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The Beltway's National Enquirer

By Big Tent Democrat

The reason there is such a complete merger of interest among low-life tabloids, Matt Drudge, reality shows and the Washington political press corps is precisely because they are indeed indistinguishable -- merged. -- Glenn Greenwald

The old saying is that "politics is show business for ugly people." The new book by Mark Halperin and John Heileman proves this as well as anything recently has. Glenn Greenwald writes:

No event in recent memory has stimulated the excitement and interest of Washington political reporters like the release of Mark Halperin and John Heilemann's new book, Game Change, and that reaction tells you all you need to know about our press corps. [. . .] The book is little more than royal court gossip, churned out by the leading practitioner of painfully sycophantic, Drudge-mimicking cattiness: Time's Mark Halperin. And all of the courtiers, courtesans, court spokespeople (i.e., "journalists") and hangers-on who populate our decadent little Versailles on the Potomac can barely contain their glee over the opportunity to revel in this self-absorbed sleaze.

Indeed, one could well argue that the National Enquirer handles these matters with more dignity and honesty.

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on January 11, 2010 (boomark / email).