{"id":22784,"date":"2017-02-17T20:40:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T01:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22784"},"modified":"2017-02-17T20:41:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T01:41:30","slug":"glenn-greenwald-tells-truth-about-dnc-nancy-pelosi-and-chuck-schumer-leading-collapsed-party-of-shills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22784","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Greenwald Tells Truth About DNC: Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer Leading Collapsed Party of Shills"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-02-17\/glenn-greenwald-tells-truth-about-dnc-nancy-pelosi-and-chuck-schumer-leading-collaps\">Glenn Greenwald Tells Truth About DNC: Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer Leading Collapsed Party of Shills<\/a><\/h3>\n<section class=\"node node-type-blog node-full node-nid-588507 ads-injected\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Glenn Greenwald appeared on\u00a0<em>Tucker Carlson Tonight<\/em>\u00a0Wednesday for\u00a0yet another truth bombing after\u00a0<em>The Intercept<\/em>\u00a0co-founder, attorney, and\u00a0author<em>\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/02\/09\/tom-perez-apologizes-for-telling-the-truth-showing-why-democrats-flaws-urgently-need-attention\/\" target=\"_blank\">penned an article<\/a>\u00a0on the deeply flawed DNC&#8217;s inability to cope with loss. As Greenwald and others have pointed out since the election, Democrats seem to have a major problem with introspection. I get it &#8211; admitting fault means being wrong, and for a party built upon emotionalism and condescending moralization\u00a0instead\u00a0of facts and common sense,\u00a0being wrong strips\u00a0the self-righteous DNC\u00a0of the one argument they&#8217;ve built their entire platform on;\u00a0<strong>we&#8217;re right because we say we are.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6359\" src=\"https:\/\/ibankcoin.com\/zeropointnow\/files\/2017\/02\/1dxet4.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From Greenwald&#8217;s article:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\">A failed, collapsed party cannot form an effective resistance. Trump did not become president\u00a0and the Republicans do not dominate virtually all levels of government because there is some sort of massive surge in enthusiasm for right-wing extremism. Quite the contrary:\u00a0<strong>This all happened because the Democrats\u00a0are perceived \u2014 with good reason\u00a0\u2014 to be\u00a0out of touch, artificial, talking points-spouting automatons\u00a0who\u00a0serve Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and the agenda of endless war<\/strong>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2016\/11\/30\/politics\/house-democrat-election-results-nancy-pelosi-tim-ryan\/\" target=\"_blank\">led by millionaires<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2014\/11\/why-wall-street-loves-hillary-112782\" target=\"_blank\">funded by oligarchs<\/a>\u00a0to do the least amount\u00a0possible for\u00a0ordinary, powerless citizens while still keeping their votes.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Enjoy:<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/mQ33PuiC6wY<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Greenwald Tells Truth About DNC: Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer Leading Collapsed Party of Shills Glenn Greenwald appeared on\u00a0Tucker Carlson Tonight\u00a0Wednesday for\u00a0yet another truth bombing after\u00a0The Intercept\u00a0co-founder, attorney, and\u00a0author\u00a0penned an article\u00a0on the deeply flawed DNC&#8217;s inability to cope with loss. As Greenwald and others have pointed out since the election, Democrats seem to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14804,14697,5437,5083,14693,4318],"class_list":["post-22784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-chuck-schemer","tag-democratic-national-committee","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-tucker-carlson","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22786,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22784\/revisions\/22786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}