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Joe Klein's conscience

Published Letters: 105

  • According to a poster on DailyKos ..

    [Read the article: Mukasey's nomination and the sudden opposition to "waterboarding"]
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    Feingold finally came out against Mukasey. Why it took him so long, I don't know. It doesn't make any difference since both Schumer and DiFi caved.

  • Speaking of Glenn Beck ...

    [Read the article: Only America-hating traitors believe in due process for journalists]
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    I saw that he's radio contract is getting renewed(by Clear Channel's radio arm of course) .. for 10 million/yr for 5 years .. my question is .. if he has so many radio listeners .. why aren't his TV ratings better? They are just as bad(or even worse) as Tucker Carlson(albeit on a different network). How can you have such a huge(supposedly) radio audience and yet no one tunes you in on TV?

  • Tigerr ...

    [Read the article: WSJ Op-Ed page decries hatred of the president]
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    The Op-ed page was a wasteland before Murdoch bought the WSJ .. it's been a wasteland for a very long time

  • Thomas C ...

    [Read the article: WSJ Op-Ed page decries hatred of the president]
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    At the end of the op-ed ... it is not mentioned that Berkowitz is a Rudy supporter .. look at the link Glenn provided .. at the bottom .. that same blurb would have been in the paper .. it sounds like Rupert is pulling out all the stops for Rudy

  • Mickey Kovars ...

    [Read the article: Good riddance to John Howard ]
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    if we had a parliamentary system here .. the Decider would have been kicked out last year .. but that presents challenges of its own .. would I want Reid or Pelosi to be PM?

  • marko1965 ...

    [Read the article: Good riddance to John Howard ]
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    to answer your question ... right wingers will never apologize .. it's not what they do ... the only thing they might apologize for is not attacking their enemies(which include Democrats) hard enough .. and look at Hillary .. she won't apologize for her vote .. and it is clear as to why .. she is part of that foreign policy establishment

  • William Timberman ...

    [Read the article: Time magazine's FISA fiasco shows how Beltway reporters mislead the country]
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    If there is a huge landslide .. the media will have to start being more honest about the Democrats .. because ultimately .. it is about access .. If I were John Edwards or Barack Obama .. why would I give Halperin or Joe Klein the light of day? I'd have to find someone who was better than the Democrats .. either that .. or hold more press conferences .. or speeches from the WH to get my points out there ... a president that knew how to work things could really render someone like Klein to the dustbin of history .. do we have that savy of a candidate? .. I don't know .. it seems that the media was sucked into Rove's whole .. "Lasting Republican majority" crap .. and is still stuck in that mindset

  • bystander ..

    [Read the article: Time magazine's FISA fiasco shows how Beltway reporters mislead the country]
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    I wish Krugman would call out "Bobo" Brooks by name ... just once .. a lot of us know that Krugman(and Hebert) were calling out Brooks .. but I doubt a lot of readers were making the connection .... what is interesting about the comments at WaPo is how many of them are anti-Bush .. maybe it has changed in the past month or so .. but 5 or 6 months ago ... it was 95% against .. even if half of them were drivel .. if the media and powers that be don't realize something is happening(one can look at the money Ron Paul is raising .. whether you agree with him on anything or not) .. and those powers that be must be crapping their pants .. have any of us ever seen this kind of push back by the traditional media before? Not only that .. but how far they lower themselves .. is CNN that desperate .. that Anderson Cooper has to go on Glenn Beck? .. and that Cooper has to host Beck on his show?

  • Strangely Enough ..

    [Read the article: Everything that is rancid and corrupt with modern journalism: The Nutshell]
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    You do know what The Onion published soon after Bush became President after the Supreme Court installed him, right? It was dead on perfect. Talk about foreshadowing.

  • Joe Klein ...

    [Read the article: Bad stenographers]
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    I don't get it. Here is a guy who twenty five years ago wrote an autobiography about Woody Guthrie. What caused him to write about Woody? What made him compelling enough that Klein wanted to write about him? And what has happened in the intervening years? It's obvious Klein has become the worst kind of hack. Has he become infected with Beltway fever? Has be fallen under the spell of hacks like Broder, Friedman and Brooks?

  • Jay Gold ...

    [Read the article: Bad stenographers]
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    and just watch the Republicans if the Dems win back the WH ... they'll rediscover their oversight duties .. and they'll be all for habeus corpus(afraid that Hillary .. if she wins .. will toss a bunch of them in jail) .. against waterboarding .. you name it ... it will truly be astonishing

  • I just sent Joe Klein an email ...

    [Read the article: The Chicago Tribune vs. Time magazine]
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    Subject: FISA

    Date: 11/29/2007

    From: Me

    Reply To:

    To: joe_klein@timemagazine.com

    Joe:

    Isn't it about time you resign? Do you always believe everything Rep. Hoekstra tells you? How did a guy who once wrote an autobiography about Woody Guthrie get to this point?

    Yours Truly

  • didactic ..

    [Read the article: The Chicago Tribune vs. Time magazine]
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    thanks for posting the link .. that is fascinating .. and that is from 40 something years ago .. the interviewer has no clue what to say .. Dylan is right though .. he's on fire in the interview

  • Ana Marie Cox ..

    [Read the article: Time magazine refused to publish responses to Klein's false smears]
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    I just emailed her asking if we'll get an explanation. I emailed her because she is supposed to run Swampland. I find it appaling that Rep. Holt didn't get to post his statement on Swampland. The traditional media is indeed broken.

  • as to my email to Ana Marie Cox before...

    [Read the article: Time magazine refused to publish responses to Klein's false smears]
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    this is the reply I got from her:

    I would like to think so but I like to think a lot of things.

    I presume she sent this from her Blackberry(or other wireless device as included were her office and cell numbers).

  • to all those Doughy Pantloand fans ;-) ...

    [Read the article: Democrats show Beltway "strength," avoid being depicted as weak]
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    check out Atrios' postings from Wednesday .. it's kind of funny .. the pictures .. and yes .. those girls are probably best friends with Tancredo and his ilk(if you know who they are).