Hastings, the author of that Rolling Stone interview that led to the sacking of General McChrystal, is not happy with President Obama’s foreign-policy speech, saying Obama ”enshrines killing people and spying on journalists as the two major tenets of his national-security state.” And then he called MSNBC contributor Perry Bacon, Jr. a “stenographer” for the White House. Good stuff,  via Up With Steve Kornacki (Fast forward to 5:51 for the beginning of his comments)

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