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Liberal blogger Matt Yglesias advocates lying on Twitter - The Daily Caller


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Liberal blogger Matt Yglesias advocates lying on Twitter

August 13th, 2010

Liberal blogger Matt Yglesias likes to call his political opponents “dishonest," but in a revealing exchange on the website Twitter Friday he advocated lying for political purposes.

“Fighting dishonesty with dishonesty is sometimes the right thing for advocates to do, yes," said Yglesias.

The exchange, with Washington Examiner writer Mark Hemingway, came on the heels of a debate between the two on transportation policy.

Yglesias pressed his point with another conservative writer, saying, “Do you really think deception is immoral in all circumstances?"

In an interview, Yglesias said he was not referring to his own conduct as a blogger for the nonpartisan think tank, the Center for American Progress, in advocating dishonesty.

 

Asked who he meant by “advocates," Yglesias said, “Politicians, things like that." Not bloggers? “Not me. No I don’t think that’s conducive to what I do. I’m trying to inform people, so I try to present them with accurate information," Yglesias said.

“What I write on my blog is honest," Yglesias said.

Yglesias’s spat with Hemingway revolved around estimates for high-speed rail lines about how many people would ride on those trains. On that subject, Yglesias wrote more than a year ago that advocates for high-speed rail may need to present “unrealistically optimistic" ridership estimates to obtain government funding for the projects. “For better or for worse, that’s politics," Yglesias said then.

But what set off a flurry of Tweets today – and Yglesias’s advocacy of lying – was a charge by Yglesias via Twitter that Washington Times reporter Eli Lake has a “deserved reputation for dishonesty." Hemingway, Lake and others confronted Yglesias on Twitter about the charge, pointing out that Yglesias himself had actually advocated dishonesty.

Then, Yglesias dug in, saying lying was a necessary part of politics.

Yglesias’s Twitter opponents also charged he does not take criticism well.

“When [Yglesias] gets frustrated because he can’t counter an argument, he calls people ‘dishonest’," Lake said, also calling him “a child."

In concluding his interview with The Daily Caller, Yglesias said “go fuck yourself" and hung up the phone.

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Glenn Greenwald on Twitter


Glenn Greenwald Retweeted Jeet Heer

Here's the other deal: even if no evidence of collusion emerges, most of Dem base will continue to believe it happened anyway.

Glenn Greenwald added,

Jeet HeerVerified account @HeerJeet
Here's the deal: even if rock-solid evidence emerges of Trump campaign colluding with Putin, most of GOP base will stick with Trump.
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    1. @ggreenwald Glenn will you at least concede Putin may have a motive? He is also helping right-wing populists in Europe. It's a pattern

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    2. @firasd That's the absurd thinking at heart of every evidence-free conspiracy: Bush/Cheney had *motives* to do 9/11, so therefore....

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    1. @ggreenwald @HeerJeet we may as well observe that most people are stupid. What would a party for "smarts only" do for a democratic nation?

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    2. @danharmon @ggreenwald accurate but that doesn't mean we shouldn't hold things to a higher standard to moderate the reasonable fringe.

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    3. @RussellTMuscle @ggreenwald it moderates the reasonable to preemptively indict idiots? Most dems this, most dems that? I'm unmoved.

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    4. @danharmon @ggreenwald I guess Im referring to Pundits & Dem Officials more than the base. The narrative is lazy & lacks more nuanced voices

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    5. @danharmon Idk. As a whole I trust we're on the right track to deal with Russia/GOP, but I also trust even-minded thoughts from @ggreenwald

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    1. @ggreenwald @JonahNRO The transformation of Glenn Greenwald into one of Trump's top apologists is a tragedy.

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    2. @nickosborne101 @ggreenwald @JonahNRO Apparently you don't know Glenn's stance on privacy matters that go back years.

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    1. @ggreenwald this is beyond stupid.

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    2. @ggreenwald thanks for the block. I'll be spared the rabid dishonesty and vapidity you have descended to.

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    1. @ggreenwald there's a lot of stuff which isn't exactly evidence but should raise eyebrows @ russia tho: rex tillerson, lieing under oath...

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    2. @ggreenwald ... about meeting russian ambassadors; trump's consistency on russia (but has been on all sides of every other issue)...

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    3. @ggreenwald ... manafort's ukranian dealings, mercer's tie to russia... It is definitely not the only important story to focus on rn, and...

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    4. @ggreenwald ... it shouldn't be the dems #1 issue, but there is defo /something/ there. But Trump is such a target-rich environment that...

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    5. @ggreenwald ... he's breaking emolliements clause anyway. So I don't think Russia issues should be dismissed out of hand but I think it...

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    6. @ggreenwald ... isn't an issue the Dems should be hammering away on anywhere nea as much as they are.

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    1. .@ggreenwald Dems want war w/ Russia. Trump's contact with Russia is for peace. Deep-state coup v. Trump. Deep-state whistleblowers v Obama!

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Scott Lincicome on Twitter


Scott Lincicome Retweeted Michael Moore

And you'll never believe what happened next!

Scott Lincicome added,

Michael MooreVerified account @MMFlint
Hugo Chavez declared the oil belonged 2 the ppl. He used the oil $ 2 eliminate 75% of extreme poverty, provide free health & education 4 all
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    1. @scottlincicome Everyone's rich?!

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    2. @pipandbaby umm, not exactly

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    3. @scottlincicome People are eating garbage?

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    4. @pipandbaby well, yes, but it's The People's Garbage

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    1. @scottlincicome @jmartNYT Just curious: Why is a four-year-old Moore Tweet being resurrected now?

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    3. @Scy_2K @scottlincicome @jmartNYT I know that. But why now? Did Moore say something new that this is resurrected? That's my q.

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    4. @marybschneider @Scy_2K @jmartNYT very important reason: I was groggy at the gym & someone RT'd it into my timeline. So I snarked. /fin

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  1. @scottlincicome if you read it carefully it says he used two dollars of the oil money to eradicate poverty. Story checks out

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  2. @scottlincicome @BenedictEvans Also caused a 20# drop in average body weight. Perhaps Mr Moore should spend a year there.

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  3. @scottlincicome @Heminator I say ship Moore to Cuba since he loves communist dictatorships so much

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  4. @scottlincicome but wait! There's more!

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    1. @scottlincicome and now they're eating zoo animals

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    2. @tradeorfade @scottlincicome Moore could feed a family of four for two months if he was reclassified as a zoo animal.

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  5. @scottlincicome Moore friend of socialist dictators in LATAM, Castro, Chavez, Ortega, etc. #1 critic of USA. But lives here! Useful fool.

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  6. @scottlincicome This might be a good time for: And then, the murders started.

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  7. @scottlincicome @jmartNYT LoL....now u know the real end-game aspirations of the creepy American left.

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  8. @scottlincicome @ScrewedbyState And it took #Chavez a mere three years...

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  9. @scottlincicome @BoboFromTexas Oh, do tell mikey.....

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  10. @scottlincicome @ArieFriedman 2 much sugar affects brain cells # Moore

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