Easier to see why the Right embraces Assange .. he hates Hillary.
Then why was he a hero to the left, and embraced by Obama and Hillary?
Julian Assange: Man of the Year | The Huffington Post
Transparency is not evil. Journalists should not be the handmaidens of political impropriety. Not beholden to the regulations of a for-profit corporation or the endless search for ad dollars, WikiLeaks has done something novel: distributed the unvarnished truth.
Obama’s Silence
Hillary Clinton has stepped into the spotlight as the U.S. watchdog in the race against WikiLeaks. Obama has been silent. He has not issued a single comment on WikiLeaks, most likely because in January of 2009, he altered the Freedom of Information Act.
Obama said, “The government should not keep information confidential merely because public officials might be embarrassed by disclosure, because errors and failures might be revealed, or because of speculative or abstract fears.”
From the above statement, even a gifted orator as shrewd as Obama would have a tough time reversing course. In fact, statements like these, from the leader of the free world no less, are precisely what allows men like Julian Assange to exist on the national stage in the first place.
Who Watches the Watchmen?
The WikiLeaks cables have revealed the world’s governing officials to be, on a whole, petty two-faced backstabbers. Why do we persist in publicly supporting Karzai in Afghanistan after our highest-ranking officials have deemed him useless and dangerous? Why on earth do elected and appointed government officials traffic in treachery and deceit on official U.S. wires (supplied for by taxpayer dollars)? Why is the U.S. spying on foreign dignitaries at the behest of the Secretary of the State? Who watches the watchmen?
The Artifice of Power
One of WikiLeaks’ greatest feats is that it has revealed the crumbling machinery of power behind the shimmering artifice. Nearly everyone from America to China is dazzled by the power of government — the projection of power — which they believe is the mirror of their own power.