A quick follow-up on Glenn Greenwald’s blundering comments about the anti-Hillary protests in Egypt:
Indeed, the tomato-throwing protesters were anti-Islamist, not anti-Mubarak. In fact, this report indicates the protesters were riled up by bogus claims regarding the Obama administration’s Egypt policy — claims spouted by hysterical right-wingers in the U.S. including Michele Bachmann and Frank Gaffney.
So Greenwald, rushing to validate anti-American sentiment and project his own views onto the situation, ended up misreading the protests completely.
[Update: More on this, although not touching on Greenwald, from Rachel Maddow. And Robert Mackey.]
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