So… It turns out that:

1. Snowden was bullshitting Greenwald (4 laptops, unfettered access to data, etc)
2. Greenwald is a huge shitheel hack who saw some yellow journalism he could peddle
3. A whole bunch of various people with agendas (GOP, Racists, Conspiracy nuts, Liberals who were asleep during the Bush years and feel like they have to make up for it, etc) are buying into the stuff, hook, line, and sinker.

Oh, and apparently Snowden is… weird. His background doesn’t really check out. The powerpoint slides are absurdly poorly done. He didn’t mention twitter at all (and yes, twitter would be spied on if this were true). And he claimed the entire NSA spying program cost only $20 million USD.

And… apparently the GOP operative that smeared Gore with the “Invented the Internet” meme is behind some of the inflammatory, obviously false articles (CNET et all)?

This is really seeming more and more like the new GOP strategy — all scandal, all the time. Bonus points if you can smear Obama with a Bush Scandal.

And yeah, it’s pretty bad over at the Kos right now. They’re falling for it pretty bad. Fainting couches for EVERYONE!