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Thursday, June 18, 2009 12:00 AM

The Washington Post fires its best columnist. Why?

One of the rarest media commodities -- someone who criticizes Democrats "from the Left" -- just got rarer still.

Glenn Greenwald

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Thursday, June 18, 2009 03:20 PM

a personal reminiscence

Thanks to Salon.com, Dan Froomkin was the first "mainstream" journalist to mention my work on Bush's military records (www.glcq.com)

Back in 2000, Dave Niewart and I both participated in Table Talk's discussion of the 2000 Florida election fiasco. As a result, Niewart mentioned my Bush/AWOL stuff on his blog (Orcinus), which was by Michael Froomkin. Michael F mentioned my work on his blog (Discourse) where Dan read it -- and linked to it!

Dan was unique back in 2004 -- he was just about alone when it came to mainstream media "bloggers", and has remained pretty much unique among mainstream bloggers when it comes to reporting facts regardless of how consistent those facts are with DC beltway conventional wisdom.

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