Glenn Greenwald: New heights of stupidity

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New heights of stupidity
(Updated below - Update II - Update III - Update IV - Update V - Update VI)

We're fighting multiple wars; our oldest and most established financial institutions are on the verge of collapse; we've fundamentally transformed and then dismantled our constitutional framework over the last eight years, etc. etc. But the Right and their media partners are striving to ensure that our election this year is going to be dominated and determined by whether John Kerry looks stupid in wind-surfing tights Barack Obama called Sarah Palin a "pig" when he invoked a meaningless cliché.

It isn't surprising that the McCain campaign wants this sort of tawdry, Freak Show/Reality Show vapidity to determine the outcome of the election. If you were them, wouldn't you want that, too? And though it's not news that establishment media outlets are so easily and happily manipulated by these tactics, tactics which enable them to cover "stories" which their empty-headed reporters can easily comprehend, it is still striking to watch the now-decades-old process unfold and observe how absolutely nothing has changed:

First, one of the mindless TV journalists gets convinced that it's a story -- in this case, Jake Tapper of ABC News, who wrote a whole article about the episode last night,

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/09/10/pigs/index.html

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1. Well, it ought to be "depths", but OK.

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