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Karl Rove's media birds chirp about Obama's "arrogance"

The press's personality-obsessed coverage of elections is as predictable as it is destructive and depressing.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Thursday, July 31, 2008 05:25 AM

    Matt Taibbi...

    also wrote this recently:

    "Rather than serving up the "straight talk" he promises, McCain is enthusiastically jumping aboard with every low-rent, fearmongering, cock-sucking presidential aspirant who's ever traveled the Lee Atwater/William Safire highway."

    In fact he wrote this on 16 June, two weeks ahead before Chait's love letter/article was published.

    http://www.alternet.org/story/88211/mccain%27s_playbook%3A_hate%2C_fear_and_caveman_politics/

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