Glenn Greenwald and the Future

THE PASSION OF GLENN GREENWALD. Of all the liberal bloggers, Glenn Greenwald of Salon is the one I respect most. Reading Greenwald's blog almost daily, I especially appreciate his ability to engage in "liberal outrage" without looking weak or whiny. What makes Greenwald especially effective is that he saves his highest levels of outrage for "the bankrupt elite" and Democratic politicians instead of the Bush administration and the right. Not that Greenwald won't bore into conservative apparatchiks like Harvey Mansfield and Frank Gaffney, but it's Fred Hiatt of the Washington Post, Joe Klein of Time, and Senators Jay Rockefeller, and Diane Feinstein who outrage Greenwald the most. As Greenwald demonstrates on almost a daily basis, the Bush administration and their neo-con allies didn't launch the Iraq War, commit crimes against humanity, torture prisoners, corrupt the Justice Department and cover it all up by themselves. They did so with the support, protection, and prior knowledge of Democratic leaders, "liberal" pundits, and the so-called liberal media. In fact, key Democratic politicians like Rockefeller and Feinstein continue to fight a rear-guard battle on behalf of the Bush administration. In many ways, the same is the case with the mainstream media as well. Magazines like Newsweek and Time are still giving prominent gigs to the neo-cons who brought us the war in Iraq while continuing to shut out liberal bloggers like Greenwald.

IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE. However, I don't believe that Greenwald has a full grasp of the implications of his journalism. More Tomorrow