Why Is Israel Attacking Gaza?
Journalism about the current violence is bound to focus on the death and destruction in Gaza. But there remains ample space to ask whether the war was launched to punish Hamas for something it had nothing to do with.
Joe Klein on the Itchy Grievances of Minority Groups
Time columnist Joe Klein wants Democrats like Hillary Clinton to keep their distance from “minority groups who are itchy to file grievances” over things like poverty.
The Government Can’t Prove Bradley Manning Hurt Anyone—but Joe Klein Knows
The government isn’t having much luck showing the real world harm done by Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks. Perhaps they should call in Time columnist Joe Klein–he knows “for a fact” that bad things happened.
FAIR TV: CBS ‘Covers’ Immigration, Joe Klein’s Angry Middle, Dangerously Anti-War Public
This week on FAIR TV: CBS Evening News looked like it was covering an immigrant rights rally– but it was merely a set up to talk about chaos at the border. Time’s Joe Klein goes after the “gun lobby” by saying… both sides are at fault? And Cokie Roberts hears the public doesn’t want to start a war with Syria. Why does she think that’s “dangerous”?
The ACLU Is Like the NRA Because It Is
Decrying “the ability of well-funded extremist groups to thwart the will of the overwhelming majority,” Time’s Joe Klein cites defenders of Social Security–who, of course, are trying to thwart the will of an overwhelming minority.
What if Children Mattered No Matter Where They Lived–and Died?
When we draw comparisons between a particular event and other similar tragedies, it is not to say that they all matter equally, but to remind ourselves that we’re conditioned to feel that some matter quite a bit more than others.
Joe Klein: Obama’s ‘Moderate’ Mandate
Time magazine’s Joe Klein found the lesson (11/7/12) in Obama’s re-election. And it involves… wait for it… moving to the right: It will, and should, be argued that the election was a mandate for moderation. The last month of Mitt Romney‘s campaign, when he rushed to the center and suddenly made it a race, ratified […]
FAIR TV: Killer Drones Stop Terrorism, PBS Gets Iran Wrong, New Obama Ad Is…Racist?
On the new episode of FAIR TV: Is a new Obama ad…racist? We’ll take a look at how PBS is misreporting Iran, and also take a look at Joe Klein’s remarkable defense of killing four-year-old girls in other countries. Take a look–and please spread the word.
Morning Joe’s Drone Debate: Whose Four-Year-Old Girls Should Be Killed?
MSNBC‘s Morning Joe had a remarkable discussion of U.S. drone attacks today (10/23/12). Here’s a clip of the most intense moments of the exchange between the conservative-leaning Joe Scarborough and Time columnist Joe Klein, who is occasionally mistaken for a liberal: Scarborough offered up a more passionate critique of drone attacks than you’re likely to […]
Joe Klein on Trayvon Martin: Democrats Are Bad Too
Time columnist Joe Klein has harsh words for the right. His new column uses the Trayvon Martin tragedy to talk broadly about the right and racism. Klein points out that some of the Republican presidential candidates are desperate men playing on the ignorance and racist bigotry of their audiences. Those of us who cover campaigns […]
Corporate Pundits Waiting for a Palestinian Gandhi? Meet Khader Adnan
For years prominent corporate media pundits have told us that the world—and the media—would embrace a dramatic, non-violent Palestinian resistance movement. If only such a movement—perhaps led by a Gandhi-like figure—were to finally emerge, we are told, the media coverage will come, and sympathy from across the world will strengthen support for the Palestinian cause. […]
Joe Klein Notices Newt Stole His Kid Janitor Idea
Time columnist Joe Klein jumped to Newt Gingrich‘s defense (12/19/11) when the Republican presidential candidate floated the idea that poor school children should work as janitors at their schools. Klein’s endorsement (FAIR Blog, 12/9/11) earned him a coveted P.U. Litzer Prize. But apparently there’s more to it. As Klein explains in this week’s issue of […]
It’s GOOD That Romney Has No Principles
We’ve been seeing a lot of this sort of thing lately–this time from Elizabeth Wurtzel on TheAtlantic.com (1/9/12): All the reasons Romney is disliked are all the reasons he would be an excellent president. Let’s start by recognizing that principled politicians are highly overrated–consider Jimmy Carter as Exhibit A. Despite our pretensions to pretension, we […]
Joe Klein: Newt’s Kids-as-Janitors Plan Too Narrow
We know by now that Newt Gingrich thinks he’s smart. And we know there are plenty of people in the corporate media who believe the same thing. How do they show their love for the brainy Republican presidential candidate? Time‘s Joe Klein shows the way in this week’s issue (12/19/11) of the magazine. He doesn’t […]
Time Magazine Feeds the Bachmann-tum
The story of Michele Bachmann‘s surging campaign momentum continues, this time courtesy of Beltway reporter Mark Halperin of Time magazine: Why has Michele Bachmann suddenly become the It candidate? With her impressive New Hampshire debate performance, Bachmann has gone from a conservative Sarah Palin-lite curiosity to a potential game changer. For two hours onstage with […]
Joe Klein and the Palestinian Gandhi
There’s a long tradition of U.S. pundits wishing for the day Palestinians finally decide touse non-violent means to protest Israeli occupation. Time magazine’s Joe Klein weighs in on the subject this week: Ever since Israel won control of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, the Palestinian national movement has been defined by terrorism, intransigence […]
Rose Hearts Huckabee: ‘Public’ TV on Wisconsin Protests
The Charlie Rose show–which airs mostly on public television stations–has mostly skipped the protests in Wisconsin, one of the biggest labor stories of the past decade. This is not a total surprise–Rose seems to identify with The Bosses more than with the workers–so it was interesting to see how he finally approached the subject on […]
Joe Klein and the Rotten Fruit of Arab Democracy
Sometimes words fail. Joe Klein, writing in the new issue of Time, wonders: How on earth do we get saddled with such creepy clients as Karzai and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, over and over again? Yes, why do they keep doing this to us?! His piece is a pox-on-both-houses rant about U.S. foreign policy: The […]
False Balance, Joe Klein–Style
Appearing on CNN‘s Reliable Sources (1/10/11), Time‘s Joe Klein denounced the “crap” on the Fox News Channel. And as many pundits are prone to do, he found the need to balance that by citing a comparable example from the “other” side: Well, that brings me to point number two…. Cable news chooses not to really […]
WikiLeaks Hasn’t ‘Leaked’ Anything
If a single foreign national is rounded up and put in jail because of a leaked cable, this entire, anarchic exercise in “freedom” stands as a human disaster. Assange is a criminal. He’s the one who should be in jail. –Joe Klein, Swampland (12/1/10) Actually, Julian Assange didn’t leak anything–he can’t, because he didn’t […]
