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cyranohttp://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/10/peggy-noonan-and-rotting-pundit-class.html
This is pretty much what I've been expecting for the past four years. Those wise and all-seeing political pundits who have been expounding upon the political cunning of the President, his home-town graces, the short-sightedness of his opponents and the Things That Everybody Obviously Knows suddenly have never said any such thing and really wish All Those Other Folks would quit kowtowing to this corrupt and fact-resistant administration which really doesn't reflect a proper Republican viewpoint at all and they don't understand how the party could have supported them for so long.
And yes, this kind of hypocrisy has happened in the past, but it's much more blatant and uncompromizing now; I lay this also at the feet of the current administration, which has made an art form out of telling us that We Are at War with Eastasia and We Have Always Been at War with Eastasia. In the past four years, political debate is (more than ever before) all about sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting as loudly as you can.
And the sad part is that we let it work.
This is pretty much what I've been expecting for the past four years. Those wise and all-seeing political pundits who have been expounding upon the political cunning of the President, his home-town graces, the short-sightedness of his opponents and the Things That Everybody Obviously Knows suddenly have never said any such thing and really wish All Those Other Folks would quit kowtowing to this corrupt and fact-resistant administration which really doesn't reflect a proper Republican viewpoint at all and they don't understand how the party could have supported them for so long.
And yes, this kind of hypocrisy has happened in the past, but it's much more blatant and uncompromizing now; I lay this also at the feet of the current administration, which has made an art form out of telling us that We Are at War with Eastasia and We Have Always Been at War with Eastasia. In the past four years, political debate is (more than ever before) all about sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting as loudly as you can.
And the sad part is that we let it work.