August 21, 2009
The President
Has Obama Lost the Trust of Progressives?
“The Obama/Emanuel approach not only produces awful policy but is also self-destructive politically.”
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#22 Glenn Greenwald
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Glenn Greenwald writes Unclaimed Territory, a blog about politics and the law at Salon.
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In 2005, Greenwald covered, from a humble Blogspot account, the Valerie Plame and National Security Agency wiretapping scandals with an investigative proficiency that catapulted him to prominence. Now a leading voice among the wave of angry liberal bloggers who emerged during President George W. Bush's second term, Greenwald is tenacious in following a story. With Bush gone, he has not hesitated to criticize President Obama and other Democrats with the same leftward fury he used voiced when hammering the Bush White House. He has increasingly targeted the media, and even such ideological allies as Keith Olbermann, for not taking a harder line against Obama.
Befitting his background as a constitutional lawyer, Greenwald's posts meld an exhaustiveness suggestive of heavily cited legal briefs with an emotional heat that is all blogosphere.
In 2005, Greenwald covered, from a humble Blogspot account, the Valerie Plame and National Security Agency wiretapping scandals with an investigative proficiency that catapulted him to prominence. Now a leading voice among the wave of angry liberal bloggers who emerged during President George W. Bush's second term, Greenwald is tenacious in following a story. With Bush gone, he has not hesitated to criticize President Obama and other Democrats with the same leftward fury he used voiced when hammering the Bush White House. He has increasingly targeted the media, and even such ideological allies as Keith Olbermann, for not taking a harder line against Obama.
Befitting his background as a constitutional lawyer, Greenwald's posts meld an exhaustiveness suggestive of heavily cited legal briefs with an emotional heat that is all blogosphere.
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August 20, 2009
Media
Fringe Leftist Losers--Wrong Even When Right
“Trusting the politically powerful is the establishment religion and carrying forth their message is the prime function of establishment journalists.”
August 19, 2009
Republicans
Huckabee's Right-Wing Cocoon
“Huckabee knows that the Republican base lives in its own alternative, insular reality and any unpleasant or negative facts can be waved away not by refuting them, but by attributing them to the work of 'the liberal media.'”
August 19, 2009
Health Care Reform
Why the Health Care Debate Is So important
“This is how things always work. The industry interests which own and control our government always get their way. When is the last time they didn't?”
August 18, 2009
Media
The Lanny Davis Disease
“Davis' history is as long and consistent as it is sleazy.”
August 17, 2009
Republicans
Huckabee Bashes America in Israel
“When 'liberals' like Al Gore criticize U.S. foreign policy in Muslim countries, that is an act of virtual treason ... When leading members of the American Right do the same in and on behalf of Israel, the silence is deafening.”
August 7, 2009
The President
Reactions to Limbaugh's Hitler/Obama Comparison
“When an anonymous Internet user compares Bush to Hitler, the media goes into Full Hysteria Alert, but when the most influential conservative figure in the country does the same thing, they utter barely a peep of recognition.”
August 5, 2009
Torture Debate
Hillary Clinton Demands Accountability for War Crimes
“We send murderous, crusading civilian units around the world to accompany our invading armies -- while ushering a regime of torture wherever we go -- and then announce we will only look to the future.”
August 3, 2009
Big Business
The Scope -- And Dangers -- of GE's Control of NBC and MSNBC
“What [GE executives] mean by 'civility' is: 'thou shalt not criticize anyone who can harm GE's business interests or who will report on our actions.'”
July 22, 2009
Torture Debate
Stephen Colbert on Chuck Todd and Torture Investigations
“The torture tactics Bush ordered are criminal no matter how many memos John Yoo wrote saying they weren't.”
July 21, 2009
Release of Gitmo Prisoners
First Steps Taken To Implement Preventive Detention, Military Commissions
“It's more apparent than ever that the central excuse made by Obama defenders to justify preventive detention and military commissions ... is an absolute myth.”
July 18, 2009
Media
Celebrating Cronkite While Ignoring What He Did
“It's impossible even to imagine the likes of Brian Williams, Tom Brokaw and friends interrupting their pompously baritone, melodramatic, self-glorifying exploitation of Cronkite's death to spend a second pondering what he meant by that.”
July 15, 2009
Media
CNN's Journalism on the Cheney Story
“Remember never to accuse [CNN] of being 'stenographers' because that is unfair and offensive.”
July 15, 2009
Bush Legacy
Chuck Todd's Arguments Against Investigations
“Trying to prevent investigations of their friends, colleagues and bosses in political power is one of the few times [journalists are] willing so explicitly to turn themselves into advocates.”
July 13, 2009
Sotomayor
Unasked Question About Sam Alito
“If empathy is irrelevant to judicial decision-making, why are GOP Senators calling Frank Ricci as a witness at this hearing? Since he's obviously not there to testify about the strict legalistic doctrines governing his claims.”