Eric Alterman
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"Eric Alterman" is an American historian, journalist, author, media critic, wikt:Blogger/blogger, and educator. His political weblog named Altercation was hosted by MSNBC/MSNBC.com from 2002 until 2006, moved to Media Matters for America until December 2008, and is now hosted by The Nation. He writes from a primarily Modern liberalism in the United States/liberal viewpoint.

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Never let my right hand know what my left hand does.

Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.

It Ain't No Sin to Be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen.

We sometimes find ourselves at a loss as to whether we should be more appalled at the Bush Administration's ideological obsession, its incompetence, its arrogance, its anti-intellectualism, or its dishonesty, ... In New Orleans, we see all of these forces at work in a manner that the mainstream media finally finds itself unable to ignore.