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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

America then and now

It's now commonplace for our political and media elites to explicitly renounce the principles of justice which the U.S. long led the world in advocating.

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 02:02 PM

    Kitt

    it seems absurd that you can not recognize that he is sincere and that he works long hours in order to research and understand what it is he wants to write about, and then to write about it

    - and so I have stated earlier. I have my doubts as to the effectiveness of sarcasm in his writing and in fact resorted to that myself, then back-pedaled and was contrite, and then someone forgave me...

    I admire Greenwald for his research and I really enjoy learning new things and new information that otherwise might never see the internets. But I also have taken him to task for sarcasm when I feel it obscures the point and weakens the argument. And of course sometimes I just disagree with him.

    I will defend anyone who gets trashed by Glenn - which has happened at least twice in the past week or two - this seems unprofessional, uncalled for. Why be so discourteous to someone who is curious enough to join in a conversation and possibly provide another point of view?

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