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GREENWALD: I think if you go back to the 1990s, what you saw is essentially a partnership between the Republican Party, the right wing, and establishment media venues. And this partnership was formed when they were essentially engaged in their lynch mob over the Lewinsky affair… And that partnership hasn’t really gone anywhere.. And it suffocated [Obama’s stimulus] message. It attached the most dreaded label in Washington to what he was trying to do, which is conventional liberalism… taxing and spending, and imposing burdens on the American taxpayer. And that message resonated with the media, and therefore, with the American public, and steamrolled the White House in a way that I think demonstrated they weren’t really prepared for how vibrant that partnership remains.