deserves credit for doing so:
ggreenwald Glenn Greenwald
I affirm my distaste for photographic leader-glorification, but I'll rescind my invocation of Leni Riefenstahl as too inflammatory & extreme
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The internet, and twitter in particular, often encourages people to say stuff too quickly, based on emotion and without thinking. That's what's good about the medium, people tell you what they really think. But the medium is only tolerable with a dose of humility, when people are willing to walk back their over-the-top comments. Greenwald deserves credit for taking that step.