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Glenn Greenwald spins the obvious

Salon pays Glenn Greenwald big bucks to opine on all matters Liberal and Progressive.

Nobody pays me jack shit.

That doesn't mean Greenwald is always right, it just means he's a better negotiator.

Somebody pays somebody so Memeorandum links to Greenwald's screeds. Maybe. I'm not sure how they select their link-worthy blog posts. I just know they never pick me.

So today Memeorandum notes it comes as something of a shock to Greenwald that the MSM parrots Obama Administration talking points vis a vis Wikileaks.

Over the last month, I've done many television and radio segments about WikiLeaks and what always strikes me is how indistinguishable -- identical -- are the political figures and the journalists. There's just no difference in how they think, what their values and priorities are, how completely they've ingested and how eagerly they recite the same anti-WikiLeaks, "Assange = Saddam" script.

And then, instead of accepting the obvious, viz the MSM is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party, Greenwald applies the spin as only a highly-paid mouthpiece for the Progressive Agenda can.

It's not news that establishment journalists identify with, are merged into, serve as spokespeople for, the political class: that's what makes them establishment journalists.

Bzzzzt! Establishment journalists identify with, are merged into, serve as spokespeople for, The Democratic Party. Right now, the Democratic Party is the political class. But when the GOP ruled the roost I daresay the MSM counted itself among the loyal opposition. They certainly were not spokespeople for George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, et al. Not by a country mile.

If the MSM identified with the GOP (or the Tea Party) that would indeed be news on the scale of Man Bites Dog. I won't hold my breath.

Greenwald's mendacity is shameless:

From the start of the WikiLeaks controversy, the most striking aspect for me has been that the ones who are leading the crusade against the transparency brought about by WikiLeaks -- the ones most enraged about the leaks and the subversion of government secrecy -- have been … America's intrepid Watchdog journalists. What illustrates how warped our political and media culture is as potently as that? It just never seems to dawn on them -- even when you explain it -- that the transparency and undermining of the secrecy regime against which they are angrily railing is supposed to be … what they do.

No Glenn. The transparency and undermining of the secrecy regime is only what they do when there's a Republican in the White House. Surely you know that.

It's obvious, if you look. Call Pinch Sulzberger, he'll be happy to explain it to you. CIA leaks against Bush Administration policies? Double plus good. Wikileaks revelations undermining Obama Administration foreign policy? Break out the firing squads. Don't make their guy look bad. They've got too much invested in him. The New York Times has this down to an art form. Just ask Daniel Ellsberg or Walter Duranty or Howell Raines.

Look, I'm only an obscure blogger out of New Jersey. Glenn Greenwald is on the A list. He gets invited to all the hottest parties. Me? I'm (usually) welcome at most neighborhood get togethers. If I behave myself and don't drink too much.

But that doesn't mean Greenwald isn't totally off base here. Or that I'm right.

C'mon. You know I'm right.

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