Obama and Liberals: A Counter-Productive Relationship
By Glenn Greenwald
During the 2008 election, Obama co-opted huge portions of the Left and its infrastructure so that their allegiance became devoted to him and not to any ideas. Many online political and "news" outlets -- including some liberal political blogs -- discovered that the most reliable way to massively increase traffic was to capitalize on the pro-Obama fervor by turning themselves into pro-Obama cheerleading squads.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21982.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
During the 2008 election, Obama co-opted huge portions of the Left and its infrastructure so that their allegiance became devoted to him and not to any ideas. Many online political and "news" outlets -- including some liberal political blogs -- discovered that the most reliable way to massively increase traffic was to capitalize on the pro-Obama fervor by turning themselves into pro-Obama cheerleading squads.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21982.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
rudkla - 14. Feb, 06:26
