Ed Whelan's petulant, fact-free right-wing victimhood - Glenn Greenwald
Ed Whelan's petulant, fact-free right-wing victimhood - Glenn Greenwald (flag)
www.salon.com — Washington Post , 10/20/2008 : "Later, speaking at a high school football field in Belton, McCain latched onto a remark last weekend by Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden who said, 'Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this ...
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Balloon Juice — 1.) This explains the McCain campaign better than anything else. 2.) This explains why the Republicans, if the trust their instincts, will be a minority party for a long, long time. 3.) More fail from K-Lo’s House of Crazy. 4.) It is Monday, so you know what that means. Dozens of breathless right-whinge posts about Obama the socialist. As usual, they have NO EARTHLY FLIPPING IDEA WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT. 5.) Also, a smattering of Obama the terrorist. ...


alicublog — ... how rightbloggers don't like to acknowledge their own errors, and a fresh example jumps out at me. Glenn Greenwald investigates a claim by National Review's ...

Unhinged
TalkLeft — ... with Glenn Greenwald. But this is a funny quote from Whelan about Greenwald - "I’m not familiar with this guy. Is he always so unhinged?" - when you consider what he ...

Advocate of Arbitrary Torture Shows Lack of Ethics
Lawyers, Guns and Money — Although I regret this particular manifestation highly, it's obviously not surprising that Ed Whelan is a reprehensible, thin-skinned bully. (Who apparently can't use a search engine.) Or as Cole says: For those of you keeping score at home, the current President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center not only worked for the Bush administration OLC while they were creating the legal justification for torture, but is now using their email address to send juvenile emails while outing anonymous bloggers because they pointed out he was ...

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