Why the Jeremiah Wright story deserves more attention
I think the most important thing to note about the Jeremiah Wright Story is that we're a Nation plagued by exceedingly few significant problems; blessed with a quite healthy political culture and very trusted political and media institutions; composed of a citizenry that is peacefully content with its Government and secure and confident about their future; endowed with a supremely sturdy economic foundation free of debt and other grave economic afflictions; vested with the ability to command great respect and admiration from the other nations of the world; emancipated from the burdens of war and intractable conflicts which have toppled and destroyed so many other great nations of the past; and, most of all, we're becoming freer and more prosperous by the minute.
Not only that, but we have an extremely impressive, serious and honor-bound ruling imperial class devoted to the preservation of all of these blessings.
So it isn't as though we really have anything else to talk about besides Jeremiah Wright. There are some countries in the world -- probably most -- which have so many big problems that they could ill-afford to devote much time and energy to a matter of this sort. Thankfully, the United States isn't one of them. I believe it's critical that we keep that in mind as we discuss him for the next seven months.
Currently in Glenn Greenwald's Blog
- The Holder trial balloon: Abu Ghraib redux
- Arguably, prosecuting low-level torturers while shielding powerful policy makers would be worse than doing nothing.
- Sunday, Jul 12, 2009 15:13 EDT
- Our political class in a nutshell
- An Obama official (about Afghans): "We believe anyone suspected of war crimes should be thoroughly investigated."
- Saturday, Jul 11, 2009 16:12 EDT
- The new Report on illegal spying is not a real investigation
- Most of the key facts relating to Bush's illegal surveillance programs remains concealed.
- Saturday, Jul 11, 2009 15:12 EDT
- The significance of McClatchy's act of journalism
- Yet another story reflects the danger of assuming the truth of unproven government claims and the use of anonymity.
- Thursday, Jul 9, 2009 16:10 EDT
