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Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:00 AM

David Brooks and the deceitful tactics of the Beltway pundit

The only real goal of the Beltway pundit is to depict Washington orthodoxies as popular among "most Americans," even when they are not.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Wednesday, September 26, 2007 11:03 PM

    Re: Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton

    "She was also, last week, one of only 25 Senators to vote against condemning MoveOn. Obviously, one can question the motives and sincerity of her doing all of this. But whatever else is true, as she runs for President, she has been moving steadily towards the "blogger/leftist" view on Iraq that (David) Brooks dishonestly claims she is repudiating." Glenn Greenwald

    I still don't know that I trust her, but in this case I have to say, "Thank (Insert major deity or paradigm of personal belief here)!

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