Glenn Greenwald on the media’s determination to portray Democrats as elitist:
One other point to note about all of this is that these fixations are as skewed as they are vapid. Barack Obama is an exotic elitist freak because he went to Harvard Law School and made $1 million from his book. Hillary Clinton can’t possibly [...]

Just noticed this quote from The Wealth of Nations in a recent Glennzilla post on Slate’s series of articles by liberal hawks on why they got Iraq so wrong (a series I simply had to finally stop reading, so transparently self-serving were the explanations offered):
In great empires the people who live in the capital, and [...]

It’s not in their DNA. They do not possess the ability. They do not train their people to do this. They do not recruit people who do this. They do not see the world through eyes able to view the world in this way. They do not have the courage [...]

Another devastating piece from Glenn Greenwald, this time on the Spitzer affair:
All decent people agree that what Eliot Spitzer did is repulsive, morally disgusting and totally nauseating — which is why it’s so important to learn about and report on every last titillating detail about what he did, the kind of sex he had, with [...]

Horton, Hamsher and Greenwald are now wondering. But as Greenwald notes, this question won’t get any attention until after the ’sphere has finished amusing itself with titillation details. And don’t expect the MSM to focus any time soon on a narrative that isn’t salacious and puerile.

An exceptional comment on Glenn Greenwald’s exceptional post about Monster-gate and off-the-record comments. Glennzilla’s post is now updated, including with this depressingly accurate precis of where we are on MSM political reporting:
Even after the lead-up to Iraq War, eight years of the Bush administration, the Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch fiascoes and an [...]