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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 may or may not like his politics, but let's not pretend that he's a dispassionate observer.



There'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.


I 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.


"Let's not pretend" implies it's a purposeful deceit, not a mistake.


Why 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.


I'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."


When 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.




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