Spying's the Story, Not Edward Snowden | Cato Institute

Spying's the Story, Not Edward Snowden | Cato Institute: "Judging by the vicious — and irrelevant — attacks on Snowden’s character, all too many leading pundits and journalists love nothing more than a ritual ragegasm against an alleged enemy of the state.

The Washington Post’s Richard Cohen calls Snowden a “cross-dressing Little Red Riding Hood”; he’s a “total slacker” with “all the qualifications to become a grocery bagger” jeers Politico’s Roger Simon. Snowden’s “a grandiose narcissist who deserves to be in prison” offers the New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin; Fox News’s Ralph Peters raises the stakes: a “narcissistic traitor” who belongs on death row."