Matt Zeitlin: Impetuous Young Whippersnapper

I felt that since it’s MLK day, it was appropriate to mention how some of my political allies are opportunistically silent on instances of horrible bigotry.

I wrote a post about a week ago pointing out that Glenn Greenwald smeared Ezra Klein and Dana Goldstein for objecting to Ron Paul as an effective defender of individual freedom because of his retrograde views on abortion comments about blacks published under his name.  They wrote these criticism and Greenwald attacked them in December, well before Jamie Kirchick’s article came out on January 8th.  In the five days since I wrote that first post, Greenwald has not even mentioned “Ron Paul” once, let alone explain his thoughts on the candidate with a “sterling record across the board on liberty” who isn’t above implementing a political strategy based around race-baiting. For someone who writes roughly 23 billion words a week, one would think he could get around to it…