and a filthy shame too

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Al Jazeera makes a point of the groupthink at the press briefing bit, too, noting Obama's tech-savvy machine, which I maintain has been his prime mode of propagandizing us. But I would like you to consider that the question from an Iranian relayed to the president via groupthink was asking him if it wouldn't be a "betrayal" for him to accept the Ahmadinejad government. First: Obama clearly knew what groupthink was going to ask him in advance. Second: If an Iranian calls this a betrayal, that heavily implies that we have been agitating for this uprising. Third: If it was not an Iranian, but someone posing as Iranian to get this "question" out, that too implies that we have been agitating for this uprising.

It's almost as if Iranians in the streets consider Obama to be their president.

Big mistake.

[Glenn is taking a much more charitable view of groupthink's reporting, but also pointing out its canned nature, and bringing up the treatment of the ever-incisive Helen Thomas at the briefing. Greenwald is clearly most intent on defending the integrity of blog journalism and its place in the hallowed halls of American media. I can't fault that, but, well, he was entirely too kind to groupthink in the process of so doing, and that is a mistake. Definitely a mistake.]