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• Tuesday, December 2, 2008 08:04 AM

  I Am Genuinely Mystified by Glenn Greenwald's Cognitive Dissonance

  Greenwald, November 23:

  "I've been genuinely mystified by the disappointment and surprise being expressed by many liberals over the fact that Obama's most significant appointments thus far are composed of pure Beltway establishment..."

  Greenwald, This Morning:

  "This is vintage Washington. This is the filthy, venal sleaze on which both political parties feed. It's what fuels how the Beltway operates....That's what Washington is..."

  If you understood so completely (unlike the contemptibly naive, disenchanted former Obama cultists as you essentially characterized any Progressives outraged with Obama's choices and embracement of the entire spectrum of Bush policies) - if you indeed understood so thoroughly that Obama would choose a raft of beltway insiders for his administration, how can you possibly have the hide to now show this moral outrage at the kind of vermin his net drew in? As you say, this is how Washington insiders work! This illustrates either your disingenuousness in ridiculing Progressives who were dismayed with Obama or your own absurd naivete. The choices you proclaimed so sanctimoniously a week ago to be the inevitable ones are also, just as inevitably, certain to operate as Eric Holder did and does (and Biden, and Clinton, and all the other insiders) .

  You are the best journalist I know of, but in this you are completely, if unconsciously, disingenuous.

  —johnqeniac Read johnqeniac's other letters
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