Don't Lecture Me

My hero, Glenn Greenwald: Blog news:

I know this point has been made before, but this Edwards 'controversy' and the accompanying lectures are really just too much to bear. We should absolutely not be hearing sermons about civility in our political discourse and how much one has 'grown up' from someone [Jonah Greenburg] who is about to release a book 'documenting' how his political opponents 'advocate[] policies and principles remarkably similar to those of Hitler’s National Socialism.'

The tiniest amount of shame and self-awareness would prevent a lecture like that. But that is what this whole 'Edwards controversy' is -- protests over incivility from a political movement that spent several years talking about the spots on Bill Clinton's penis and which, as its principal debating weapon, routinely labels their political opponents traitors, lunatics, cockroaches, and Nazis -- or 'the C word.' That the press falls for it without pointing out the practices of those who are complaining is, quite candidly, just maddening.