Very few journalists are worse than Jonathan Chait

[Mefistofeles]

Pseudoliberal journalist Jonathan Chait was a strong Iraq War warmonger. claiming the invasion of Iraq was good for us. You know what happened next. http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-856744/The-unconvincing-case-for-war.html

Now he finds himself in the wrong side of the debate again, having denied that President Obama fought hard for the public option. See this flashback:

CHAIT: I don't agree with Greenwald's positions on foreign policy and civil liberties, but he does have a valid beef with Obama in these areas. But when he insists that Obama secretly opposed the public option and has never wanted more stimulus, in the face of overwhelming evidence that the administration pushed the Senate as far left as it would go on those bills, he is revealing himself as a fanatic.

Turns out he was wrong again, as Tom Daschle tells ThinkProgress the White House took the public option off the table in early 2009. After realizing what a can of worms he had opened, Daschled sent an email saying he did not mean to say what he said.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/10/05/public_option/index.html

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/daschle-admits----then-denies----that-white-house-agreed-with-industry-to-scrap-public-option.php?ref=fpb

If you want to get informed, read Glenn Greenwald instead. He opposed the Iraq war since the beginning and cares for your civil liberties. And didn't buy the tale that President Obama fought oh-so-hard for the public option. No wonder the President once denied having campaigned on it.

[bluestateguy]

1. Does he do the Georgetown Cocktail party circuit?

That's how you know they have done Establishment.