinion up too.

[grasswire]

31. so a young man living in Paradise, making 6 figures, beautiful GF...

...thinks he will increase his happiness/satisfaction by becoming the subject of a world-wide dragnet with the possibility of spending his life in solitary confinement and/or torture and degradation, or worse?

What the hell are you smoking? It must be "inside-out" day in your world.

[GoneFishin]

72. Selfish spotlight whore.

[Aerows]

80. I think 90% of this board

would love to be that young man with a hot woman making bank. They are free to say they wouldn't, but I'm not going to believe that everyone here wouldn't like to be 29 with a hot woman and a fat bank account. I dare you to say you wouldn't like that. It will just expose you as a person that has no ability to enjoy anything in life LOL.

[GoneFishin]

82. I totally agree. I was doing parody of people who could believe for a second that he

did this to enrich himself in any way. It is disingenuous for anyone to assert that. Yet they do.

[treestar]

86. Maybe. Not everyone is entirely rational

Maybe that was boring. This is more exciting. Nobody had heard of him before. He saw the fame Julian got and thought that was cool is a big possibility.

[Mojorabbit]

107. It feels like you are really reaching this time

It will play out as it will. It is still early.
Peace, Mojo

[truebluegreen]

37. Still obsessing about personalities I see...

[treestar]

90. What about the ones calling him a hero?

Admiring his derring do? LOL, he put himself out there and his fans have the nerve to complain we're looking at him? He wants us to pay attention to him.

[truebluegreen]

92. They are obsessing about personalities as well,

as are those excusing all of Obama's behavior. It is not about them, any of them.

Happy now?

[treestar]

95. Obama has done zero wrong

It is Eddie who broke the law.

[truebluegreen]

102. Uh-huh....kthxbye

[treestar]

104. We've gotten to where you break with reality nt

[mhatrw]

41. Agreed. The REAL story is Snowden's MOTIVATIONS!

His REVELATIONS are meaningless doom & gloom fabrications that aren't really happening. Not only that, but these non-existent programs that are clearly traitorous to expose are in fact great ideas that we should really start working on at some point, if only to protect us from terrorists like Snowden, Greenwald and Hastings who might otherwise get away with spying on the NSA's non-existent secrets!

[treestar]

88. Not everyone agrees they are the doom of society

What happened to him being a hero? But I digress. It appears he's made himself more interesting than the Big Issue. Just look at the media.

[mhatrw]

93. It is the corporate media that has made SNOWDEN & GREENWALD the issue.

Those are clearly their marching orders, as well as the marching orders of some posting here.

[treestar]

96. They are pandering to the masses

Who naturally will find Eddie's disappearance more interesting than abstract questions of the constitutionality of FISA warrants for metadata.

[mhatrw]

97. the masses or their MASTERS, who want the focus on anything BUT

Smowden's revelations?

[treestar]

103. I don't think the media does much but go with what sells

This is why American Idol will get higher ratings than a documentary about the NSA for example.

[mhatrw]

106. luckily terror, war, true crime and personalities sell

while exposure of jaw dropping corporate & governmental overreach and corruption does not.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

50. Should presidents who insert themselves into the limelight get a pass?

Or, the NSA and CIA, who hide from the light?

[treestar]

89. What President has ever gotten a pass?

They get blamed for everything.

[idwiyo]

32. K&R Well done!

[Turbineguy]

36. I sure am glad I voted for Snowden!

Aren't you all too?

[truebluegreen]

39. Why, yes. Yes I am.

[Turbineguy]

52. If we get really lucky

the Taliban will send some 14-year-old to our houses to blow himself and us to smithereens because of some stupid mistake somebody in the NSA made!

[truebluegreen]

67. How do you live with the fear? nt

[pscot]

75. There's a better chance of a police swat team

kicking down your door because they got you mixed up with the little of lady growing medicinal marijuana next door.

[grasswire]

79. sequestration requires you to kick your own door down these days. nt

[pscot]

81. You are obviously unaware of DOJ's new

drug bust incentives program. Any police or sheriff's department that kicks down 3 doors in a month gets a shiny new black SUV.

[treestar]

91. I'm actually shocked I have not seen a Snowden 2016 statement somewhere

It's the normal emoprog reaction to whoever their latest hero is.

[mhatrw]

46. Yeah, Obama has gone over to the dark side.

But thank heavens we still have Clarence Thomas to do Paula Deen's bidding!

[MichiganVote]

62. +1

[senseandsensibility]

44. You almost got me...

[Aerows]

45. I'm so glad I voted heroicly

for the i don't give a damn party. It brings tears to my eyes to know that the Democratic party is now the I don't give a damn party. You guys are such heroes, you rock, and well, you know what I have to say.

[blkmusclmachine]

53. TRUST US.

We wouldn't lie to you,

again.

[yurbud]

54. you've got the script down pat: gossip and personality assassination to distract from content

[Ford_Prefect]

59. Best Satire I've seen here in a while.

So succinct, sublime, and yet passionately patriotic.

[tblue]

61. What do we do with snitches?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

63. They're troublemakers who embarrassed the big shots. We need more like them.

[snort]

64. Glenn Greenwald:

Former cigarette smoker? Did Snowden mow his lawn? Errrrrr!

[Logical]

68. Drunk? Me too! n-t

[MNBrewer]

70. Not only is Snowden NOT a whistleblower, "by definition"

he whistleblew old information that everyone knew, but that was secret at the same time and having revealed this known, secret information has greatly harmed people.... of some kind, somewhere, in some way.

Trust Clapper to tell the truth.

[Coccydynia]

74. And thank Darwin they are!

[Kolesar]

77. "Thank god" that Michael Hastings got killed? You're sick

You can fix this thread by deleting the contents an accomplishing your own thread lock.

[GoneFishin]

78. He never once blew an actual whistle. I knew somebody that worked in a whistle factory

and I can't tell you the details, because they are secret, but he told me there are tell tale signs
when someone actually blows a whistle and this friend assures me that Snowden definitely has not. (Blown a whistle)

[dgibby]

85. Maybe it was a dog whistle,

and he really did blow it, but only the dog can tell for sure, and I think he's working for the CIA doing black ops, so no way in hell he's gonna tell ya.

[totodeinhere]

83. For the first couple of sentences I thought you were serious because some people are

seriously saying those things. Then I realized that you were being sarcastic. I'm glad I realized that because I was about to blow a fuse.

[PrestonLocke]

84. Woah!

Are you suggesting there are people out there who don't like strippers?

[Cha]

98. You got the title right.. except Greenwald has lots of "friends".

[mhatrw]

99. Not sure I catch your drift.

You mean his magic boyfriends?

[mhatrw]

100. The depraved motivations and behavior of Snowden & Greenwald are STILL the ONLY story here.

Pay no attention to the NSA behind the curtain.

[Democracyinkind]

101. You probably thought that the satire was obvious,

But you had an older version of DU in mind while thinking that.

[yardwork]

105. Excellent satire!

That actually made me smile.

[mhatrw]

108. The treachery of Snowden & Greenwald is ruining our celebration!