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  • In the scheme of the profound issues our country faces, obsessing about the inartfulness of this judicial opinion is not unlike those who use a laughably grave tone to write articles about fights between Daily Kos diarists or the latest blogger "scandal" while ignoring our national media's grotesque failure to scrutinize meaningfully our government's conduct and claims -- particularly on matters of war and peace or threats to constitutional liberties.

    The Post Editorial Board tell us how serious, high-minded people should talk about Presidential law-breaking Glenn Greenwald 2006

  • In the scheme of the profound issues our country faces, obsessing about the inartfulness of this judicial opinion is not unlike those who use a laughably grave tone to write articles about fights between Daily Kos diarists or the latest blogger "scandal" while ignoring our national media's grotesque failure to scrutinize meaningfully our government's conduct and claims -- particularly on matters of war and peace or threats to constitutional liberties.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Glenn Greenwald 2006

  • It is not just the stubbornness of McClellan’s baloney but the inartfulness that makes everybody nuts.

    Firedoglake » Glossies Turn on Bush 2006

  • Dan Abrams on the inartfulness of Rod Blagojevich's TV PR offensive

    NYT > Opinion 2009

  • He's sorry about the inartfulness of "dead or alive" and "bring 'em on" and "

    The New Yorker 2009

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