I see people like Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi and Cenk Uygur are being attacked in a big way

[JackRiddler]

149. There's a rotation that also includes Jane Hamsher, anyone who publishes on Counterpunch...

even though it's one of the most heterogenous mags on the Web, Ralph Nader, of course, and occasionally Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky. OWS comes in for some of it, though it's mostly left alone since it's too obviously the only reason that the current US political discourse isn't dominated by Republican themes.

Also, anyone who doesn't want to hang Ron Paul, or who has the temerity to notice that as bad as he is, he's the only candidate who has taken principled stands against perpetual war for empire and the insane drug war. Because, you know, that makes the current middle-management PR officer pretending to be el supremo in Washington look bad for waging both of these forms of war.

They're all among the over-honest leftist or otherwise non-conformist beasts who must be ritually exorcised (and then brought back for more metaphorical burning at the stake) for still noticing all the same things that still suck about this country, have always sucked, but aren't supposed to suck because a (D) is now president and he's totally doing every single good thing that it's possible to do and keeping his powder dry for surprising us with other goodies and war is peace, etc.

Also, they have to be blamed in advance so that when the usual right-wing lurch by the Democrats possibly causes losses for them, since it tends to make them look indistinguishable from Republicans, it will all be the fault of the leftists and non-conformists. Like, remember when Nader committed massive election fraud in Florida, suppressed the recount, and made the Supreme Court pick the president, thus committing a coup d'etat and ending any pretense to constitutional rule in the US? That was all his fault.


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PS - Anyway, what is being silenced by the daily exorcism campaigns is not these writers, but the ability to have normal discussion and debate about anything these people write on DU without it turning into a name-calling festival of bullying.