Let's pretend for a minute that this tweet had no role in getting someone fired. Let's look at the logic of it, instead, independent of whether it got anyone fired.
First, Glenn treated a tweet from someone relatively unknown as equivalent to being on TV.

He also equated "having chills" (something non-visual) to "weep[ing] joyously" ON TV.

Both those representations were completely dishonest.
And they turned a relatively private view (albeit shared publicly) into a spectacle that literally didn't exist.
Then, of course, he bullied.

"It's just a matter of personal dignity."

Who made Glenn Greenwald the arbiter of "personal dignity"? Should we all stoop to his low standards of personal dignity, or are we allowed to set our own?
Finally, the entire point of this: "Nobody is expecting any adversarial coverage over the next 4 years."

Glenn has been on TV pretty much non-stop for the last week, bitching about random things. Does he not exist? All of Fox? NYT's stupid Rolex "journalism"?
I mean, what a fucking stupid stringing together of unrelated topics, all to claim, in direct contradiction to all the evidence, that no one will report critically on Joe Biden.
Glenn doesn't think he bears any responsibility for getting Wolfe fired.

Does he bear any responsibility for random bullying based off multiple false claims in one tweet?
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