Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald

Role at the time: Journalist and host of System Update, in a post on X

Statement summary

Quoting Kolvet's post with the clip, Greenwald says very few on the left will object to it even on grounds of basic decency, such as saying people should not publicly cackle and celebrate when someone is fatally shot, because they fear criticism from their audiences and other commentators.

“Very few on the left will object to this even on just basic decency or humanity grounds -- even if it's just to say: mabye we shouldn't publicly cackle and celebrate when someone is fatally shot in the neck? -- because online group-think means they'll be castigated by their audience and other commentators and they don't have the courage to endure even that kind of trivial criticism.”

Glenn Greenwald

Role at the time: Journalist and host

Statement summary

Greenwald criticized the volume and political priority of attacks on Piker, emphasizing that Piker was not a candidate.

“they seem to be reserving their greatest venom and the bulk of their energy attacking Hasan Piker, who isn’t on the ballot”

Glenn Greenwald

Role at the time: Journalist, host of System Update

Statement summary

Glenn Greenwald wrote that many of the roughly 700 Israeli civilians killed on October 7 were killed by the IDF under the Hannibal Directive, responding to Mike Huckabee.

“And many of those 700 Israeli civilians were killed not by Hamas but the IDF, which invoked "The Hannibal Directive," whereby the IDF knowingly kills its own citizens to prevent them from being taken hostage.”

Glenn Greenwald

Role at the time: Constitutional lawyer and Salon columnist

Statement summary

Glenn Greenwald calls corporate political dominance a major threat but argues that remedies must respect the First Amendment.

“I think the corporate dominance of our political process is one of the two or three greatest threats we face. But I also think that whatever solutions we try and find for that need to be consistent with the clear constitutional prescriptions of the First Amendment, and allowing the government to ban or regulate corporations from speaking out on elections, to me, seems very problematic.”