Glen Greenwald's been at the peak of his powers lately, exposing one crass example of Beltway privilege after another. That oleaginous, well-meaning hack Joe Klein is having a hard time of it lately: recently pillored by conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt (shit, if there's anyone playing Uriah Heep with greater skill on the talk show circuit these days, it's Hewitt), and now fisked by Greenwald for attempting to mitigate the impact of Lewis "Scooter" Libby's sentencing. The real charge for which the Beltway Boys should be convicted is incest:

There are many reasons why the political press fails to investigate and uncover real wrongdoing on the part of the government, but a leading reason is that they do not see lawbreaking as genuinely wrong or the lawbreakers as corrupt. These are their friends and colleagues -- their socioeconomic peers and, with increasing and disturbing frequency, their spouses and family memebers -- and while Important Bush Officials might be "guilty" of engaging in harmless and perfectly accepted political "hardball," they are never genuinely bad people engaged in genuinely bad acts. And they certainly do not belong in criminal courtrooms or prison.