(from Salon) ‘Harold Ford, Jr.: smirking sociopath’ —Glenn Greenwald

Harold Ford Jr., sleazy corporatist and nepotist, offers up a particularly grotesque defense of U.S. aggression

By Glenn Greenwald

AN EXCERPT:   Harold Ford, Jr. is the walking, breathing embodiment of virtually everything rotted and corrupt about the American political class…This morning, Ford, as he often is, was on Morning Joe (independently significant is that fact that one of the most prolific NBC/MSNBC political commentators — a Democrat — is also a senior Wall Street executive). The show devoted a six-minute segment to Esquire‘s Tom Junod, who — as I noted earlier today — has just published a worthwhile and heartfelt article entitled “The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama,” which examines in depth the multiple ways the President has seized the power to kill; in one section, Junod reports on the U.S. killing of 16-year-old Abdulrahman Awlaki in Yemen, and Esquire has published that section separately under this headline: “Obama’s Administration Killed a 16-Year-Old American and Didn’t Say Anything About It. This Is Justice?” In the Morning Joe segment, Junod repeatedly documented the numerous innocent Muslims — including children — that are continuously killed by Obama’s attacks, such as the 16-year-old Denver-born son of the Islamic preacher, a mere two weeks after his father was killed.

CLICK THE IMAGE TO READ THE STORY:

TO READ ALL ZBLOG POSTS CLICK HERE

TO READ THE JUNE-JULY Z CLICK HERE

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/09/harold_ford_jr_smirking_sociopath/