Living in Russia hasn’t frozen the NSA whistleblower’s sense of humor.
During last night's Oscars, host Neil Patrick Harris made a joke about Edward Snowden, the subject of the documentary "CitizenFour," saying the NSA whistleblower was "unable to attend for some treason."
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The throwaway pun drew a mixed reaction, roughly split among those who see Snowden as a traitor who fled to the even more oppressive Russia and those who see him as a whistleblower fighting for privacy rights.
"I'm just gonna go ahead and treat it as a joke. I thought it was pretty pitiful, given Hollywood's fondness for congratulating itself for doing things like standing up for McCarthyism and blacklists," Greenwald said. "So to just casually spew that sort of accusation against someone who's not even charged with it, let alone convicted of it, I think is, you know, stupid and irresponsible.
"But I'm trying not to make too much out of it," he concluded, before adding with a laugh, "Although I'm not succeeding."
But it turns out the subject of the joke actually found it pretty funny, according to a post he left on a Reddit AMA about the now Oscar-winning documentary "CitizenFour."
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