Glenn Greenwald’s another writer I’ve been liking a lot recently. He has a great illustration of how the winds of opinion have changed:

Glenn Greenwald – Salon

He compares the words of several pundits, what they said recently against what they said years ago when Bush’s ratings were 50% and higher. There’s no real change in how Bush has handled his office since he began, but 2003 Jonah Goldberg’s lavish comparison of Bush to Reagan is in stark contrast to 2007 Jonah Goldberg’s “so you finally caught up, stupid” admonishment of Richard Cohen for noticing what “some of us on the right have been saying for a while: if you hold your head just so and look at Bush from the right angle, he looks an awful lot like a liberal.” Presumably he didn’t think to tilt and squint four years previously, when the beautific light of His presidential Presence made such observation difficult.

I also have no idea who Jonah Goldberg is. But Greenwald also has snippets of Rush Limbaugh doing the same thing, so that’s fun.