I would agree with this characterization, if you had stopped at “from the beginning.” His recent work (often detailed on this site) has become quite dogmatic and screechy, with rarely any semblance of grounded substance for his increasingly unhinged ranting.

He really displays the classic signs of BDS these days, and I would hope that he would return to the earlier form that I found appealing in the first place. Aside from Kaus and one or two others, his was one of the few liberal sites that did not initially descend into partisan rancor.

Greenwald is not a lefty, based on the totality of his posts from the beginning and some of his dissing of hardcore lefties in his comments recently. But he is very opposed to the Bush/Frist populist GOP, as am I. Such a position does not a lefty make (tho it obviously makes his blog popular with legions of anti-Bush lefties). And Mark is right, he is very willing and eager to engage right-wingers and libertarians.

I mean, if one is going to criticize Bush on the (correct) grounds that Greenwald does in his book, is one likely to draw Corner or Powerline readers in his comments?