Deference Denounced
The Gumby-like self-adulator also known as Glenn Greenwald has worked himself into a multiply updated state because some media members were taken aback by White House flak Gibbs’ snide remark about Cheney … ”I guess Rush Limbaugh was busy.”
Hyperventilating highpoints:
Dick Cheney is one of the most divisive — and disliked — political officials in memory. Maybe Chip Reid and Rick Klein haven’t heard, but he just presided over the virtual collapse of the American economy and is directly implicated in severe war crimes and other pervasive criminality. Yet they speak of him — and demand that everyone else treat him — as royalty: This is the former Vice President of the United States you’re talking about; have you no decency?
So much for respecting the office. I’m curious about these war crimes and and the pervasive criminality. Not familiar with these charges. Technically, that should be “vice-presided over the virtual collapse.” But Obama, Biden, Summers and Geithner inform us things are looking up, so it all get sproblematic.
OK, moving on to unselfconscious irony:
We’ve become a society that sees the President (and those nearest him) no longer as public servants accountable to anyone, but rather, the ultimate expression of revered authority deserving of glorification and homage.
No kidding, total aboutface since Jan. 20, 2009. It’s terrible! What’s this country coming to?
It’s hardly a mystery why most media stars refrained from criticizing, let alone investigating, the crimes of the Bush era, and it’s even less mystifying why they now so vehemently oppose investigations and prosecutions.
The strangely invertebrate-appearing Greenwald must have been living in a different decade. All I remember is Abu Ghraib this, Bush lied that, eavesdropping this, waterboarding that, on and on. Remember how they liked to call people who send bomb-laden retarded youths and rape victims into crowded marketplaces “militants.” It was weird, the way they seemed to think burning embassies and sawing people’s heads off was unremarkable. Flash in the pan.
OK, full circle back to breathless indignation. Raising a point of comparison, Greenwald … newt-like, that might be the word I’m looking for … takes offense to the Bush White House calling Jimmy Carter “sad” and irrelevant” after he had slammed them. Well, it isn’t like the Bushitlerites called the former president “Stuart Smalley” or “Alan Colmes.”
Andrew Sullivan, meanwhile, gets snippy about the reflexive deference.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:16 pm Comments (3) on Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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March 17th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
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March 19th, 2009 at 7:10 am
he just presided over the virtual collapse of the American economy
Is there anything that man can’t do?
March 19th, 2009 at 9:24 am
Greenwald jumped the shark long ago. Today, he jumped it again.