What are your thoughts on the Brian Williams interview with Edward Snowden last night?

The editing was fucking horrible. In the web only aftershow with the pretty horrible panel he says the interview was actually over three hours but they cut it down to 30 minutes.

It was a serious hack-job. It seemed like just when it was about to get interesting it would go to commercial and then there would be a stupid unrelated question like, “If you came back should you get a parade or a jail cell?”

He’s still a traitor. Nothing can change that.

He is a hero. Anyone who disagrees is a nazi.

@kritiper: “He’s still a traitor.”

Really?

Manipulation of your better senses. NBC like Snowden thinks they can snowball the masses with whatever they can get away with.

So if the 4th amendment is basically Toilet Paper I can say the same about the second the next time a school gets shot-up.

noted

What I like is the NSA coming out with a single email and expecting us to believe this is all they got and then waving it about like it was the holy grail proving that Snowden is lying.

Sorry guys but given your track record, I would believe almost anyone, even Fox News, (ok maybe I exaggerate here) over you guys.

I missed it and frankly I don’t give a damn.

If the US government did, indeed, put as much trust in that individual as he claims, they got what they deserved.

If not, he is a liar and a traitor, not to be believed.

I do not have enough information to call it.

@hominid Really.

@ragingloli Anyone who thinks he is a hero isn’t a patriot.

Patriotism is a facet of fascism.

Patriotism “is, generally speaking, cultural attachment to one’s homeland or devotion to one’s country”, having it’s roots in the anti ‘church as state’ movement.

Regardless of the form of government, if one is devoted to their county, they are “patriotic”.

One thing the Nazi’s had that I greatly admire was their love of their country.

Some people insist that Snowden would have been put down if he hadn’t done what he did. I’m not sure if I believe that personally but as a patriot (thanks @ibstubro) I would like to believe we can foment change peaceably in our own country.

@kritiper
And you probably also admire the way they showed that love to the people in the concentration camps.

@ragingloli If you knew the history as I do, you’d learn that there were only parts of their system that ran the camps. Not many were even aware of them. And no system is perfect.

^ Good grief.

“Not many were even aware of them.”

According to whom?

@Buttonstc Not “whom,”- what. History.

@kritiper If you knew history as it really was you would know all German citizens were acutely aware that if they did not tow the Nazi line they would promptly loose their heads via the guillotine. Being scared of having your head chopped off is hardly patriotic. It is terrorism in it’s most diabolical form.

@Crazydawg Check out old WWII films showing the German soldier at work. That is not terrorism, but pure pride of country. But if you wish to call them terrorists, as terrorists, they are/were patriotic. But terrorism existed with the Allies as well. So, again, no system is perfect.