When they do well we must praise them - Joe Klein edition
If there’s one thing Time Magazine columnist Joe Klein must hate with the power of a thousand thousand suns, it’s the Internet. Glenn Greenwald took Klein apart for his fact-less support of warrantless eavesdropping and the FISA bill and Klein could do little more than call Greenwald some names and back his his ignorance up with more ignorance.
But, with it so easy to find myopic and nonsensical opinions from Beltway pundits, we must give pat on the backs when they are due, as well. And Klein is deserving of said pat for standing up to John McCain and the GOP’s attempts to run roughshod over the national media.
There is a tendency in the media to kick ourselves, cringe and withdraw, when we are criticized. But I hope my colleagues stand strong in this case: it is important for the public to know that Palin raised taxes as governor, supported the Bridge to Nowhere before she opposed it, pursued pork-barrel projects as mayor, tried to ban books at the local library and thinks the war in Iraq is “a task from God.” The attempts by the McCain campaign to bully us into not reporting such things are not only stupidly aggressive, but unprofessional in the extreme.
Well played, Joe.
–WKW
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:45 pm
> pursued pork-barrel projects as mayor
lol.
There is a small town in my area about the size of Palin’s town. The mayor is probably a great guy. May even have the skill to be VP.
But do you know what he doesn’t have?
The experience.
And, once more, thanks to the McCain campaign for eliminating the one criticism of Obama that had legs.