"I was fortunate to have missed the Obama-Clinton debate ..."


	"I was fortunate to have missed the Obama-Clinton debate ..."

masbury

4-18-2008 3:49 PM

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Glenn Greenwald's insights on why the debate was so substance-free

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I was fortunate to have missed the Obama-Clinton "debate" last night because -- ironically enough -- I was speaking at a book event about the establishment media's essential role in propagating petty, insipid right-wing personality attacks in lieu of any substantive discussions of issues. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/04/17/debate/index.html"><P>
My favorite (unintentionally revealing) media commentary about the debate is <A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/16/AR2008041604103.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2008041700060" target="_blank">from <I>The Washington Post</I>'s Anne Kornblut and Dan Balz</A>, who devoted paragraph after paragraph to describing the substance-free "issues" that consumed most of the debate -- Obama's "remarks about small-town values, questions about his patriotism and the incendiary sermons of his former pastor . . . gaffes, missteps and past statements" -- and, at the end of the article, they added:</P><BLOCKQUOTE>The debate also touched on Iraq, Iran, the Middle East, taxes, the economy, guns and affirmative action.</BLOCKQUOTE>It's just not possible to express the wretched state of our establishment press better than that sentence does.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CD7E7F80-C948-4414-8CE1-1028C9B50322/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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