Recommended reading: Glenn Greenwald

Great piece by Salon's brilliant writer up at Commondreams:

The Media, The Right and 1988: Endless Deja Vu

A large bulk of the political and pundit class are forever stuck in 1972, reflexively viewing every political conflict through its myopic prism (any war-opponent-candidate = George McGovern = loser). But as a New York Times article by Robin Toner this morning illustrates, the far more relevant precedent for this year’s election is 1988.