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• Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:30 AM

  Another place to look...

  Glenn wrote "outside of those anonymity-granting blogger/journalists and Democratic apparatchiks, these drooling, worshipful, subservient sentiments are largely confined to the fringes. With some exceptions, to find this right-wing-replicating blind loyalty to the Leader, one has to search blog comment sections and obscure diarists."

  Another place you can find 'em is right here at Salon's Table Talk. Just take a look in the White House folder (linked in signature) at the posts in the "Paul Krugman is a Wonderful Columnist II" and "Wall Street Shuffle" threads going back a few days and observe the treatment doled out to participants who fail to demonstrate sufficient sentiments of worship and loyalty to Barack "he plays 11th dimensional chess beyond your capability to comphrend" Obama. Or take a look at the current President Barack Obama where you will find the same "Geithner isn't going anywhere" diary you linked quoted rather reverentially and as though it made some sort of solid argument.

  I'm heartened to see places like Eschaton (Atrios) and economists/bloggers/columnists like Krugman, Baker, Stiglitz and others (including you) that refuse to drink the Democratic version of BushBot KoolAid, but there is a very deep undercurrent of very intolerant 'liberals' out there who truly are caught up in what seems to me to be the same sort of cult of personality we saw in (at the very least) Bush's first term.

  TableTalk may not be the same thriving Salon community that it once was, but it still provides a mirror into the thoughts of a number of Obama supporting Salon readers. Take a look if you can find the time.

  —Roman Berry Read Roman Berry's other letters
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