Bob Ford
Bob Ford
Jul 28, 2017 · 1 min read

You used to be a journalist I respected, even though you worked at Soros-funded Alternet. Then you and Blumenthal started the Grayzone Project at Alternet and depicted yourselves as doing something nobody else was doing. Writers and journalists on the left have been ahead of Alternet for a while now. You and Blumenthal do good work, but the claim that you two are doing something that wasn’t already being done by those who don’t enjoy Soros’ largesse is self-serving and dishonest.
And then this. Caitlin Johnstone is a writer who expresses a strong progressive message. She has absolutely no use for the Washington establishment (including Soros). And she is aware that there are those on the right who also oppose our insane neocon foreign policy, and who also oppose the concentrating of police state powers in the federal government. She advocates joining with those on the right with whom we share these specific concerns.
Disagree with her if you want. But you don’t do that. Instead, you lie and smear and name-call in a feverish display of arrogant immaturity. I would ask you to apologize, publicly, for the lies and deliberate distortions, even as you stand by your criticism of her. But I doubt you have the integrity to do that. When I see someone engage in such venomous (and probably venal) behavior, I see someone who is usually incapable of showing that kind of character.
I was already getting my news from the independent news media without needing to rely on compromised sources such as Alternet. No need to change now.

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