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1. glenn will be accused of being a partisan by time's people and their defenders, and they will say glenn is acting specifically on behalf of democrats. thus there is no need to deal with glenn's fact claims.
2. glenn and jane will be accused of being intemperate at minimum if not profane. this will, in the minds of the accuser, obviate glenn's fact claims re klein and thus also obviate the need for a factual response.
3. glenn will be placed in a category separate from klein and time: perhaps "blogger", perhaps "angry citizen journalist", maybe "polemicist." this too will get rid of the need to make a factual defense.
4. any argument from any right wing source that critiques klein will be used by stengel et al as an example of "he makes both sides mad". this means in the minds of the stengels of the world that klein must be right--in between critiques of the right and left (and leaving aside that glenn's is based on facts and the right wing critique will be based on the number of angels who can dance on the head of a pin) surely must lie the truth. luckily, this too removes the need to deal with any claims of factual inaccuracy made by glenn.
5. my head will explode.
