... otherwise, we could watch dissectin' Danny Schechter tell the story they* didn't want you to know about: Barack Obama's historically historic historicism.

Ain't it grand? He's the "People's** President^TM"!

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* Other than the entire media and blogosphere, and nearly every Democratic insider

** Other than for people who needed mortgage relief, single-payer health care, the separation of church and state, the end of DADT, a downsized military, the trillions handed to Hank Paulson's golfing buddies, the repudiation of Reagan's values, the restoration of Constitutional government, and a trustworthy, un-misogynistic, un-classist, un-ageist left-blogosphere

The New Yorker: Read the whole thing.

Better still, Rich makes the explicit comparison between that coverage, and the Times's own disinformation campaign in favor of the Iraq invasion.

Rich writes:

Reuters:

The United States has made a new request for Australia to accept a group of detainees from Guantanamo Bay for resettlement, a government spokeswoman said on Saturday.

The request is the first by President Barack Obama's administration, which plans to close down the detention camp in Cuba within the next year.

Always nice to see the administration thinking outside the box, and not simply repeating what Bush did.