Glenn Greenwald at Salon, on the ludicrous charge that Paul Krugman politicized an otherwise apolitical 9/11 day of remembrance, committing a sin of etiquette akin to intruding on a private funeral with a political tirade:
Krugman's sin wasn't that he inappropriately politicized what was otherwise an apolitical day. His sin was the opposite. He deviated from the approved, mandatory political script for that day: by pointing out that it isn't only the Terrorists but also ourselves who engaged in deeply shameful crimes. He didn't politicize an apolitical day; to the contrary, he subverted the most politically propagandistic day that now exists in American political culture.
Greenwald's absolutely right.
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