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• Saturday, October 4, 2008 12:24 PM

  Thank you, Glenn

  This was a fine post. I posted similar, and similarly furious, thoughts about the VP debate last night (at signature), although I really appreciated your pivot to the larger point about GOP rule. Also, when I wrote my post last night, I had in mind the David Brooks Syndrome about which you so poignantly wrote, but I couldn't remember it specifically. I've since updated my post with a link to that very insightful piece.

  Every bit as salient and significant as the perniciousness of this consolidated Republican control of government for much of the current decade has been the media's wholesale applauding of every exploitative and catastrophic GOP policy and thematic frame, even well past the point where most of the population had turned on those policies and themes.

  That is the current national scandal, which also portends significant trouble for an Obama administration and Democratic majority going forward - that the establishment media has manufactured for themselves a sickly lens of "ordinary American attitudes" through which they can project their own stupidity, often along lines unfavorable to liberal ideas. The tendency of the media to use this highly disingenuous and lazy technique - coupled with an inevitable heightening of the Republican Smoke Machine of Outrage and petulant resistance to Democratic government - will be the two greatest obstacles to any attempt to recover from the vast landscape of destruction the GOP has wrought on our country.

  —DCLaw1 Read DCLaw1's other letters
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