I love Glenn Greenwald in his unrelenting efforts to expose government secrecy and hypocrisy - from either the left or the right. Today he leads with Poor John McCain: Forced against his honor to run an ugly campaign
Glenn is a forceful media critic - one of the best I've ever read.
McCain has spent weeks overtly linking Obama to "terrorists" and "Palestinian donors" and posing the sinister question: "Who is the real Barack Obama"? Right this very minute, the McCain/Palin campaign is running massive robocalls in numerous battleground states, including North Carolina, alleging that Obama "has worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, whose organization bombed the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, a judge's home, and killed Americans" and, if elected, "will enact an extreme leftist agenda." Last night on national television, McCain vehemently defended Sarah Palin's repellent and patently false accusation that Obama "is pallin' around with terrorists."
But McCain's vaunted principles and honor make him absolutely hate these tactics and he vehemently does not want to win this way. "It upsets his sense of fair play to think that the support he's getting is because of what he thinks are bad reasons." It just keeps happening despite McCain.
Glenn has continuously exposed the divide between media opinion and the views of the average Americans - his strongest material being the pro-war pundits vrs the ani-war populace. He often rails against the coziness of the media class to the high political class - and the blinders that coziness fits over their eyes.
The national press corps continues to revere John McCain despite what is widely acknowledged to be the toxic and ugly campaign he's running because they still think that this campaign is being run despite McCain's character and wishes, not because of them.
Lots of good stuff here!