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	<title><![CDATA[Brainless Bravado vs. Calculated Fraud]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-r-barber/brainless-bravado-vs-calc_b_150913.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>The media has been waiting breathlessly for the moment when it can pierce the bubble of sanctimony that has enveloped President Elect Obama - a bubble created not by him but by the very media now eager to puncture it. And what better occasion than a lug-headed governor's oblivious grandstanding about being compensated for dealing Obama's Senate seat to sundry hungry politicians.</p>

<p>Endless opportunities finally to get down and dirty by excoriating traditional Illinois political corruption (about which not a word...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-01-14T05:12:00-05:00</date_published>
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